十一月九日

就当遵祂而行(或译：就当在祂里面而行)。(西2：6)

若我们在我们的内心深处接受了基督，我们的新生命就藉着信在祂里面而行，从而表现出这生命与祂有密切的关系。行，表示动作；我们的信仰并不局限于我们的内室，我们必须把自己所信的付诸实行。若是一个人行走在基督里面，那么他必按主所行的而行，因为基督在他里面成了他的盼望、爱、喜乐和生命，他反射出耶稣的形象；看见的人必说：“他像他的主，他的生活像耶稣基督。”行，也表示长进，“就当在祂里面而行”。要恩上加恩，向前奔跑，直到你竭尽所能地认识了我们所爱的主。行，更表示继续不断，必须永久居住在基督里面。有许多基督徒认为应当在早晚的时候与耶稣亲近，却在一整天当中把他们的心放在世事上，这是一种可怜的生活。我们应当常与祂同在，踏着祂的脚步，遵行祂的旨意。行，还表示习惯。当我们论到一个人的言行时，我们指的是他的习惯和惯常的生活状态。若我们有时以基督为乐，旋即又遗忘了祂，或者有时称祂是我们的，不久又松手失掉祂，那就不是习惯了，我们也不是在祂里面行了。我们必须紧紧贴近祂、持守祂，永远不使祂离去，却要在祂里面生活，在祂里面为人。“你们既然接受了主基督耶稣，就当在祂里面而行”，从开始到末了，要一直这样保持下去。起初基督耶稣既是你信心的依归、生命的来源、行事的准绳、灵性的喜乐，现在也当继续这样，直到生命的结束；当你经过死荫的幽谷时是这样，当你进入为神子民所存留的喜乐和安息之中也是这样。圣灵啊!愿你使我们能遵守这属天的命令。

十一月九日

经文: 祂的保障是磐石的坚垒。祂的粮必不缺乏，祂的水必不断绝。（以赛亚书三十三：16）

你是否怀疑上帝会在你身上成就祂的应许？崇山峻岭会被暴风吹走吗？天上的仓库会停止供应吗？天上的父知道你一切所需，你想祂会忘记你吗？掉落地上的小麻雀天父都注意到了，你头上的每根头发也都被数过了（参阅太十：29～30）。你仍然要继续不信任祂、怀疑祂吗？许多人经过磨练和试探，直至最后绝望临到才驱使他们操练对上帝的信心。而信靠之时，也正是得释放之时。他们看到上帝诚然守信。撒但动摇你的信心时，切勿让它成功，也不要再沉溺于那些错误的神观中来折磨自己。怀疑耶和华不是一件小事。请记住，那是最严重的罪。天使永不怀疑祂，魔鬼也永不怀疑祂。只有我们因不信而羞辱祂，因不信而玷污祂的荣耀。怀疑上帝不关怀祂的百姓是对上帝的亏欠。我们已从祂的大爱和仁慈获得了许多祝福，因此若容让心中存留一丝疑惑是不可原谅的。让我们不断地与怀疑上帝的意念斗争，因为那是阻挡我们得平安的仇敌，也是上帝的荣耀之仇敌。但愿我们以坚定的信心相信上帝所应许的必然成就。“主啊，我信。但我信不足，求主帮助。”（可九：24）

Evening, November 9

Scripture: “His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.”(Isaiah 33:16)

Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Perhaps your affliction will continue upon you till you dare to trust your God, and then it shall end. Full many there be who have been tried and sore vexed till at last they have been driven in sheer desperation to exercise faith in God, and the moment of their faith has been the instant of their deliverance; they have seen whether God would keep his promise or not. Oh, I pray you, doubt him no longer! Please not Satan, and vex not yourself by indulging any more those hard thoughts of God. Think it not a light matter to doubt Jehovah. Remember, it is a sin; and not a little sin either, but in the highest degree criminal. The angels never doubted him, nor the devils either: we alone, out of all the beings that God has fashioned, dishonour him by unbelief, and tarnish his honour by mistrust. Shame upon us for this! Our God does not deserve to be so basely suspected; in our past life we have proved him to be true and faithful to his word, and with so many instances of his love and of his kindness as we have received, and are daily receiving, at his hands, it is base and inexcusable that we suffer a doubt to sojourn within our heart. May we henceforth wage constant war against doubts of our God－enemies to our peace and to his honour; and with an unstaggering faith believe that what he has promised he will also perform. “Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.”

《竭诚为主》11月9日 神圣的事奉

现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐，并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。（西一24）

主的工人要作神圣的中间人，与主和他的救赎认同，以致主能不断地透过他创造新生命。不是工人自己的人格影响另一个人，乃是基督的真正同在，透过工人的生命流露出来。我们按新约的记载传扬主耶稣，并他受苦的历史事实，我们的话就变成神圣；神就使用这些话，因着他救赎的计划，在听者身上创造新生，否则，这些人就不能成为新造的人。若我们传的是救赎在人生命中的效用，而不是传扬有关主耶稣自己的启示，那么在听者身上成就的就不是新生命，只是精美的属灵教化而已。神的灵也不能为此作见证，因为这是属于另一领域的事。我们必须留意自己活在与神同心同工中，以致在我们传他的真理时，他能够在人心灵中，成就只有他才能够成就的事。

“多可爱的个性！”“这人真了不起！”“多超越的卓见！”神的福音在这些之上有什么出路？福音无法通过，因为这只能吸引人归我，而不能吸引人归他。人若以人格吸引人，人注目的就是他的人格；若他与主的品格合一，他的吸引力就在于主耶稣的能力。信徒的危机是在于荣耀人，耶稣却说我们要“举起”的是他。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你今天在大能和威严中，在更多方面得胜。保守我的心灵远离世俗化。

November 9 Sacramental Service

“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ. . . .” Colossians 1:24

The Christian worker has to be a sacramental “go-between,” to be so identified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He can continually bring His creating life through him. It is not the strength of one man's personality being superimposed on another, but the real presence of Christ coming through the elements of the worker's life. When we preach the historic facts of the life and death of Our Lord as they are conveyed in the New Testament, our words are made sacramental, God uses them on the ground of His Redemption to create in those who listen that which is not created otherwise. If we preach the effects of Redemption in human life instead of the revelation regarding Jesus, the result in those who listen is not new birth, but refined spiritual culture, and the Spirit of God cannot witness to it because such preaching is in another domain. We have to see that we are in such living sympathy with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in souls the things which He alone can do.

What a wonderful personality! What a fascinating man! Such marvellous insight! What chance has the Gospel of God through all that? It cannot get through, because the line of attraction is always the line of appeal. If a man attracts by his personality, his appeal is along that line; if he is identified with his Lord's personality, then the appeal is along the line of what Jesus Christ can do. The danger is to glory in men; Jesus says we are to lift Him up.

十一月九日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

更认识神

经文: 「必知道我耶和华他们的神是与他们同在的，并知道他们以色列家是我的民。这是主耶和华说的。」（以西结书34︰30）

被拣选成为神的子民，是一种福气，但知道自己拥有这样的身份与福气，却是一种踏实的笃定感。希望神与我们同在是一回事，但知道祂确实与我们同在，又是另一回事。我们因信得救，而得救的确据让我们的心满足。当我们相信祂时，我们接受神为我们个人的救主；但只有在确知我们属主，主也属我们时，我们才能享受主同在的喜乐。信徒不当只是凭着盼望和相信就可满足；他当求主引领他得着全备的确据，好让那所望之事可以成为确实之事。

只有当我们享受恩典之约的祝福，看到我们的主耶稣为我们之故，被兴起，成为有名的植物（参见以西结书34:29——译注），我们方会清楚地知道神对我们的祝福。不是凭着律法，乃是凭着恩典，我们知道自己是主的子民。让我们总是转眼望向那白得的恩典。信心的确据永远都不是靠行律法而得的，而是出于福音的美善，并只能通过福音之真理触及我们。让我们不要向自己里面看，而要单单望向主。当我们看到耶稣，我们会看到自己的救主。

主啊，求祢让祢爱的潮水洗涤我们，让我们脱离疑惑和恐惧的泥潭。

Necessary Knowledge

Scripture: "Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are My people, saith the LORD God" (Ezekiel 34:30).

To be the LORD's own people is a choice blessing, but to know that we are such is a comfortable blessing. It is one thing to hope that God is with us and another thing to know that He is so. Faith saves us, but assurance satisfies us. We take God to be our God when we believe in Him; but we get the joy of Him when we know that He is ours and that we are His. No believer should be content with hoping and trusting; he should ask the LORD to lead him on to full assurance, so that matters of hope may become matters of certainty.

It is when we enjoy covenant blessings and see our LORD Jesus raised up for us as a plant of renown that we come to a clear knowledge of the favor of God toward us. Not by law, but by grace do we learn that we are the LORD's people. Let us always turn our eyes in the direction of free grace. Assurance of faith can never come by the works of the law. It is an evangelical virtue and can only reach us in a gospel way. Let us not look within. Let us look to the LORD alone. As we see Jesus we shall see our salvation.

LORD, send us such a flood-tide of Thy love that we shall be washed beyond the mire of doubt and fear.

十一月九日

没有神迹奇事的世代是平安的世代，有神迹奇事的世代都是非常的世代。在个人也是如此，在平安的时候就没有神迹，在特殊的时候才有神迹奇事。

　　神迹奇事不是随便可以看见的，在圣经中有神迹的世代：挪亚的世代，神降洪水；罗得的世代，神灭所多玛；以色列人出埃及的世代，神迹最多；以利亚的世代，天不降雨；还有主耶稣的世代；这些世代，都是极不平常的世代，也是最受苦的世代。

　　个人也是如此，必须在患难痛苦中才有神迹显现。希西家看见日影后退，因为他先病得几乎至死；长麻疯的人得洁净，因他先受到麻疯病的苦害；拉撒路从死里复活，因他先尝了死的苦味；瞎眼的得看见，因他先受了瞎眼的痛苦。

　　看见神迹的人是有福气，不看见神迹的人更有福气。你愿意先眼瞎了而后得医治呢？还是愿意眼睛不瞎呢？你愿意先长大麻疯而后得洁净呢？还是愿意不长大麻疯呢？

　　在末了的世代，还要有神迹显现，主耶稣说：「民要攻打民，国要攻打国；地要大大震动，多处必有饥荒瘟疫；又有可怕的异象，和大神迹，从天上显现。」（路二十一10至11）

　　到末了的世代，也是一个非常的世代，是神迹最多的世代，约翰在异象中已经先看见了。所以我们真不敢随便想看神迹、用神迹来坚固信心，我们不看神迹而信神的大能，更是有福的。

　　「耶稣对他说：你因看见了我才信；那没有看见就信的，有福了。」（约二十29）

《荒漠甘泉》11月9日

　　“曾住在他荫下的必归回，发旺如五谷，开花如葡萄树。”（何14：7）

　　昨天傍晚，下了一阵大雨。花园里的花草都被风雨击倒了，我所最爱的那朵最美丽，最芳香的花儿，也受了风雨的影响。花瓣摺拢了，花头下垂了；他一切的荣华都失去了。我说：“要等到明年再看见这朵美丽的花儿了。”

　　黑夜过去了，早晨来临了；太阳又放出和缓的光辉来了，衰颓的花儿重新得到了活力，日光看见花儿，花儿看见日光。他们一有了接触，一有了交通，能力就进到花儿里面。花儿立刻举起头来，开起瓣来，回复了当初的荣华；并且似乎比以前更美丽了。我奇怪，怎么会有这样一回事的——一件柔弱的东西，接触了一件有力的东西，就得到能力。

