Daily Devotion - Jan 22 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

一月二十二日

經文: 「人子啊，葡萄樹比別樣樹有什麼強處？葡萄枝比眾樹枝有什麼好處？」(以西結書十五：2)

這幾句話是勸基督徒們要謙卑。他們被稱為上帝的葡萄樹，栽種在好土裡，結實纍纍；上帝訓練他們聖潔，並且滿有聖靈的恩賜，使人見了他們，就把好名聲歸給天父。若他們沒有上帝的栽培，會是怎樣？若他們沒有聖靈不斷的澆灌，又會是怎樣？喔，信徒們，切莫驕傲，因為我們有什麼不是領受的？我們根本毫無可誇之處。你從上帝那兒得的越多，你欠上帝的也越多。想想你的出身、本相，過去是怎樣的一個人，現在又是怎樣一個人！若不是上帝的恩典憐憫，你與眾人又有什麼不同之處？若不是上帝改變你，你可能會更個更壞、更糟榚的人。所以，我們憑自己，沒有什麼好誇口的，我們只不過是可憐的罪人罷了，我們能指著誇口的，只有耶穌與祂的十字架，還有那白白得來的救恩。

Morning, January 22

Scripture: "Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"(Ezekiel 15:2)

These words are for the humbling of God's people; they are called God's vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by God's goodness, have become fruitful, having been planted in a good soil; the Lord hath trained them upon the walls of the sanctuary, and they bring forth fruit to his glory; but what are they without their God? What are they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting fruitfulness in them? O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it. Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God; and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders thee a debtor. Consider thine origin; look back to what thou wast. Consider what thou wouldst have been but for divine grace. Look upon thyself as thou art now. Doth not thy conscience reproach thee? Do not thy thousand wanderings stand before thee, and tell thee that thou art unworthy to be called his son? And if he hath made thee anything, art thou not taught thereby that it is grace which hath made thee to differ? Great believer, thou wouldst have been a great sinner if God had not made thee to differ. O thou who art valiant for truth, thou wouldst have been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon thee. Therefore, be not proud, though thou hast a large estate—a wide domain of grace, thou hadst not once a single thing to call thine own except thy sin and misery. Oh! strange infatuation, that thou, who hast borrowed everything, shouldst think of exalting thyself; a poor dependent pensioner upon the bounty of thy Saviour, one who hath a life which dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Fie on thee, O silly heart!

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