Daily Devotion - Nov 29 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十一月二十九日

經文: 並作膏油。（出埃及記三十五：8）

根據律法，此膏油有許多用途，而所代表的也是極重要的。我們若要事奉主並蒙悅納，聖靈於我們是不可缺少的，祂膏我們去作一切聖工。缺少祂的幫助，我們的事奉只是虛浮的形式，我們內在的經驗也不過是死的哲理。我們的事奉沒有被膏是可悲的！聖膏是基督徒經歷中的靈魂和生命，少了它是最大不幸。走在被主聖膏之前就如同一般的利未人投入祭司的工作，他的事奉不是服事，乃是犯罪。但願我們沒有受聖膏之前不要企圖事奉。經過選擇仔細混合的香料才能製成膏油。這一點向我們指明聖靈的豐富影響力。在聖潔的保惠師之內有一切美善。在聖靈的聖潔膏油中有無比的安慰、絕對正確的教導、屬靈的能力和聖潔，並其它一切卓越的恩惠。它被澆灌在人身上，或男或女，並賦與他們可悅的、馨香的性格和人格。在一切財富或智慧的奧秘中，沒有一樣能比得上這膏油。這膏油只從上帝而來，通過耶穌基督白白賜給每顆等待的心靈。

Evening, November 29

Scripture: "Spices for anointing oil."(Exodus 35:8)

Much use was made of this anointing oil under the law, and that which it represents is of primary importance under the gospel. The Holy Spirit, who anoints us for all holy service, is indispensable to us if we would serve the Lord acceptably. Without his aid our religious services are but a vain oblation, and our inward experience is a dead thing. Whenever our ministry is without unction, what miserable stuff it becomes! nor are the prayers, praises, meditations, and efforts of private Christians one jot superior. A holy anointing is the soul and life of piety, its absence the most grievous of all calamities. To go before the Lord without anointing is as though some common Levite had thrust himself into the priest's office—his ministrations would rather have been sins than services. May we never venture upon hallowed exercises without sacred anointings. They drop upon us from our glorious Head; from his anointing we who are as the skirts of his garments partake of a plenteous unction. Choice spices were compounded with rarest art of the apothecary to form the anointing oil, to show forth to us how rich are all the influences of the Holy Spirit. All good things are found in the divine Comforter. Matchless consolation, infallible instruction, immortal quickening, spiritual energy, and divine sanctification all lie compounded with other excellencies in that sacred eye-salve, the heavenly anointing oil of the Holy Spirit. It imparts a delightful fragrance to the character and person of the man upon whom it is poured. Nothing like it can be found in all the treasuries of the rich, or the secrets of the wise. It is not to be imitated. It comes alone from God, and it is freely given, through Jesus Christ, to every waiting soul. Let us seek it, for we may have it, may have it this very evening. O Lord, anoint thy servants.



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