　　照样，我怎样靠着与神交通，得到了工作和忍受的能力，我不知道，我只知道这是一个事实。

　　亲爱的，你试炼不是太重么？你当寻找与主交通，他必给你战胜的能力。因为他曾应许说：“我必坚固你。”（赛41：10）。——选

十一月十日

永生的神是你的居所。(申命记33：27)

避难所一词应译为“居所”或“宫邸”，这叫我们想到神是我们居住的所在，是我们的家。在这样的比喻里包含着丰盛和甜美，因为我们的心所最宝贵的就是我们的家，尽管它可能是卑陋寒微的茅舍，或是绳枢瓮牖（shéng shū wèng yǒu）的蓬屋，而我们得以在荣耀的神里面居住、行动并生活是多么宝贵呀!在家中我们才感到安全，就此我们可以把世界关在门外并居住在静逸安稳中。因此当我们与神同在的时候就“不怕邪恶”，祂是我们的保障和退避之处，是我们安居的避难所。在家中我们才得以休息，辛劳一天之后，到了家中才能歇息。所以我们的心在神里面得享安息，当生活的冲突使我们疲惫不堪时，我们就转向祂，我们的灵魂也得安然居住。在家中我们的心才可松一口气，我们不用怕人误会，也不用顾及我们的话语会被人误解。我们在神的面前也可这样自由自在地与祂相交，可以把我们心中所藏的愿望都拿出来，“耶和华与敬畏祂的人亲密。”(或译为“耶和华的秘密晓示敬畏祂的人。”)敬畏神之人所有的秘密也应当而且必须告诉神。家也是我们得享最真实最纯净福乐的地方，正是在神里面我们的心才得享极大的喜乐，胜过任何乐事。同时，我们也是为了家而工作忙碌。想到家的时候，我们就有力量担当一天的重担，我们的手也勤快地做工；我们也可以说神就是我们的家。对祂的爱为我们添加力量；我们因祂的爱子便想到祂，每逢看到救赎主受苦的面容就不能不使我们为祂效劳。我们感到自己必须做工，因为我们的弟兄尚未拯救，我们要把浪子带回家中，好使我们父的心为此充满快乐；我们要使我们所住的天家充满圣洁的欢乐。那以雅各之神为避难所的人有福了！

十一月十日

经文: 仆人和主人一样，也就罢了。（马太福音十：25）

没有人能反驳这一句话，仆人若高过他的主人就错了。我们的主在世上时，祂受到怎样的对待？“祂被藐视，被人厌弃。”（赛五十三：3）祂无帐棚可居，祂的工作是背负十字架。世界曾给祂任何安慰与安息吗？“狐狸有洞，天空的飞鸟有窝，只是人子没有枕头的地方。”（路九：58）这个冷漠的世界抛弃祂，并将祂钉在十字架上。你若是耶稣的跟随者，并且一直与基督同行，你的属灵生命必将受到别人的注意。他们将如对待基督般地对待你──他们要藐视你。不要期盼当你越圣洁、越像基督时，别人会越尊重你。他们既不珍视磨光的钻石，如何能明白未琢磨之宝石的价值呢？“人既骂家主是别西卜，何况他的家人呢？”（太十：25）我们越像基督，祂的敌人就越恨我们。上帝的儿女若受世人欢迎，实在是令人忧伤并且也是不光荣的。听到邪恶的世界为基督徒鼓掌并且高呼：“作得好！”实在是十分危险的。他必须开始省察自己的行为，并鉴察他在何事上作错了，以至于不公义的人会赞同他。但愿我们对主忠诚，不与这个瞎眼的罪恶世界为友，因为它藐视厌弃祂。我们不要寻求尊贵的冠冕，因为我们的主所得到的是荆棘的冠冕。

Evening, November 10

Scripture: “It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master.”(Matthew 10:25)

No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his instructions followed, his perfections worshipped, by those whom he came to bless? No; “He was despised and rejected of men.” Outside the camp was his place: cross-bearing was his occupation. Did the world yield him solace and rest? “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” This inhospitable country afforded him no shelter: it cast him out and crucified him. Such－if you are a follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and conversation－you must expect to be the lot of that part of your spiritual life which, in its outward development, comes under the observation of men. They will treat it as they treated the Saviour－they will despise it. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? “If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?” If we were more like Christ, we should be more hated by his enemies. It were a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world's favourite. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout “Well done” to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn.

《竭诚为主》11月10日 福音里的相交

……在基督福音上和神同工……（帖三2，新译本）

人成圣以后，很难再明说自己的人生目标是什么，因为神已藉圣灵把你放在他的计划里。如今在他对全世界的计划中，他使用你，正如他在我们的救赎计划中，使用他的名字一样。你若为自己求大事 – 神呼召我做这个那个，就是限制了神对你的使用。只要你对自己的品性仍感关注，或仍抱个人的野心，就无法与神的心意认同。要与神合一，必须把自己的意念决绝地抛弃，让神带你到他对全世界的计划中。这样，你的行动既全在主里，就必无法明白所行的路。

人生的目标是属神的，不是属自己的，这一点我们必须学习。神按着他美好的旨意用我，要求我信赖他，不要说：“主啊，这事叫我心痛。”我这样说就成了一个阻碍。若不再对神说我要什么，他才能毫无阻隔地把所要的给我。他可以把我压碎，也可以叫我高升，他可以随己意而行。神只要求我对他完全信任，信任他和他的良善。自怜自悯出于魔鬼，我若走这条路，神就不能用我于全世界的计划里。我若活在一个“世界里的世界”，深怕走到外面会冻僵，神就永无法带我出来。

祈祷◆主啊，愿你发声，让我可以听见和明白。我的属灵生命似乎太表面化，能察觉到带有恩慈的能力是那么少；求你激励我，直至我与你一同发光。

November 10 Fellowship In The Gospel

“Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 3:2

After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost; He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself – God has called me for this and that; you are putting a barrier to God's use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God's interests. You can only get there by losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say – Lord, this gives me such heart-ache. To talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. Self pity is of the devil, if I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. I have "a world within the world" in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.

十一月十日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

不致失脚

经文: 「祂必不叫你的脚摇动」（诗篇121︰3）

若神叫你的脚不滑跌，无论撒但或人，都不能叫你跌倒。他们非常乐得让我们可耻地跌倒，将我们从自己的职分上赶走，让我们澌灭无闻。若不是因为那唯一的阻碍，他们心之所向就会得逞。这唯一的阻碍就是主不允许这事发生，并且，若祂不允许，我们就不会遭难。

人生旅途有如一趟阿尔卑斯山之旅。抵达山顶之前，沿途不断有叫人滑跌之处；尤其到了高处，人就容易头晕，脚下很快就会滑跌。此外，旅途中，有些地方光滑如镜，有些地方却又岩石松动，这些地方都会让人跌倒。那些终其一生都能够直立且行走不跌脚的人，最是应当感恩。若不是因着那不叫人脚摇动的信实之爱，在各种陷阱、网罗、狡猾的敌人之间，靠着软弱的双腿、疲乏的脚，神的孩子会怎样呢？没有一个能站立得稳，连一个小时也不行。

纵然沿途仇敌环伺，陷阱连连，

但祂的恩手支撑、保守；

那双看不见的手仍然要扶持我，

引导我，一步步坚定地登上圣山。

Walk Without Stumbling

Scripture: "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved" (Psalm 121:3).

If the LORD will not suffer it, neither men nor devils can do it. How greatly would they rejoice if they could give us a disgraceful fall, drive us from our position, and bury us out of memory! They could do this to their heart's content were it not for one hindrance, and only one: the LORD will not suffer it; and if He does not suffer it, we shall not suffer it.

The way of life is like traveling among the Alps. Along the mountain path one is constantly exposed to the slipping of the foot. Where the way is high the head is apt to swim, and then the feet soon slide; there are spots which are smooth as glass and others that are rough with loose stones, and in either of these a fall is hard to avoid. He who throughout life is enabled to keep himself upright and to walk without stumbling has the best of reasons for gratitude. What with pitfalls and snares, weak knees, weary feet, and subtle enemies, no child of God would stand fast for an hour were it not for the faithful love which will not suffer his foot to be moved.

Amidst a thousand snares I stand

Upheld and guarded by Thy hand;

That hand unseen shall hold me still,

And lead me to Thy holy hill.

十一月十日

在人拥挤的大街上，似乎路都塞住了，但飞跑的车来了，立刻闪出一条路来；我们奔跑天路也是如此，前面看来有许多阻碍，但我们靠著加给我们力量的主，披戴上神所赐的全副军装，勇往直前的时候，也没有甚么能阻挡去路。当我们信心刚强的时候，一切都要躲避，伏在路旁不敢动。圣经上记载以色列人出埃及的时候，他们是昂然无惧地出了埃及，他们无论是人是牲畜，连狗也不敢向他们摇舌。

　　我们的胜利是因我们心中刚强，我们的失败是因为心中惧怕。我们是否得胜，不在乎我们外面的阻挡大小，乃在乎我们心中的力量多少。但有一件事我们当分清楚，刚强不是骄傲，谨守不是惧怕。但也有骄傲的人自以为是刚强，惧怕的人自以为是谨慎，这一定要失败的。

　　刚强的人是与神的大能相连合，骄傲的人是倚靠自己的本领和办法；谨守的人是与儆醒祷告相连的，惧怕的人是衹看环境的可怕；刚强与骄傲，谨守与惧怕，外面看来有些相同，但内里是大不同的，我们也可以分辨自己，我是刚强呢？还是骄傲呢？我是谨守呢？还是惧怕呢？我们若真是刚强、谨守的，我们一定是胜利的。

　　「我岂没有吩咐你么？你当刚强壮胆；不要惧怕，也不要惊惶；因为你无论往那里去，耶和华你的神必与你同在。」（书一9）

　　「你们当刚强壮胆，不要害怕，也不要畏惧他们，因为耶和华你的神和你同去，祂必不撇下你，也不丢弃你。」（申三十一6）

《荒漠甘泉》11月10日

　　“他在无可指望的时候，因信仍有指望。”（罗4：18）

　　按照外表的情形看来，亚伯拉罕再没有丝毫理由可以期望应许的实现了。但是他相信耶和华的话，仍然期望他的后裔多如众星。

　　我的己哪，你不象亚伯拉罕那样，只有一个应许；在你面前摆着许多应许，许多信心的模范；所以你应当大胆信赖神的话了。虽然救助也许不即来到，恶者的势力也许日甚一日，你不要丧胆；你还当刚强，喜乐，因为神最荣耀的应许事这样成就的——在最没有盼望的时候成就的。

　　神的拯救，平常总在我们极端困难，极端痛苦，极端危险的时候才肯出现，好叫我们清清楚楚看见神的手指，好叫我们不再信靠眼见和感觉。单单信靠神的话语事最稳妥不过的，因为神的话语在任何情形下都是可信靠的。——濮该斯该

　　记住眼见停止的时候，乃是信心工作的时候。困难越大，信心越容易工作；天然的能力还留着一点的时候，信心就没有象天然能力完全失败的时候那样容易工作。——莫勒

十一月十一日

他永久的膀臂在你以下。(申33：27)

