Daily Devotion - Nov 17 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十一月十七日

經文: 劈開木頭的，必遭危險。（傳道書十：9）

欺壓者可以輕易地欺負貧困有缺乏的人，就如同他們能輕易劈開木頭一樣，但卻不知道自己在從事一件危險的事。我們常聽說木頭的裂片能使樵夫喪命。在每位被傷害的聖徒心中，耶穌也遭迫害，而祂有大能為所愛的人報仇，因此踐踏貧窮人是應當懼怕的。倘若迫害者目前沒有危險，以後也必遭大災難。在日常生活�，在與你蒙召有關的事中，也有許多危險是必須是要留意的。不是洪水或疾病或死亡的危險，乃是屬靈方面的危險。你的職業可能卑微如一劈柴者，然而魔鬼也會藉著它來試探你。你可能只是家庭傭人、農場工人、或機械工人，但你仍可能在嚴重的試探中被篩來篩去。還有，隱藏的罪使你陷入危機。隱居霧中者雖不與外界粗暴世界交往，也會在隱退生活中遭遇危險。驕傲能進入窮苦者之心；貪婪能轄制貧困者的胸懷；不潔能闖入安靜的家園；忿怒、忌恨和惡毒能滲入最純樸的住處。即使向佣人說寥寥數語也可能犯罪；在商店中購買極少的貨品也可能引向試探；從窗口向外一瞥可能是犯罪的開始。主啊，我們是何等缺乏抵抗力啊！我們怎能安全無事呢？唯有您能保守我們脫離這邪惡的世代。願您展翅覆庇我們，好讓我們隱藏在您的翼下尋得安全。

Evening, November 17

Scripture: "He that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby."(Ecclesiastes 10:9)

Oppressors may get their will of poor and needy men as easily as they can split logs of wood, but they had better mind, for it is a dangerous business, and a splinter from a tree has often killed the woodman. Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and he is mighty to avenge his beloved ones. Success in treading down the poor and needy is a thing to be trembled at: if there be no danger to persecutors here there will be great danger hereafter.

To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. We refer not to hazards by flood and field, or by disease and sudden death, but to perils of a spiritual sort. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. You may be a domestic servant, a farm labourer, or a mechanic, and you may be greatly screened from temptations to the grosser vices, and yet some secret sin may do you damage. Those who dwell at home, and mingle not with the rough world, may yet be endangered by their very seclusion. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so. Pride may enter a poor man's heart; avarice may reign in a cottager's bosom; uncleanness may venture into the quietest home; and anger, and envy, and malice may insinuate themselves into the most rural abode. Even in speaking a few words to a servant we may sin; a little purchase at a shop may be the first link in a chain of temptations; the mere looking out of a window may be the beginning of evil. O Lord, how exposed we are! How shall we be secured! To keep ourselves is work too hard for us: only thou thyself art able to preserve us in such a world of evils. Spread thy wings over us, and we, like little chickens, will cower down beneath thee, and feel ourselves safe!


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