Daily Devotion - Jan 19 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

一月十九日

經文: 「我尋找衪，卻尋不見。」(雅歌三：1)

你在什麼地方跌倒得罪上帝，失去與祂親蜜的關係，就要在什麼地方認罪悔改，重新站起來。你是因不常禱當，而覺得上帝也不太理你？那麼，趕緊進到密室，用禱告使禱告的習慣繼續下去。你是因犯罪而使上帝無法接近你？那麼，趕緊向上帝開口認罪，並離開罪，好使你與上帝的關係重新恢復。你是因不常翻閱聖經，而覺得與上帝的關係很疏遠？那麼，趕緊拿出蒙塵的聖經，勤加查考以更認識耶穌。
<BR> 有句話有說很好：「你在那兒掉了東西，就回到原處去找。」同理，你在那兒得罪上帝，失去與祂的親蜜關係，就回到那裡找，耶穌仍在那兒，並沒有走遠，但回去的路實不好找，也不容易走。
<BR> 天路歷程（本仁約翰著）此書中的朝聖客，為了回頭找掉在安逸灣的一卷書，大歎舊跡難尋，廢時曠日。的確如此，往前走廿哩路，要比回頭一哩路找東西的功夫還容易。所以，我們要何等謹慎，當你找到你的主，要好好盯著祂，緊緊跟隨祂，免得又跟丟了祂。有人會困惑不解，這樣一個寶貝，這樣一個親蜜朋友，祂常安慰你，給你適時的幫助，你怎麼會這麼粗心大意地失去祂？但這也是常有的事，你既曾失去祂，而現在正尋求祂，設法修復與主之間的關係，此乃令人欣慰之事，鍥而不捨地繼續尋找追求吧，直到你重新在心中遇見祂為止，因為沒有主的同在，沒有主的帶領，何是何等危險的事！


Morning, January 19

Scripture: "I sought him, but I found him not."(Song of Solomon 3:1)

Tell me where you lost the company of a Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest—not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.


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