Daily Devotion - Dec 28 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月二十八日

經文: 「我如今在肉身活著，是因信上帝的兒子而活。」（加拉太書二：20）

慈悲憐憫的父上帝經過我們身旁，看見我們活在黑暗悲苦的光景，祂首先向我們說：「甦醒你的靈吧！」若我們心靈的眼睛沒有開啟，我們就不明白靈界的事；若沒有主賜的新生命在我們人心，我們就無法在天國的基業上有份。我們內在的靈性，是與上帝溝通的惟一管道。

像樹幹裡流動的汁液，供應枝葉養份；藉著信心的運作，我們的靈與耶穌有了溝通的管道。信心是上帝的恩賜，藉著它，我們得以與上帝連結，明白上帝的美善，與信仰的價值。沒有任何迷惑，可以誘使我們離開上帝，轉去信靠別神。

耶和華上帝樂於施恩，且厚賜眾人，只要有人向祂求，這位自有永有的上帝，總是張開祂全能的雙手，按著信徒所需，豐盛的賞賜給祂兒女，使得上帝與祂眾兒女之間，能夠享受愛的聯繫與滿足的喜樂。

當信徒能感受到這種親密的契合，與合而為一的奧秘，他的心就不禁喜悅而跳動，他的脈博也不禁竄流著澎湃的熱血。如此，即使我們仍活在世上，卻能享受在地若天的滋味，預嚐天恩的甘美，知道將來在天堂的福樂，更遠勝現在千百倍。


Morning, December 28

Scripture: "The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God."(Galatians 2:20)

When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, he first of all said, "Live"; and this he did first, because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual matters, and until it be bestowed we are incapable of partaking in the things of the kingdom. Now the life which grace confers upon the saints at the moment of their quickening is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from the stem, runs into us, the branches, and establishes a living connection between our souls and Jesus. Faith is the grace which perceives this union, having proceeded from it as its firstfruit. It is the neck which joins the body of the Church to its all-glorious Head.

"Oh Faith! thou bond of union with the Lord,

Is not this office thine? and thy fit name,

In the economy of gospel types,

And symbols apposite—the Church's neck;

Identifying her in will and work

With him ascended?"

Faith lays hold upon the Lord Jesus with a firm and determined grasp. She knows his excellence and worth, and no temptation can induce her to repose her trust elsewhere; and Christ Jesus is so delighted with this heavenly grace, that he never ceases to strengthen and sustain her by the loving embrace and all-sufficient support of his eternal arms. Here, then, is established a living, sensible, and delightful union which casts forth streams of love, confidence, sympathy, complacency, and joy, whereof both the bride and bridegroom love to drink. When the soul can evidently perceive this oneness between itself and Christ, the pulse may be felt as beating for both, and the one blood as flowing through the veins of each. Then is the heart as near heaven as it can be on earth, and is prepared for the enjoyment of the most sublime and spiritual kind of fellowship.


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