今日真道圣言/2013年12月21日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

问193: 在第四祈求中，我们所祷告的是甚么?

答: 在第四祈求“我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们”中，我们承认: 我们在亚当里，并且因我们自己的罪，我们已经丧失今生一切外在恩福的权利，应该被神剥夺所有这些恩福，并且我们在使用它们时，它们成为我们的咒诅。它们本身不能维持我们的生命，我们也不配得，也不是靠自己努力赚取它们；而且我们倾向违背律法，来追求、获取、享受它们。所以我们为自己与他人祷告:

(1) 我们与他人，天天都等候仰望神的护理，使用合法的媒介，可以享受祂的白白恩典，按照天父的智慧所看为最好的，来充足领受这些恩福；

(2) 求祂继续不断的赐福供应我们，使我们以圣洁与安舒的方式来享用这些恩福，并且以感恩知足的心来领受它们；

(3) 求祂保守我们，知足于今生我们所需的够用安享之恩典，远离一切与此目的相反的事物。

Q. 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread), acknowledging that in Adam, and by our own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blessings of this life, and deserve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed to us in the use of them; and that neither they of themselves are able to sustain us, nor we to merit, or by our own industry to procure them; but prone to desire, get, and use them unlawfully: we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them; and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them, and contentment in them; and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort.

小要理问答

小要理问答104 我们在“主祷文”第四祈求中，祷告什么？

答：我们在第四祈求中：“我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们”，祷告求神赐下祂白白恩典，使我们丰富领受今生所需的美善事物，使我们享受祂的恩福。