神——永生的——时时是我们的支持，尤其是当我们降落到苦难的深渊里的时候。有时基督徒卑微地沉入至低之境。当他感到自己的罪大恶极，便谦卑在神的面前，才知道当怎样祷告，因为他自己看到自己的不配。神的儿女啊，要记得当你在最不配、最卑下的时候，“在你以下”仍有“永久的膀臂”。罪容或使你坠入至卑之境，但基督的救赎还在那一切之下。你容或下到深渊，但你不会低于“极处”，因为他能救到极处。再者，基督徒有时深沉在外面的苦难中，属世的帮助都没有了，那时该怎么办呢?在他以下仍有“永久的膀臂”。只要永远信实的神约中所应许的恩典仍然环绕着他，他就不会深深陷入灾害和苦难之中。基督徒容或因为经过凶猛的争斗降于内心的苦痛中，就是那时他也不能再低于“永久的膀臂”——它们乃在他以下；既有它们的扶持，撒但一切加害于他的努力必归失效。这一个应许是一切软弱并热心服侍神之人的安慰。这应许是每天支持我们的力量，是满足我们每一个需要的恩典，是我们负起每一种责任的能力。就是当死来到时，这一个应许仍然好用。当我们站在约旦河当中的时候，我们就能与大卫站在一起说：“我不怕遭害，因为你与我同在。”我们要下到坟墓之中，但我们不能再往下了，因为永久的膀臂必然阻止我们再往下沉落。终此一生，到末了的时候，我们要高举“永久的膀臂”——这膀臂乃是永不下垂、永不疲倦的，因为“永在的耶和华，并不疲乏，也不困倦”。

十一月十一日

经文: 祂为我们选择产业。（诗篇四十七：4）

信徒啊，即使你的产业很少，也应当满足于这属地的产业了。你可以确信那是于你最好的。全智者定规你的境遇，为你选择最安全和最佳的环境。假设一艘巨大商船必须驶入一条河里，而河流中有一沙洲。有人问道：“何以船长要驶入河道之深处，偏离直线航道呢？”他的回答是：“倘若我不将船保持在水深之处，便不能把船开进港口。”在沙洲附近，可怕的浪快速地一个接一个扑向船只。神圣的船长若不领你避开沙洲，你可能搁浅并遭难了。你可能被栽种于阳光稀少之处，是那位爱你的园丁将你植于该处，因为唯有在那样的情况下，你才能结出果实，倘若有其它环境比你目前所处的为佳，上帝的爱就会将你移至该处。上帝将你置于最适合的环境中。你若必须选择，也必定会求：“主啊，求祢为我选择产业，因为过去按我自己的意愿，已经被许多忧伤刺透了。”应当满足于你所有的，因为上帝安排各样事乃是为了你的好处。天天背起你自己的十字架吧！那是最适合你肩膀的负担，也是对你最有益的，让你能在各样善工上归荣耀给上帝。

Evening, November 11

Scripture: “He shall choose our inheritance for us.”(Psalm 47:4)

Believer, if your inheritance be a lowly one you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. A ship of large tonnage is to be brought up the river; now, in one part of the stream there is a sandbank; should some one ask, “Why does the captain steer through the deep part of the channel and deviate so much from a straight line?” His answer would be, “Because I should not get my vessel into harbour at all if I did not keep to the deep channel.” So, it may be, you would run aground and suffer shipwreck, if your divine Captain did not steer you into the depths of affliction where waves of trouble follow each other in quick succession. Some plants die if they have too much sunshine. It may be that you are planted where you get but little, you are put there by the loving Husbandman, because only in that situation will you bring forth fruit unto perfection. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances, and if you had the choosing of your lot, you would soon cry, “Lord, choose my inheritance for me, for by my self-will I am pierced through with many sorrows.” Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God. Down busy self, and proud impatience, it is not for you to choose, but for the Lord of Love!

“Trials must and will befall－

But with humble faith to see

Love inscribed upon them all;

This is happiness to me.”

《竭诚为主》11月11日 登峰造极

你带着你的儿子……（创二十二2）

神的命令是：现在就带去，不是等一会儿。我们辩论的伎俩是高超的，知道某件事是对的，但总设法找借口拖延，不立刻去做。要攀上神的高峰，绝不可等一会儿，必须立刻去做。牺牲首先在意志里作成；然后才有实际的行动。“亚伯拉罕清早起来……起身往神指示他的地方去了。”（第3节）亚伯拉罕的单纯多可爱！神对他说的话，他没有与属肉身的人商量。你要是想与属肉身的人商量，就是与你的自怜和观点，以及一切在你与神的个人关系以外的东西商量。那你就得当心，这些东西是争夺并拦阻你对神的顺服。

亚伯拉罕并没有推荐自己去奉献。总要提防自我拣选为神工作，自我牺牲可以是病态的。若神给你的杯是甜的，存感恩的心去喝；若苦的，就与他联合去喝。若神为你铺设的道路是困苦的，仍要走上去；但千万不要挑选殉道。神拣选亚伯拉罕接受磨难，亚伯拉罕没有异议，只勇往直前。你若非与神亲密地一同生活，就很容易会指控神。在未有经历磨难以先，你没有权利下断语，因为在磨难中，你会更认识神。神一直为他至高的目标而作工直至他的心意与人的心意合而为一。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，靠近我，进入我知觉的领域，直至我完全被你所占有。愿今天闪耀着你的能力。

November 11 The Supreme Climb

“Take now thy son.” Genesis 22:2

God's command is – Take now, not presently. It is extraordinary how we debate! We know a thing is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it at once. To climb to the height God shows can never be done presently, it must be done now. The sacrifice is gone through in will before it is performed actually.

“And Abraham rose up early in the morning and went unto the place of which God had told him” (v. 3). The wonderful simplicity of Abraham! When God spoke, he did not confer with flesh and blood. Beware when you want to confer with flesh and blood, i.e., your own sympathies, your own insight, anything that is not based on your personal relationship to God. These are the things that compete with and hinder obedience to God.

Abraham did not choose the sacrifice. Always guard against self-chosen service for God; self-sacrifice may be a disease. If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him. If the providential order of God for you is a hard time of difficulty, go through with it, but never choose the scene of your martyrdom. God chose the crucible for Abraham, and Abraham made no demur; he went steadily through. If you are not living in touch with Him, it is easy to pass a crude verdict on God. You must go through the crucible before you have any right to pronounce a verdict, because in the crucible you learn to know God better. God is working for His highest ends until His purpose and man's purpose become one.

十一月十一日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

神释放我们

经文: 「罪必不能作你们的主，因你们不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。」（罗马书6︰14）

若能得逞，罪总想在人心中做王，它不甘居于人心的宝座之下。有时候，我们会害怕罪胜过我们，于是来到神面前，求神莫让我们被罪掳去，神肯定地回答︰”罪必不能作你们的主。”是的，罪或许会攻击甚至伤害我们，但绝不致于辖制我们。这是何等令人安慰的话！

若我们在律法之下，罪就会使尽全力，将我们掳于牠的权势之下，因为罪的代价乃是让人归于罪的权势之下。既然我们活在恩典之下，就有新约的保证，永生神绝不会离开我们。祂应许要洁净我们，并将我们从各样恶习的捆绑中释放出来，不再迷途游荡在外。

若我们仍像奴隶一般地做工以挣得永生，我们必定毫无盼望，像昔日的以色列民那样，仅满足于服事埃及人。但是，既然我们是属神的自由人，就要拿出勇气，与各样的试探争战，并确信罪必定不会再将我们归于牠的权势之下。神祂自己让我们得以藉着主耶稣基督，战胜一切。愿荣耀归于我们的主基督耶稣直到永永远远。阿门。

The LORD's Free Men

Scripture: "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace" (Romans 6:14).

Sin will reign if it can: it cannot be satisfied with any place below the throne of the heart. We sometimes fear that it will conquer us, and then we cry unto the LORD, "Let not any iniquity have dominion over me." This is His comforting answer: "Sin shall not have dominion over you." It may assail you and even wound you, but it shall never establish sovereignty over you.

If we were under the law, our sin would gather strength and hold us under its power; for it is the punishment of sin that a man comes under the power of sin. As we are under the covenant of grace, we are secured against departing from the living God by the sure declaration of the covenant. Grace is promised to us by which we are restored from our wanderings, cleansed from our impurities, and set free from the chains of habit.

We must lie down in despair and be "content to serve the Egyptians" if we were still as slaves working for eternal life; but since we are the LORD's free men, we take courage to fight with [our] temptations, being assured that sin shall never bring us under its sway again. God Himself giveth us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

十一月十一日

「我在祂儿子福音上，用心灵所事奉的神，可以见证我怎样不住的提到你们。」（罗一9）

　　「所以弟兄们！我以神的慈悲劝你们，将身体献上，当作活祭，是圣洁的，是神所喜悦的；你们如此事奉，乃是理所当然的。」（罗十二1）

　　我们既然蒙了救赎，脱离了黑暗的权势，进入现在所站的恩典中，如今神的旨意就是要我们事奉祂。有许多信徒随从自己的心意，奔跑自己的道路，但这不是神救我们的目的。凡被宝血所分别为圣的人，都当前来事奉神。不仅传道人和担任圣职的人应当事奉神，每一位信徒，都当事奉神，若是不能站稳在这事奉神的地步上，就是我们在神面前的亏欠。

　　神以圣召召我们，叫我们得尊贵荣耀，比以色列人在千禧年成为祭司的国度、圣洁的国民更尊贵。世上的人若得以事奉世上最有权柄的人，就以为非常光荣。但我们所事奉的是创造天地万有的神。若是信徒的眼睛明亮，就没有不乐意放下自己的一切，而一心一意事奉神的。

　　保罗在事奉神的事上给我们留下了榜样，他用心灵事奉神，他也用身体事奉神；他劝罗马的圣徒将身体献上，当作活祭事奉神，这是理所当然的。

　　事奉神是蒙救赎者本分中的职务，是新生命中的本能，是圣徒的道路。今日教会没有站对了地位，失去了向神纯一贞洁的心，投在世俗的怀抱中，事奉了巴力，事奉了玛门，所以教会被玷污，受羞辱，被残踏，失去了属天的权柄和自由。

　　惟愿神的子民，都起来事奉神吧。

《荒漠甘泉》11月11日

　　“他必降临，象雨降在已割的草地上。”（诗72：6）

　　阿摩司曾谈到列王割草的事。我们的王有许多镰刀，永远在刈割他的草地，磨刀霍霍之声，预告着要割去草的数种绿叶，和雏菊等一下杂在草中的野花。虽然它们在早晨很美丽，不出一两个钟头，那被割的部分都要倒入枯萎的行列之中。

　　人生也同样在其痛苦的刈割，失望的修剪，和伤残的芟削之前，表现出勇敢的精神。

　　只有刈割才能修整出天鹅绒般的草地；只有让神的镰刀通过，才能锻炼出温柔，平衡，与和谐。圣经上常把人比作草，把神的荣耀比作花。但草地被割之后，所有的嫩芽都在流血，在荒凉中开出荣耀的花来，其时最适宜接受他的降临，“象雨降在已割的草地上。”

　　信徒啊，你是不是正在被神的镰刀修割呢？不要怕镰刀——镰刀后面定规有细雨跟着的。——梅尔

十一月十二日

叫你们的信心既被试验……(彼前1：7)

