Daily Devotion - Feb 3 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

人的地位

經文: 「天是耶和華的天。地，祂卻給了世人。」（詩篇一一五：16）

天堂是聖潔、榮耀、完美的地方，這是上帝的居所。地也是美好的，上帝把它給了世人，卻要人去耕耘、維護，以繼續上帝完美的作為。想想那深藏在地底的煤、鐵，需要人來挖掘開採；水能化為蒸氣動力，也需要人來發現使用；四通八達的鐵路網，需要有火車在其上奔馳。上帝所造的一切資源都是留給人類使用，但需要人的智慧與勤勉來配合開發。舉目觀看，無論鄉野農田、城鎮都市，莫不是人類使用上帝所預備的大自然來發展的，這一切完全都顯明人與上帝同工，祂呼召我們完成祂創世以來既定的目的。

這樣的定律也適用於屬靈的事情，上帝在天上已預備滿滿的恩典，等著我們去支取使用，來服事祂以建立祂的國度。能與上帝同工，這是多麼榮耀的恩寵阿！

世人為了地裡的寶藏，世上的財富，肯不辭勞苦、汲汲營營地挖掘賺取；上帝的兒女豈不更應該渴慕屬天的福份與恩賜，迫切祈求，使自己靈命豐沛，祝福別人？是的，惟有藉著不斷的代求，才能使上帝的國度降臨，使祂的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。

「親愛的主：您所賜的大地何其美好，也感謝您信任我們，交給我們管理大地的工作，以完成您的聖工。主啊！開我的心眼，讓我體認藉著福音的傳揚、提名的代禱，使上帝拯救世人的工作，來藉著我們同工而完成。奉耶穌的名，阿們。」


MAN'S PLACE IN GOD'S PLAN

Scripture: "The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth.hath He given to the children of men."—PSALM cxv. 16

God created heaven as a dwelling for Himself—perfect, glorious, and most holy. The earth He gave to man as his dwelling—everything very good, but only as a beginning with the need of being kept and cultivated. The work God had done, man was to continue and perfect. Think of the iron and the coal hidden away in the earth, of the steam hidden away in the water. It was left to man to discover and to use all this, as we see in the net-work of railways that span the world, and the steamers that cover the ocean. God had created all to be thus used. He made the discovery and the use dependent on the wisdom and diligence of man. What the earth is to-day, with its cities and habitations, with its corn-fields and orchards, it owes to man. The work God had begun and prepared, was by man to be carried out in fulfillment of God's purpose. And so nature teaches us the wonderful partnership to which God calls man for the carrying out of the work of creation to its destined end.
This law holds equally good in the kingdom of grace. In this great redemption God has revealed the power of the heavenly life and the spiritual blessings of which heaven is full. But He has entrusted to His people the work of making these blessings known, and making men partakers of them.
What diligence the children of this world show in seeking for the treasures that God has hid in the earth for their use! Shall not the children of God be equally faithful in seeking for the treasures hid in heaven, to bring them down in blessing on the world? It is by the unceasing intercession of God's people that His Kingdom will come, and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
"Ever blessed Lord, how wonderful is the place Thou hast given man, in trusting him to continue the work Thou hast begun. We pray Thee, open our hearts for the great thought that, through the preaching of the Gospel, and the work of interession, Thy people are to work out Thy purpose. Lord, open our eyes—for Jesus' sake. AMEN.


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