司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening
二月二十六日
經文: 察看全身的肉，若長滿了大痲瘋，就要定那患災病的為潔淨，全身都變為白，他乃潔淨了。（利未記十三：13）
這項規定看來似乎奇怪，卻包含智慧。根據痲瘋病人的外表癥狀可以證明患者的肉體組織是否痊癒。今晚，讓我們來明白這功課中的不平凡規則。我們也都如痲瘋病患，因此可以將痲瘋病患的律例應用在自己身上。當人看到自己完全失喪、滅亡，被罪的污穢掩蓋時，才會否認自以為義的一切，並能在主面前承認自己的罪，然後藉著耶穌的寶血和上帝的恩典，成了潔淨。隱藏的、不自覺的、未認的罪都是真正的痲瘋病。但是當人看到和感到自已的罪，並將之置於死地時，主必以憐憫的眼光注視著憂傷的心靈。沒有比自以為義更為致命的，也沒有比悔改更能教人充滿希望的了。完全的真理是我們必須承認自己是有罪的。聖靈若在我們�面作工，使我們知罪，我們的嘴唇就會毫無困難地即時承認自己的罪。這節經文帶給真正覺醒的罪人何等大的安慰啊！令他們憂傷沮喪的環境立時就轉為充滿希望的預兆。建造所必須的第一件事是挖掘根基，同樣地，對罪的徹底覺醒是恩典在人心中最起始的工作。可憐患痲瘋的罪人啊，就是這樣，帶著罪身來到主前吧！
Evening, February 26
Scripture: "Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague."(Leviticus 13:13)
Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This evening it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and in no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own, and pleads guilty before the Lord, then he is clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy; but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its deathblow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness, or more hopeful than contrition. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth; and if the Holy Spirit be at work with us, convincing us of sin, there will be no difficulty about making such an acknowledgment —it will spring spontaneously from our lips. What comfort does the text afford to truly awakened sinners: the very circumstance which so grievously discouraged them is here turned into a sign and symptom of a hopeful state! Stripping comes before clothing; digging out the foundation is the first thing in building—and a thorough sense of sin is one of the earliest works of grace in the heart. O thou poor leprous sinner, utterly destitute of a sound spot, take heart from the text, and come as thou art to Jesus—
"For let our debts be what they may, however great or small, As soon as we have nought to pay, our Lord forgives us all. 'Tis perfect poverty alone that sets the soul at large:
While we can call one mite our own, we have no full discharge."
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