没有经过试验的信心或许是真的信心，但那是微小的信心；若不经过试验，它总是不会长进的。信心经受诸般的磨炼便越发增长：风暴是它的教练官，闪电是它的启发者。当海洋风平浪静时，你无论怎样扬帆，也不会抵达海港：因为海洋沉睡，船上的龙骨也安眠起来。让风怒吼，任浪汹涌，船虽或会触礁，会被水冲击，它的桅杆容或因帆面全张、压力过重而折断，但那时才能急速地驶往所愿去的海口。冰河岸边生长着的蓝色花朵最为可爱；北极上空的星星最为光耀；沙漠中的泉水最为甘美；在患难之中的生活与得胜的信心也是最为宝贵。信心经过试验便得了经验。若你不被迫涉水，你就不相信自己是软弱的，你也不会知道神有力量在洪水之中扶持你。信心越经过灾难，便越坚强、牢靠而持久。信心是宝贵的，试炼也是宝贵的。 甚愿在信心方面还幼稚的人不要因此灰心。你不去寻找，试炼也会接踵而至的：满足的份必依时量给你。这事，若你经验已经很多，但是还未结束，就当为你所蒙的恩感谢神，要为你已经有的信心的程度赞美他；依此而行，你必日渐多蒙神的赐福，直到你的信心能移山，并能胜过人以为是不可能的事为止。“靠耶稣度过今世，靠耶稣能行万事；我不论走何险路，惟要信靠我的主。”

十一月十二日

经文: 那时，耶稣出去上山祷告，整夜祷告神。（路加福音6：12）

如果妇人所生的里面真有可以不靠祷告而活的，那就是我们无瑕疵、完全的主，然而，没有一人像祂样那么勤于祷告！祂对父的爱是那么深，愿意不断与祂相交：祂对祂百姓的爱是如此强烈，所以愿意不停为他们代求。耶稣卓绝的祷告是我们学习的功课——祂为我们留下了榜样，我们应当跟随祂的脚踪而行。祂所选的祷告时刻是极佳的，夜晚是安静的时刻，群众不会搅扰祂；那是停止活动的时刻，除了耶稣以外，人人都停止了劳作；那是沉睡的时刻，人们忘记了仇敌，不再到祂跟前寻求解救，而这正是祂为他们代求的时刻；人藉睡眠得到休息，祂藉祷告使自己复苏。祈祷之地点也是经过细心选择的。祂独自一人，无人侵入亦无人窥视，使祂免于法利赛人的自夸炫耀和粗俗的干扰。黑暗安静的山是 神爱子祷告的最佳祷告室。在夜半人静万籁俱寂之中，天地都能听到这位奥秘之主的呻吟叹息，因为在祂身上天地宇宙混为一体。祂不停的恳求是不同寻常的。长夜于祂并不漫长；寒风不能冷却祂的热诚；阴森的黑暗不能教祂的信心黯淡；孤独不能抑制祂的恳求。我们不能同祂警醒片时，但祂却整夜看顾我们。这个祷告的时机是值得我们注意的，那是在祂的敌人被激怒之后——祷告是祂的避难所，是祂的慰藉；那是在拣选十二位使徒以前——祷告是祂的事业之门，是祂的新工作的先锋。当我们处于特别的试炼之下、或计划为主的荣耀做新的努力时，难道我们不应向耶稣学习，以特别的祷告求助？主耶稣啊，求祢教导我们祷告。

Scripture: “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”(Luke 6:12)

If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect a Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as he! Such was his love to his Father, that he loved much to be in communion with him: such his love for his people, that he desired to be much in intercession for them. The fact of this eminent prayerfulness of Jesus is a lesson for us—he hath given us an example that we may follow in his steps. The time he chose was admirable, it was the hour of silence, when the crowd would not disturb him; the time of inaction, when all but himself had ceased to labour; and the season when slumber made men forget their woes, and cease their applications to him for relief. While others found rest in sleep, he refreshed himself with prayer. The place was also well selected. He was alone where none would intrude, where none could observe: thus was he free from Pharisaic ostentation and vulgar interruption. Those dark and silent hills were a fit oratory for the Son of God. Heaven and earth in midnight stillness heard the groans and sighs of the mysterious Being in whom both worlds were blended. The continuance of his pleadings is remarkable; the long watches were not too long; the cold wind did not chill his devotions; the grim darkness did not darken his faith, or loneliness check his importunity. We cannot watch with him one hour, but he watched for us whole nights. The occasion for this prayer is notable; it was after his enemies had been enraged—prayer was his refuge and solace; it was before he sent forth the twelve apostles—prayer was the gate of his enterprise, the herald of his new work. Should we not learn from Jesus to resort to special prayer when we are under peculiar trial, or contemplate fresh endeavours for the Master's glory? Lord Jesus, teach us to pray.

《竭诚为主》11月12日 改变的生命

若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。（林后五17）

你对自己灵魂的得赎有什么看法？救恩的经历是在你实际生活里，一切都真正的改变了，你不再用以往的观点看事物；你的喜好是新的，旧的东西已失去力量。这经历的试金石是——神到底有没有改变了你最看重的东西？你若仍然留恋旧事，又说已重生了，那实在是无稽的，是在欺哄自己。你若已重生，神的灵就在你生活及心思上，显明他的改变。当抉择关头来到，对于自己那显著奇妙的改变，你会是世上最稀奇诧异的那一个，因为你根本没可能会这样做的，这完全想不到的改变，正是你得救的明证。

我的得救与成圣，叫我有什么改变？例如我能否坦然面对哥林多前书十三章的教导，还是我要含糊躲闪？圣灵在我里面成就的救恩，把我完全释放。只要我行在光中，正如神在光中，神对我便没有可责之处，因为他在远超乎我意识范围的每一细节中作工。

祈祷◆主啊，你的美善是那么无可比拟，我们“好像做梦的人。我们满口喜笑、满舌欢呼”；为着我们将再次带着禾捆喜乐地回来的日子，我们赞美你。

November 12 The Transfigured Life

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience of salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered, you no longer look at things as you used to; your desires are new, old things have lost their power. One of the touchstones of experience is – Has God altered the thing that matters? If you still hanker after the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above, you are juggling with yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes the alteration manifest in your actual life and reasoning, and when the crisis comes you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing alteration that is the evidence that you are a saved soul.

What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13, or do I have to shuffle? The salvation that is worked out in me by the Holy Ghost emancipates me entirely, and as long as I walk in the light as God is in the light, He sees nothing to censure because His life is working out in every particular, not to my consciousness, but deeper than my consciousness.

十一月十二日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

成圣与满足

经文: 「我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。」（耶利米书31︰14）

请看这节经文出现两次“我的”：“我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。”

那以神为乐的人，必看得出来是属神的人。神悦纳他们，他们也以神为心中的满足；他们称呼祂为他们的神，神也称他们为祂的民；神乐意看这些百姓为祂的产业，他们也衷心地把神当作他们杯中的份。以色列的神与神的以色列民之间，有一种互通的喜悦。

这些百姓心满意足，这是非比寻常的事。世人常是满腹私欲、贪得无厌，抓取他们所能抓取的一切。他们吞吃了蚂蟥，常说“给呀！给呀！“只有成圣的人，有满足的灵魂。神自己必定会让我们回转归向祂，并使我们得满足。

神的百姓以神的美善为满足，这实在不足为奇。因为神的美善是纯全不掺假的，是丰厚没有局限的，是慈悲怜悯没有指摘的，是爱且永不改变，是恩典且毫无保留。若神的美善还不能满足我们，还有什么可以满足我们？我们还在喃喃抱怨不已吗？当然，我们心中若还有非分妄想，那是神的美善不会满足的。

主啊，我满足。愿称颂归于祢的名。

Sanctified Souls Are Satisfied

Scripture: "My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, saith the LORD" (Jeremiah 31:14).

Note the "My" which comes twice: "My people shall be satisfied with My goodness."

The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with Him. They call Him their God, and He calls them His people; He is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with Him for their portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel and Israel's God.

These people are satisfied. This is a grand thing. Very few of the sons of men are ever satisfied, let their lot be what it may; they have swallowed the horse-leech, and it continually cries, "Give! give!" Only sanctified souls are satisfied souls. God Himself must both convert us and content us.

It is no wonder that the LORD's people should be satisfied with the goodness of their LORD. Here is goodness without mixture, bounty without stint, mercy without chiding, love without change, favor without reserve. If God's goodness does not satisfy us, what will? What! are we still groaning? Surely there is a wrong desire within if it be one which God's goodness does not satisfy. LORD, I am satisfied. Blessed be Thy name.

十一月十二日

论断人的人都是忘了自己，当论断人的时候，若是想起自己来，一切论断的话语就没有勇气再说了。因为在人的里面都是一样的，都是从亚当领受了犯罪的生命，你所能犯出来的罪，我也能犯出来；你作不出的善行，我也作不出来。既是这样还有什么理由论断别人呢？

社会的制度、国家的律法，不过是一个公约，大家都一同来守着，并不是某人吩咐某人所应当守着的。惟独神，有权柄吩咐人当作何事，不当作何事，人都没有权柄吩咐。所以我们不应当论断别人，论断别人的时候就是定了自己的罪。

有的时候，虽然在某一件事上似乎我不能犯罪，但在原则上是一样的。先知拿单奉神的差遣去见大卫，说：「在一座城里有两个人；一个是富户，一个是穷人。富户，有许多牛群羊群；穷人，除了所买来养活的一只小母羊羔之外，别无所有……有一客人来到这富户家里；富户舍不得从自己的牛群羊群中，取一只预备给客人吃，却取了那穷人的羊羔，预备给客人吃。」

大卫就甚恼怒那人，对拿单说：「我指着永生的耶和华起誓，行这事的人该死；他必偿还羊羔的四倍，因为他行这事，没有怜恤的心。」

拿单对大卫说：「你就是那人……」（撒下十二1至15）

大卫在定别人罪的时候，没想到是定了自己的罪，因为他所犯的与此在原则上是相同的。

「你这论断人的，无论你是谁，也无可推诿；你在什么事上论断人，就在什么事上定自己的罪；因你这论断人的，自己所行却和别人一样。」（罗二1）

《荒漠甘泉》11月12日

「这些人都是窑匠，是住在田园和篱笆中间的，在那里他们与王同处，为王作工。」代上4:23直译

无论在甚么地方，我们都有『与王同处，为王作工』的可能。

也许是在一个非常不顺遂的地方；也许是在一个粗俗的乡野，一个看不见有王与我们同处的地方；也许是在各种篱笆中间，障碍下面，也许我们的手还须拿着各种陶器，天天过着窑匠的生活。

不论在甚么地方，那安放我们『在那里』的王，必来与我们同处；如果祂以为篱笆是不需要的话，祂必定会立刻把它们拆去的。或许那似乎妨碍我们的，倒成了我们的保护呢！至于那放在我们手中的陶器，正是王看为最适于我们『为王作工』的。

－－海雯格（FrancesRidley Havergal）

彩色的落日、嵌星的天空、美丽的高山、明净的洋海、芬香的树木、鲜艳的花草－－它们虽然绝顶美丽，还及不到一个在普通生活上用爱心、眼泪事奉主的信徒一半美丽。

－－费勃尔（Faber）

十一月十三日

自己就不能结果子。(约翰福音15：4)

你是怎样开始结果子的呢?乃是当你来到耶稣面前，投靠祂伟大的救赎，信赖祂所成就的义。噢，那么你都结了什么果子呢？你还记得起初的情形吗？那时真的是葡萄树茂盛、果子累累，石榴开花结果，香花畦放香。从那时以来你已经衰落了吗？若是如此，我们要劝你回想当初的爱，并要悔改、行起初所行的。你自身的经历已经证明怎样做才能使自己亲近基督，要竭力做这些事，因为你一切的果子都是从祂来的。凡能把你带到祂面前的圣洁操练都将帮助你结果子。果园中的树木结果子少不了太阳，恩园中的树木更少不了耶稣。

