Daily Devotion - Jan 13 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

一月十三日

經文: 「約沙法製造他施船隻，要往俄斐，將金字運來，只是沒有去，因為船在以旬迦別破壞了。」(列王記上廿二：48)

所羅門王的船隻已平安回來，但約沙法的船隻卻未能抵黃金島，同樣一件事情，上帝祝福所羅門，卻沒有施恩給約沙法。但在最開始時，約沙法是像所羅門一樣的英明睿智，我們切莫忘了這經文，謹記約沙法的鑑戒，願上帝今日施恩我們，祝福以旬迦別的船隻，以及其上的財物。
至於約沙法的霉運，肇因於他與惡王交好，請看歷代志下廿章37節：「那時瑪利沙人，多大瓦的兒子以利以謝，向約沙法預言，說：『因你與亞哈謝交好，耶和華必破壞你所造的。』後來那船果然破壞，不能往他施去了。」這是天父對他的管教與教訓。願後我們勿重蹈約沙法的覆轍，不與不信的人共負一軛，免得受上帝責罰。喔！因著我們愛耶穌，我們就願與世俗有別，不沾染罪惡，並且追求像耶穌那般聖潔無瑕疵。


Morning, January 13

Scripture: "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber"(1 Kings 22:48)

Solomon's ships had returned in safety, but Jehoshaphat's vessels never reached the land of gold. Providence prospers one, and frustrates the desires of another, in the same business and at the same spot, yet the Great Ruler is as good and wise at one time as another. May we have grace to-day, in the remembrance of this text, to bless the Lord for ships broken at Ezion-geber, as well as for vessels freighted with temporal blessings; let us not envy the more successful, nor murmur at our losses as though we were singularly and specially tried. Like Jehoshaphat, we may be precious in the Lord's sight, although our schemes end in disappointment.
The secret cause of Jehoshaphat's loss is well worthy of notice, for it is the root of very much of the suffering of the Lord's people; it was his alliance with a sinful family, his fellowship with sinners. In 2 Ch. 20:37, we are told that the Lord sent a prophet to declare, "Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works." This was a fatherly chastisement, which appears to have been blest to him; for in the verse which succeeds our morning's text we find him refusing to allow his servants to sail in the same vessels with those of the wicked king. Would to God that Jehoshaphat's experience might be a warning to the rest of the Lord's people, to avoid being unequally yoked together with unbelievers! A life of misery is usually the lot of those who are united in marriage, or in any other way of their own choosing, with the men of the world. O for such love to Jesus that, like him, we may be holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners; for if it be not so with us, we may expect to hear it often said, "The Lord hath broken thy works."


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