Daily Devotion - Jan 31 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

一月三十一日

經文: 亞希瑪斯就從平原往前跑，跑過古示人去了。（撒母耳記下十八：23）

跑並不是一件簡單的事，但所選擇的路徑也甚重要。腿雖迅束，但在小山和低谷奔跑與在平坦之地上慢步旅行是不相同的。我的屬靈旅程又是如何呢？我是否以自己的能力艱辛地爬上山坡，以自我的謙卑和果斷下到峽谷？或我僅以單純的方法「相信並活著」去奔跑？若心靈受感於信心，就能奔跑卻不困倦，行走卻不疲乏。基督耶穌是生命的道路。祂是一條平坦的路、一條愉快的路、一條適合於顫慄罪人的蹣跚腳步和軟弱膝蓋的路。我是在祂的路徑上仍在尋求宗教或哲學所提示的另一條路徑？我已讀過有關成聖的方法，尋覓的人，雖然愚笨，也不會走往錯誤之路。我是否已從驕傲中被釋放，如孩童般被引領安息在耶穌的愛和寶血中？若然，藉上帝的恩典，我將勝過選擇任何其它路徑的最快速賽跑者。我最聰明的方法是即時求助於上帝和祂的指引。祂明白我的缺乏並能解救我。除祂以外，我尚能求誰？我只需直接向祂祈求並單單地抓住祂的應許。人尚且在普通的事上彼此競爭去擊敗對方，我豈不更該迫切地奔跑為要得到獎賞？主啊，幫助我以您的話來更新我的心意，使我竭力向著標竿直跑，為要得著上帝在基督耶穌�從上面召我來得的獎賞。

Evening, January 31

Scripture: "Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."(2 Samuel 18:23)

Running is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. How is it with my spiritual journey, am I labouring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"? How blessed is it to wait upon the Lord by faith! The soul runs without weariness, and walks without fainting, in the way of believing. Christ Jesus is the way of life, and he is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me? I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein: have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love and blood? If so, by God's grace I shall outrun the strongest runner who chooses any other path. This truth I may remember to my profit in my daily cares and needs. It will be my wisest course to go at once to my God, and not to wander in a roundabout manner to this friend and that. He knows my wants and can relieve them, to whom should I repair but to himself by the direct appeal of prayer, and the plain argument of the promise. "Straightforward makes the best runner." I will not parlay with the servants, but hasten to their master.
In reading this passage, it strikes me that if men vie with each other in common matters, and one outruns the other, I ought to be in solemn earnestness so to run that I may obtain. Lord, help me to gird up the loins of my mind, and may I press forward towards the mark for the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus.


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