Daily Devotion - Feb 3 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

二月三日

經文: 「弟兄們，這樣看來，我們並不是欠肉體的債去順從肉體活著。」(羅馬書八：12)

既為亞當夏娃的後裔，我們都虧缺了上帝的榮耀；也因著破壞上帝的誡命，我們都欠上帝公義的債，而這些我們怎麼還也還不了。但感謝主，基督徒卻不欠上帝公義的債，因為耶穌已為我們償還了罪債，祂在十架上說：「成了。」就是指一切有礙我們在上帝面前稱義的字據，全部撒銷無效，上帝永遠不再紀念。聖潔、毫無瑕疵的耶穌，祂所流的寶血，做我們代贖的工價，完全滿足上帝公義的要求。
<BR> 但另一方面，基督徒卻欠上帝愛的債，想想哪，上帝不惜犧牲祂獨生愛子的生命，為拯救我們的靈魂，這是昊天罔極的恩典，長闊高深的大愛，豈不令我們感激涕零地跪地俯拜，願意肝腦塗地！除了這項饒恕的慈愛，我們還欠著上帝能力的債，耶穌曾把我們從罪惡的綑綁中釋放出來，且保守我們的靈性，免受世俗的污染，這需要何等大的定力與堅強的意志，這一切是上帝的恩典。朋友們，我們雖曾三心二意，或見異思遷，但上帝卻未曾改變過，在祂永沒有轉動的影兒，祂以永遠的愛，愛我們；我們雖曾背約，但上帝卻從未失信背約，喔！我們欠上帝的何其多，我們豈不該將心完全歸給上帝，豈不該將身體以及所有的獻給上帝？因為那是理所當然的。


Morning, February 3

Scripture: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors."(Romans 8:12)

As God's creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian it can be said that he does not owe God's justice anything, for Christ has paid the debt his people owed; for this reason the believer owes the more to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to his justice, for he will never accuse me of a debt already paid. Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that he meant, that whatever his people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God's justice no longer. But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art to divine sovereignty! How much thou owest to his disinterested love, for he gave his own Son that he might die for thee. Consider how much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever. Consider what you owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in sin; how he has preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way. Consider what you owe to his immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, he has not changed once. Thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast—yield thyself as a living sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service.

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