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信靠耶穌真是甜美

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Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

用於 《清晨甘露》九月十七日


同往錫安

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We're Marching To Zion

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中国教会留下的宝贵遗产
希伯來書12:1 "我們既有這許多的見證人 、如同雲彩圍著我們"

1902  — 1970
艾偉德
Gladys Raleigh Aylward
英國傳奇女宣教士、慈善家,以“小婦人”聞名世界。她在中國宣教十八年之久,在山西開設“八福客棧”;收養孤兒;抗戰時帶領百名孤兒“千里大遷移”

1902  — 1970
艾伟德
Gladys Aylward
英国传奇女宣教士、慈善家,以“小妇人”闻名世界。她在中国宣教十八年之久,在山西开设“八福客栈”;收养孤儿;抗战时带领百名孤儿“千里大迁移”

https://bdcconline.net/zh-hans/stories/ai-weide

九月十七日

 

把他带到我这里来吗!(可9:19)

 

那位可怜的父亲,失望地从门徒那里把他的孩子带到主跟前。他的儿子受到恶鬼的极大折磨,情况至为凄惨,什么方法都无效用,但那孩子因着他父亲听从主耶稣的话:“把他带到我这里来吧!”不久就脱离了那恶者。儿女们是神所赐的宝贝,但他们也使父母操心劬劳,担忧负重。他们或是父母的欢乐,也许成为父母的重担和痛苦;他们或被神圣善的灵充满,也许充满了恶鬼。不论什么情形,只要听从神的话:“把他带到我这里来吧!”就能把一切病症治好。父母在他们年幼的时候就当为他们痛哭流泪地切心祷告!他们有罪,要用我们的祷告来攻除。我们祷告的声音一定要高过他们来到这个罪恶世界时的呱呱之声。当他们到了青年时代之后,我们看到聋哑的鬼使他们不会开口祷告,也不会听神的话,但耶稣仍旧说:“把他带到我这里来吧!”他们成人之后,他们或许在罪恶中翻来覆去,口中流沫敌对神;当我们的心被破碎的时候要记得大医生的话说:“把他带到我这里来吧!”若他们还有一口气,我们就当不停地祷告。只要耶稣活着,无论病情怎样都不会失望。有时主让他的民被挤到房角里,为的是叫他们实在知道他们必须有主。不信神的儿女们,当我们无力挽救他们心术的败坏时,就把我们赶到强壮的神面前祈求他的能力,这是我们的大福气。今天早晨,不论我们有什么需要,愿它成为急流把我们带到神爱的洋海里。耶稣不久就把我们的忧伤挪去,他喜欢安慰我们。他等待迎接我们,我们要快到他的面前

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经文: 你要勉励他。(申命记一:38)

 

上帝呼召祂的百姓要彼此勉励。祂并没有对天使说:“加百列,我的仆人约书亚将要领我的百姓进入迦南地。你去,勉励他。”上帝永不行不必要的神迹。倘若祂的目的能藉寻常的方法完成,祂就不用神迹的大能。加百列并不适合担当摩西的工作,即使一半也不行。弟兄的同情比天使的工作更为珍贵。天使从未经历过摩西在旷野中所经历过的,就是走在难行的道上,遇到凶猛之蛇类,或领导硬着脖子的群众。上帝通常藉着另一个人为人类工作,我们应当为此高兴。在人之间可以形成兄弟般的连合,彼此互相依靠,更完全地融合成一个家庭。请以今晚的经文作为上帝给你的信息。努力去帮助别人,特别是要竭力去鼓励他们。愉快地和年轻人和渴慕的发问者谈话。以爱心试着除去他路上的绊脚石。一旦你发现他心中恩典的火花闪耀,就赶紧跪下吹气,使之发生火焰。让年轻的信徒逐步去发现道路上的崎岖,同时却要告诉他在上帝里面的能力、上帝应许的确实、和与基督相交的甜美。安慰忧伤者,鼓励心灵疲乏者是你的目标。以喜乐鼓励那些惧怕继续行走的人。上帝以祂的应许鼓励你。基督已为你赢得天国,祂用手指向天国,以此来鼓励你。圣灵在你心中作工使你遵行祂的旨意,祂以此来鼓励你。效法属天的智慧,去鼓励别人吧!

 

Evening, September 17

 

Scripture: “Encourage him.”(Deuteronomy 1:38)

 

God employs his people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, “Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan-go, encourage him.” God never works needless miracles; if his purposes can be accomplished by ordinary means, he will not use miraculous agency. Gabriel would not have been half so well fitted for the work as Moses. A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy. The angel, swift of wing, had better known the Master's bidding than the people's temper. An angel had never experienced the hardness of the road, nor seen the fiery serpents, nor had he led the stiff-necked multitude in the wilderness as Moses had done. We should be glad that God usually works for man by man. It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Brethren, take the text as God's message to you. Labour to help others, and especially strive to encourage them. Talk cheerily to the young and anxious enquirer, lovingly try to remove stumblingblocks out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame. Leave the young believer to discover the roughness of the road by degrees, but tell him of the strength which dwells in God, of the sureness of the promise, and of the charms of communion with Christ. Aim to comfort the sorrowful, and to animate the desponding. Speak a word in season to him that is weary, and encourage those who are fearful to go on their way with gladness. God encourages you by his promises; Christ encourages you as he points to the heaven he has won for you, and the spirit encourages you as he works in you to will and to do of his own will and pleasure. Imitate divine wisdom, and encourage others, according to the word of this evening.

《竭诚为主》9月17日 试探何益?

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《竭诚为主》9月17日 试探何益?

 

你们所遇见的试探,无非是人所能受的。(林前十13)

 

“试探”一词地位日益低落,我们很容易把这词错用。试探并非等于罪。凡是人,都会遇到试探。若说不会受试探,实在是自贬身价。不过,许多人所受的试探,本是不该受的。这完全是由于我们不肯让神领我们到一个更高的境地,去面对另一种试探的缘故。

 

人内在的性向,就是他人的性格,决定他外在所受的试探。所受的试探是配合受试探者的本质,同时也显出他的潜能。每一个人都有他独特受试探的背景,试探也会沿着他主要的性向而来。

 

试探为人所要实现的最高目标提供了一条捷径--并不是我走向邪恶,乃是朝着我认为善的方向走。试探是一些令我一时感到困惑的东西,因我不知它到底是对还是错。向试探低头,就是奉情欲为神;也证明过去不是没有犯这罪,只是不敢做出来。

 

试探是无可避免的,对一个人的完整生命是不可或缺的。别以为从没有人像你一样,受到这样的试探;你所经历的,其实是整个人类共有的经历,并非前所未有。神不会救我们离开试探,他乃是在试探当中救拔我们(来二18)。

 

祈祷◆噢,主啊,我们对你的认知,被即时的现况所堵塞,产生了窒息的感觉;求你拯救和悦纳我们。

 

September 17 What's The Good Of Temptation?

 

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

 

The word “temptation” has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly. Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not to be tempted would be to be beneath contempt. Many of us, however, suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer, simply because we have refused to let God lift us to a higher plane where we would face temptations of another order.

 

A man's disposition on the inside, i.e., what he possesses in his personality, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the nature of the one tempted, and reveals the possibilities of the nature. Every man has the setting of his own temptation, and the temptation will come along the line of the ruling disposition.

 

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim – not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. Temptation is something that completely baffles me for a while, I do not know whether the thing is right or wrong. Temptation yielded to is lust deified, and is a proof that it was timidity that prevented the sin before.

 

Temptation is not something we may escape, it is essential to the full-orbed life of a man. Beware lest you think you are tempted as no one else is tempted; what you go through is the common inheritance of the race, not something no one ever went through before. God does not save us from temptations; He succours us in the midst of them (Heb. 2:18).

求主带领歌

用於 《竭诚为主》9月17日

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Yield Not to Temptation

用於 《竭诚为主》9月17日


你是否肯,救主問道

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月17日

Are Ye Able

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九月十七日 信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

 

如棕榈树,香柏树

 

经文:「义人要发旺如棕树,生长如黎巴嫩的香柏树。」(诗篇 92︰12)

 

棕榈树、香柏树是“主的树“,不经人手的修剪、栽培,乃是在神的看顾下发旺长大。圣徒也是如此,他们常在神的眷顾下。这些树四季常青,终年秀美葳蕤。信徒也应如此,不能有时坚强属灵,有时却软弱属世,而应不论气侯如何,都靠着神,四季常青。只要有棕榈树、香柏树的地方,它们无法不立刻映入人眼帘,因为它们是这样地出类拔萃,引人注目。耶稣的信徒,也像山上的城堡,海上的灯塔,是众目的焦点,无法藏在斗底或桌下。

 

神的儿女也要发旺如棕榈树,它要尽全力地笔直往上长,不浪费精力去发展多余的枝叶,直到高耸入云,才结实累累,成为有荣美华冠的擎天柱。主啊,求祢教导我,奋力追求祢,结出属天的果实。

 

香柏树则历经风雪的考验,仍然坚强挺立,是神供应它树汁营养,使它树干粗壮,枝叶耐寒。主啊,求祢也将这样的秉性放在我身上,阿门。

 

Like Palm and Cedar

 

Scripture: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon"(Psalm 92:12).

 

These trees are not trained and pruned by man: palms and cedars are "trees of the LORD," and it is by His care that they flourish. Even so it is with the saints of the LORD: they are His own care. These trees are evergreen and are beautiful objects at all seasons of the year. Believers are not sometimes holy and sometimes ungodly: they stand in the beauty of the LORD under all weathers. Everywhere these trees are noteworthy: no one can gaze upon a landscape in which there are either palms or cedars without his attention being fixed upon these royal growths. The followers of Jesus are the observed of all observers: like a city set on a hill, they cannot be hid.

 

The child of God flourishes like a palm tree, which pushes all its strength upward in one erect column without a single branch. It is a pillar with a glorious capital. It has no growth to the right or to the left but sends all its force heavenward and bears its fruit as near the sky as possible. LORD, fulfill this type in me.

The cedar braves all storms and grows near the eternal snows, the LORD Himself filling it with a sap which keeps its heart warm and its bough strong. LORD, so let it be with me, I pray Thee. Amen.

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强迫不能使人从心中顺服,强迫衹能压制人外面顺从。所以我们的主不强迫人跟随祂,也不激动爱情,祂嘱咐耶路撒冷的众女子说:「我指著羚羊,或田野的母鹿,嘱咐你们,不要惊动,不要叫醒我所亲爱的,等她自己情愿。」(歌二7)

 

  甘心情愿的顺服才能靠得住,激动的靠不住,强迫的更靠不住。许多人爱主是被人的激动而爱主,是被奋兴家的奋兴而爱主。可靠的爱主,必须自己看见主的荣耀,自己经历主,自己听见主的声音,看见了主自己,这样我们的爱是从主来的,我们的顺从也是从主来的。

 

  使徒约翰说:「论到从起初原有的生命之道,就是我们所听见所看见,亲眼看过,亲手摸过的。」(约壹一1)

 

  使徒彼得说:「我们从前,将我们主耶稣基督的大能,和祂降临的事,告诉你们……乃是亲眼见过祂的威荣……我们同祂在圣山的时候,亲自听见这声音从天上出来。」(彼后一16至18)

 

  使徒保罗说:「作使徒的保罗,不是由于人,也不是藉着人,乃是藉着耶稣基督,与叫祂从死里复活的父神。」(加一1)

 

  为甚么有许多人奉献了。又收回去;手扶了犁又向后看;就是因为他们当初的爱情是被激动的,是由于人,是由于自己,而不是由于神,不是由于主的爱。

 

  今天我们虽然没和使徒们一样,亲自摸过主,但我们已经因信看见了那看不见的主;虽然没有见过祂,却是爱祂。

《荒漠甘泉》9月17日

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  “这是出于耶和华,愿他凭自己的意旨而行。”(撒上3:18)

 

  如果我们在每一件事情上看见神,神就会在我们所看见的事情上替我们着上颜色。也许痛苦并没有挪去,环境并没有改变;但是如果我们生活的主,基督,在我们的忧愁痛苦之中,“他必以得救的乐歌,四面环绕我。”(诗32:7)。如果我们真看见他,确信他的智慧不能错误,他的能力不能失败,他的慈爱不能变更,他最严厉的对付乃是我们灵程上最深的获益,我们就能在丧失、忧愁、痛苦、失败中,象约伯一样说:“赏赐的是耶和华,收取的也是耶和华。耶和华的名是应当称颂的。”(伯1:21)。

 

  没有别的办法,只有在每一件事上看见神,能叫我们爱哪些伤害我们,烦扰我们的;能叫我们看见他们不过是神所利用的工具,来完成神慈爱、智慧的目的的;能叫我们完全停止一切的怨言呵叛思。——司密斯


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I Want To Walk As a Child of the Light

