Daily Devotion - Dec 2 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月二日

經文: 「我的佳偶，你全然美麗，毫無瑕疵。」（雅歌四：7）

上帝對屬祂的教會，有無限的讚語，對祂新婦的描述，不僅是美麗而已，而且是「全然美麗」，因為這新婦是耶穌用寶血洗淨，且為她披上潔白的義袍。祂視她為獨一佳偶，氣質優美冠絕群倫，發出聖潔榮耀的光緷。

而且，藉著主基督，教會被洗濯得無瑕無疵，毫無玷汅，被稱為「世上的光」，可謂無愧。信徒也藉著「因信稱義」，在愛子裡被接納，成為屬上帝的。

若有人要以天上的天使，或地上的皇后，向耶穌換祂的新婦，耶穌也不願意，因為祂已把所有的愛，放在新婦身上，這些信徒都是祂所精挑細選的至愛，祂怎麼捨得割捨？有一天，祂要從祂的寶座向全地的聖民發言：「你們這蒙我父賜福的，可來承受那創世以來，為你們所預備的國。」（太廿五：34）


Morning, December 2

Scripture: "Thou art all fair, my love."(Song of Solomon 4:7)

The Lord's admiration of his Church is very wonderful, and his description of her beauty is very glowing. She is not merely fair, but "all fair." He views her in himself, washed in his sin-atoning blood and clothed in his meritorious righteousness, and he considers her to be full of comeliness and beauty. No wonder that such is the case, since it is but his own perfect excellency that he admires; for the holiness, glory, and perfection of his Church are his own glorious garments on the back of his own well-beloved spouse. She is not simply pure, or well-proportioned; she is positively lovely and fair! She has actual merit! Her deformities of sin are removed; but more, she has through her Lord obtained a meritorious righteousness by which an actual beauty is conferred upon her. Believers have a positive righteousness given to them when they become "accepted in the beloved" (Eph. 1:6). Nor is the Church barely lovely, she is superlatively so. Her Lord styles her "Thou fairest among women." She has a real worth and excellence which cannot be rivalled by all the nobility and royalty of the world. If Jesus could exchange his elect bride for all the queens and empresses of earth, or even for the angels in heaven, he would not, for he puts her first and foremost—"fairest among women." Like the moon she far outshines the stars. Nor is this an opinion which he is ashamed of, for he invites all men to hear it. He sets a "behold" before it, a special note of exclamation, inviting and arresting attention. "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair" (Song of Sol. 4:1). His opinion he publishes abroad even now, and one day from the throne of his glory he will avow the truth of it before the assembled universe. "Come, ye blessed of my Father" (Matt. 25:34), will be his solemn affirmation of the loveliness of his elect.

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