Daily Devotion - Feb 16 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

二月十六日

經文: 你良善的靈。（尼希米記九：20）

忘記聖靈，這罪是非常普遍的，卻是愚蠢又忘恩的。祂配受尊崇，因祂是極度仁慈。在純潔、真理並恩典上，祂是完全的。祂是仁慈並良善、溫柔地忍受我們的任性，並與我們悖逆的意志對抗。祂使我們脫離罪的死亡進入永生，祂為上帝的國訓練我們，如同仁慈的護士養育孩子。上帝忍耐的靈是何等寬宏大量、充滿饒恕與溫柔！祂賜我們良思、激發善行、啓示真理、頒賜應許、在善工上幫助我們、結出美好的果子。祂是全地一切屬靈美事的創作者與維特者。無論在安慰、教誨，引導，成聖、賜生命或代禱上，祂全然參予。凡是降服在祂影響之下，必成為善良的人，凡是順從祂推動的必行出善事，凡是活在祂權能之下的必獲良善。讓我們尊崇敬拜祂為全能的上帝，稱頌祂直到永遠。讓我們在每時刻都尋求祂的幫助，不使祂憂傷。最後，讓我們在任何時刻都盡所能地讚美祂。當教會能更深相信聖靈時，才能興旺。祂是如此良善仁慈，若我們犯罪，即使只是輕忽祂，都是令祂擔憂。

Evening, February 16

Scripture: "Thy good Spirit."(Nehemiah 9:20)

Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for he is good, supremely good. As God, he is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy, holy, which ascends to the Triune Jehovah. Unmixed purity and truth, and grace is he. He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills; quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for the skies as a loving nurse fosters her child. How generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God. He is good operatively. All his works are good in the most eminent degree: he suggests good thoughts, prompts good actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments, and leads to good results. There is no spiritual good in all the world of which he is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect character of its redeemed inhabitants to his work. He is good officially; whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier, Quickener, or Intercessor, he fulfils his office well, and each work is fraught with the highest good to the church of God. They who yield to his influences become good, they who obey his impulses do good, they who live under his power receive good. Let us then act towards so good a person according to the dictates of gratitude. Let us revere his person, and adore him as God over all, blessed for ever; let us own his power, and our need of him by waiting upon him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly seek his aid, and never grieve him; and let us speak to his praise whenever occasion occurs. The church will never prosper until more reverently it believes in the Holy Ghost. He is so good and kind, that it is sad indeed that he should be grieved by slights and negligences.

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