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I WANT TO WALK AS CHILD OF THE LIGHT

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耶穌,我要跟隨祢

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Follow, I Will Follow Thee

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九月十八日

 

我们若是靠圣灵得生,就当靠圣灵行事。(加5:25)

 

因信得生和因信行事是我们所信圣道的两件重要的事。能正确了解这两件事的人,便是实验神学的大师,否则也相去不远了,因为这是作基督徒的两个要点。没有真正的虔敬就不会有真正的信心;从另一方面说,真正圣洁的生活都是藉着活泼的信心在基督的义上扎根的。顾此失彼的人有祸了!有的人单使信心增长,而忘了圣洁,他们在道理上的造诣虽然很深,但所受的刑罚也必很大,“因为他们行不义,阻挡真道”;也有人徒重生活的圣洁,而否认信心,正像从前的法利赛人一样,主说他们是“粉饰的坟墓”。我们必须有信心,因为这是基础;我们必须有圣洁的生活,因为这是上层建筑。当风暴来时在这基础上所建造的房屋对人有什么帮助呢?他能躲藏在里面吗?他希望有一所根基稳固的房子来庇护他。当我们在犹疑之时也需要这种属灵的上层建筑来安慰我们。但是不要寻求没有信心的圣洁生活,因为这种房子并不牢靠,它的根基并不立在磐石上。信心和生活必须并行,两者不可偏废,正像支撑拱门的两个柱石一样,它们使我们的敬虔生活得以永存。它们像太阳所发出的光和热一样,都有丰满的福分。它们像圣殿的两根梁柱,既荣耀又美丽。它们是从恩典的泉源所流出的两条溪水;是圣火所燃点的两盏明灯;是天雨所浇灌的两棵橄榄树。主啊!求你今天赐我们里面的生命,好叫它在外面表现出你的荣耀。

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经文: 他们也跟着我。(约翰福音十:27)

 

我们应当毫无迟疑地跟随我们的主,如同羊群跟随牧人一样,因为祂有权利引导我们至祂所喜悦的地方。我们并不是自己的人,是祂重价买来的(参阅林前六:20)。但愿我们都能承认救赎宝血的权利。士兵跟随长官,仆人服从主人。我们必须跟从拯救我们的主。祂买赎我们成为祂的产业。我们若质问主的命令而承认自己是基督徒,不是真的基督徒。顺服是我们的责任,抱怨是我们的羞耻。我们的主会对我们说,就如同祂当年对彼得所说的:“与你何干?你跟从我吧!”(约二十一:22)。耶稣无论领我们到何处,祂必行在我们前头。有这样的一位同伴,谁还畏惧途径上的危险?路途可能漫长,但是有祂永远的膀臂扶持我们直至终点。耶稣的同在就是永恒救恩的确据。因为祂活着,我们也能活着。我们只需以单纯的信心跟随基督,因为祂所引领的路径导至荣耀和永生。路径可能并不平顺,但是导向那“有根基的城,就是上帝所经营所建造的”(来十一:10)。“凡遵守祂的约和祂法度的人,耶和华都以慈爱诚实待他。”(诗二十五:10)但愿我们完全信靠我们的“领导者”。我们明白,无论是兴旺、是灾难;是疾病、是健康;是受欢迎、是被藐视;都是为了实现祂纯洁完美的目的。较之那些安坐家中,藉世界的壁炉烤火取暖的人,祂的大爱更能使我们蒙福。无论登上山顶或下到狮子坑中,我们必跟随至爱的主。

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Evening, September 18

 

Scripture: “And they follow me.”(John 10:27)

 

We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for he has a right to lead us wherever he pleases. We are not our own, we are bought with a price-let us recognize the rights of the redeeming blood. The soldier follows his captain, the servant obeys his master, much more must we follow our Redeemer, to whom we are a purchased possession. We are not true to our profession of being Christians, if we question the bidding of our Leader and Commander. Submission is our duty, cavilling is our folly. Often might our Lord say to us as to Peter, “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” Wherever Jesus may lead us, he goes before us. If we know not where we go, we know with whom we go. With such a companion, who will dread the perils of the road? The journey may be long, but his everlasting arms will carry us to the end. The presence of Jesus is the assurance of eternal salvation, because he lives, we shall live also. We should follow Christ in simplicity and faith, because the paths in which he leads us all end in glory and immortality. It is true they may not be smooth paths-they may be covered with sharp flinty trials, but they lead to the “city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” “All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant.” Let us put full trust in our Leader, since we know that, come prosperity or adversity, sickness or health, popularity or contempt, his purpose shall be worked out, and that purpose shall be pure, unmingled good to every heir of mercy. We shall find it sweet to go up the bleak side of the hill with Christ; and when rain and snow blow into our faces, his dear love will make us far more blest than those who sit at home and warm their hands at the world's fire. To the top of Amana, to the dens of lions, or to the hills of leopards, we will follow our Beloved. Precious Jesus, draw us, and we will run after thee.

《竭诚为主》9月18日 他的试探与我们的试探

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《竭诚为主》9月18日 他的试探与我们的试探

 

因我们的大祭司,并非不能体恤我们的软弱,他也曾凡事受过试探,与我们一样,只是他没有犯罪。(来四15)

 

未重生之前,我们唯一的试探是雅各所说的:“各人被试探,乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的。”可是重生之后,便被提升到另一范围的试探,就是面对主所受的试探。主耶稣受的试探对我们并不吸引,在人性中全无地位。主的试探与我们的试探是两个完全不同的领域,直等到我们重生了,成为他的弟兄。主耶稣受的试探不是人的试探,乃是“神成为人”的试探。我们重生之后,神的儿子在我们里面成形,他在我们的肉身生命中,面对他昔日在地上所面对的。撒旦并不引诱我们去做坏事,乃是要我们失去神藉重生放进我们里面的生命,就是在神手中成为贵重合用的潜能。它并不是要引诱人犯罪,乃是要改变人的观点。惟有圣灵才可以侦察出这是魔鬼的试探。

 

试探是外在势力对人的考验,要攻击人性中所拥有的。这就解明了主耶稣所受的试探。耶稣受洗之后,接受了除去世人罪孽的责任,神的灵就立即把他放在魔鬼的考验场里。不过他没有被打倒,他经过试探,却没有犯罪,仍然保持他人格的完整。

 

祈祷◆噢,主啊,对于与你一同守望、与你一同经历试探的意义,我所了解的是何等肤浅。愿你在今天早上吸引我靠近你,以你的大能使我专注于你,直至我的生活言谈只为了你。

 

September 18 His Temptation And Ours

 

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15

 

Until we are born again, the only kind of temptation we understand is that mentioned by St. James – “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.” But by regeneration we are lifted into another realm where there are other temptations to face, viz., the kind of temptations Our Lord faced. The temptations of Jesus do not appeal to us, they have no home at all in our human nature. Our Lord's temptations and ours move in different spheres until we are born again and become His brethren. The temptations of Jesus are not those of a man, but the temptations of God as Man. By regeneration the Son of God is formed in us, and in our physical life He has the same setting that He had on earth. Satan does not tempt us to do wrong things; he tempts us in order to make us lose what God has put into us by regeneration, viz., the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come on the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting the point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.

 

Temptation means the test by an alien power of the possessions held by a personality. This makes the temptation of Our Lord explainable. After Jesus in His baptism had accepted the vocation of bearing away the sin of the world, He was immediately put by God's Spirit into the testing machine of the devil, but He did not tire, He went through the temptation “without sin,” and He retained the possessions of His personality intact.

从前那戴荆棘的头

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The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns

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安稳在耶稣手中

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Safe in the Arms of Jesus

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安全堡垒

 

经文:「论便雅悯说:耶和华所亲爱的,必同耶和华安然居住,耶和华终日遮蔽他,也住在他两肩之中。」(申命记 33︰12)

 

是的,再没有一个地方,比神的怀抱更安全可靠!对神所爱的人而言,那是最安全的堡垒。主啊,让我永远住在祢的荫下,贴近祢受伤的肋旁;让我靠祢近些,再近些啊,我主;当我一旦紧紧地依靠着祢,我愿永远驻留在那里。

 

耶和华赐与祂所拣选的人,是何等的荫疪!不是坚固的屋顶,防弹的地下室,或是天使的翅膀,而是耶和华祂自己。在祂的保护下,没有什么危险会临到我们,而且无论日子有多漫长,祂终日看顾着我们。主啊,让我今天就居住在祢爱的华盖下,驻留在祢至高权能的帐中。

 

这第三句经文是指圣殿中的主会住在便雅悯的群山之中,还是主将在便雅悯的负担所在之处,或是说我们靠在永恒者的肩上?无论如何,主是祂子民的依靠和力量。主啊,让我们安享祢的帮助,那样我的臂膀将会充满力量。

 

Complete Safety

 

Scripture: "And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between His shoulders"(Deuteronomy 33:12).

 

Yes, there is no safety like that which comes of dwelling near to God. For His best beloved the LORD can find no surer or safer place. O LORD, let me always abide under Thy shadow, close to Thy wounded side. Nearer and nearer would I come to Thee, my LORD; and when once specially near Thee, I would abide there forever.

 

What a covering is that which the LORD gives to His chosen! Not a fair roof shall cover him, nor a bomb-proof casement, nor even an angel's wing, but Jehovah Himself. Nothing can come at us when we are thus covered. This covering the LORD will grant us all the day long, however long the day. LORD, let me abide this day consciously beneath this canopy of love, this pavilion of sovereign power.

Does the third clause mean that the LORD in His temple would dwell among the mountains of Benjamin or that the LORD would be where Benjamin's burden should be placed, or does it mean that we are borne upon the shoulders of the Eternal? In any case, the LORD is the support and strength of His saints. LORD, let me ever enjoy Thy help, and then my arms will be sufficient for me.

《活水》九月十八日

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「所以我们当越发郑重所听见的道理,恐怕我们随流失去。」(来二1)

 

  山洪暴发的时候,把许多东西冲走了;但稳固的磐石却安然不动;而有生命的鱼还能逆流而上。世代好象洪流,把世人都劫走了,惟有立在磐石上的神的教会不怕冲撞,惟有生命丰盛的圣徒不随潮流。教会在任何时代中都不能随从今世的风俗,也不能顺服空中掌权者的首领;世代的潮流甚至因此而引起了逼迫和杀害。但她宁可接受患难,而不顺从世代的潮流。

 

  神的教会是属天的,是圣洁的,是主用宝血所买来的,是被神分别为圣的。她不应当搀杂上任何时代的色彩,根据圣经的真理,她不应当接受世界的任何学说;她应当保守著向基督的纯一贞洁。

 

  但有些教会竟随流失去而浮沉在世代的洪流中。主耶稣也早预言了,祂说:「所以凡听见我这话就去行的,好比一个聪明人,把房子盖在磐石上。雨淋、水冲、风吹,撞著那房子,房子总不倒塌;因为根基立在磐石上。凡听见我这话不去行的,好比一个无知的人,把房子盖在沙土上。雨淋、水冲、风吹,撞著那房子,房子就倒塌了;并且倒塌得很大。」(太七24至27)

 

  那些站住的,和屈服的,在外面看来很难找到其中的原因,也许那被冲去的有著更高大美丽的外形,但祗因为根基不同,一遇到洪水,有的依然站立,有的就倒塌了;并且倒塌得很大!站住或倒塌,到今天才显露出来,其实,在立根基的时候,就已经决定了今天的命运。

 

  你愿意不随流失去吗?必须把你的工作建立在磐石上----郑重所听的道,遵守主的真理。

《荒漠甘泉》9月18日

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《荒漠甘泉》9月18日

 

  “没有默示,民就放四。”(箴29:18)

 

  要看见神,必须花功夫等待。时间在这里是一个主要的元素。我们必须在神的脚前静候多时,神才会把他自己显示在我们心里。一个波动的湖面是映不出什么东西来的。所以,如果我们要看见神,我们必须先安息在神面前,把我们生活中的风波平静下来。

 

  看见神是最有能力,最能影响我们生活的一回事。看见神常会叫人类的生活得到极大的转变。

 

  雅各在雅博渡口看见了神,就成了以色列。基甸看见了神,懦夫变成勇士!多马看见了主,疑惑变成了忠实!

