做神

God has given them to us so we must not be despondent if we think we can only do a small work in building the house of God.

神赐给我们不同的能力，即使我们在建立神的家时只能做很小的工作，也不能沮丧。

Christians produce works pleasing to God, and they also commit sins displeasing to God every day of their lives.

在日常生活中，基督徒会做蒙神喜悦的事，他们同样会犯罪，不蒙神喜悦。

Has done a disservice to God and His Truth.

这个人所做的实际上伤害了神和神的真理。

He replied, I just fall flat on the exceeding great and precious promises, and I have all that is in them.

我只仆在神极大，极宝贝的应许上，把神应许中一切的丰富算做我的，我就得着了。

And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.

那神回答说：我去，在他所有的先知口中做虚言的神。

But he never forgot, he felt the markings each morning, a ghost tattoo about her he couldn't stop describing to strangers: If there is writing in this place, he begins, it's only proof that a tribe of pens once lived here, pardoning themselves in advance for their mortal leap from a line of thinking to a half-lit field which starts under the rubric of hay and fruit trees but seems to contain much more than mere space allows, in the vicinity of sundown and all the nouns streaked with gold, drowning in drachmas, lounging in louche, leading from the eye to the distant mountain the guidebooks say is uninhabitable though behind it squats a shack which is the summer home of God, finally free from making cherries for the emperor's children; little God with his funny name for which the other students teased him so, his elaborate notes.

但他从未忘记，每天早晨他感觉得到那些印记，他忍不住要向陌生人描述她的一块幽灵般的刺青：如果这地方有写作存在，他说，那仅仅证明了有一个用笔的部落曾经在这里住过，为那致命的一跃他们自己事先道歉，从一缕思绪跃至半明半暗的原野，那原野在干草与果树的套红标题下起始却似乎容纳了比空间本身所允许的东西要多得多，在落日与所有带金纹的名词周边，淹没在古银币中，混迹于狼藉声名里，从眼前一直到导游指南称为人烟罕至的远山，隐蔽在山背后的一间密室是神的夏宫，终于从为皇帝的孩子们做樱桃的差使中脱身出来；小小的神有个其他学生们取笑的滑稽名字，他记载详尽的笔记。

God is happy to be identified as your friend. if you want to be identified as His friend.

如果你想成为神的朋友，神就乐意做你的朋友。

This is an allusion to Lev 26:12 where God said He would walk among the nation and that they would be His people.

这里提示了我们利未记26：12里神说他要在以色列民中间行走，他要做他们的神的话。

The organismic,"what you can do for your country" implies that government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.

你能为你的国家做什么这句话把政府比作主人或者神，而公民被比作仆人或者神的崇拜者。

Joseph could not understand the cruelty of his brethren, the false witness of a perfidious woman, and the long years of an unjust imprisonment; but he trusted, and he saw at last the glory of God in it all.

雅各不明白为什么神允许把约瑟从他怀中扯去，但是当他看见约瑟做了王的宰相，保存了他自己和一国的性命的时候，他就看见了神的荣耀。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。