你什么时候最不能结果子呢？难道不是当你远离主耶稣基督，当你懒于祷告，当你偏离信心的单纯，当你注重所蒙的恩典过于你的主，当你说“我的山坚立，我必不至动摇”而忘记你的力量从何而来的时候，便停止结果了吗？我们当中有些人不正是因为自己的心在主面前受到严厉的管教才明白，若没有基督我们便一无所有；当我们看到受造物所有的能力都贫瘠透顶以致死亡时，我们就在痛苦中哭喊说：“我一切的果子都从祂而得，因我并不能结出果子来。”我们从过去的经验知道，我们越是单纯地在基督里倚靠 神的恩典，并等候圣灵，我们就越能向神结出更多的果子来。噢，无论我们结果子，还是得生命，都要信靠耶稣。

十一月十三日

经文: 要人常常祷告。（路加福音18：1）

如果人都需要常常祈求且不灰心，基督徒更是应多多祷告。耶稣交付祂「教会」的使命与祂来到世上的使命相同，其中包括代求。倘若我说「教会」是世人的祭司如何呢？神的受造物在沉默无言，「教会」当为它找到说话的口。祷告蒙垂听是「教会」极高的特权。恩典之门总为她的恳求而开，恳求者也永不空手而归。圣殿之帷幕已为她破裂，宝血已为她洒在祭坛上， 神不断地邀请她祈求她所希望得着的。她能拒绝这特权吗？甚至天使都可能会嫉妒呢！难道她不是基督的新娘？她不可以每时每刻到她的王的跟前？她能不善用这宝贵的特权吗？「教会」总有需要祈祷之处。在她之内总会有一些人衰微，或是落入公开的罪中。总有一些羊需要代祷，好教他们能被基督拥入怀中。坚强的人需要代祷，他才不致专横；软弱的人也需要代祷，才不致绝望。即使我们保持二十四小时的祷告聚会，并且天天如此，也不会缺少可以祈求的事项。我们之中不是总有人患病、贫穷、受苦、动摇的吗？我们之中岂不是总有人盼望亲属悔改、后退者重新振作、堕落的人蒙拯救吗？即使聚会持续不断，牧师传道一直不停止，仍有千百万罪人死在过犯罪恶之中。在这天主教的黑暗国度里；在这充满偶像、残暴和罪恶的世界中，「教会」若不祷告，就等于轻忽了爱她之主交托给她的使命，如此她要找何借口呢？但愿「教会」不停止祈求，并愿每位信徒将他微小的祷告投入此宝库内。

Scripture: “Men ought always to pray.”(Luke 18:1)

If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the same errand upon which he himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the world's priest? Creation is dumb, but the church is to find a mouth for it. It is the church's high privilege to pray with acceptance. The door of grace is always open for her petitions, and they never return empty-handed. The veil was rent for her, the blood was sprinkled upon the altar for her, God constantly invites her to ask what she wills. Will she refuse the privilege which angels might envy her? Is she not the bride of Christ? May she not go in unto her King at every hour? Shall she allow the precious privilege to be unused? The church always has need for prayer. There are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in Christ's bosom? the strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and the weak, lest they become despairing. If we kept up prayer-meetings four-and-twenty hours in the day, all the days in the year, we might never be without a special subject for supplication. Are we ever without the sick and the poor, the afflicted and the wavering? Are we ever without those who seek the conversion of relatives, the reclaiming of back-sliders, or the salvation of the depraved? Nay, with congregations constantly gathering, with ministers always preaching, with millions of sinners lying dead in trespasses and sins; in a country over which the darkness of Romanism is certainly descending; in a world full of idols, cruelties, devilries, if the church doth not pray, how shall she excuse her base neglect of the commission of her loving Lord? Let the church be constant in supplication, let every private believer cast his mite of prayer into the treasury.

《竭诚为主》11月13日 信心与经历

 ……神的儿子……他是爱我，为我舍己。（加二20）

我们要与自己的情绪搏斗，完全归向主耶稣；从自我的小圈子中出来，完全降服于他。试想想新约中的耶稣基督是谁，然后想想我们可怜的信心多么渺小 – “我没有这种经历，又没有那种经历！”试想想对主耶稣的资讯该存的指望 – 他能把我们无可指摘地带到神的宝座前，完全无瑕疵，完全改变称义。我们要心存何等崇敬的信心。他成为我们的智慧、我们的义、我们的成圣与救赎。我们凭什么说为神的儿子有所牺牲！从地狱和沉沦蒙救赎的人，竟胆敢说牺牲！

我们要经常保持对耶稣基督的信心；不是一个祈祷会里的耶稣；不是一本书中的耶稣，乃是新约中的耶稣，是神成了肉身，把我们治死在他脚前的那一位。信心必须是对准给我们经历的那一位。主耶稣要求我们毫无保留地归他。我们实在无法经历到主耶稣，也无法把他拘禁在我们心里，可是信心却对他有坚强不移的靠赖。在这一点上，我们看见圣灵对不信是多么不耐烦。一切的恐惧都是可恶的，因为恐惧是源于我们不肯培育信心。人若与主合一，怎可能再落在恐惧疑惑里？应该充满无法抑制、得胜的信心凯歌。

祈祷◆主啊，愿今天在我们眼前，展现你在我们当中那使人振奋和更新的临在，为此我们只有欣喜，因为我们对永恒如何具体介入时间之中，有了新的盼望。

November 13 Faith And Experience

“The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

We have to battle through our moods into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus, to get out of the hole-and-corner business of our experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think Who the New Testament says that Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meanness of the miserable faith we have – I haven't had this and that experience! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims – that He can present us faultless before the throne of God, unutterably pure, absolutely rectified and profoundly justified. Stand in implicit adoring faith in Him, He is made unto us “wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” How can we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! Our salvation is from hell and perdition, and then we talk about making sacrifices!

We have to get out into faith in Jesus Christ continually; not a prayer meeting Jesus Christ, nor a book Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, Who is God Incarnate, and Who ought to strike us to His feet as dead. Our faith must be in the One from Whom our experience springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute abandon of devotion to Himself. We never can experience Jesus Christ, nor ever hold Him within the compass of our own hearts, but our faith must be built in strong emphatic confidence in Him.

It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. How can any one who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! It ought to be an absolute pæan of perfectly irrepressible, triumphant belief.

十一月十三日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

永恒地看顾

经文: 「保护以色列的，也不打盹也不睡觉。」（诗篇121︰4）

耶和华是“以色列的守护者“，祂既不需要睡觉，也无需打盹，祂的意识时刻都是清醒的。祂既保守祂百姓的心，也看顾祂百姓的屋，这就是为什么我们可稳妥无惊地享受安息。亚历山大说他可以安枕而眠，是因为有朋友帕梅尼奥的守卫，使他无后顾之忧。我们岂不是更可以安然入睡，因为我们的神是我们的守护者。

看哪，我们当留意这令人振奋的真理。雅各拿一块石头当枕头，倒头便睡；而祂的神却是清醒的，并在异象中，向祂的仆人显现。当我们毫无防备地席地而眠， 耶和华要亲自做我们的守护者看顾我们。

神看顾祂的百姓，就像财主看守着他的钱财，将军守卫他的城池，或是哨兵站岗护卫他的君王。无人能够在这样严密的看守下越雷池一步，所以，我们可以绝对放心地将我们的灵魂交托在神的恩手之中。祂绝对不会忘记我们，也不会停止看顾我们，祂要永远地保守我们。

喔，我的主啊，保守我，免得我迷路、跌倒，以致灭亡。保守我，使我得以遵守祢的命令。用祢不止息的看顾，保守我，不要叫我像懒惰之人那样酣睡，也不要让我像那灭亡之人那样，在死亡之梦中沉睡不醒。

The Unfailing Watch

Scripture: "Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep" (Psalm 121:4).

Jehovah is "the Keeper of Israel." No form of unconsciousness ever steals over Him, neither the deeper slumber nor the slighter sleep. He never fails to watch the house and the heart of His people. This is a sufficient reason for our resting in perfect peace. Alexander said that he slept because his friend Parmenio watched; much more may we sleep because our God is our guard.

"Behold" is here set up to call our attention to the cheering truth. Israel, when he had a stone for his pillow, fell asleep; but His God was awake and came in vision to His servant. When we lie defenseless, Jehovah Himself will cover our head.

The LORD keeps His people as a rich man keeps his treasure, as a captain keeps a city with a garrison, as a sentry keeps watch over his sovereign. None can harm those who are in such keeping. Let me put my soul into His dear hands. He never forgets us, never ceases actively to care for us, never finds Himself unable to preserve us.

O my LORD, keep me, lest I wander and fall and perish. Keep me, that I may keep Thy commandments. By Thine unslumbering care prevent my sleeping like the sluggard and perishing like those who sleep the sleep of death.

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虽然论断的话和责备的话是相同的，但论断人和责备人是不同的。比如我作了一件事，论断我的人说，如何不对、如何不好；责备我的人也说如何不对、如何不好；但他们说话的出发点不同，一个是出自害人的心，一个是出自爱人的心；并且说话的地点也是不同，一个是在我的背后说，一个是在我的面前说。我们可以说责备的话，但不可以说论断的话。

我们的主常说责备的话，有时责备的话是很严厉，祂却不说论断的话，主说：「我从来是明明的对世人说话；我常在会堂和殿里，就是犹太人聚集的地方，教训人；我在暗地里，并没有说什么。」（约十八20）

主耶稣曾七次责备假冒为善的人有祸了，祂不是在背后说「他们」法利赛人和文士有祸了，乃是当面说「你们」法利赛人和文士有祸了。主的话虽然严厉，却不是背后论断、定人的罪，乃是当面责备，叫人悔改。

我们若对弟兄姊妹有什么要说的话，若是用「你们」，就可以说出来，若是用「他们」，最好闭口不言，他们的事不用我们管，有神来管，我们自己还管不好自己，那有权柄管别人的事？

保罗说：「你是谁，竟论断别人的仆人呢？他或站住，或跌倒，自有他的主人在；而且他也必要站着；因为主能使他站住。」（罗十四4）

又说：「你这个人，为什么论断弟兄呢？又为什么轻看弟兄呢？因我们都要站在神的台前。」（罗十四10）

《荒漠甘泉》11月13日

「我知道他，他将吩咐他的众子…使我所应许亚伯拉罕的话都成就了。」创18:19

神需要一班能被祂信托的人。神对于亚伯拉罕，神能说：『我知道他，他将吩咐他的众子....使我所应许亚伯拉罕的话都成就了。』神是可靠的；神要我们也像祂一样可靠。

神在寻找一班人－－一班受得住祂一切的爱、能力、应许的人。神的机器原拖得动我们一切的重担的，可惜我们用以缚住机器的那根锚索太细弱了；所以神必须训练我们的信心。－－宣信（A.B.Simpson）

神知道你能忍受多少；祂必不会将你所不能忍受的试炼加给你的。祂叫你经过试炼，是表明祂信任你。

－－选

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……并那些敬拜耶和华指着他起誓，又指着玛勒堪起誓的。(番1：5)

