Daily Devotion - Jan 28 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

一月二十八日

經文: 牧羊的人回去了。因所聽見所看見的一切事正如天使向他們所說的，就歸榮耀與上帝，讚美祂。（路加福音二：20）

牧羊人讚美的主題是什麼？他們因所聽見的讚美上帝──為了救主誕生的大喜信息。讓我們也揚聲高歌，感謝上帝因為我們聽到了有關耶穌和祂的救恩。他們也因所看見的讚美上帝。這讚美寫下了最美妙的樂章──是我們的經歷、是我們內心的感受、是我們自己所寫下的──「我心�湧出美辭，論到我為王作的事。」（詩四十五：1）聽到那穌是不足的，聽覺可以調正豎琴的音調，活的信心手指卻能創造出音樂。你若以上帝所賜信心的耳朵去瞻望耶穌，就不會讓琴絃上佈滿蜘蛛網。用你的絃樂器和豎琴大聲讚美祂那至高無上的恩惠。牧羊人因為所聽的和所見的一致而讚美上帝。請看最後一句：「正如天使向他們所說的」，你是否發現福音正如聖經所說的？耶穌祂要賜你安息，你是否享受到在祂�面最甜美的平安？祂說相信祂，你就必有喜樂、安慰和生命，你得到這一切了嗎？祂的道路是喜樂的嗎？祂的路徑是平安的嗎？王的美貌容光射出一切可以想像的可愛。其實，我們所見到的超過我們所聽到的。為了這一位如此寶貴、如此滿足人心的救主，讓我們榮耀祂、讚美祂！

Evening, January 28

Scripture: "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them."(Luke 2:20)

What was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard—for the good tidings of great joy that a Saviour was born unto them. Let us copy them; let us also raise a song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and his salvation. They also praised God for what they had seen. There is the sweetest music—what we have experienced, what we have felt within, what we have made our own—"the things which we have made touching the King." It is not enough to hear about Jesus: mere hearing may tune the harp, but the fingers of living faith must create the music. If you have seen Jesus with the God-giving sight of faith, suffer no cobwebs to linger among the harp strings, but loud to the praise of sovereign grace, awake your psaltery and harp. One point for which they praised God was the agreement between what they had heard and what they had seen. Observe the last sentence—"As it was told unto them." Have you not found the gospel to be in yourselves just what the Bible said it would be? Jesus said he would give you rest—have you not enjoyed the sweetest peace in him? He said you should have joy, and comfort, and life through believing in him—have you not received all these? Are not his ways ways of pleasantness, and his paths paths of peace? Surely you can say with the queen of Sheba, "The half has not been told me." I have found Christ more sweet than his servants ever said he was. I looked upon his likeness as they painted it, but it was a mere daub compared with himself; for the King in his beauty outshines all imaginable loveliness. Surely what we have "seen" keeps pace with, nay, far exceeds, what we have "heard." Let us, then, glorify and praise God for a Saviour so precious, and so satisfying.

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