Daily Devotion - Dec 24 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

十二月二十四日

經文: 耶和華的榮耀必然顯現，凡有血氣的必一同看見。（以賽亞書四十：5）

我們期盼著全世界歸向基督的歡樂日子。外邦的神明都被丟棄，虛偽之宗教都被推翻，永不再欺騙世人。世上的王都要向和平之君下拜，萬族都要稱頌他們的拯救者。有人對這一日的來臨已放棄希望。他們視這世界為破成碎片之器皿。我們知道有一日這世界要被燒毀，繼之而起的就是新天新地。我們並不會因耶穌遲延再來而失望。我們也不因祂在這漫長的階段內忍心讓教會陷於衝突予盾之中而沮喪。我們相信上帝既已教基督的寶血為世人所流，必不會讓世界長久在撒但的控制之中。基督來，為要將這世界從黑暗的極權中釋放出來。當人與天使聯合發出大聲說：「哈利路亞！因為主我們的上帝，全能者，作王了。」（啓十九：6），其聲音是何等響亮啊！到那日，在為我們的主爭戰中有分的人，在贏得勝利中有分的人，是何等滿足啊！與主一齊並肩作戰，為祂的名靠祂的力量爭戰的人是何等歡樂啊！反之，站在罪惡一方的人將是何等悲哀！因那是失敗的一方，而且在此戰役中所有的失敗者是永遠地失敗。你在哪一方呢？

Evening, December 24

Scripture: "The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."(Isaiah 40:5)

We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that—

"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun

Does his successive journeys run."

We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ's blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite to cry "Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On whose side are you?


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