这种人自以为平安稳妥，因为两边都有他们的份；他们与敬畏耶和华的人同行，同时也向玛勒堪低头。但神却憎嫌这种两面讨好的人，他的心恨恶假冒为善的人。拜偶像的人显然是把自己献给了假神，但他的罪比那以污秽可憎的祭物带到神的殿，而心却仍贪恋世界和罪恶的人还要轻一些。一方面帮着兔子逃，一方面又跟着猎狗追的人，乃是黠者之行径。在生活方面，双重人格的人非常卑鄙；而在信仰方面，朝秦暮楚的人则更可憎可厌。这种人所受的刑罚，如经上所记，是非常可怕的，但是该受的；神的公义怎能容忍恶人，他知道何为是，并承认何为义，而仍喜爱邪恶，使恶在他心中掌权?我的心哪!要检查一下，看看你是否有这种左顾右盼想两全的罪?你承认自己是属主的人，你真爱他吗?你的心与神之间的关系是否正常?你是诚实之父家里的人呢，还是自私先生的亲属?若我仍死在过犯罪恶之中，一个名称对我是毫无价值的。一脚踏着真理的陆地，一脚踏着虚假的海洋，必须堕入可怕的深渊，终至完全灭亡。要接受基督就得完全接受他，否则就不要接受。神是充满全宇宙的，那末宇宙便不能再容下什么别的神；因此，他既在我心中掌权，就不能再让别的权势作王。我专专依靠钉死的耶稣，并专专为他而活吗?这是我的心愿吗?我的心是否愿意这样行呢?若是，就愿领我得救的恩主得到称赞；否则，主啊!求你赦免我的冒犯，使我的心单单敬畏你的名。

十一月十四日

经文: 拉班说：「大女儿还没有给人，先把小女儿给人，在我们这地方没有这规矩。」（创世记29：26）

我们并非要原谅拉班的不诚实，但是我们可以从他用来作为借口的习俗学到功课。有一些事情是必须有先后顺序的。倘若我们要得到小女儿，我们必须先确保大女儿。小女儿可能看起来比较可爱，但天国之原则是必须持守的，那就是长女必须先成婚。例如，许多人希望能娶代表信靠的喜乐与平安的漂亮美貌的拉结，但是他们必须先娶眼睛没有神气代表悔改的利亚。每个人都喜欢快乐，为了享有它甘愿服侍「两个七年」，但是按照神国度的原则，我们的心灵在得到代表真喜乐的拉结以前，必须爱代表真圣洁的利亚。代表天堂的不是大女儿，而是小女儿，唯有持守到底我们才能与它有份。必须先背负十字架，然后才可能戴上冠冕。我们必须在主的谦卑中跟随祂，不然就永不可能与祂在荣耀中得安息。

我的灵魂啊，对这一点你的看法如何呢？你是否妄想破除天国的原则？你是否希望不以劳苦来获得赏赐，不以辛勤来获得荣誉？除去懒惰的期望吧！为了耶稣的甘美之爱，满足于担负艰辛的工作，这爱可以补偿你所付出的一切。有了辛劳和受苦的心志，你将发现辛涩变为甜美、艰难变为轻省。像雅各那样，因着你对耶稣的爱，视漫长岁月之服事如同几天而已。当婚筵的时刻来临时，一切的劳苦似乎都已忘记——与耶稣同在片刻就能补偿你数年的痛苦和辛劳。

耶稣，妳已经得胜且全然可爱，

我愿欢喜地背负妳的十字架：

既然天国的原则命定为此，

我愿先历艰难，后得平安。

Scripture: “And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.”(Genesis 29:26)

We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things which must be taken in order, and if we would win the second we must secure the first. The second may be the more lovely in our eyes, but the rule of the heavenly country must stand, and the elder must be married first. For instance, many men desire the beautiful and well-favoured Rachel of joy and peace in believing, but they must first be wedded to the tender-eyed Leah of repentance. Every one falls in love with happiness, and many would cheerfully serve twice seven years to enjoy it, but according to the rule of the Lord's kingdom, the Leah of real holiness must be beloved of our soul before the Rachel of true happiness can be attained. Heaven stands not first but second, and only by persevering to the end can we win a portion in it. The cross must be carried before the crown can be worn. We must follow our Lord in his humiliation, or we shall never rest with him in glory.

My soul, what sayest thou, art thou so vain as to hope to break through the heavenly rule? Dost thou hope for reward without labour, or honour without toil? Dismiss the idle expectation, and be content to take the ill-favoured things for the sake of the sweet love of Jesus, which will recompense thee for all. In such a spirit, labouring and suffering, thou wilt find bitters grow sweet, and hard things easy. Like Jacob, thy years of service will seem unto thee but a few days for the love thou hast to Jesus; and when the dear hour of the wedding feast shall come, all thy toils shall be as though they had never been—an hour with Jesus will make up for ages of pain and labour.

Jesus, to win thyself so fair,

Thy cross I will with gladness bear:

Since so the rules of heaven ordain,

The first I'll wed the next to gain.

《竭诚为主》11月14日 看出神的安排

耶和华在路上引领我……（创二十四27）

我们应该与神合一到一个地步，不必一天到晚求他指引。成圣就是成为神的儿女，而儿女的生命就是顺服－－一旦不顺服，就立刻直觉地感到一种隔膜。在属灵的范畴里，这隔膜是圣灵的一个警告。当圣灵警告，我们就该立即停下来，在心灵里更新，好知道神的旨意。我们若是神的灵重生的，仍不住求神引我到这里、到那里，就是不敬虔。“耶和华引领我”，回顾过去，我们可以处处看见神奇妙无比的安排。我们若是从神生的，就必归荣耀给神。在特殊的事上容易看见神的作为，可是只有在属灵上有操练，才会在每一细节上看见神。别忽略一些偶然的事，认为这些是在神的旨意以外；要随时随地明白神的安排。

当心只顾崇拜自己一贯的信念，而不是专心爱神。“我永不做那件事”－－若你是个圣徒的话，很可能你不能不做。主在世上是最不持守一贯做法的人，但他从不违背父神。圣徒唯一要持守的，不是一套原则，乃是神的生命。有神的生命，才不断增加对神心意的认识。做狂热主义者容易，做忠心耿耿的人难，因为要效忠神，需要一种出奇的谦卑；尤其是对在宗教上的虚伪，尤为困难。

祈祷◆“凡有智慧的……也必思想耶和华的慈爱。”主啊，那是多么美好！为着你的荣耀，请赐给我这个记号。今天，我仰望你；愿你的恩惠和美善丰厚地临到我们。

November 14 Discovering Divine Designs

“I being in the way, the Lord led me. . .” Genesis 24:27

We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience – until he wishes to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar. In the spiritual domain the intuitive jar is the monition of the Spirit of God. When He gives the check, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind in order to make out what God's will is. If we are born again of the Spirit of God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and there. “The Lord led me,” and on looking back we see the presence of an amazing design, which, if we are born of God, we will credit to God.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God's appointed order, and be ready to discover the Divine designs any where.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God. I shall never do that – in all probability you will have to, if you are a saint. There never was a more inconsistent Being on this earth than Our Lord, but He was never inconsistent to His Father. The one consistency of the saint is not to a principle, but to the Divine life. It is the Divine life which continually makes more and more discoveries about the Divine mind. It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our religious conceit, in being loyal to God.

十一月十四日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

奉主的名

经文: 「你们若奉我的名求什么，我必成就。」（约翰福音14︰14）

这是多么广大的应许，任何事都可奉主名来求，无论我的需要是什么，无论事情的大小，都可向主求！来吧，我的灵，只管坦然无惧地来到施恩宝座前，听主对你所发的恩言︰“你要大大张口，我就给你充满。“

这是多么有智慧的应许！我们总要奉主的名来求告神。此举不但激励我们，也荣耀神。这是永久的祈求。有时候，我们所有其它的祷告不蒙垂听，特别是当我们与神的关系不佳或是感受不到神的恩典之时所做的祷告；但即使是在这些时候，耶稣的名，在宝座前一样有能力，有效果，我们可以凭着全然的信心来向神恳求。

这是多么具有教导性的祷告！对于所有我不敢盖上基督印信的事情，我都不可以求。我不敢奉主的名求任何自私或任意妄为的事。我只敢奉主的名，祈求那些若是主在我的处境中，祂自己也会祈求的事情。这是何等的尊荣，我们竟被赋予这样的权柄，可以奉耶稣的名祈求，好像是耶稣亲自在祈求一样。而我们对祂的爱决不允许我们将祂的名用在祂不愿意用的地方。

我所祈求的是耶稣所认可的事吗？我敢以耶稣的名，作我祷告的封缄吗？那么，我就是以天父的事为念了。

The Name to Use

Scripture: "If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it" (John 14:14).

What a wide promise! Anything! Whether large or small, all my needs are covered by that word "anything". Come, my soul, be free at the mercy seat, and hear thy LORD saying to thee, "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it."

What a wise promise! We are always to ask in the name of Jesus. While this encourages us, it also honors Him. This is a constant plea. Occasionally every other plea is darkened, especially such as we could draw from our own relation to God or our experience of His grace; but at such times the name of Jesus is as mighty at the throne as ever, and we may plead it with full assurance. What an instructive prayer! I may not ask for anything to which I cannot put Christ's hand and seal. I dare not use my LORD's name to a selfish or willful petition. I may only use my LORD's name to prayers which He would Himself pray if He were in my case. It is a high privilege to be authorized to ask in the name of Jesus as if Jesus Himself asked; but our love to Him will never allow us to set that name where He would not have set it.

Am I asking for that which Jesus approves? Dare I put His seal to my prayer? Then I have that which I seek of the Father.

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有钱的人奉献钱财，若是存谦卑爱神的心奉献，是蒙神悦纳的，若不存谦卑爱神的心奉献，想借着自己的奉献把持权柄，或有别的企图，要想得到名誉和地位，不但不能蒙神悦纳，相反地还要受亏损。讨神喜悦的，不是我们的奉献，乃是我们奉献的心。多奉献钱财的人，常是被人看得起，但不一定被神看得起。若不是存爱神的心奉献，就是「拿家中所有的财宝」全部奉献，也必全被藐视。

亚拿尼亚同他妻子撒非喇就是我们的鉴戒，他们的奉献实在不算少数，不是所得的几分，乃是他们全产业的几分；把田地卖了为奉献，这件事情从外表看来，实在应当得到使徒的称赞。只因为他们的心意不正，要借着奉献，得着名誉，或是得着地位，总是在他们的奉献中有肉体的企图，而不是出自真诚爱神爱人的心灵，所以没有得着祝福，反倒遭了咒诅。

人的奉献即便是全部奉献，若不是从心灵诚实中的奉献，仍是得不到祝福。若是亚拿尼亚和他妻子撒非喇是出于甘心，奉献十分之一，使徒也不能说他们奉献的太少；他们卖了田产不奉献，使徒也不会向他们要，也不能因为不奉献而咒诅他们；但他们奉献是出于不正的意念，就招了咒诅。

「你们把抢夺的、瘸腿的、有病的，拿来献上为祭；我岂能从你们手中收纳呢？这是耶和华说的。行诡诈的在群中有公羊，他许愿却用有残疾的献给主，这人是可咒诅的，因为我是大君王，我的名在外邦中是可畏的；这是万军之耶和华说的。」（玛一13至14）

