Daily Devotion - Feb 26 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

二月二十六日

經文: 「救恩出於耶和華。」(約拿書二：9)

救恩是上帝的工作。祂能讓硬心的人，加速敗亡，死於過犯;也能讓虛心的人，脫離罪惡，得蒙救恩。祂是「阿拉法（起初的），祂是俄梅戛（末後的）」。若我仍然虔誠，這是上帝保守我不偏離祂；若我滿有恩慈，這也是上帝賞給的恩賜；若我始終抱定信仰，這也是全出於上帝扶持與看顧。我能有今日的一切，那一樣不是領受的？那一樣不是上帝在我身上的工作？若我犯罪，實在是自找的，但我若有什麼善行，這完全是上帝奇妙的作為。若我在人前過一個得勝的生活，此乃因為上帝活在我心中，若我堪稱聖潔，這實在是因為聖靈潔淨了我；若我能分別為聖，與世俗有別，實在是上帝的杖管教我；若我在知識上有所長進，實在是耶穌親自教導我。
上帝是我惟一的救恩磐石，我常查考聖經嗎？惟有聖靈使祂的話成為靈成為靈糧，助我靈命長進。我從那裡得到新鮮的活力泉源？喔，我的幫助是從造天地的耶和華而來的。離了耶穌，我什麼都做不成，就像枝子離了葡萄樹，就不能結果子一樣。惟有住在耶穌裡，我所做的在永恆裡才算有意義，約拿在深海的魚腹裡，學到什麼教訓？願我今早在祈禱的密室裡，也學會這個功課；救恩是出於耶和華。


Morning, February 26

Scripture: "Salvation is of the Lord."(Jonah 2:9)

Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins," and it is he also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God's gifts to me; if I hold on in a consistent life, it is because he upholds me with his hand. I do nothing whatever towards my own preservation, except what God himself first does in me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone. Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord's strength nerved my arm. Do I live before men a consecrated life? It is not I, but Christ who liveth in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself: God's Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God's chastisements sanctified to my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I want; but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. "He only is my rock and my salvation." Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul, and helped me to feed upon it. Do I live on the manna which comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ himself incarnate, whose body and whose blood I eat and drink? Am I continually receiving fresh increase of strength? Where do I gather my might? My help cometh from heaven's hills: without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can I, except I abide in him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: "Salvation is of the Lord."

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