 

  开雷(William Carey)看见了神,舍弃了鞋匠的生活到印度去。李文斯东(David Livingstone)看见了神,舍弃了一切跟随主,经历非洲的丛林。多少人都是因为看见了神,所以今天在地极宣传福音,使人归向基督。——巴亭登

 

  灵里全然安静是一件非常不容易的事情。其实神一直在和我们讲话。什么时候世界的声音在灵里消灭或低沉了,什么时候我们就能听见神的声音。我们听不见,是因为我们生活中充满了喧闹,急躁和愁闷的缘故。——费勃尔


九月十九日


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有福的确据

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Blessed Assurance

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主恩更多

用於 《静夜亮光》九月十九日

【歌譜下載】
His Grace Aboundeth More

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《清晨甘露》九月十九日

九月十九日

 

基督释放了我们,叫我们得以自由。(加5:1)

 

这“自由”使我们能自由使用天国的宪章——圣经。有一节圣经说:“你从水中经过,我必与你同在。”信徒啊!你可以自由使用这节。另一节说:“大山可以挪开,小山可以迁移,但我的慈爱必不离开你”,你可以随意用这节。你在应许的筵席上是一位备受欢迎的客人。圣经是一个装满无限恩典的宝库任人取用。它是天堂的银行,随便你支取多少,必没有阻碍和留难。只要存着信心,你便可以随意蒙受神约中的一切福分。神的话中没有一条应许是你所不能得的。在灾难的深处愿这自由能安慰你;在苦痛的浪中愿它使你欢畅;当悲哀环绕着你的时候愿它使你得慰。这是天父慈爱的表号,你随时都可自由使用。你也可以自由到施恩宝座之前,信徒有权向天父随时陈述自己的一切苦情。不论我们有什么愿望、困难或需要,我们都可自由地告诉他;不论我们犯了多少罪,我们都可以求他赦免;不管我们多么贫穷,我们都可以按他的应许求他满足我们一切的需要。他准我们随时到他的宝座之前——在黝黑的夜半,或是炎炎的午正都行。信徒哪!要使用你的权柄,不放松你的权利。你可以自由使用藏在基督里的——智慧、公义、圣洁和救赎。不管你的需要是什么,基督都能丰丰富富地供给你。你看你所有的是什么样的“自由”吧!你有不被定罪的自由,使用应许的自由,就到施恩宝座前的自由,最后有进入天堂的自由!

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经文: 我祈求为要得这孩子。(撒母耳记上一:27)

 

敬虔的心喜欢看到藉祈祷所得到的祝福,因为他们见到上帝在应允祈求时的特殊大爱。当我们提到“撒母耳”这个名字(意思是“从上帝那里求来的”)时,会感到十分亲切,正如哈拿爱这孩子一样。毗尼拿有许多儿女,只是这些儿女都是未经祈求而得的,是上帝的一般性祝福。哈拿只有一个儿子,是上帝所特别恩赐的,是更蒙爱的,因为他是迫切祈求的果子。祈求之杯自己所带来的祝福增添甜美。我们是否为自己孩子的信仰祈求?当他们得救了,当我们见到祈求应允在他们身上时,心中必有双重的甜美!不仅因为他们是我们身体所结的果子,更因为他们是我们恳求所结的果子。我们曾否寻求从主而来的属灵礼物?当上帝赐我们属灵礼物时,是以祂的信实和真理的金色纸张包里,因此是双倍珍贵。我们曾否祈求主的工作得以成就,看到上帝的兴旺驾着祈祷之翼飞翔是何等喜乐啊!经由祈祷之门进入我们家庭的祝福总是最美好的。在此情形下的祝福是真正的祝福而不是试探。即使祈求没有即时蒙应允,祝福也会因为迟延到来变得更为丰盛。马利亚在耶路撒冷寻找孩童耶稣,三日后,发现祂在圣殿中,这时在马利亚眼中的耶稣更为可爱(参阅路二:43~49)。因祈求而来的福气应当呈献给上帝,如同哈拿将撒母耳献于上帝一样。因为礼物是从天而来,就让它返回天上。让我们将爱献给上帝。

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Evening, September 19

 

Scripture: “For this child I prayed.”(1 Samuel 1:27)

 

Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God,” they will be as dear to us as her child was to Hannah. Peninnah had many children, but they came as common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah's one heaven-given child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest pleadings. How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at “the well of him that prayed!” Quassia cups turn all waters bitter, but the cup of prayer puts a sweetness into the draughts it brings. Did we pray for the conversion of our children? How doubly sweet, when they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled! Better to rejoice over them as the fruit of our pleadings than as the fruit of our bodies. Have we sought of the Lord some choice spiritual gift? When it comes to us it will be wrapped up in the gold cloth of God's faithfulness and truth, and so be doubly precious. Have we petitioned for success in the Lord's work? How joyful is the prosperity which comes flying upon the wings of prayer! It is always best to get blessings into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer; then they are blessings indeed, and not temptations. Even when prayer speeds not, the blessings grow all the richer for the delay; the child Jesus was all the more lovely in the eyes of Mary when she found him after having sought him sorrowing. That which we win by prayer we should dedicate to God, as Hannah dedicated Samuel. The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. Here will be a special occasion for saying, “Of thine own have I given unto thee.” Reader, is prayer your element or your weariness? Which?

《竭诚为主》9月19日 你继续与主同行吗?

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《竭诚为主》9月19日 你继续与主同行吗?

 

我在磨炼之中,常和我同在的就是你们。(路二十二28)

 

我们受试探的时候,主耶稣与我们同在,这是不错的。可是,他受试探时我们与他同行吗?不少人一经验到主为我们成就什么之后,就不再与他往前行了。注意神把你的环境转移,看你是否仍与主耶稣同行,还是与世界为友,随从肉体与魔鬼。我们佩戴着他的徽号,可是有没有与他同行?“从此他门徒中多有退去的,不再和他同行。”耶稣在一生中不断受到试探;那么,神儿子在我们里面的生命,也会不断受试探。我们现在的生活是否与耶稣同行?

 

我们会有保护自己的念头,以为应该躲避一些神安排在我们周围的东西。千万不可!神所安排的际遇,不管是什么,我们都必须面对;同时在他的试探里,要与他不断同行。那些试探不是对我们而发,乃是对他,对我们里面神的儿子而发的。耶稣基督的尊荣,系于我们这肉身上,我们是否持守对神儿子的忠贞?

 

你不断与主同行吗?这条路要经过客西马尼园、城门口,直到营外;这道路孤单寂寞,你不会再看见任何足迹,只剩下一个声音说:“跟从我。”

 

祈祷◆主啊,为着这个清晨,我能享有与你相交这个珍贵权利,我赞美你;愿你今天在我里面动工,以致我可以“立志行事……为要成就你的美意”。

 

September 19 Do You Continue To Go With Jesus?

 

“Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations.” Luke 22:28

 

It is true that Jesus Christ is with us in our temptations, but are we going with Him in His temptations? Many of us cease to go with Jesus from the moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God shifts your circumstances, and see whether you are going with Jesus, or siding with the world, the flesh and the devil. We wear His badge, but are we going with Him? “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.”

 

The temptations of Jesus continued throughout His earthly life, and they will continue throughout the life of the Son of God in us. Are we going with Jesus in the life we are living now?

 

We have the idea that we ought to shield ourselves from some of the things God brings round us. Never! God engineers circumstances and whatever they may be like we have to see that we face them while abiding continually with Him in His temptations. They are His temptations, not temptations to us, but temptations to the life of the Son of God in us. The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you?

 

Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, “Follow Me.”

Follow Me

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Follow Me

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不住的歌唱

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He Keeps Me Singing

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欣喜、唱和、颂赞

 

经文:「耶和华你的神是施行拯救、大有能力的主。祂在你中间必因你欢欣喜乐,默然爱你,且因你喜乐而欢呼。」(西番雅书 3︰17)

 

这是多么令人振奋的话!大有能力的主,要在祂的百姓中间,祂的同在足以让我们心中充满平安、希望。在耶和华里有数不尽的福份,而祂又住在教会中;所以祂的百姓要欢欣歌唱。

 

祂不仅与我们同在,而且祂致力于祂的救赎大工。“祂施行拯救“,祂一直在施行拯救:因此祂的名称为耶稣。所以我们不用害怕任何危险的骚扰,因全能的主要拯救我们。

不单如此,祂永不改变,祂救赎,祂在爱中得休憩,祂的爱永不止息。祂因爱我们而感到喜乐,祂也因祂所爱的人而唱出一首新歌,这岂不极为美妙?当神完成祂创造工作时,祂没有歌唱,祂只是说︰“这是好的。“但当祂完成救赎工作时,这位三位一体的神却欣喜高歌。想想啊!这真叫人不可思议!耶和华为祂所拣选的新妇唱一首爱情之歌。信徒是祂所爱的新妇,是祂的喜乐,是祂的安息,是祂的诗歌。主耶稣啊,我们为那长阔高深、无可测度的爱感激祢,求祢也教导我们如何回应祢的爱,以祢为乐,在一生之中,让赞美的诗歌常在我们口中。

 

The Reason for Singing

 

Scripture: "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in his love, He will joy over thee with singing"(Zephaniah 3:17).

 

What a Word is this! Jehovah God in the center of His people in all the majesty of His power! This presence alone suffices to inspire us with peace and hope. Treasures of boundless might are stored in our Jehovah, and He dwells in His church; therefore may His people shout for joy.

 

We not only have His presence, but He is engaged upon His choice work of salvation. "He will save." He is always saving: He takes His name of Jesus from it. Let us not fear any danger, for He is mighty to save.

 

Nor is this all. He abides evermore the same, He saves, He finds rest in loving, He will not cease to love. His love gives Him joy. He even finds a theme for song in His beloved. This is exceedingly wonderful. When God wrought creation He did not sing but simply said, "It is very good"; but when He came to redemption, then the sacred Trinity felt a joy to be expressed in song. Think of it, and be astonished! Jehovah Jesus sings a marriage song over His chosen bride. She is to Him His love, His joy, His rest, His song. O LORD Jesus, by Thine immeasurable love to us teach us to love Thee, to rejoice in Thee, and to sing unto Thee our life-psalm.

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「看哪!弟兄和睦同居,是何等的善,何等的美。」(诗一三三1)

 

  弟兄合而为一,必须除去彼此之间的障碍;最拦阻弟兄和谐的,就是嫉妒和骄傲。自己不好,别人好,就嫉妒;自己好,别人不好,就骄傲。这两样罪是最难医治的,比一切罪更难除去;所以在弟兄中最不容易得到和谐。

 

  有人说:我没有嫉妒。你真没有嫉妒吗?你可以试一试。假设有一弟兄在众人之中得到特别的称赞,本来他是在你以下,今天他升到你以上,在他心中是很喜乐,如果你的心不能和他一同喜乐,这证明你的心中有嫉妒。你这一点微小的嫉妒,就是你与他不和睦的种子。

 

  有人说:我没有骄傲。你真没有骄傲吗?你也可以试一试。假设你在众人中得著称赞,本来你在别人之下,今天你升到别人之上,你心中喜乐,别人却因此不喜乐,你就因别人的不喜乐而有几分不如意,这证明你心中有骄傲。这微小的骄傲,就是你与他不和睦的种子。

 

  嫉妒和骄傲是顶顽强的罪,是很难治死的。它们好象是耐寒的植物,别的树木都凋谢了,它们仍然活著。求神怜恤我们,除去我们心中的嫉妒和骄傲。若不把嫉妒和骄傲治死,就不能弟兄和睦同居。惟有切实相爱才能消灭它们。

 

  「倘若这人与那人有嫌隙,总要彼此包容,彼此饶恕;主怎样饶恕了你们,你们也要怎样饶恕人。」(西三13)

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  “我父是栽培的人。”(约15:1)

 

  临到我们的各种苦难,都是父神的使者,受父神的差遣,送礼物来给我们的;我们如果知道这个,就会得到安慰了。虽然,照属世的眼光看来,苦难似乎是伤害我们,毁灭我们的;但是照属灵的眼光看来,苦难却是产生祝福的。我们永不该忘记:救恩——世上最大的祝福——乃是世上最大痛苦的结果。所以每一次我们受到神严厉的修剪,刀虽然割得深,痛虽然刺得剧,但是一想到“我父是栽培的人”,立刻会得到说不尽的安慰。

 

  闻声博士(Dr.Vincent)在一个挂满了葡萄的花房里讲说他的故事:“我的园丁新来的时候,告诉我说,这些葡萄藤若不一起割光,只留下藤茎的话,他对它们一点办法都没有了;我就让他去割;两年来我们一粒葡萄也吃不到,可是到了今年,竟长得这般丰满。”

 

  让我们拿这个故事来解释基督徒受修剪的经过。修剪好象把葡萄藤剪坏了,园丁好象把葡萄藤割光了;但是他所顾念的是将来,他知道这样修剪的结果会使它的生命更丰盛,它的果子更饶多。——密勒


九月二十日


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讚美上主,全能真神

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Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

用於 《清晨甘露》九月二十日


主来寻我

用於 《静夜亮光》九月二十日

Jesus, my Saviour, to Bethlehem came

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《清晨甘露》九月二十日


中国教会留下的宝贵遗产
希伯來書12:1 "我們既有這許多的見證人 、如同雲彩圍著我們"

1901  — 1997

何凤山
基督徒外交官,“中国的辛德勒”。二战期间任中华民国政府驻维也纳领事馆总领事,期间他向数千犹太人签发了前往上海的签证,使他们免遭纳粹的迫害和屠杀,因此受到国际社会的尊敬与赞誉

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九月二十日

 

耶和华和基甸的!(士7:20)

 

基甸命令跟随他的人作两样事:藏着火把的瓶,好当他的信号一发出之后就打破瓶子放出光来,以后再吹角,喊叫说:“耶和华和基甸的刀!耶和华和基甸的刀!”

