Daily Devotion - Jan 3 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

一月三日

經文: 在曠野有人聲喊著說，預備主的道，修直祂的路。（路加福音三：4）

在曠野發出呼喊之聲乃是要為主預備一條道路。我們必須留意主人的宣告，為祂開一條進入我們心靈的路。這條路是以祂的恩典作材料，鋪設通過我們天性的沙漠。一切山窪都要填滿。我們必須離棄卑賤低下的恩想，必須挪去懷疑悲觀的意念，也必須拋除自我追求和屬世的享樂。我們當高架起一條榮耀恩典的堤道來穿越這些低窪的沼谷。大小山崗都要削平。剷平一切驕傲自滿和誇張自義，為萬王之王鋪設一條康莊大道。上帝絕不與傲慢自大的罪人相交。祂關懷謙卑的人，願意進入悔改者的心，卻厭惡驕傲的人。高高低低的要改為平坦。在搖擺不定的心中，必須為上帝開闢一條決意的道路，並且劃分出聖潔的界限。真理的上帝不與心懷二意的人相交。你心須在上帝面前誠信真實，因祂是鑒察人心的。崎崎嶇嶇的必成為平原。罪的絆腳石必須要移除，背逆的蒺藜和荊棘必須連根拔起。當偉大的主宰和祂的眾使者同來賜尊勞給祂所愛的人時，一切污穢和崎嶇皆需除盡。今天晚上，願藉主的恩典，讓祂能找到一條平坦大道進入你心中。

Evening, January 3

Scripture: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."(Luke 3:4)

The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master's proclamation, and give him a road into my heart, cast up by gracious operations, through the desert of my nature. The four directions in the text must have my serious attention.
Every valley must be exalted. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of grace must be raised.
Every mountain and hill shall be laid low. Proud creature-sufficiency, and boastful self-righteousness, must be levelled, to make a highway for the King of kings. Divine fellowship is never vouchsafed to haughty, highminded sinners. The Lord hath respect unto the lowly, and visits the contrite in heart, but the lofty are an abomination unto him. My soul, beseech the Holy Spirit to set thee right in this respect.
The crooked shall be made straight. The wavering heart must have a straight path of decision for God and holiness marked out for it. Double-minded men are strangers to the God of truth. My soul, take heed that thou be in all things honest and true, as in the sight of the heart-searching God.
The rough places shall be made smooth. Stumbling-blocks of sin must be removed, and thorns and briers of rebellion must be uprooted. So great a visitor must not find miry ways and stony places when he comes to honour his favoured ones with his company. Oh that this evening the Lord may find in my heart a highway made ready by his grace, that he may make a triumphal progress through the utmost bounds of my soul, from the beginning of this year even to the end of it.


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