Daily Devotion - Feb 19 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

二月十九日

經文: 「主耶和華如此說……他們必為這事向我求問，我要給他們成就。」(以西結書卅六：37)

上帝的恩典臨到之前，必先有人的代求。我們回顧以色列的歷史，類似的例子不勝枚舉。想必你個人信主的歷程，也不乏此例。上帝已經給你不少的恩典，但更大的恩典，仍需要你迫切的禱告。若你在靈修敬拜上帝時，經歷到大喜樂，你就知上帝回應了你的禱告，若你的麻煩得以解脫，你的危機得以消除，你就該開口說：「我曾尋求耶和華，祂就應允我，救我脫離一切的恐懼。」（詩卅四：4）
<BR> 祈禱永遠在祝福之先，上帝的恩光照臨你的需要時，也必投下長長的祈禱身影在其後。祈禱所以與祝福擺在一起，乃是要我們明白禱告的重要。若未經禱告就蒙祝福，往往我們就視這恩典為稀鬆平常，不足為奇的事。但我們若很認真地、很在意地為一件事求問禱告，我們會很看重上帝給我們的答案或祝福，視其為無價珍寶。此乃人之常情，無可厚非。所以禱告是不容忽視的。


Morning, February 19

Scripture: "Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them."(Ezekiel 36:37)

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. You have found this true in your own personal experience. God has given you many an unsolicited favour, but still great prayer has always been the prelude of great mercy with you. When you first found peace through the blood of the cross, you had been praying much, and earnestly interceding with God that he would remove your doubts, and deliver you from your distresses. Your assurance was the result of prayer. When at any time you have had high and rapturous joys, you have been obliged to look upon them as answers to your prayers. When you have had great deliverances out of sore troubles, and mighty helps in great dangers, you have been able to say, "I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes before the blessing as the blessing's shadow. When the sunlight of God's mercies rises upon our necessities, it casts the shadow of prayer far down upon the plain. Or, to use another illustration, when God piles up a hill of mercies, he himself shines behind them, and he casts on our spirits the shadow of prayer, so that we may rest certain, if we are much in prayer, our pleadings are the shadows of mercy. Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things; but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds. The things we ask for are precious, but we do not realize their preciousness until we have sought for them earnestly.

"Prayer makes the darken'd cloud withdraw;
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw;
Gives exercise to faith and love;
Brings every blessing from above."


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