这正是一切基督徒所当作的。第一,你必须放光。要打破你藏着亮光的瓶子,要挪开盖着亮光的斗,要放出光来;要叫你的光照在人前,你的好行为也当这样,她叫看到的人知道你是属于耶稣的。以后必须发出响声,吹起角来。必须向罪人宣讲基督被钉十字架,把福音传给他们,把福音带到他们的门前,放在他们的路上;不要使他们逃避福音,要对着他们的耳吹起角来。

 

我们要留意,教会争战的呼号正是基甸所说的:“耶和华和基甸的刀!”神必亲自作战,因为那是他的事情。可是我们也不当袖手旁观;必须拿起兵器:“耶和华和基甸的刀!”若我们只喊“耶和华的刀!”就犯了闲懒妄想的罪;若我们空呼:“基甸的刀!”就表现我们崇拜并倚赖血肉的膀臂。我们必须使二者协合一致:“耶和华和基甸的刀”我们靠自己什么也不能作,但靠我们的神万事都能作。因此,我们当让他的名亲自出战,我们也要使用我们圣洁榜样的火把和热心传道与作见证的角声,那末神必与我们同在,米甸人必然乱窜,耶和华的军兵必然永远掌权。

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经文: 晚上也不要歇你的手。(传道书十一:6)

 

夕阳西下,黄昏来临,仍有许多为基督作见证的机会。整天劳碌的人们返家了,迫切争取灵魂的工人有机会了,此时,正是向他们述说那稣之爱的时刻。我们是否在黄昏为耶稣作工?若没有,也勿让我环抱双臂。有一工作需要付出极大的努力。罪人因缺乏知识而灭亡。闲荡的人会发现他的双手被灭亡灵魂的血所染红。耶稣伸出双手被钉。我怎能对祂的圣工袖手旁观?祂夜以断日为我辛劳、为我祈求。我怎能浪费分秒放纵自己贪图肉体的暑华安逸?起来吧,怠惰的心!伸出你的手去作工或高举双手祈祷吧!天堂与地狱都在迫切工作。让我也辛勤地工作,今晚为王播下一颗好种吧!生命是如此短促。无人能虚掷一日。倘若有一位国王在我们面前置放一堆金子,告诉我们只要数多少,就可以拿多少,我们必不停地从清晨数到夜尽。我们必然从晨曦微露开始,到黄昏降临也不会歇手。赢取灵魂是更高贵的工作。为何我们这么快就停工了呢?有人到了晚年仍然善用晚上的时光。若我能作到,我要用自己所有的才能去事奉我所称颂的信实之主,直到最后一刻。靠着祂的恩典,我愿在事奉中逝世,唯有当我的躯体躺下时,我才放下工作。晚上,我也不愿歇手。

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Evening, September 20

 

Scripture: “In the evening withhold not thy hand.”(Ecclesiastes 11:6)

 

In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let me no longer withhold my hand from a service which requires abundant labour. Sinners are perishing for lack of knowledge; he who loiters may find his skirts crimson with the blood of souls. Jesus gave both his hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from his blessed work? Night and day he toiled and prayed for me, how can I give a single hour to the pampering of my flesh with luxurious ease? Up, idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray; heaven and hell are in earnest, let me be so, and this evening sow good seed for the Lord my God.

 

The evening of life has also its calls. Life is so short that a morning of manhood's vigour, and an evening of decay, make the whole of it. To some it seems long, but a four-pence is a great sum of money to a poor man. Life is so brief that no man can afford to lose a day. It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; we should begin early in the morning, and in the evening we should not withhold our hand; but to win souls is far nobler work, how is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Some are spared to a long evening of green old age; if such be my case, let me use such talents as I still retain, and to the last hour serve my blessed and faithful Lord. By his grace I will die in harness, and lay down my charge only when I lay down my body. Age may instruct the young, cheer the faint, and encourage the desponding; if eventide has less of vigorous heat, it should have more of calm wisdom, therefore in the evening I will not withhold my hand.

《竭诚为主》9月20日 生命的神圣定律

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所以你们要完全,像你们的天父完全一样。(太五48)

 

在这经文中,主劝勉我们对所有人都要宽大慷慨。在属灵的生活中,当心依从人性的喜好行事。人人都有天然的喜好,我们喜欢某些人,不喜欢某些人。切勿让这些喜好操纵我们基督徒的生命。“我们若在光明中行,如同神在光中”,神可以使我们与天性不喜欢的人相交。

 

主给我们的榜样不是一个好人,也不是一个好的基督徒,乃是神自己。“所以你们要完全,像你们的天父完全一样。”--向人表彰神向你表彰的;神在实际生活上会给我们足够的机会,去证明我们是否像他一样完全。作门徒,就是立志要爱神所关注的人。“叫你们彼此相爱,我怎样爱你们,你们也要怎样相爱。”

 

信徒品德的表现不在于善行,乃在于像神。若神的灵已改变你的内心,你生命所表现的是属天的特性,而不是好人的特性。神的生命在我们里面,表现的就是神的生命,不是力求敬虔的人的生命。信徒的秘诀,就是藉神的恩典,使超然的在他里面成为自然,这种经历并非在与神相交的时刻中表现,而是在日常生活的细节中实行。当我们碰到叫人头昏脑胀的事,便会稀奇自己竟有能力保持平静安稳。

 

祈祷◆噢,主啊,当今天这个属你的日子正要展开,愿你在一切事情上成为我们独特的珍宝。愿你的灵充满我们,以致我们各人都被那甜蜜、惬意的属灵能力所改变。

 

September 20 The Divine Rule Of Life

 

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48

 

Our Lord's exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. Everyone has natural affinities; some people we like and others we do not like. We must never let those likes and dislikes rule in our Christian life. “If we walk in the light as God is in the light,” God will give us communion with people for whom we have no natural affinity.

 

The Example Our Lord gives us is not that of a good man, or even of a good Christian, but of God Himself. “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect,” show to the other man what God has shown to you; and God will give us ample opportunities in actual life to prove whether we are perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect. To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. “That ye love one another; as I have loved you . . .”

 

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly. The secret of a Christian is that the supernatural is made natural in him by the grace of God, and the experience of this works out in the practical details of life, not in times of communion with God. When we come in contact with things that create a buzz, we find to our amazement that we have power to keep wonderfully poised in the centre of it all.

更像我恩主

用於 《竭诚为主》9月20日

【歌譜下載】
More Like The Master

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永恒之君求前导

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月20日

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Lead On, O King Eternal

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甘心乐意

 

经文:「当祢掌权的日子,祢的民……甘心牺牲自己。」(诗篇 110︰3)

 

神的名是可称颂的,祂的恩典何其浩大!祂拣选一族人跟随祂,就是祂自上古为自己保留的。这些人原本也像亚当的后裔那样,背逆固执,但当神的怜悯临到、权能施展时,他们就愿悔改,相信耶稣,而且甘心乐意地将心志降服在主前。神的全能大爱是何等奥妙,祂不是胁迫、勉强人的意志,乃是用祂牺牲的大爱,感化人坚硬的心;祂不是用外力打碎人的心锁,乃是用一把特别的钥匙,轻启心房的锁,而这把钥匙,只有神祂单独持有。

 

现在我们甘心情愿地愿意为神而活,为神效力,为神受苦,就如主顺服的样式。若我们不顺服时,神就会亲自以祂的权柄来调整我们,使我们立刻全心全意地来遵循祂的旨意。愿今天就是这样满有神能力的一天,让我有力量行出荣神益人的高贵之事。主啊,我愿意,我怎能不愿意这是充满祢权能的一天呢?我完全听祢的差遣;是的,我迫切地期望能够为成就祢神圣的旨意而被祢使用。哦,主啊,不要让我哭喊说:“立志为善由得我,只是行出来由不得我”;求祢怎样赐给我甘心乐意的心,就怎样赐给我能力,好叫祢的旨意成就。

 

Perfect Willingness

 

Scripture: "Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power"(Psalm 110:3).

 

Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion. These by nature have wills as stubborn as the rest of the froward sons of Adam; but when the day of His power comes and grace displays its omnipotence, they become willing to repent and to believe in Jesus. None are saved unwillingly, but the will is made sweetly to yield itself. What a wondrous power is this, which never violates the will and yet rules it! God does not break the lock, but He opens it by a master key which He alone can handle.

Now are we willing to be, to do, or to suffer as the LORD wills. If at any time we grow rebellious, He has but to come to us with power, and straightway we run in the way of His commands with all our hearts. May this be a day of power with me as to some noble effort for the glory of God and the good of my fellowmen! LORD, I am willing; may I not hope that this is a day of Thy power? I am wholly at Thy disposal; willing, yea, eager, to be used of Thee for Thy holy purposes. O LORD, let me not have to cry, "To will is present with me, but how to perform that which I would, I find not"; but give me power as Thou givest me will.

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天满了云,叫人非常沉闷,我们知道这不是灾害,是要降下时雨,滋润大地,生长五榖百果,养育人民牲畜,我们对于云,不介意它的阴暗,衹想得它的利益。

 

  有时在我们的工作中,在我们环境内,也是有黑云遮蔽,看不见天日,我们就心中愁闷,却不知道云中含著时雨;我们自己省察这黑云若不是与神隔绝的罪恶,黑云就是与我们有大利益的,神要从云中倾倒祂的丰盛恩典。等到恩典如大雨倾倒完毕,所留下的衹有恩典而没有黑云了。所以我们若真知道神的恩典,一定要在患难中欢喜,等候神在患难中所倾倒给我们的恩典,必不致被包围在黑云中,灰心绝望。

 

  你不要看这么多的黑云,充满了天空,但神要消灭它的时候,一片也不存留,顷刻间就消散了。你的患难多吗?大吗?难道还能比天空的黑云还大还多吗?神一吩咐就都离开你了。现在虽然还未离开你,是因为神的恩典还没有降完。等到黑云完成了它的任务,就毫不逗留地都要离开你。那时日头出来照著你,你便欣欣向荣地往上长,你的长进是不能遏止的,生命要在你里面自由地发展。因为你饱足了神的恩典,神用大雨把你浇灌了。

 

  「雅各醒了说:耶和华真在这里,我竟不知道。」(创二十八16)

 

  「他们父亲雅各,又看见约瑟打发来接他的车辆,心就苏醒了。以色列说:罢了!罢了!我的儿子约瑟还在。」(创四十五27至28)

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  “我不是对你说过,你若信,就必看见神的荣耀么?”(约11:40)

 

  马大和马利亚不明白她们的主所作的是什么。她们两人都先后对他说: “主啊,你若早在这里我兄弟必不死。”(约11:32)。她们似乎在想:“主啊,我们不明白你为什么来得这般迟。我们不明白你怎么忍心让死亡临到你所爱的。我们不明白你怎么忍心让忧伤和苦难来蹂躏我们的生命。为什么你不早些来呢?现在是太迟了,因为他死了已经四天了!”

