Daily Devotion - Dec 17 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月十七日

經文: 「我都記得。」（耶利米書二：2）

讓我們思想這一點，就是耶穌思念祂的聖民和教會，就像母親不曾忘記她所乳養的兒女一般。上帝疼惜、眷顧屬祂的百姓，就像保護祂眼中的瞳仁一般，百般呵護。我們也當常常仰望祂，因為我們的靈源來自於祂。從創世以來，祂「喜悅住在世人之間。」（箴八：31）

聖民在世時，祂的心思意念，常繞著祂所揀選的百姓轉。而且祂在我們未出世前，就看到我們，誠如大衛所說：「我未成形的體質，您的眼早已看見了，您所定的日子，我尚未度一日，您都寫在您的冊上了。」（詩一三九：16）

當地的根基被設立時，祂在那兒，在迦南地，在約旦河邊，在耶利哥城下，甚至在巴比倫焚燒之際，這位神子耶穌，就已經造訪祂的百姓。因為上帝的靈喜愛祂所造的，就常踴躍在其間，祂的心常牽掛著祂的百姓。

祂把我們捧在祂的掌心，也把我們名字刻在祂的心版上，就像大祭司的胸牌上，刻著以色列十二支派的名字，是祂在上帝面前經常的紀念。耶穌基督也是這樣，祂把我們當珍寶似地放在心中，細心調教，關懷有加，祂從來沒有一刻忘記過我們。


Morning, December 17

Scripture: "I remember thee."(Jeremiah 2:2)

Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often upon that face which we love; we desire always to have our precious things in our sight. It is even so with our Lord Jesus. From all eternity "His delights were with the sons of men"; his thoughts rolled onward to the time when his elect should be born into the world; he viewed them in the mirror of his foreknowledge. "In thy book," he says, "all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Ps. 139:16). When the world was set upon its pillars, he was there, and he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Many a time before his incarnation, he descended to this lower earth in the similitude of a man; on the plains of Mamre (Gen. 18), by the brook of Jabbok (Gen. 32:24-30), beneath the walls of Jericho (Jos. 5:13), and in the fiery furnace of Babylon (Dan. 3:19, 25), the Son of Man visited his people. Because his soul delighted in them, he could not rest away from them, for his heart longed after them. Never were they absent from his heart, for he had written their names upon his hands, and graven them upon his side. As the breastplate containing the names of the tribes of Israel was the most brilliant ornament worn by the high priest, so the names of Christ's elect were his most precious jewels, and glittered on his heart. We may often forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord, but he never ceases to remember us. Let us chide ourselves for past forgetfulness, and pray for grace ever to bear him in fondest remembrance. Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image of thy Son.

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