　　「她将要生一个儿子，你要给祂起名叫耶稣；因祂要将自己的百姓从罪恶里救出来。」（太一21）

《荒漠甘泉》11月14日

「他们已经得了他们的赏赐。」太6:2

『已经得了』，就是己经得了。这是主耶稣说的话，已经得了就不必再想得。

所以，亲爱的旅伴.这是何等的警惕呢？如果我们的施舍、祷告、禁食，以及其他的『善』，是存心要作在人前，要得人的称赞，是要想在教会的范围里得着好名声，叫人都知道我有爱心，我会祷告，我肯刻苦、顺服，请记得你『已经得了』赏赐。

有谁像以巴弗弟兄呢？他没有彼得的口才，也没有保罗的著作，但他是一个在狱中替人代祷的人。

他只要别人灵性长进，有能力作工；他是一个没有自己的人，他要讨那暗中察看者的欢喜。

让我们作一粒死在地里头的麦子。要背十字架、顺服、奉献，都要在地里头作；这样，就能得那暗中察看者的报答了。

哦！弟兄！求目前的赏赐，是一个何等不值得的『生意』！

－－愚

十一月十五日

耶和华的份，本是祂的百姓。（申命记32：9）

他们怎样成为了祂的份呢？乃是靠祂自己至高权威的拣选。祂拣选了他们，并且将自己的爱放在他们身上。祂这样做，全然不是因为他们那时或以后有什么善良。祂要怜悯谁，就怜悯谁，并把永生赐于祂所拣选的。因此，靠着祂自发自愿的拣选，他们成为了祂的。

他们不仅是祂所拣选的，也是祂所赎买的。祂已买了他们，为他们偿付了一切的赎价，因此便归到祂的名下，并非用必朽坏的金银等物，而是用主耶稣基督的宝血完全赎出来，成为神的份。祂的产业无任何抵押，原告方也无法提出任何诉讼，价银已在法庭上当众付清，因此教会永远是属于神的。一切被拣选的人都有宝血的印记，肉眼虽看不见，但基督却能认出，因为“主认识谁是祂的人”；祂从来不会忘记从众人当中所赎出的人；祂数点群羊，因祂曾为它们舍命，祂永远不会忘记祂的教会，因祂曾为她献上自己。

他们是祂的，乃是被祂所征服的。在祂还未得着我们之前，我们的心里曾有怎样的争战啊！祂曾长时地围攻我们的心！祂曾多次向我们下招降书！但我们仍紧闭我们的门，深沟高垒地阻挡祂。你能记清当祂用暴风攻占了我们的心，当祂用十字架攻陷了我们的墙垣、粉碎了我们的屏障，在我们的堡垒上竖起了祂满有怜悯，用鲜血染红的大旗的时刻吗？是的，我们真是祂大爱所征服的俘虏。

祂这样拣选、赎买、征服我们，因此我们永远属祂，神的所有权也是不可让渡的。我们为此而喜乐，我们永远都不是属于自己的；我们盼望，天天遵行祂的旨意，彰显祂的荣耀。

十一月十五日

经文: 神啊，求祢坚固祢为我们所成全的事。（诗篇68：28）

我们的智慧和缺乏会教我们求神不断坚固祂在我们身上所做成的工作。许多基督徒因为疏忽这一点，将试验和苦难归咎于自己的不信。撒但确实在不断寻找机会要将人美丽的心园淹没，使之成为荒场，但许多基督徒是自己将大门敞开，让可怕的洪水进入，皆因他们的疏忽和缺乏向强有力的帮助者祷告。我们常会忘记信心之创始者也是信心的保守者。殿中点燃的灯不可使之熄减，反而要每日添加新油；同样的，我们的信心只能依靠恩典之油来维持，我们也只能从神自己获得此油。倘若我们缺乏使灯持续燃烧的油，就证明我们是愚拙的童女。创造世界的主亲自托住这世界，不然它早就粉碎灭绝了。使我们成为基督徒的主必须以祂的灵扶持我们，不然我们早就毁灭了。但愿我们每天晚上都到主前支取所需的恩典和力量。我们的恳求是强而有理的，因为我们求祂坚固的是祂自己恩典的工作——「你为我们所成全的事。」你以为祂会不保护、不维护祂的工作吗？但愿你的信心紧握住祂的力量，如此一切黑暗的权势虽然受地狱恶魔的领导，也无法在你的喜乐与平安中投下一线黑云或阴影。为什么应当刚强时反而软弱了呢？为什么应当得胜时反而被击败呢？将你动摇的信心和枯萎的心灵带到主前，祂能复苏你并加增你的信心，迫切的祷告：「神啊，求祢坚固祢为我们所成全的事。」

Scripture: “Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.”(Psalm 68:28)

It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions of spirit which arise from unbelief. It is true that Satan seeks to flood the fair garden of the heart and make it a scene of desolation, but it is also true that many Christians leave open the sluice-gates themselves, and let in the dreadful deluge through carelessness and want of prayer to their strong Helper. We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace, and we can only obtain this from God himself. Foolish virgins we shall prove, if we do not secure the needed sustenance for our lamps. He who built the world upholds it, or it would fall in one tremendous crash; he who made us Christians must maintain us by his Spirit, or our ruin will be speedy and final. Let us, then, evening by evening, go to our Lord for the grace and strength we need. We have a strong argument to plead, for it is his own work of grace which we ask him to strengthen—“that which thou hast wrought for us.” Think you he will fail to protect and sustain that? Only let your faith take hold of his strength, and all the powers of darkness, led on by the master fiend of hell, cannot cast a cloud or shadow over your joy and peace. Why faint when you may be strong? Why suffer defeat when you may conquer? Oh! take your wavering faith and drooping graces to him who can revive and replenish them, and earnestly pray, “Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.”

《竭诚为主》11月15日 与你何干？

 主啊，这人将来如何？……与你何干？你跟从我吧。（约二十一21-22）

我们最难学的功课之一，就是放弃对别人生命的干涉。我们要经很长的时间才明白，干涉神在别人生命中的吩咐，是很危险的。你看见人家受苦，你就说：“他不该受苦，我要设法使他不受苦。”那你便是阻挠神容许的旨意。神说：“与你何干？”若你的灵性停滞不前，不可听其自然，必须到神面前寻出根源。很可能是因为你在干扰别人的生命；或提供你无权提供的；或指点你无权指点的。要是神真要你劝勉别人，他必定叫你的劝勉直接有圣灵感动。你的责任是保持与神有正确良好的关系，以致他的智慧能随时随地透过你叫他人得福。

我们多半活在自我意识的边缘上－－自觉是在事奉神，自觉爱神。这都是不成熟的，并不属于那真正的生命。成熟的表现是不再凭观感知觉；我们对神完全的归服，以致不再意识到自己被神使用。我们若仍意识到被神用作擘开的饼和浇奠的酒，那么就得追求另一个境界，就是把自觉的意识，以及神透过我们工作的意识，都同时消除。圣徒是从不自觉是圣徒，他们只知依靠神。

祈祷◆噢，愿我藉着你内住的圣灵，将我与敬拜、美善和圣洁联合起来。主啊，感动我的身体和心灵，直至它们能为着你而融合为一。

November 15 What Is That To Thee?

“Lord, what shall this man do? . . What is that to thee? Follow thou Me.” John 21:21,2

One of our severest lessons comes from the stubborn refusal to see that we must not interfere in other people's lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God's order for others. You see a certain person suffering, and you say – He shall not suffer, and I will see that he does not. You put your band straight in front of God's permissive will to prevent it, and God says – “What is that to thee?” If there is stagnation spiritually, never allow it to go on, but get into God's presence and find out the reason for it. Possibly you will find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another; proposing things you had no right to propose; advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit; your part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you all the time for the blessing of another soul.

Most of us live on the borders of consciousness – consciously serving, consciously devoted to God. All this is immature, it is not the real life yet. The mature stage is the life of a child which is never conscious; we become so abandoned to God that the consciousness of being used never enters in. When we are consciously being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, there is another stage to be reached, where all consciousness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously dependent on God.

十一月十五日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

无尽的财富

经文: 「我的神必照祂荣耀的丰富，在基督耶稣里使你们一切所需用的都充足。」（腓立比书4︰19）

保罗的神是我们的神，祂可以使我们一切所需用的都充足。保罗在腓立比书中很明确地提到这点，我们自己对这点也很有把握。神乐意供应我们一切所需，因为祂本就如此︰祂爱我们、祂喜欢祝福我们，藉此祂也可荣耀自己的名。神的爱、怜悯、信实和权能一起做工，让我们所需无虞。

神用的是怎样的量器呢？——“神必照祂荣耀的丰富“。神的恩典是广大的，但神荣耀的丰富，究竟有多少？圣经上说︰“在基督耶稣里，使我们一切所需用的都充足。“谁能对此做出估计？神愿意按着这无可计量的量器满足我们无尽的需求。神以主耶稣为传递祂丰富的器皿和管道，将祂长阔高深的爱、丰富无限的福份，上尖下流地倾倒在我们身上。哈利路亚！

作者深知神的器皿一定要受到考验。信实的回报可能是愤怒，慷慨的捐助者也会停止善行。但受逼迫的必不致贫困潦倒，反之，神要使我们富足有余，站立得稳，因为祂的应许是真实可靠的︰“神使我们一切需用的都充足。”神所开出的支票，比任何一家银行都更具信用，祂必要兑现祂的承诺。

Limitless Riches

Scripture: "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19).

Paul's God is our God and will supply all our need. Paul felt sure of this in reference to the Philippians, and we feel sure of it as to ourselves. God will do it, for it is like Him: He loves us, He delights to bless us, and it will glorify Him to do so. His pity, His power, His love, His faithfulness, all work together that we be not famished.

        What a measure doth the LORD go by: "According to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." The riches of His grace are large, but what shall we say of the riches of His glory? His "riches of glory by Christ Jesus"-who shall form an estimate of this? According to this immeasurable measure will God fill up the immense abyss of our necessities. He makes the LORD Jesus the receptacle and the channel of His fullness, and then He imparts to us His wealth of love in its highest form. Hallelujah!

        The writer knows what it is to be tried in the work of the LORD. Fidelity has been recompensed with anger, and liberal givers have stopped their

subscriptions; but he whom they sought to oppress has not been one penny the poorer, nay, rather he has been the richer; for this promise has been true, "My God shall supply all your need." God's supplies are surer than any bank.