 

  对于这一切疑问,耶稣只用一个伟大的真理来答复她们:“你也许不明白;但是我告诉你——你若信,就必看见。”

 

  亚伯拉罕不明白为什么神要他把他独生的儿子献为燔祭;但是他信。他就看见了神的荣耀。摩西不明白为什么神要他在旷野隐居四十年,但是他信;当神呼召他去将以色列人从为奴之地领出来的时候他就看见了。

 

  约瑟对于他哥哥们的残忍,对于一个泼妇的假见证,对于多年不公正的监禁,都丝毫不能明白;但是他信,最后他看见了神在其中的一切荣耀。

 

  雅各不明白为什么神应许把约瑟从他怀中扯去,但是当他看见约瑟做了王的宰相,保存了他自己呵一国的性命的时候,他就看见了神的荣耀。

 

  亲爱的,在你身上,也是这样。你说:“我不明白为什么神容让我心所爱的被夺去。我不明白为什么神应许苦难来侵袭我。我不明白为什么神领我行走这样曲折的道路。我不明白为什么我视为美好的计划和目的要受到挫折。我不明白为什么我这样急迫的需要,迟延了这久还没有来到。”

 

  朋友,你用不着明白神对付你的方法。神不盼望你能明白。你并不盼望你的孩子能明白你所作的,是吗?只要信,有一天你必在你所不明白的事上看见神的荣耀。——马克康该


九月二十一日


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Come and Rejoice With Me

用於 《清晨甘露》九月廿一日


主必保守歌

用於 《静夜亮光》九月二十一日

【歌譜下載】
He Will Hold Me Fast

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中国教会留下的宝贵遗产
希伯來書12:1 "我們既有這許多的見證人 、如同雲彩圍著我們"

1873  — 1965
包志理
Henry Cornelius Bartel
包志理在中國開創了兩個門諾宗差會,並為門諾宗在其他方面的發展奠定了基礎

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1873  — 1965

包志理
Henry Cornelius Bartel
包志理在中国开创了两个门诺宗差会,并为门诺宗在其他方面的发展奠定了基础

1904  — 2001
包忠傑
Paul Henry Bartel
著名美國宣教士;基督教文字宣教的先驅。先後在四川、貴州、香港等地宣教;曾任宣道出版社社長;創刊並出任《聖經報》主編,將其一生奉獻給中國人民。

https://bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/bao-zhongjie

1904  — 2001
包忠杰
Paul Henry Bartel
著名美国宣教士;基督教文字宣教的先驱。先后在四川、贵州、香港等地宣教;曾任宣道出版社社长;创刊并出任《圣经报》主编,将其一生奉献给中国人民。

https://bdcconline.net/zh-hans/stories/bao-zhongjie

九月廿一日

 

我必欢喜施恩与他们。(耶32:41)

 

神欢喜属他的圣徒实在是信徒所当快乐的一件事!我们不明白我们有什么理由使神欢喜;我们不能使自己欢喜,因为我们常有悲哀,常背重担;想到我们的罪,看到我们的不信,我们也怕属神的人不能欢喜我们,因为他们必知晓我们的缺陷和愚妄;他们非但不羡慕我们的美点,反而为我们的过犯伤心。但我们却喜欢靠着这超然的真理、这荣耀的奥秘而生存;新郎怎样喜悦新妇,神也照样喜悦我们。圣经中从没有一处说神欢喜终年积雪的高山,或是晶莹的明星,但我们却读到过他欢喜住在地上的人,他喜爱人的儿子。圣经中也没有一处记载着他对基路伯和撒拉弗说“你却要称为我所喜悦的……因为耶和华喜悦你”;但他却这样向我们这些被罪所败坏,被拯救,被高举,并被他的恩典所荣耀的人说过。他表现他欢喜他民的话是多么清楚有力呀!谁知道永生神会唱出这样一支歌来呢?但经上说:“他在你中间必因你欢欣喜乐,默然爱你,且因你喜乐而欢呼。”当他察看他所造的世界时,他说“都甚好”;但当他看耶稣的血所买来的,他自己所拣选的民时,无限之神的伟大的心不能抑制的喜乐便像歌声一样涌流而出。我们不当为他奇妙大爱的宣告存着感恩的心回答说“我要因耶和华欢欣,因救我的神喜乐”吗?

“神欢喜施恩与我们,乐意赐福于我们。”

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经文: 不要把我的灵魂和罪人一同除掉。(诗篇二十六:9)

 

恐惧使大卫作出上述之祈祷。他内心有微声说道:“恐怕最后我会同罪人一起被除灭。”那恐惧虽然与不信有关,却是萌发自与过去之罪有关连的神圣之焦虑。即使已蒙饶恕的人可能也会问:“若上帝纪念我的罪,从生命册上除去我的名字,怎么办?”他回想近来没有结果子──极少感恩、极少爱、极少追求圣洁。瞻望将来,他忧虑自己的软弱以及围绕他的种种试探。他害怕自己可能堕落成为敌人的猎物。罪恶感、眼前的恶行、压倒他的败坏逼使他带着恐惧颤惊来祈求:“不要把我的灵魂和罪人一同除掉。”你若能如此祈求,就毋需害怕你将和罪人一同被除掉。你是否具备大卫所有的两样优点──外在的,诚实地与主同行,和内在的,全心信靠主?你是否依赖基督的献祭?你是否能带着谦卑的盼望来就近上帝的祭坛?倘若你能,不必担心,你不可能和罪人一同被除掉。在审判台前只有同类是放在一起的。“先将稗子薅出来,捆成捆,留着烧。惟有麦子,要收在仓里。”(太十三:30)你若像上帝的子民,那么,你会与上帝的子民在一起。上帝如此爱你,不忍将你和堕落的人一同除掉。基督所爱的人会灭亡吗?不可能的!地狱不能抓住你,你是属于天国的!信靠你的救主,不必害怕!

 

Evening, September 21

 

Scripture: “Gather not my soul with sinners.”(Psalm 26:9)

 

Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, “Perhaps, after all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked.” That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the recollection of past sin. Even the pardoned man will enquire, “What if at the end my sins should be remembered, and I should be left out of the catalogue of the saved?” He recollects his present unfruitfulness-so little grace, so little love, so little holiness, and looking forward to the future, he considers his weakness and the many temptations which beset him, and he fears that he may fall, and become a prey to the enemy. A sense of sin and present evil, and his prevailing corruptions, compel him to pray, in fear and trembling, “Gather not my soul with sinners.” Reader, if you have prayed this prayer, and if your character be rightly described in the Psalm from which it is taken, you need not be afraid that you shall be gathered with sinners. Have you the two virtues which David had-the outward walking in integrity, and the inward trusting in the Lord? Are you resting upon Christ's sacrifice, and can you compass the altar of God with humble hope? If so, rest assured, with the wicked you never shall be gathered, for that calamity is impossible. The gathering at the judgment is like to like. “Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” If, then, thou art like God's people, thou shalt be with God's people. You cannot be gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly bought. Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are his for ever, and where he is, there must his people be. You are loved too much to be cast away with reprobates. Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot hold thee! Heaven claims thee! Trust in thy Surety and fear not!

《竭诚为主》9月21日 传道者的预选

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耶和华从我出胎造就我作他的仆人。(赛四十九5)

 

我们一清楚在耶稣基督里被神选召,第一件发生的事就是偏见、狭隘的思想、爱国主义的破灭,变成神的仆人,为完成他的计划。整个人类原是为荣耀神、永远享受神而被造的。罪恶把人类带入歧途,但却不能改变神原意的一丝一毫。我们重生得救时,就立时进入神对人类伟大的用心里去;我是为神而被造的,神创造了我。明白神的选召,是世上最快乐不过的体会,我们必须信赖神伟大的创造计划。神要作在我们身上的第一件事,就是要把对世界的关注,灌注到一颗心的通道里去。他把爱,就是自己的本性,引进我们里面,而全能神的本性,就集中在约翰福音三章16节:“神爱世人……”。

 

我们要保持心灵向神创造的本意敞开,不要把自己的意念搀杂在里面。若非如此,不管我们多痛苦,神也要把我们的意图压碎。传道者的任务就是作神的仆人,让神得着荣耀。若我们明白在主的救恩里成为完全适合神用的人,就明白主耶稣的要求何以这样决绝。他要求他的仆人绝对的正直,因为他已把神的本性放在他们里面。

 

祈祷◆噢,主啊,为着我所负责的这些人,我恳求你带领我与你的计划活泼相连。为着今天所拥有的一切机会,求你重新膏立我。让我看见你救恩的作为。

 

September 21 Missionary Predestinations

 

“And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be His servant.” Isaiah 49:5

 

The first thing that happens after we have realized our election to God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our prejudices and our parochial notions and our patriotisms; we are turned into servants of God's own purpose. The whole human race was created to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever. Sin has switched the human race on to another tack, but it has not altered God's purpose in the tiniest degree; and when we are born again we are brought into the realization of God's great purpose for the human race, viz., I am created for God, He made me. This realization of the election of God is the most joyful realization on earth, and we have to learn to rely on the tremendous creative purpose of God. The first thing God will do with us is to “force through the channels of a single heart” the interests of the whole world. The love of God, the very nature of God, is introduced into us, and the nature of Almighty God is focused in John 3:16 – “God so loved the world. . .”

 

We have to maintain our soul open to the fact of God's creative purpose, and not muddle it with our own intentions. If we do, God will have to crush our intentions on one side however much it may hurt. The purpose for which the missionary is created is that he may be God's servant, one in whom God is glorified. When once we realize that through the salvation of Jesus Christ we are made perfectly fit for God, we shall understand why Jesus Christ is so ruthless in His demands. He demands absolute rectitude from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.

 

Beware lest you forget God’s purpose for your life.

愿你为大

用於 《竭诚为主》9月21日

【歌譜下載】
Be Thou Supreme, O Jesus Christ

用於 《竭诚为主》9月21日


願更與神親密同行

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月21日

【歌譜下載】
O For A Closer Walk With God

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月21日



《信心的支票簿》09月21日

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九月二十一日 信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

 

患难生忍耐

 

经文:「因为知道患难生忍耐」(罗马书 5︰3)

 

这句经文虽然形式上不像应许,但其实质却是应许。我们需要耐心,才能看到如何得蒙这应许。我们只有从忍受苦难中,才能学会忍耐,就像人必须亲自下水,才能学会游泳一样。你无法在旱地上学会游泳,也无法未经苦难而学会忍耐。为了学会神要我们培养的“耐性”美德,受些苦难与操练,又算得什么?

 

这节经文显明应许的成就,不是靠自己的力量,乃是靠神的帮助。因为按着人的本性,在患难痛苦中,人的正常反应是性急抱怨,小信反抗;惟有神的恩典,才能帮助我们在患难中学会忍耐。我们打麦子并不是要压落尘埃,但是在神的打谷场上,祂以患难为链枷为我们除尘;我们搅扰人并不是让他得安宁,但神却用这个方法帮助祂的孩子得安息。这实在不是人的方式,却能让我们智慧的神得极大的荣耀。

喔,主啊,因着祢的恩典,让我的试炼成为我的祝福!为何我期望留在这恩典的手术中呢?主啊,求祢将我的困苦移开,但我十倍地恳求祢,让“没有耐心”的性情能离开我!亲爱的主,求祢用十架将祢忍耐的形象刻在我的心版上。

 

Let Trials Bless

 

Scripture: "Knowing that tribulation worketh patience"(Romans 5:3).

 

This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as by swimming men learn to swim. You could not learn that art on dry land, nor learn patience without trouble. Is it not worth while to suffer tribulation for the sake of gaining that beautiful equanimity of mind which quietly acquiesces in all the will of God?

 

Yet our text sets forth a singular fact, which is not according to nature but is supernatural. Tribulation in and of itself worketh petulance, unbelief, and rebellion. It is only by the sacred alchemy of grace that it is made to work in us patience. We do not thresh the wheat to lay the dust: yet the flail of tribulation does this upon God's floor. We do not toss a man about in order to give him rest, and yet so the LORD dealeth with His children. Truly this is not the manner of man but greatly redounds to the glory of our all-wise God.

 

Oh, for grace to let my trials bless me! Why should I wish to stay their gracious operation? LORD, I ask Thee to remove my affliction, but I beseech Thee ten times more to remove my impatience. Precious LORD Jesus, with Thy cross engrave the image of Thy patience on my heart.

