Daily Devotion - Jan 22 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

一月二十二日

經文: 約伯敬畏上帝，豈是無故呢？（約伯記一：9）

當撒但提到正直的人時，牠常常會提出這一個邪惡的問題。但今日確實可以向許多人提出此問題。他們愛上帝只因為祂使他們昌盛。倘若事業不順利了，他們就會放棄曾經誇耀過的對上帝的信心。倘若他們清楚看到自以為皈依上帝以來，所享受的豐盛，他們也會以軟弱的屬肉體的方式去愛上帝。但是若要他們忍受苦難，他們就會背叛主。他們的愛是針對桌上之美物而來的，而不是愛主人；他們愛貯放食物的櫃子，而不是愛房子的主人。舊約的應許是昌盛，新約的應許卻是苦難。請記住基督的話：「凡屬我不結果子的枝子，祂就剪去。凡結果子的，祂就修理乾淨，使枝子結果子更多。」（約十五：2）。你若結子，必要忍受痛苦；但是這痛苦會得到珍貴的結果，因為基督徒能從中學習苦難中的喜樂。因為他的苦難越多，基督耶穌給他的安慰也越多。每一金塊必須經過火的試驗。不要害怕，反要喜樂，美好的時光已為你存留。你不再緊握現在，反倒真正的期盼將向你啟示的永恆之事。若你感到即使今生毫無報酬也能事奉上帝，你將在未來的無限獎賞中歡樂。

Evening, January 22

Scripture: "Doth Job fear God for nought?"(Job 1:9)

This was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because he prospers them; but if things went ill with them, they would give up all their boasted faith in God. If they can clearly see that since the time of their supposed conversion the world has gone prosperously with them, then they will love God in their poor carnal way; but if they endure adversity, they rebel against the Lord. Their love is the love of the table, not of the host; a love to the cupboard, not to the master of the house. As for the true Christian, he expects to have his reward in the next life, and to endure hardness in this. The promise of the old covenant is adversity. Remember Christ's words—"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit"—What? "He purgeth it, that it may bring forth fruit." If you bring forth fruit, you will have to endure affliction. "Alas!" you say, "that is a terrible prospect." But this affliction works out such precious results, that the Christian who is the subject of it must learn to rejoice in tribulations, because as his tribulations abound, so his consolations abound by Christ Jesus. Rest assured, if you are a child of God, you will be no stranger to the rod. Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the fire. Fear not, but rather rejoice that such fruitful times are in store for you, for in them you will be weaned from earth and made meet for heaven; you will be delivered from clinging to the present, and made to long for those eternal things which are so soon to be revealed to you. When you feel that as regards the present you do serve God for nought, you will then rejoice in the infinite reward of the future.

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