十一月十五日

信徒应当自己安静读圣经，不要单听名望人的讲论，领信徒走差路的，往往就是所说的一些名望人。因为信徒自己在真理上没有根基，名望人怎样说，信徒就怎样信；名望人在神面前领信徒走迷了路是有罪的，信徒自己不读圣经，跟着名望人而走迷了路，也不能无罪。主说：瞎子领瞎子，二人要一同掉在坑里。

圣经上说：「因为时候要到，人必厌烦纯正的道路；耳朵发痒，就随从自己的情欲，增添好些师傅；并且掩耳不听真道，偏向荒渺的言语。」（提后四3至4）

最叫人痛心的事，信徒自己不读圣经，整天盲目的聚会，真有这样的信徒：「是会就到，是道就听。」看来真是热心，但热心中没有真理的知识，他们就容易往错谬中直奔。

我们要走在神的道路中，走的不偏不倚，非在神的真理中有根基不可。有了真理，才能有明确的道路，没有真理，就没有道路，真理与道路是分不开的。要找到正确的道路，必须先寻找神的真理，道路是在真理中。

信徒不查考圣经，已经很可惜了，还有传道人，也不研究神的真理，不用真理喂养神所托付他的羊群。像以利沙的门徒，把野瓜藤放在锅中，煮给大家吃，若不是先知把面放在锅中，大家都要因这野瓜藤而丧失生命！若不是信徒已经得了神的生命，真要叫这些不研究真理的传道人；将信徒的灵命断送的干干净净。

「求祢以祢的真理引导我，教训我；因为祢是救我的神；我终日等候祢。」（诗二十五5）

《荒漠甘泉》11月15日

「被压太重，力不能胜。」林后1:8

「好叫基督的能力覆庇我。」林后12:9

雅各在毘努伊勒，初次经历了一个以前从未经历的秘诀－－抓住神；从那一次以后，雅各的信心有了长进，他对神有了更深的认识，他的生活也有新的得胜的能力了。

对待大卫，神必须让他经过长期痛苦的训练，叫他知道神的全能与信实，好使他的信心和敬畏神的心得以增长，因为这些美德对于他将来作王是极其紧要的。

没有别的，只有保罗所不断经历的困难、痛苦、危险，能叫保罗学到，能叫全教会学到，『我的恩典够你用的』（林后12:9）这伟大应许的完全意义。

今天能带领我们认识主、信靠主、向主支取无限恩典的，不是别的，乃是我们的试炼和危险。

神给我们困难和障碍，为的是要对付我们的信心。我们在日常的道路上，如果遭遇甚么障碍，我们就该认识它们是装信心的器皿，立刻拿主的丰富和『够用』去装满它们；当我们前进，简简单单、完完全全信靠的时候，我们也许还会受到试验，我们也许还需要忍耐等候；但是无论如何，到了最后，我们一定会看见石头辊开，主耶稣等着赐恩给我们的。

－－宣信（A.B. Simpson）

十一月十六日

耶和华是我的份。(哀3：24)

并不是说“耶和华是我一部分的分，”也不是说“耶和华是在我的分内”；乃是说他自己是我的灵魂所承受的整个产业。我们一切所有所愿的都在这一个圈的圆周之中。耶和华是我的份。不仅他的恩典，他的爱，他的约，而是耶和华自己。他已拣选我们作为他的份，我们也拣选他作为我们的份。耶和华必定先为我们拣选我们的产业，不然我们永也不会为自己拣选的；但我们既蒙他拣选之爱的呼召，就当说：“神爱我，我爱神；神拣选我，我拣选神。”

耶和华是我们全能的份。神是充满万有的；神在自己里面既是全能的，他也必为我们成为全能的。人的愿望很不容易满足。当他梦想到自己得到满足之后，又另外感到还有一些自己所没有的，在他心中的小蚂蟥立即说：“给呀，给呀!”但我们在我们神的份中就可以得到一切，所以我们当祈求说：除你以外，在天上我有谁呢?除你以外，在地上我也没有所爱慕的。”愿我们以耶和华为乐，他使我们得以畅饮于他的乐河之中。我们的信心像鹰一样展翅上腾，飞到满了神爱的天堂，在那里作为它永远居住的所在。“用绳量给我的地界，坐落在佳美之处；我的产业实在美好。”愿我们永远以耶和华为乐；我们要叫世人晓得我们是快乐而且是蒙福的民，因此使他们也说：“我们要与你们同去，因为我们听见神与你们同在了。”

十一月十六日

「你的眼必见王的劳美。」（以赛亚书三十三：17）

你认识基督越深，就越不满足于对祂只有表面的认识。你若更深研究祂在永恒之约中的工作、祂行在你身上永远确实的事、以及祂一切事工所闪耀的丰盛恩典，就会更真实地见到王的荣美。但愿你最大的愿望是能见到耶稣。默想与沈思往往像玛瑙之窗和红宝石之门，透过它们，我们见到了救赎主。默想如同放在眼前的望远镜，能使我们更清楚见到耶稣，就如同祂在世时与祂同活的人能见到祂一样。默想越多，王荣美的光辉就越灿烂地闪耀在我们心中。亲爱的，我们死后可能就会像这样地见到我们荣耀的君王。许多圣徒在临终前，从暴风雨的水面上见到耶稣行走在波浪之上。他们听到祂说：「是我，不要怕。」当房屋开始摇动，泥土开始崩塌，透过光线，我们却见到了基督，而天堂的阳光也射入。但是若想面对面见到王的劳美，就必须到天堂，或等王亲自来到我们面前。哦，但愿祂能乘着风之翼而来！祂是我们的「良人」，祂若不在，我们都成了寡妇。祂又是我们可亲可爱的兄弟，若没有祂，我们将十分孤寂。在我们的灵魂与真正的生命中悬挂着厚重的帘幕和云层。白日何时破晓，黑影何时遁逝？

《竭诚为主》11月16日 仍然是人

 无论作什么，都要为荣耀神而行。（林前十31）

道成肉身的奇迹，湮没在平凡的童年生活；登山变像的辉煌光彩，消失在鬼附的山谷间；复活的荣耀，降卑成为海旁早餐。这不是反高潮，而是神极大的启示。

我们总有一种倾向，就是想去追求超奇的经历；错把英雄感当作真英雄。在重大关头昂然度过是一回事，在每天生活中荣耀神，没有人作证，没有光彩，丝毫不被注意，又是另一回事。我们有时虽然不求中世纪那种圣人的光环，也想做些事令人家说：“看他是个多么会祈祷的人！”或“她多虔诚，多热心！”可是，若你对主耶稣有正确的委身，你已进入那超然的高峰，那里再没有人注意你，人所注意的是神透过你流露出来的大能。

“噢，我从神得到一个奇妙的呼召！”其实要在最卑微的生活上荣耀神，正需要那全能的神在我们里面，才可以做得到。惟有圣灵在我们里面，才能使我们完全地属于他，以致全不为人所注意。圣徒生命的考验不在于成功，而是在实际生活上的忠心。我们会以在基督教事工上的成功作目标，可是正确的目标，乃是在生活上彰显神的荣耀，在属世的环境下，活出与基督一同藏在神里面的生命。属神的理想生命，是在人与人之间的实际关系上表现出来。

祈祷◆主啊，在今天的读经中，一下这句话使我的心灵震荡－－“摩西这样行，耶和华怎样吩咐他，他就照样行了。”

November 16 Still Human!

“Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31

The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood's life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an anti-climax, but a great revelation of God.

The tendency is to look for the marvellous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want mediaeval haloes, we want something that will make people say – What a wonderful man of prayer he is! What a pious devoted woman she is! If you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time.

Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God! It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty to the glory of God. It takes God's Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

十一月十六日 信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

武器无效

经文: 「凡为攻击你造成的器械，必不利用；凡在审判时兴起用舌攻击你的，你必定他为有罪。」（以赛亚书54︰17）

敌人的锻造车间里有极大的咔哒声。他们在制造武器，好用来攻击圣徒。但若圣徒们的主不许可，他们就连这事也做不成，因为那吹嘘炉中炭火的铁匠是祂所造的。但是瞧瞧，他们是在怎样得忙碌！他们制造了多少利剑长矛！这毫无用处，因为在每一件兵器的利刃上都有这样的话：这必不被利用。

再听听另一种喧闹之音：那是敌人的唇枪舌剑。人的口舌是比锤子和铁砧更恐怖的工具，它们所施与的恶毒伤人更深、扩散更广。那么我们将会如何？诽谤、谎言、含沙射影、嘲弄奚落——这些都是有毒的箭；我们当如何应对？主我们的神应许我们，若我们不能让他们噤声，至少我们可以逃脱，不被他们毁灭。他们虽可逞一时口舌之利，但在末了我们可以谴责他们到永远。他们说谎的嘴将会闭上，他们的虚谎之言也必被借用，以成就受苦之人的荣耀。

Weapons Doomed to Fail

Scripture: "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn" (Isaiah 54:17).

There is great clatter in the forges and smithies of the enemy. They are making weapons wherewith to smite the saints. They could not even do as much as this if the LORD of saints did not allow them; for He has created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire. But see how busily they labor! How many swords and spears they fashion! It matters nothing, for on the blade of every weapon you may read this inscription: It shall not Prosper.

        But now listen to another noise: it is the strife of tongues. Tongues are more terrible instruments than can be made with hammers and anvils, and the evil which they inflict cuts deeper and spreads wider. What will become of us now? Slander, falsehood, insinuation, ridicule-these are poisoned arrows; how can we meet them? The LORD God promises us that, if we cannot silence them, we shall, at least, escape from being ruined by them. They condemn us for the moment, but we shall condemn them at last and forever. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped, and their falsehoods shall be turned to the honor of those good men who suffered by them. 

十一月十六日

神的救恩是极其纯洁的，绝对不允许任何的异端搀杂在其中，更不准许人将真理改变一点；不但是神藉先知所说的预言不能改变，就如约翰所说的：「我向一切听见这书上预言的作见证，若有人在这预言上加添什么，神必将写在这书上的灾祸加在他身上；这书上的预言，若有人删去什么，神必从这书上所写的生命树，和圣城，删去他的分。」（启二十二18至19）

就是神所传的一切救恩，没有一件是可以改变一点的。保罗也曾说过：「但无论是我们，是天上来的使者，若传福音给你们，与我们所传给你们的不同，他就应当被咒诅。我们已经说了，现在又说，若有人传福音给你们，与你们所领受的不同，他就应当被咒诅。」（加一8至9）

请听使徒的话是何等严厉，是何等有权威。凡是信主的人，没有一个敢改变神的话。无论是预言，无论是福音，若有人敢随着自己的意思去改变它，就证明这人是不信的人，是灭亡的、是受咒诅的。

主耶稣说：「天地要废去，我的话却不能废去。」（太二十四35）因为神的话是完全的，是纯洁的，是绝对的真理，若有人改变了就是破坏了神的话，玷污了神的话。这些大胆改变神的话的传道人敢把人的言语和神的道调和，敢传似是而非的道理的人，他们都是撒但的差役，是假使徒、假先知、假师傅、假传道人。他们是基督十字架的仇敌。主有一天要对他们说：「你们这些作恶的人，离开我去罢

《荒漠甘泉》11月16日

「弟兄胜过他，是因羔羊的血……他们虽至于死，也不爱惜性命。」启12:11

当西庇太的儿子雅各、约翰，同他们的母亲前来，求耶稣赐他们在祂国里一个坐在祂右，一个坐在祂左边的时候，耶稣并不拒绝他们的请求；不过告诉他们；如果他们能作祂所作的工，能喝祂所喝的杯，能受祂所受的浸，他们并非是没有希望的。

雅各、约翰所要的，我们要不要呢？我们也并非是没有希望的。

最宝贝的东西往往是包围在最艰难的东西中间的；所以我们如果要得到它们，就必须先遇见高山、深林、铁车、烈火。因为艰难是冠冕的代价。

得胜的牌坊不是用玫瑰和丝线织成的。乃是用重击和血痕织成的。我们今天所忍受的艰苦，乃是主给我们用以赢得冠冕的工具。

你不必等候理想的环境、离奇的困难、梦想的危险；你只要起来应付神今天所放在你四围的现成的事情好了。你荣耀的冠冕原埋藏在这些东西－－你生活上每月每日每时所压迫你的那些艰难和试炼－－中心。最困难的事情，并不是世界所知道的那些；乃是在你心里一件极小的秘密，除了主以外，没有人看见，没有人知道的－－一件你连提都不敢提起的小试炼，那常比殉道还难受！

亲爱的，你的冠冕正埋在那个地方。但愿你能赢得！

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