1. Make it your goal to live at peace with others.
Is it possible to do this with everyone in our lives? Unfortunately, no; even our best efforts may not change another person’s attitude. The key is to ask God if we’re at fault, and if so, to confess it and seek his help to overcome it.
2. Treat others as you’d want them to treat you.
This simple but profound principle—the golden rule—comes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. How different our lives would be if we actually practiced this!
3. Guard your tongue.
Use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages and friendships have been destroyed because of criticism that has spun out of control?
4. Never repay evil with evil.
Evil is sin; it’s a deadly cancer that has invaded our souls. It isn’t just an illusion or an absence of good. Ultimately, all evil comes from Satan, according to the Bible. Satan is real, and he is absolutely opposed to God. Still, we are responsible for our own actions. Why some people repeatedly choose to do evil instead of good is a puzzle to me, because evil eventually destroys those who practice it. Only God can replace the evil and sin in our hearts with love and kindness. So we need to put our faith in God and follow him.
5. Avoid revenge.
Don’t be a captive of the past. If someone has harmed us by breaking the law, we have the right to bring that person to justice, both for our good and the good of society. But hurting someone only because they have hurt us is another matter. We can’t change the past; we can only seek God’s forgiveness for whatever it is we did wrong.
6. Practice the power of forgiveness.
I adhere to the philosophy of hating the sin but loving the sinner. The key is to realize that this is the way God sees us. And Jesus, who was without sin, was known as a friend of sinners and went out of his way to seek and save those who were lost. So should we.
葛理翰牧師(William Franklin Graham;1918年11月7日-2018年2月21日),另譯比利·富蘭克林·葛拉罕,生於美國北卡羅萊那州夏洛特,美國基督教福音派布道家,被按立為美南浸信會牧師,是第二次世界大戰以後福音派教會的代表人物之一。葛理翰從1949年開始在中產階級以及適當保守的新教徒中享有聲譽。他在各地開始舉行大型的戶內和戶外的宗教集會,並且他的講道也在廣播和電視台上播放, 其中有些講道到今天還在重播。在他長達60年的電視布道生涯中,葛理翰主要通過主持每年的「葛理翰布道大會」而被人們知曉。他從1947年開始舉行這種布道大會,直到2005年終止並從電視布道節目退休。與此同時,從1950年到1954,葛理翰也在主持他非常流行的廣播節目抉擇時刻。葛理翰反對種族隔離政策,並且他在踐行自己的宗教宗旨的同時,也幫助改變了基督教基要派和福音派的觀念,教導他們以一種理解的姿態去看待聖經和當代世俗觀念上的同異。
~ adapted and rearranged from wiki and reader's digest
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