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我们的心是神的居所,也是储藏属灵力量的泉源。

 

  有时信徒外表的态度很好,但在他的工作中忽然失去了力量,是他的心灵有了毛病。在我们的心中,永远不会成为打扫干净,休闲的房屋;神的灵若不住在其中,偶像就住在里面,我们的心不作神的殿,就作偶像的庙。

 

  我心中的偶像,你不知道,你心中的偶像,他也不知道。我的偶像与你的不同,你的偶像与他的不同;神和偶像是不能住在一起的,心中有了偶像,神就要离开我们。

 

  希西家初作王的时候,元年正月初一就开了神的殿,除去一切的偶像,甚至连摩西所举的铜蛇,他靠著神的力量打碎了,凡是以色列人所拜的东西,他都除掉了。他专靠耶和华,总不离开,耶和华也与他同在。后来神为他行了大事,他蒙的恩典太大;他虽然打碎了有形的偶像,但他所蒙的恩进入他心中成了偶像,叫他心里骄傲,以致他又大大地失败了,因著他的愚昧,就连累了自己的后裔,被仇敌掳去。

 

  心中的偶像是可怕的,因为它能叫神远离我们,它能抢夺神的座位,它能蒙蔽神的荣耀。神若离开了我们,我们的祸患就大了。

 

  「神的殿和偶像有甚么相同呢?因为我们是永生神的殿。就如神曾说:我要在他们中间居住,在他们中间来往。」(林后六16)

《荒漠甘泉》9月21日

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  “我…将万事当作有损的,因我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。”(腓3:8)

 

  现在正是五谷成熟的时期,农夫唱着欢乐的凯歌,把农产物收敛在仓库里。但是,让我们想一想:如果不是有一粒麦子先死在地里的话,怎么能结出这么多的子粒来呢?属灵的事情也是这样。我们自己的生命如果不死,怎么能活出基督的生命来呢?所以,让我们不再顾念我们自己的安乐和幸福。我们必须将己的生命完全钉死在基督的十字架上——不但将犯罪的欲望和习惯钉死,连天然生命中一切无罪的,美好的,也该一起钉死。因为如果我们要多结果子,就必须先被埋在黑暗和孤寂中。

 

  亲爱的,恐怕你一定会象我一样——一听到这个信息,心中会感到非常失望。但是让我们记着:主竟看上了我们,要我们与他一同受苦,在我们这岂不是一件极顶荣幸的事吗?并且,一切所遭遇的,无非要把我们造成合乎主用的器皿。痛苦生丰富,死亡生生命——这是神国中的定律。——译自静默的时候


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主所赐的平安

用於 《清晨甘露》九月廿二日

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Like A River Glorious

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藏身主裡

用於 《静夜亮光》九月廿二日

【歌譜下載】
Oh safe to the Rock that is higher than I

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《清晨甘露》九月廿二日

九月廿二日

 

愿以色列因造他的主欢喜。(诗149:2)

 

信徒啊!你的心要快乐,但要留意这快乐乃是源于神!你有很多理由可以在神里面快乐,因为你能和大卫一样地说:“我最快乐的神”。(应译“神,我所最快乐的。”)要快乐,因为神掌王权,耶和华是大君王!要欢喜,因为他坐在宝座上,治理万物!神每一种属性都成为我们所快乐的太阳的祥和光线。他是智慧的,当我们知道自己的愚妄时便使我们快乐起来;他是大能的,当我们软弱得发抖的时候便使我们喜乐起来;他是永生的,当我们知道我们必枯萎如草一样的时候,常作我们快乐的主题;他是不改变的,但我们却时时改变,便永远作为我们的歌声。他满有恩典,他的恩典涌流而出,他把约中所定的恩典赐给了我们;为要洁净我们,保守我们,分别我们,使我们完全,并把我们带到荣耀中——这一切都使我们在他里面快乐。这种快乐在神里面好像一条深河一样,我们现在所接触的不过是浮面,我们还不知道属天之河有多么澄清美妙,但越往前越深,快乐的水流也越湍急。基督徒不仅在神所有的里面快乐,而也在一切他过去所作的事里快乐。诗篇使我们知道古时神的民多想到神的作为,并为神所行的每一件事作一首诗。现在神的民也当歌颂神的行事!传扬他的大能,并“向耶和华歌唱,因他大大战胜”。不要使歌声中止,因为天天都有新的恩典临到,愿他们在神慈爱的行事、在他的眷顾、在他的恩典中快乐,并且不断地感谢他。锡安的民哪!应当快乐,应当在你的神里面欢喜。

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九月廿二日

 

 

我心裏發昏的時候……求祢領我到那比我更高的磐石(詩篇61:2)

 

        大部份人都明瞭心裏發昏的光景為何。倘若上帝容許我們罪惡本性中的深水翻騰,攪起淤泥與污穢,我們就會發現內心的敗壞,這就是心裏發昏的光景。當絕望與心碎如同怒濤,一波又一波洶湧壓頂時,我們就會落入這般的光景,像破裂的貝殼被澎湃拍舉之浪花拋擲。讚美上帝,在此刻,我們有一全然充足的安慰。我們的上帝是遭暴風雨擊打之船隻的避風港,是孤寂無伴之天路客的接待所。祂是高過我們的。祂的憐憫高過我們的眾罪、祂的大愛高過我們的思想。想到世人將自己寄託於低於自己的事物,真是可憐。我們的信心建立在我們至高的、榮耀的主身上。祂是永不改變的磐石,祂是居於高位的磐石,因為壓倒我們的風暴在祂腳下的低處翻騰。倘若我們在此堅立的磐石下尋得隱蔽之處,就必能公然藐視颶風。在高聳的懸崖之保護而來的「嚮導」,領我們到這神聖的避難所。主啊,但願藉著祢的聖靈,教導我自信心的道路,並引領我們進入祢的安息。風將我們吹入海中,駕駛盤不受我們軟弱無力的手操縱。唯有你能導引我們避開暗礁,帶領我們安全駛入平靜的避風港。我們必需依靠祢,求以智慧指導我們,引領我們進入平安穩妥之地。

《竭诚为主》9月22日 传道者的主人

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《竭诚为主》9月22日 传道者的主人

 

你们称呼我夫子,称呼我主,你们说的不错,我本来是。(约十三13)

 

有一位主人与被人驱使,是两回事。有一位主人,就是有一位比我更认识我的人;他比朋友更亲密;他深入我内心的深处,叫我满足;他解决我心思里一切的困惑与疑难,叫我安稳。这就是主人的意思,不折不扣--只有一位是我们的主人,就是基督。

 

主从不勉强人顺服,也不会设计使我们做他要我做的。有时我宁愿神管制我,迫我做某些事,可是他不会这样;有时我又希望他不要管我,但他也不会这样。“你们称呼我夫子,称呼我主”--他果真是吗?夫子和主,在我们的字汇中很少出现;我们喜欢用救主、使人成圣者、医治者等字眼。唯一可以描写有一位主人这经历的字眼,就是爱,而我们对神所启示的爱,认识又那么少。这在我们对“顺服”一词的运用上,就可以看出来。在圣经中,顺服是根据平等关系而言,就是儿子与父亲的关系。我们的主并不是神的仆人,他是神的儿子。“他虽然为儿子,还是……学了顺服。”若我们以为是被辖管,这就是我们并未有主人的明证;这种对耶稣的态度,与他所想望的关系相距实在太远。他要我们与他的关系,应该是自然地以他为主人,只知道我们属他、听他的话。

 

祈祷◆噢,主啊,我怀着灵性上极之枯干和贫乏的感觉,来到你面前;噢,主啊,为着你的名,求你激发我。我不会在你面前悲叹,却会被你的灵所充满。

 

September 22 The Missionary's Master

 

“Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.” John 13:13

 

To have a master and to be mastered is not the same thing. To have a master means that there is one who knows me better than I know myself, one who is closer than a friend, one who fathoms the remotest abyss of my heart and satisfies it, one who has brought me into the secure sense that he has met and solved every perplexity and problem of my mind. To have a master is this and nothing less – “One is your Master, even Christ.”

 

Our Lord never enforces obedience; He does not take means to make me do what He wants. At certain times I wish God would master me and make me do the thing, but He will not; in other moods I wish He would leave me alone, but He does not.

 

“Ye call me Master and Lord” – but is He? Master and Lord have little place in our vocabulary, we prefer the words Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer. The only word to describe mastership in experience is love and we know very little about love as God reveals it. This is proved by the way we use the word obey. In the Bible obedience is based on the relationship of equals, that of a son with his father. Our Lord was not God's servant, He was His Son. “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience . . .” If our idea is that we are being mastered, it is a proof that we have no master; if that is our attitude to Jesus, we are far away from the relationship He wants. He wants us in the relationship in which He is easily Master without our conscious knowledge of it, all we know is that we are His to obey.

背十架跟隨主

用於 《竭诚为主》9月22日

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Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

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指示你路

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月22日

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Teach me Thy way, O Lord

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九月二十二日 信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

 

完美的祝福

 

经文:「在那里,耶和华必显威严与我们同在,当作江河宽阔之地;其中必没有荡桨摇橹的船来往,也没有威武的船经过。」(以赛亚书 33︰21)

 

世事无十全十美,水能载舟亦能覆舟,凡事有利也有弊。然而神对我们却不是如此,祂全然美好。一个城邑有大河流过,虽有利灌溉发电,但敌人的战舰也可顺势而上。但在这个场景中,当神给予丰富的赏赐时,祂特意除掉了人们对随之而来的潜在风险的担心。因祂完全的大爱,献上我的感谢。

 

主啊,若祢加添我财富如这宽广的江河,莫让世俗或虚荣像那荡桨摇橹的船爬进我心;若祢赐我幸福健康,也求祢莫让肉体的安逸犹如那威武的船逆流而上;若祢让我在圣工上有份,宽广如同德意志的莱茵河,但愿在我发挥功用的河流中,永远不要有自大和自信的船来往。如若我有幸,年复一年欣喜若狂地享受祢面光照耀的时候,请永远不要让我小看祢软弱的圣徒们,也不要让我有自我完善的自负念头,想要在自以为是的河流里逆流而上。主啊,求祢赐福我,让我富有,却不增添忧愁,也与罪无份。

 

Broad Rivers Without Galleys

 

Scripture: "But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby"(Isaiah 33:21).

 

The LORD will be to us the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to attend the best earthly things. If a city is favored with broad rivers, it is liable to be attacked by galleys with oars and other ships of war. But when the LORD represents the abundance of His bounty under this figure, He takes care expressly to shut out the fear which the metaphor might suggest. Blessed be His perfect love!

 

LORD, if Thou send me wealth like broad rivers, do not let the galley with oars come up in the shape of worldliness or pride. If Thou grant me abundant health and happy spirits, do not let "the gallant ship" of carnal ease come sailing up the flowing flood. If I have success in holy service, broad as the German Rhine, yet let me never find the galley of self-conceit and self-confidence floating on the waves of my usefulness. Should I be so supremely happy as to enjoy the light of Thy countenance year after year, yet let me never despise Thy feeble saints, nor allow the vain notion of my own perfection to sail up the broad rivers of my full assurance. LORD, give me that blessing which maketh rich and neither addeth sorrow nor aideth sin.

《活水》九月二十二日

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九月二十二日

 

无论在物质上、在精神上、在心灵中,我们每时每刻享受主的爱。主为我们死,又为我们活在天上,还要为我们再来;主将祂的丰富赐给我们,主将祂的安息赐给我们,我们已经浸透在主的爱中。可是主也愿意从我们得著享受,我们岂不也当叫主得到满足吗?

 

  当我们初信主的时候,把自己的罪恶过犯给了主,主也都洗净了;我们把自己的软弱给了主,主也担当了。我们岂可常久在主的面前献上过犯和软弱呢?若是这样,主要多么伤心哩。

 

  主叫我们得著享受,是因为祂离开天堂,来到世界,将自己的命舍了,就好象一只羊,要叫神、人得著享受,就必须被杀,切成块子,才能成为馨香的火祭。我们若要叫主从我们得到享受,也必须为主有所牺牲,有所舍弃。

 

  保罗天天为主有所舍弃,他不但为主舍弃了世界上的地位名誉,舍去了一切合理合法的享受,他最后还为主舍了生命;当他要被杀的时候,他自己说:「我现在被浇奠,我离世的时候到了。」(提后四6)保罗自己谦卑,好象自己不配成为祭物叫主享受,衹是成为奠祭、陪祭、浇奠浇奠。主真是从他身上得著了享受。很可惜!神家中有一些圣徒,到如今还是天天在主前献上糊涂与悖逆,主从我们所得的分衹有伤心叹息。

 

  「我妹子!我新妇!我进了我的园中,采了我的没药和香料,吃了我的蜜房和蜂蜜;喝了我的酒和奶!我的朋友们!请吃,我所亲爱的!请喝,且多多的喝。」(歌五1)

《荒漠甘泉》9月22日

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  “主又说…撒旦想要得着你们,好筛你们,象筛麦子一样。但我已经为你祈求,叫你不至于失了信心。。”(路22:31-32)

 

  神试验我们的时候,把我们的信心当作射击的箭靶;如果别的可以免去试验的话,信心是定规免不了试验的。信心最大的试炼乃是被人世遗弃。许多时候神把我们喜乐的甲胄剥去,让我们遭遇一些恐惧战兢的经历,要看我们的信心在试炼中受不受到伤损。真实的信心能丝毫受不到伤损。——司布真

 

  保罗说:“所信的道我已经守住了。”(提后4:7),虽然他的头他没有守住。人们虽能把他的头斩去,却不能把他的信心斩去。这位外邦人的大使徒自以为乐的有三件事——“那美好的仗我已经打过了。当跑的路我已经跑尽了。所信的道我已经守住了。”其余的一切算什么呢?他获得了胜利;他获得了奖赏;他不但在地上得钦仰,并且在天上得到称赞。为什么我们不能象他那样将万事当作有损的为要得着基督呢?为什么我们不能象他那样忠于真理呢?啊,这是因为我们没有他的算学。他和我们算得不同;我们算为得着的,他算作有损的。但是如果我们要象他那样得戴冠冕,就必须有他那样的信心,并且象他那样守住信心。——选


九月二十三日


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惟独耶稣

用於 《清晨甘露》九月廿三日

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Jesus Only is Our Message

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凡事必定能成就

用於 《静夜亮光》九月二十三日

【歌譜下載】
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

用於 《静夜亮光》九月二十三日



《清晨甘露》九月廿三日

九月廿三日

 

在他爱子里蒙悦纳。(改译)(弗1:6)

 

