Daily Devotion - Dec 20 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十二月二十日

經文: 叫工人都來，給他們工錢。（馬太福音二十：8）

上帝是一位好僱主。不但在僕人工作時祂付他們工錢，工作完成後，祂也給他們賞賜。祂所付的工錢中有一項是平安的良心。倘若今日你向一位朋友忠實地述說耶穌，晚上當你躺臥時可以愉快地想：「今日我與朋友分享了救主耶穌的愛。」你為耶穌作了一些工作，心中必會滿得欣慰能為祂的冠冕增添珍寶，讓主看到祂拯救工作的果效，那是多麼大的喜樂啊！看到靈魂因信主而萌放出嫩芽，也是何等大的賞賜啊！也許你看到班上某位女孩時會說：「她的心是何等柔和；但願是主在她心中作工。」或是你回家後為某位男孩代禱，因他所說的話令你想到他應該明白上帝的真理。能成為贏取靈魂的人是世上最快樂的事。每當你顉一個靈魂到基督面前，就等於是在地上獲得了一個新天堂。但是誰能想像那在上面等待著賞賜我們的祝福呢？「可以進來享受你主人的快樂」（太二十五：21）。哦，這話是多麼甘甜！你知道一個得救的罪人會給基督帶來多大的快樂嗎？這也是我們將來在天堂所能擁有的快樂。當天堂響起「好，好」的稱許聲音時，你就能獲得賞賜。你曾與祂一同辛勞，你曾與祂一同受苦，現在你要與祂一同作王。你曾與祂同撒種，就要與祂一同收割。你曾像祂一般汗流滿面，你的靈曾像祂的靈一般為人的罪憂傷，現在你的臉將閃耀著天堂的光輝，你的靈將充滿喜滿樂。

Evening, December 20

Scripture: "Call thy labourers, and give them their hire."(Matthew 20:8)

God is a good paymaster; he pays his servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of his payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel happy in thinking, "I have this day discharged my conscience of that man's blood." There is a great comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh, what a happiness to place jewels in his crown, and give him to see of the travail of his soul! There is also very great reward in watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul! To say of that girl in the class, "She is tender of heart, I do hope that there is the Lord's work within." To go home and pray over that boy, who said something in the afternoon which made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared! Oh, the joy of hope! But as for the joy of success! it is unspeakable. This joy, overwhelming as it is, is a hungry thing—you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ, you get a new heaven upon earth. But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above! Oh, how sweet is that sentence, "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven. Yes, when he mounts the throne, you shall mount with him. When the heavens ring with "Well done, well done," you shall partake in the reward; you have toiled with him, you have suffered with him, you shall now reign with him; you have sown with him, you shall reap with him; your face was covered with sweat like his, and your soul was grieved for the sins of men as his soul was, now shall your face be bright with heaven's splendour as is his countenance, and now shall your soul be filled with beatific joys even as his soul is.



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