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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. Jim Elliot
让上帝为你做抉择，祂必将上好福分赐给你。
Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left. Genesis 13:9
遍地不都在你眼前吗？请你离开我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。-创世记13章9节
在某些文化中，走进室内的时候，年轻人要让年长者先行一步。在另一些文化中，则是让最重要、最高位的人先进入室内。但无论我们处在哪一种文化，当面对重大事件的时候，总会觉得要让别人先做选择并不容易，尤其是在我们拥有优先选择权的时候。
Abram (later called Abraham) and his nephew Lot had so many flocks, herds, and tents that the land could not support both of them as they traveled together. To avoid conflict, Abram suggested they part company and generously gave Lot first choice of the land. His nephew took the fertile Jordan Valley, leaving Abram with the less desirable land.
亚伯兰（后来被称作亚伯拉罕）和他的侄子罗得拥有许多牲畜、羊群和帐篷，但那片土地却不足以供应他们的需求。为了避免冲突，亚伯兰认为应与罗得分开，他还大方地让罗得率先选择他想要的土地。于是，罗得选择了肥沃的约旦河谷，而将较为贫瘠的土地留给亚伯兰。
Abram did not insist on his rights as the elder in this situation but trusted his future to God. “So Abram said to Lot, ‘Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me . . . . Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left’ ” (Gen. 13:8–9). Lot’s choice eventually led to dire consequences for his entire family (see Gen. 19).
在这样的情况下，亚伯兰并没有以长者的身分坚持自己的权利，而是将他的未来交给上帝。如圣经记载，亚伯兰就对罗得说：“你我不可相争……遍地不都在你眼前吗？请你离开我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左”（创世记13章8-9节）。而罗得的选择最终却使他全家人遭受惨痛的后果（参阅创世记19章）。
Today, as we face choices of many kinds, we can trust our Father to guide us in His way. He has promised to care for us. He will always give us what we need.
今天，我们也同样面对各种抉择，我们可以信靠我们的天父，让祂引导我们走在祂的道路上。天父已经应许会看顾我们，也必会供应我们的需要。
Father, Your unfailing love and faithfulness guide us in every choice we make. May our lives speak well of You and honor You today.
天父，愿祢以无尽的爱和信实，指引我们做每一个选择，
好让我们的生命能使祢得著称赞和尊荣。
13 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel,to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[a]forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron,where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
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