这是信徒的专利和特权!其中包含着我们在神面前的成义,但“悦纳”在希腊文中还有别的意思 。它说明我们是神满足的对象,甚至是神所欢喜的。我们这些虫、必死的人、罪人能成为神所爱的对象,真是一件希奇的事!但只有“在爱子里”才能蒙悦纳。有一些基督徒以为自己的经验可以蒙悦纳,至少他们是这样想。当他们的灵性活泼时,他们的希望明朗时,他们便以为神悦纳他们,因为他们感到自己很高超,很属天;但他们行将就木的时候,就担心自己不再是蒙神悦纳的了。若他们能够明白,只要他们站在永不改变的、永远完全、永无玷污、皱纹等类之病的、神永远所爱的爱子里面,他们的一切喜乐都不能高举他们、一切的失望都不能把他们从神的眼中压制下去时,那末他们该多么快乐,并荣耀他们的救主呀!信徒啊!要因你“在爱子里”蒙悦纳而快乐吧!你往里看,你必说:“这里没有什么可以蒙悦纳的!”但你仰望基督,看那里有什么可以蒙悦纳的。你的罪困扰你,但神已把你的罪抛在他的背后,你已在那胜过一切恶势力的主里面蒙了悦纳。魔鬼来引诱你,要放心,它不能损害你,因你已在打破撒但头的主里蒙了悦纳。要确实知道你自己的荣耀地位,已经得荣耀的灵魂也不过和你一样地蒙悦纳。他们只是在天堂上、“在爱子里”蒙悦纳,你现在也一样地在基督里蒙悦纳了。

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经文: 耶稣对他说,你若能信。(马可福音九:23)

 

有一个人,他的儿子被哑吧鬼附着。他见门徒无能力医治他的儿子,因此对基督也没有了信心。耶稣吩咐他把孩子带来时,他对主说:“祢若能作什么,求祢怜悯我们,帮助我们。”(可九:22)这位父亲的问题中有一个若字,只是这可怜、战栗的人将这个若字放错了地方。耶稣的回答似乎是:“关于我的能力和我的意愿,不应该有个若字。你若能信,在信的人,凡事都能!”此人的信心增强了,他谦卑地求主增加他的信心。耶稣斥责污鬼,将它赶了出来,并命令它再不要进入孩子的身体。我们也像这个人一般,常常知道主的应许是带着条件的,但却笨拙地将条件放在错误之处。耶稣若能帮助我,祂若能赐恩于我去胜过试探、祂若能饶恕我、祂若能使我成功。真理却是,你若能信,在祂是既能又愿意。你若能坚定信赖主,于基督凡事都能,于你也能。信心是坚立于上帝的能力中,并披上上帝庄严之外袍。以圣灵的荣耀大能束腰,在上帝的无所不能之中,信心成为敢做、敢想、敢受苦之能力。在信的人,凡事都能,并没有限制。

 

Evening, September 23

 

Scripture: “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.”(Mark 9:23)

 

A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was bidden to bring his son to him, he said to Jesus, “If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.” Now there was an “if” in the question, but the poor trembling father had put the “if” in the wrong place: Jesus Christ, therefore, without commanding him to retract the “if,” kindly puts it in its legitimate position. “Nay, verily,” he seemed to say, “there should be no ‘if’ about my power, nor concerning my willingness, the ‘if’ lies somewhere else.” “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” The man's trust was strengthened, he offered a humble prayer for an increase of faith, and instantly Jesus spoke the word, and the devil was cast out, with an injunction never to return. There is a lesson here which we need to learn. We, like this man, often see that there is an “if” somewhere, but we are perpetually blundering by putting it in the wrong place. “If” Jesus can help me-“if” he can give me grace to overcome temptation-“if” he can give me pardon-“if” he can make me successful? Nay, “if” you can believe, he both can and will. You have misplaced your “if.” If you can confidently trust, even as all things are possible to Christ, so shall all things be possible to you. Faith standeth in God's power, and is robed in God's majesty; it weareth the royal apparel, and rideth on the King's horse, for it is the grace which the King delighteth to honour. Girding itself with the glorious might of the all-working Spirit, it becomes, in the omnipotence of God, mighty to do, to dare, and to suffer. All things, without limit, are possible to him that believeth. My soul, canst thou believe thy Lord to-night?

《竭诚为主》9月23日 传道者的目标

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《竭诚为主》9月23日 传道者的目标

 

看哪,我们上耶路撒冷去。(路十八31)

 

在天然生命中,我们会按着发展而改变自己的野心。可是在信徒生命中,目标一开始就摆明出来,而这目标是始终如一的:主自己。我们始于基督,也终于基督--“直等到我们……长大成人,满有基督长成的身量。”我们并不是依自己认为的理想信徒生命而行。传道人的目标是要行神的旨意,不是要大得使用,不是要赢得许多不信的人。他当然要合用,也当然要赢多人信主,但那不是他的目标。他的目标是遵行神的旨意。

在主的一生中,耶路撒冷是他在十架上成就天父旨意的顶峰。我们若未与他同往,就并未与他同行。主上耶路撒冷的路上,没有什么事物可以叫他灰心。在备受攻击的村镇,他没匆匆避过;在大受拥戴的地方,他也不会流连不去。不管人对他感恩或是忘恩,总不能叫他走向耶路撒冷的心意改变一丁点儿。

 

“仆人不能高过主人。”在往耶路撒冷的路上,我们也要遭遇同样的事。神的工作会透过我们彰显,有人得着祝福,一两个人会表示感激,其他的人可能会忘恩负义。可是,不要让任何事物使我们偏离上耶路撒冷的路。

 

“他们在那里钉他十字架。”这就是主到耶路撒冷所遭遇的,而这却开启我们得救的门。圣徒的终局不是钉十字架;凭神的恩典,他们的终局是荣耀的。在这当儿,我们口号是:也上耶路撒冷去。

 

祈祷◆主啊,我能够认识你是何等美好;我何其需要靠近你。当你成为我的生命时,我怎能颤抖!

 

September 23 The Missionary's Goal

 

“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem.” Luke 18:31

 

In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end are the same, viz., Our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him – “until we all attain to the stature of the manhood of Christ Jesus,” not to our idea of what the Christian life should be. The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathen; he is useful and he does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

 

In Our Lord's life Jerusalem was the place where He reached the climax of His Father's will upon the Cross, and unless we go with Jesus there we will have no companionship with Him. Nothing ever discouraged Our Lord on His way to Jerusalem. He never hurried through certain villages where He was persecuted, or lingered in others where He was blessed. Neither gratitude nor ingratitude turned Our Lord one hair's breadth away from His purpose to go up to Jerusalem.

 

“The disciple is not above his Master.” The same things will happen to us on our way to our Jerusalem. There will be the works of God manifested through us, people will get blessed, and one or two will show gratitude and the rest will show gross ingratitude, but nothing must deflect us from going up to our Jerusalem.

“There they crucified Him.” That is what happened when Our Lord reached Jerusalem, and that happening is the gateway to our salvation. The saints do not end in crucifixion: by the Lord's grace they end in glory. In the meantime our watchword is – I, too, go up to Jerusalem.

快來崇拜受苦救主

用於 《竭诚为主》9月23日

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Hail, Thou once despised Jesus!

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求主领我

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月23日

【歌譜下載】
Savior Lead Me Lest I Stray

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九月二十三日 信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

 

去芜存菁

 

经文:「我必出令,将以色列家分散在列国中,好像用筛子筛谷,连一粒也不落在地上。」(阿摩司书 9︰9)

 

神要继续做筛选的工作。无论我们往哪儿去,我们都要历经考验与筛选;在各国各邦,神的选民都要经历试炼,“好像用筛子筛谷”。有时,魔鬼猛力地翻动畚箕,让我们在其中上下猛烈翻腾,极其想把我们永远从里面摔出去。世界不信神的潮流,也不断用不安的恐惧冲击我们的信仰。世人同时也加以援手,左右大力摇晃我们。更糟的是,教会中变节背道的层出不穷,使得动荡不安的局面,更是雪上加霜,变本加厉。

好啊,让这样的局势继续下去吧!如此便可将糠秕与麦粒分别;如此麦粒就可从尘埃和糠秕中得拯救。更何况,神的怜悯是何其伟大啊,有如经文最后一节说的——“连一粒也不落在地上。”所有美好、真实、满有恩典的都会被保留下来,就连最小的信徒也不会有任何损失。在这筛簸中,我们也会被保留下来,藉着基督耶稣,让这一切变为对我们的真正祝福。

 

Deliverance from Dust and Chaff

 

Scripture: "For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"(Amos 9:9).

 

The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries God's people are being tried "like as corn is sifted in a sieve." Sometimes the devil holds the sieve and tosses us up and down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to get rid of us forever. Unbelief is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its restless fears. The world lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes us to the right and to the left with great vigor. Worst of all, the church, so largely apostate as it is, comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting process.

 

Well, well! Let it go on. Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat. Thus is the wheat delivered from dust and chaff. And how great is the mercy which comes to us in the text, "Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! All shall be preserved that is good, true, gracious. Not one of the least of believers lose anything worth calling a loss. We shall be so kept in the sifting that it shall be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus.

《活水》九月二十三日

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我们是贫穷的、污秽的、丑恶的、瞎眼的,赤身的,怎能谈到叫主在我们身上得著享受呢?主在我们身上衹有叹息、忧愁、悲伤。所以我们必先从主支取祂一切的丰富,成为我们的产业;支取主的宝血,洗净我们的污秽,支取主的能力,覆庇我们的软弱;支取祂的权柄,驱逐魔鬼的攻击;支取祂的圣洁,成为我们的美丽;支取祂的智慧,消除我们的愚昧;支取祂的义,披戴在我们身上;支取祂的慈爱、忍耐、尊贵、荣耀;凡属于主的,我们都可以随意支取。祂供应我们一切的需要;凡我们所需要的,我们的主没有一样供应不来。

 

  等我们圣洁了、美丽了、丰肥了,然后主在我们身上要得著享受,主与我们、我们与主,一同进入筵席,真是「王正坐席的时候,我的哪哒香膏发出香味。」「他以爱为旗在我以上。」我们的心欢喜快乐,主的心也欢喜快乐。一切旁观者都要看见,惊奇我们在基督里的长进;我们要象王后一样的有尊贵荣耀;从前的污秽、羞耻、软弱、卑贱,象外衣一样,从我们身上脱下来。真如同哈拿祷告中的话:「祂从灰尘里抬举贫寒人,从粪堆中提拔穷乏人,使他们与王子同坐,得著荣耀的座位。」(撒上二8)

 

  今天我们为何自叹自怜,而不起来进入基督为我们所成全的救恩呢?

 

  「那向外观看如晨光发现,美丽如月亮,皎洁如日头,威武如展开旌旗军队的是谁呢?」(歌六10)

 

  「我所爱的,你何其美好,何其可悦,使人欢畅喜乐。」(歌七6)

《荒漠甘泉》9月23日

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  “信我的人,就如经上所说,从他腹中要流出活水的江河来。”(约7:38)

 

  在我们中间正有人觉得奇怪,为什么圣灵不来充满我们。无他,乃是因为我们要的太多,而没有舍出去。我们应该将所得的让它流出去,扩大去传福音,那我们立刻会发现圣灵正在我们面前,给我一切,他可以信托我必会在转给别人。

 

  古代有一种因风吹而自动发音的弦琴,他的构造的道理,亦可以应用到属灵生活方面。这种风琴只是装配了若干音节和谐的琴弦,让风吹过,犹如手指去拨动它似的而发出优美之声调,据说很象一队天使在那里歌唱。因此,我们也可敞开我们的胸膛,让圣灵象风吹动那琴弦一样,按他的意志去拨弹琴弦而弹唱,让我们静静地等候圣灵的降临。——地上的天上生活

 

  门徒在五旬节受了圣灵的浸以后,并没有建造高大的礼拜堂,留在那里开会,而是到各地去宣讲福音。——赫夫


九月二十四日


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靠主膀臂歌

用於 《清晨甘露》九月廿四日

【歌譜下載】
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

用於 《清晨甘露》九月廿四日


Behold a Stranger at the door

用於 《静夜亮光》九月二十四日

詩歌背後故事(英文)

(《静夜亮光》九月二十四日引用詩歌第2節)

(Verse 2 is quoted in this evening's article.)


