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光 | kng | 光 | 名詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 3 節 | 0 |
要有 | ài-ū | 愛有 | 動詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 3 節 | 1 |
說 | kóng | 講 | 動詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 3 節 | 1 |
水面上 | chúi-bīn-chiūⁿ | 水面上 | 形容詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
運行在 | ūn-hêng-tī | 運行 | 動詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
上帝的靈 | Siōng-tè ê lêng | 上帝的靈 | 名詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
黑暗 | o͘-àm | 黑暗 | 形容詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
淵面 | ian-bīn | 淵面 | 形容詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
空虛 | khang-hi | 空虛 | 形容詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
是 | sī | 是 | 動詞 | [01創世記 ] 第 1 章 2 節 | 1 |
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August 5
"IS." (2 Cor. 12:9.)
IT had pleased God to remove my youngest child under circumstances of peculiar trial and pain; and as I had just laid my little one's body in the churchyard, on return home, I felt it my duty to preach to my people on the meaning of trial.
Finding that this text was in the lesson for the following Sabbath, I chose it as my Master's message to them and myself; but on trying to prepare the notes, I found that in honesty I could not say that the words were true; and therefore I knelt down and asked God to let His grace be sufficient for me. While I was thus pleading, I opened my eyes and saw a framed illuminated text, which my mother had given me only a few days before, and which I had told my servant to place upon the wall during my absence at the holiday resort where my little one was taken away from us.
I did not notice the words on returning to my house; but as I looked up and wiped my eyes, the words met my gaze, "My grace is sufficient for thee."
The "is" was picked out in bright green while the "My" and the "thee" were painted in another color.
In one moment the message came straight to my soul, as a rebuke for offering such a prayer as, "Lord, let Thy grace be sufficient for me;" for the answer was almost as an audible voice, "How dare you ask that which is?" God cannot make it any more sufficient than He has made it; get up and believe it, and you will find it true, because the Lord says it in the simplest way: "My grace is (not shall be or may be) sufficient for thee."
"My" "is" and "thee" were from that moment, I hope, indelibly fixed upon my heart; and I (thank God) have been trying to live in the reality of the message from that day forward to the present time.
The lesson that came to me, and which I seek to convey to others, is, Never turn God's facts into hopes, or prayers, but simply use them as realities, and you will find them powerful as you believe them.
─Prebendary H. W. Webb Peploe.
He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added affiction He addeth His mercies,
To multiplied trials His multiplied peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father's full giving is only begun.
His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
─Annie Johnson Flint.
「凡屬基督耶穌的人,是已經把肉體,連肉體的邪情私慾,同釘在十字架上了。」加拉太五章24節
關於肉體,保羅教導我們說:「我肉體之中沒有良善。」(羅七18)又說:「原來體貼肉體就是與神為仇,因為不服神的律法,也是不能服。」(羅八7)當亞當失去神的靈就成了肉體,肉體就是惡,從亞當傳下污穢的本性。關於肉體,有這樣的話寫出:「我們的舊人和他同釘十字架」(羅六6),保羅又強調說:「凡屬基督耶穌的人,是已經把肉體同釘在十字架上。」
當門徒聽到耶穌呼召他們跟隨祂,便立刻遵命而行;但後來聽主所教導此一行動的含意,他們就不願立刻順服。那些人也是同樣接受釘十字架的耶穌,但不知其中的意義,藉著這一順服的行動必須做到治死肉體,釘死在可咒詛的十字架上。
唉!不知有多少人從未花什麼時間來思想此事!也許是對於基督被釘的真理,講的不夠完全;或者由治死老我的含意退縮,這使得任何都可包容,而基督的靈就無從施行了。保羅教導加拉太人:「要順著聖靈行事,不放縱肉體的邪情私慾。」凡被聖靈引導就是神的兒女,當肉體治死於憑信心活在基督耶穌裏,與祂交通之時,聖靈才能引導我們。
親愛的主!我何等不瞭解我憑信心接受您,就是一次將肉體的邪情私慾一同治死!我謙卑地求您,相信並活在為我們而死的主裏面,像保羅只誇你的十字架,將世界和老我一同治死於十字架上。
「先知所寫的一切事,都要成就在人子身上……他們不曉得所說的是甚麼。」路十八章31—34節
神之選召耶穌基督,似乎是要祂受大的苦難。耶穌基督選召祂的門徒,為的是看祂身受死刑;把他們領到心腸破裂的境地。耶穌基督的生命,除了從神的觀點觀看以外,無論從那方面看,是絕對的失敗。但是人看為失敗的,在神看來卻是極大的勝利,因為神的旨意,絕然不是人的旨意。
神奇妙的選召,也常來到我們的生活中。但是老是隱蓄深藏不明不白的。神的呼召像海之於嗜海的人的呼召一樣,別人是不能接受的。我們難得指定神的選召是甚麼,因為祂的選召,乃是召我們遵照祂的旨意,做祂的同伴,至於以後的事,是神的事,我們可以不問。所發生的事,不是偶然的,它們全在神的旨意中。只有神作成祂的旨意。
如果我們與神契合,知道祂是要我們合乎祂的旨意,我們就不必再去體察祂的旨意是甚麼了。我們在這種生命裡向前進行,自會單純而無雜念了,因為我們也不會說這樣的話──「神為甚麼容許這,容許那呢?」這一切事情的內幕都有神的旨意在裡面。「有神作成我們的歸結。」一個基督徒是倚靠神的智慧,不倚靠自己智慧的人。如果我們有自己的旨意,就毀損了神兒女應有的單純與優閒的特性。
「……若有聽見我聲音就開門的,我要進到他那裡去,我與他,他與我一同坐席。」啟示錄三章20節
我們當中有些人非常飢渴和擔憂,不知道為什麼聖靈不充滿我們。這乃是因為我們得到的很多,卻不曾與他人分享所得的。如果我們把擁有的祝福送出去,並且開始計劃事奉、祝福更多的人,那麼我們很快地就會發現聖靈就在我們眼前。詩篇廿一篇3節說,神會以美福迎接我們,而且會以我們能給他人多少,作為衡量給我們多少的標準。
沒有任何音樂比風奏琴聽起來更為神聖。但是一個風奏琴不過是一組拉緊的、弦律組合好的弦,而其發出來的樂聲則決定於沒有指頭的輕風;當風吹拂過這些弦上時,美妙的音樂就飄然地浮在空中,彷彿一群天使來到人間,輕輕地撥弄風奏琴一般。
同樣道理,當我們安靜地在事奉神的道路上,我們也可以敞開心門,讓聖靈隨祂的旨意來彈奏我們的心弦。