Daily Devotion - Dec 23 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月二十三日

經文: 「朋友，請上座。」（路加福音十四：10）

當一個人靈魂甦醒，得以認識真理，明白生命的起源，他的心就被上帝所吸引；但那是一種戰戰兢兢的心態，我們知道自己不過是卑微的罪人，站在永生上帝的面前，我們有無限的惶恐與敬畏，因為意識到我們自己實在不配。

但是當基督的生命，在他內心成長時，他與上帝的關係就越來越好，他知道上帝是個慈愛的天父，祂對我們有無限的忍耐與寬容。然而他也永不忘記自己原是怎樣的身份與地位，肅立在這位為我們犧牲的耶和華上帝面前，該如何地謙卑認份，靜默專注。那是一種神聖的敬拜，不再是一種心生恐懼的敬畏。

靈命的成長，理當更上層樓。在上帝的面光中，我們就越接近寶座，祂的同在吸引我們全人在靈裡向祂俯伏敬拜。藉此我們更清楚明白祂的屬性、祂的慈愛、祂的恩典，與祂的權能，而不再像從前那樣，只知道祂是一位高高在上、遙不可及的上帝而已。

當我們多多花時間親近上帝、默想上帝時，我們的心一片空明寧靜，我們的靈也被提昇到塵囂之上，我們感受到被完全接納的幸福，胸臆也滿溢著天人合一的滿足感。弟兄姐妹們，上帝呼召我們如此貼近祂，這原是祂的心意與旨意，我們可曾操練「親近上帝」的功課？願我們今天就滿懷信心地來到祂面前，閉目頷首的輕聲呼喚：「阿爸父……。」


Morning, December 23

Scripture: "Friend, go up higher."(Luke 14:10)

When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God, but it is with great fear and trembling. The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur of Jehovah, in whose presence it stands. With unfeigned bashfulness it takes the lowest room.

But, in after life, as the Christian grows in grace, although he will never forget the solemnity of his position, and will never lose that holy awe which must encompass a gracious man when he is in the presence of the God who can create or can destroy; yet his fear has all its terror taken out of it; it becomes a holy reverence, and no more an overshadowing dread. He is called up higher, to greater access to God in Christ Jesus. Then the man of God, walking amid the splendours of Deity, and veiling his face like the glorious cherubim, with those twin wings, the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, will, reverent and bowed in spirit, approach the throne; and seeing there a God of love, of goodness, and of mercy, he will realize rather the covenant character of God than his absolute Deity. He will see in God rather his goodness than his greatness, and more of his love than of his majesty. Then will the soul, bowing still as humbly as aforetime, enjoy a more sacred liberty of intercession; for while prostrate before the glory of the Infinite God, it will be sustained by the refreshing consciousness of being in the presence of boundless mercy and infinite love, and by the realization of acceptance "in the Beloved." Thus the believer is bidden to come up higher, and is enabled to exercise the privilege of rejoicing in God, and drawing near to him in holy confidence, saying, "Abba, Father."

"So may we go from strength to strength,

And daily grow in grace,

Till in thine image raised at length,

We see thee face to face."


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