Daily Devotion - Dec 1 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十二月一日

經文: 但願人因耶和華的慈愛，和祂向人所行的奇事，都稱讚他。（詩篇一○七：8）

我們若減少抱怨卻增加讚美，將會活得更愉快，上帝也因此得榮耀。願我們能為尋常的祝福天天讚美上帝。雖然我們稱之為尋常，然而那卻是無價的，因為一旦失去那些祝福，我們就要滅亡。讓我們為自己的眼睛能看到陽光、為我們的健康和力量，為日用的飲食，為穿著的衣服稱頌上帝。讚美祂，因為祂沒有將我們撇在絕望之中，沒有教我們因罪惡受捆綁。為我們的自由、為我們的朋友、我們的家庭、為我們的安逸感謝祂。為從祂豐富的手中所收受的感謝祂，因為我們原不配得，祂卻慷慨地賜予。我們讚美歌聲中最甜美、最宏亮的音符應該救贖的大愛。我們若明白救贖的意義，就不要吝於獻上感恩之歌。上帝已將我們從罪惡的深淵中舉起，將我們引至基督的十字架前，破除我們受捆鎖的桎梏。我們不再是奴僕，而是永活真神的兒女。我們能預嘗而那日站在寶座前的時光。即使現在，憑信心，我們也能揮動棕樹枝並穿上那將成為我們永遠服飾的細麻衣。我們不該永無休止地向我們的救贖主獻上感謝嗎？儆醒吧，榮耀的後嗣，與大衛一同歡唱：「我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華。凡在我�面的，也要稱頌祂的聖名。」（詩一○三：1）

Evening, December 1

Scripture: "O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men."(Psalm 107:8)

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Let us daily praise God for common mercies—common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when deprived of them we are ready to perish. Let us bless God for the eyes with which we behold the sun, for the health and strength to walk abroad, for the bread we eat, for the raiment we wear. Let us praise him that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined amongst the guilty; let us thank him for liberty, for friends, for family associations and comforts; let us praise him, in fact, for everything which we receive from his bounteous hand, for we deserve little, and yet are most plenteously endowed. But, beloved, the sweetest and the loudest note in our songs of praise should be of redeeming love. God's redeeming acts towards his chosen are for ever the favourite themes of their praise. If we know what redemption means, let us not withhold our sonnets of thanksgiving. We have been redeemed from the power of our corruptions, uplifted from the depth of sin in which we were naturally plunged. We have been led to the cross of Christ—our shackles of guilt have been broken off; we are no longer slaves, but children of the living God, and can antedate the period when we shall be presented before the throne without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Even now by faith we wave the palm-branch and wrap ourselves about with the fair linen which is to be our everlasting array, and shall we not unceasingly give thanks to the Lord our Redeemer? Child of God, canst thou be silent? Awake, awake, ye inheritors of glory, and lead your captivity captive, as ye cry with David, "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." Let the new month begin with new songs.

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