《清晨甘露》九月廿四日


中国教会留下的宝贵遗产
希伯來書12:1 "我們既有這許多的見證人 、如同雲彩圍著我們"

1871  — 1960
馮貴石
Francesca French
二十世紀初在中國山西、甘肅和新疆宣教的英國女傳教士,與蓋群英、姐姐馮貴珠一起被稱為內地會“三女傑”,她們曾多次沿“絲綢之路”穿行於戈壁沙漠,把福音傳給各族人民

https://bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/feng-guishi

 

1871  — 1960
冯贵石
Francesca French
二十世纪初在中国山西、甘肃和新疆宣教的英国女传教士,与盖群英、姐姐冯贵珠一起被称为内地会“三女杰”,她们多次沿“丝绸之路”穿行于戈壁沙漠,把福音传给各族人民

https://bdcconline.net/zh-hans/stories/feng-guishi

九月廿四日

 

我求王拨步兵马兵帮助我们抵挡路上的仇敌,本以为羞耻,因我曾对王说:“我们神施恩的手,必帮助一切寻求他的;但他的能力和忿怒,必攻击一切离弃他的。”(拉8:22)

 

归回的以色列人从各方面说都应当有军兵护送他们,但怕辱没神的羞耻心使以斯拉一个也不求。他怕外邦的王会因此想到他们所信的神是假的,或者以为以色列人的神并不能保佑敬拜他的人,这件事很清楚的是出于神,所以他的心绝没有想到投靠血肉之躯的念头。因此这一行人出发的时候,从外表看来没有一个保护他们的人,但神却护卫他们,他是他民的刀剑和盾牌。很少有信徒能为神的缘故发出这种神圣的羞恶之心,就是信心稍有根底的人也难免有时因为求人的帮助而玷污了他们生活的光彩。不用什么支援和倚靠之物,而只矗立于万古磐石之上,靠主扶持的人是有福的。若信徒们想到他们求助于该撒就是羞辱主,还会再请求政府帮助他们的教会吗?那不就等于说主不能供给他自己的需要吗?若我们想到主因我们单单倚赖他的膀臂大得荣耀,我们还会急于寻求朋友和亲戚的臂援吗?我的心哪!要单单等候神。有人说:“但是要用什么方法呢?”当然有方法;我们的错乃是常依靠方法,而不信靠神。有人太忽视人力,但有许多罪都是因为太重视人力来的。亲爱的读者!要学会藉着不用什么方法来荣耀神,若是用人的方法就羞辱了主的名。

“求神赐我们圣洁的羞恶之心。”

《静夜亮光》九月二十四日

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经文: 我身睡卧,我心却醒。(雅歌五:2)

 

基督徒的经历中常常充满了矛盾。在今晚我们所思想的经文里,这位新娘虽睡犹醒。唯有那些经历过基督的人才能明白信徒生命中的种种矛盾。今晚我要思想的两点是可悲的沉睡与有盼望的清醒。我身睡卧。因为在我们心中的罪,使我们变得懒散,不愿意花时间与上帝相交,怠惰于祈祷,缺乏属灵的喜乐,一切都是懒惰与散漫。对于有圣灵内住的人来说,这种光景是可耻的。这光景也是极危险的。要脱离怠惰的束缚,现在是时候了。许多信徒在沉睡于属肉体的安逸中失去了能力,如同参孙在沉睡中失去他的发绺。沉沦灭亡的世界围绕着我们,贪睡是残忍无情的行为。永恒已近在咫尺,沉睡是愚蠢的。然而,我们之中没有一人尽本份清醒。几声响雷将于我们有益。除非我们迅速振奋,不然我们将面临争战、瘟疫、和个人的损失。但愿我们永远离开使肉体安逸的床塌,携带点燃的火炬,前去迎接来临的新郎!我心却醒。这是一个快乐的记号。生命虽然仿佛可悲地受窒息,但是并未熄灭。当更新的心灵反抗本性的重荷时,应当感激主的大爱在我们这将灭亡的身体中保守我们的生命。耶稣垂听我们、帮助我们,并造访我们的心。儆醒的心所听到的是我们所爱的主之声音,说道:“求你给我开门。”对主的热情必会将心门打开!

 

Evening, September 24

 

Scripture: “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”(Song of Solomon 5:2)

 

Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one-the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer's riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two points in this evening's text are-a mournful sleepiness and a hopeful wakefulness. I sleep. Through sin that dwelleth in us we may become lax in holy duties, slothful in religious exercises, dull in spiritual joys, and altogether supine and careless. This is a shameful state for one in whom the quickening Spirit dwells; and it is dangerous to the highest degree. Even wise virgins sometimes slumber, but it is high time for all to shake off the bands of sloth. It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while sleeping on the lap of carnal security. With a perishing world around us, to sleep is cruel; with eternity so near at hand, it is madness. Yet we are none of us so much awake as we should be; a few thunder-claps would do us all good, and it may be, unless we soon bestir ourselves, we shall have them in the form of war, or pestilence, or personal bereavements and losses. O that we may leave for ever the couch of fleshly ease, and go forth with flaming torches to meet the coming Bridegroom! My heart waketh. This is a happy sign. Life is not extinct, though sadly smothered. When our renewed heart struggles against our natural heaviness, we should be grateful to sovereign grace for keeping a little vitality within the body of this death. Jesus will hear our hearts, will help our hearts, will visit our hearts; for the voice of the wakeful heart is really the voice of our Beloved, saying, “Open to me.” Holy zeal will surely unbar the door.

 

“Oh lovely attitude! He stands

With melting heart and laden hands;

My soul forsakes her every sin;

And lets the heavenly stranger in.”

《竭诚为主》9月24日 “去”的准备

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所以你在祭坛上献礼物的时候,若想起弟兄向你怀怨,就把礼物留在坛前,先去同弟兄和好,然后来献礼物。(太五23-24)

 

我们很容易幻想自己会达到一个完全准备妥当的地步,但其实准备功夫不是突然间可以作成,准备乃是一个不断持续的过程。陷进固有的经历中,是一种危险。我们要准备加上准备。“牺牲精神”对青年信徒来说,是很具吸引力。按人性论,唯一吸引我们向主耶稣的,就是那英雄气概。可是在主话的细察下,这热潮要受到考验。主说:“先去同弟兄和好。”“去”的准备,是先让神的话查验。单有英雄气概是不够的。圣灵要在你身上查出不合用于事奉的意向。这意向,除了神以外,没有人能查察出来。你有什么东西要向神隐藏?若有,就让神用他的光来搜查。若有罪,就要认罪,不要单单承认。不管是怎样卑躬,你愿意顺服主吗?

 

千万不可不顾良心的谴责。若神的灵叫你想起那事,那事就是重要的,是他所要查察的。你以往不断要找些大的事来放弃,神却要你注意些小事。因为在这小事的背后,正藏着顽梗的大本营:“我不肯放弃自己的主权。”若要作耶稣基督的门徒,神要你放弃的正是你的主权。

 

祈祷◆主啊,让今天充满了对你的赞美。愿你使我脱离各式各样的烦扰。为着我的思想能专注于你,我赞美你,但我仍渴望你的美善临到我身上。

 

September 24 The “Go” Of Preparation

 

“Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there thou rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” Matthew 5:23, 2

 

It is easy to imagine that we will get to a place where we are complete and ready, but preparation is not suddenly accomplished, it is a process steadily maintained. It is dangerous to get into a settled state of experience. It is preparation and preparation.

 

The sense of sacrifice appeals readily to a young Christian. Humanly speaking, the one thing that attracts to Jesus Christ is our sense of the heroic, and the scrutiny of Our Lord's words suddenly brings this tide of enthusiasm to the test. “First be reconciled to thy brother.” The “go” of preparation is to let the word of God scrutinize. The sense of heroic sacrifice is not good enough. The thing the Holy Spirit is detecting in you is the disposition that will never work in His service. No one but God can detect that disposition in you. Have you anything to hide from God? If you have, then let God search you with His light. If there is sin, confess it, not admit it. Are you willing to obey your Lord and Master whatever the humiliation to your right to yourself may be?

 

Never discard a conviction. If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to have brought it to your mind, it is that thing He is detecting. You were looking for a great thing to give up. God is telling you of some tiny thing; but at the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself – the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

憑你意行,主

用於 《竭诚为主》9月24日

【歌譜下載】
Have Thine Own Way, Lord!

用於 《竭诚为主》9月24日


深哉,深哉,耶稣的爱

用於 《信心的支票簿》09月24日

【歌譜下載】
O The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

《信心的支票簿》09月24日



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九月二十四日 信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

 

生命之河

 

经文:「这河水所到之处,凡滋生的动物都必生活……这河水所到之处,百物都必生活。」(以西结书 47︰9)

 

在先知的异象中,活水流进死海,也把生命带进那停滞的湖泊。当恩典流过,属灵的生命就立即复苏发旺。至高无上的恩典怜悯,按着神的心意发出,就像河川按着它既有的计划,蜿蜒向前流着,无论它往哪儿去,它并没有等着生命到它那里去,而是藉着它令生命苏醒的涌流,创造生命。喔,它流向街道,涌向社区,它流进我家,让每个房间都涨满了水。喔,主啊,让生命的活水流向我的家人、我的亲朋好友,让我不要与它失之交臂,我希望我已经喝了这活泉的水,而且我期望浸沐在其间,可以畅游在其中。喔,我的救主,我需要更丰盛的生命,求祢来就我,直到我满了生命的力量,有无限活力。永生的神,求祢用祢自己的生命充满我。

 

我是一根干枯可怜的木杖,我求祢来滋润我,好使我像亚伦的杖那样,会发芽开花,甚至结果,好荣耀祢。主啊,为了我主耶稣的缘故,求祢让我的灵苏醒,阿门。

 

The Life-Giving Stream

 

Scripture: "And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live"(Ezekiel 47:9).

 

The living waters, in the prophet's vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake. Where grace goes, spiritual life is the immediate and the everlasting consequence. Grace proceeds sovereignly according to the will of God, even as a river in all its windings follows its own sweet will; and wherever it comes it does not wait for life to come to it, but it creates life by its own quickening flow. Oh, that it would pour along our streets and flood our slums! Oh, that it would now come into my house and rise till every chamber were made to swim with it! LORD, let the living water flow to my family and my friends, and let it not pass me by. I hope I have drunk of it already; but I desire to bathe in it, yea, to swim in it. O my Savior, I need life more abundantly. Come to me, I pray Thee, till every part of my nature is vividly energetic and intensely active. Living God, I pray Thee, fill me with Thine own life.

I am a poor, dry stick; come and make me so to live that, like Aaron's rod, I may bud and blossom and bring forth fruit unto Thy glory. Quicken me, for the sake of my LORD Jesus. Amen.

《活水》九月二十四日

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我们为主活,为主死,虽然主要奖励我们,但在我们说来,并没有可夸的,因为我们还作罪人、作仇敌的时候,主为我们死了。所以我们为主死活,是理所当然的,是我们的本分,是我们所欠的债,是我们所当偿还的。

 

  但当我们为主活的时候,就要披戴基督在我们的外面,人看见了我们就是看见了基督,象人看见了基督就是看见了父神。

 

  若是为主而死,基督更从我们显露出来;就象保罗,不但天天为主而活,也是天天为主而死。他说:「死在我们身上发动,生却在你们身上发动。」死的力量比活的力量更大。

 

  主在世上为神活著,吸引多少人跟随祂,但祂知道:「我若从地上被举起来,就要吸引万人来归我。」(约十二23)「一粒麦子不落在地里死了,仍旧是一粒;若是死了,就结出许多子粒来。」(约十二24)因著主的十字架,不知有多少人都投降了,实在死的力量比活的力量更大。

 

  在每个时代中,如果有人为主流了血,殉了道,他不是死了,他是种在那里,不久的将来,要有无数的生命,因著他的死而生长起来,要有多少圣徒因著他的死而更爱主。有多少爱主的人不但甘心为主活,也羡慕为主受苦,为主受逼迫,甚至为主舍命。他们的心志到了这种地步,生就不断从他发动。死比活更为宝贵。在主再来以前,圣徒不但应有一个心志为主而活,更当有一个心志为主而死。肯为主死的人,才能为主活的好。

 

  「在耶和华的眼中看圣民之死,极为宝贵。」(诗一一六15)

《荒漠甘泉》9月24日

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  “到了每西亚的边界,他们想要往庇推尼去,耶稣的灵却不许。”(徒16:7)

  这是一个多么奇怪的禁止!这些人想要往庇推尼去,目的是为作主的工,但是主自己反把工作的门关起来。我自己也曾有这样的经历。有时候,我自以为成功的路径,反受到了许多拦阻。反对起来催逼我回去,疾病进来强迫我退到荒野去。

 

  有时工作尚未做完圣灵要把它放下,这实在是非常困难的事。但是神给我看见工作是事奉神,等候也是事奉神。要我活动的是神,禁止我活动的也是神。感谢神,我现在知道多少时候荒野原是最有益的地方。我感谢神,许多我所爱去的庇推尼,我都没有去。

 

  主啊,虽然我的前途常遭挫折,我仍然愿意拣选你的引导。今天工作的门似乎开了,明天当我正要进去的时候又忽然关了,这都是你的事情。

 

  求你教导我在等候中看见前面的路径。求你教导我在禁止中寻见事奉你的新路。求你教导我在不作工的时候尽忠——用安静来作工,用等候来事奉。——马得胜