Daily Devotion - Jan 17 - ¯îºz¥Ì¬u Streams in the Desert

荒漠甘泉 Streams in the Desert

永活的上帝

經文: 「永活上帝的僕人但以理阿，你所常事奉的上帝，能救你…」（但六20，直譯）

雖然這節聖經我們曾讀了多次，可是我們常把它忽略過去。我們知道經上記著上帝是永活的上帝；然而在我們日常生活中，我們最會忘記的，乃是上帝是活的上帝；因為祂是活的上帝，祂在三四千年以前怎樣，現在還是怎樣。祂以前是全能的，現在還是；以前有慈愛憐憫，如今對於那些愛祂，事奉祂的人仍有；祂是不改變的。所以我們該完全信靠祂，在我們最黑暗的時候，仍不失去這個事實──祂仍是永活的上帝！

如果你與上帝同行，仰望祂給你隨時的幫助，永活的上帝保險不會誤你的事。一個主內年長的弟兄，認識活的上帝已經四十四年了，祂作見證說：上帝從來沒有耽誤過我。在極大艱難、極重的試煉、極深的窮困和需要中，上帝從來沒有誤過我的事；因為我靠著祂的恩典能信祂，祂總隨時給我幫助。我樂意述說祂的名。──莫勒（Geo. Mueller）

馬丁路得有一次覺得他前途中危機四伏，因此他心中充滿了憂愁和恐懼；這時他自己知道必須抓住上面來的力量，纔能過去；他獨自枯坐著，用他的手指在桌面上畫這幾個字：「祂是永活的！」祂是永活的！他喜樂了，他恢復了。「祂是永活的」，也是我們的力量和盼望。今天世上的偉人、領袖、科學家等等，只能發光一時，不久就完了。人都會過去，祂是永存的。人是點著的燈，所以遲早會熄的，惟有祂是眞光，眾光之源，永遠常存的。──馬克拉倫（Alexander Maclaren）

崔倫保（C.C. Trumbull）說：「有一天我去見靈命頂深的亞當博士（Dr. John Douglas Adam），他告訴我他以為靈命中最寶貴的一份，就是靈中不斷感覺主的確實同在。沒有一樣東西比感覺主的確實同在更能堅固他；這是實在的，並不是一種情感、幻想，或者心理作用。

「而且基督是他思想的家。無論甚麼時候，他的思想在別的事情上釋放了，就回到基督那裡去；他在一個人的時候，會出聲與基督談話──不管在街上或在別處──頂自然地如同和一個朋友談話一般。主的同在對於他是頂實在的。」──選


The Living God

Scripture: "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee" (Dan. 6:20).

How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God!
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name. --George Mueller
Luther was once found at a moment of peril and fear, when he had need to grasp unseen strength, sitting in an abstracted mood tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!" ("He lives! He lives!"). It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore. --Alexander Maclaren
"One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam," writes C. G. Trumbull. "I learned from him that what he counted his greatest spiritual asset was his unvarying consciousness of the actual presence of Jesus. Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the realization that Jesus was always with him in actual presence; and that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence.
"Moreover, he said that Christ was the home of his thoughts. Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to Christ; and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone--on the street, anywhere--as easily and naturally as to a human friend. So real to him was Jesus' actual presence.


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