Daily Devotion - Feb 21 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

二月二十一日

經文: 你所念的，你明白麼？（使徒行傳八：30）

我們若能在明白上帝的話語上更有智慧，就能成為更好的教師，而減少受教義之空談而搖擺不定。聖靈是聖經的著作者，唯有祂能啓迪我們正確地明白聖經。因此，我們必須不斷求祂教導並引導我們進入全部真理。當先知但以理答應為尼布甲尼撒解夢時，他迫切求上帝將異象解明（參閱但二：16∼23）。使徒約翰在拔摩島的異象中見到用七印封嚴的書卷，沒有人配展開那書卷。後來，那書卷被猶大支派中的獅子展開了。但是在展開以前，經上記著「我就大哭」（啓四： 4）。約翰的眼淚是液態的祈禱。這些祈禱是開啓那印封了的書卷之神聖鑰匙。倘若為了你自己的和別人的好處，你渴望「在一切屬靈的智慧和悟性上，滿心知道上帝的旨意」（西一：9），請牢記，禱告是最好的方法。你在尋求上帝的時候，就會像但以理一樣明白異夢與異夢的解說。在淚如雨下以後，你也會像約翰一樣看到被七印封了的寶貴真理被打開了。石頭不會破碎，除非你用鐵鎚不懈地敲擊，用鎚子粉碎石頭的人必須屈膝跪下。操練自己使用勤勉的鎚子和屈膝之祈禱。思想與理解像是緊抓住真理的鋼鐵楔子，但是禱告是強力打開神聖奧秘鐵箱之槓桿，我們也因此可以獲得其中隱藏的寶物。

Evening, February 21

Scripture: "Understandest thou what thou readest?"(Acts 8:30)

We should be abler teachers of others, and less liable to be carried about by every wind of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Ghost, the Author of the Scriptures is he who alone can enlighten us rightly to understand them, we should constantly ask his teaching, and his guidance into all truth. When the prophet Daniel would interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream, what did he do? He set himself to earnest prayer that God would open up the vision. The apostle John, in his vision at Patmos, saw a book sealed with seven seals which none was found worthy to open, or so much as to look upon. The book was afterwards opened by the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who had prevailed to open it; but it is written first—"I wept much." The tears of John, which were his liquid prayers, were, so far as he was concerned, the sacred keys by which the folded book was opened. Therefore, if, for your own and others' profiting, you desire to be "filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," remember that prayer is your best means of study: like Daniel, you shall understand the dream, and the interpretation thereof, when you have sought unto God; and like John you shall see the seven seals of precious truth unloosed, after you have wept much. Stones are not broken, except by an earnest use of the hammer; and the stone-breaker must go down on his knees. Use the hammer of diligence, and let the knee of prayer be exercised, and there is not a stony doctrine in revelation which is useful for you to understand, which will not fly into shivers under the exercise of prayer and faith. You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prise which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within.

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