Daily Devotion - Mar 11 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

三月十一日

經文: 你也必稱為被眷顧的（察見）。（以賽亞書六十二：12）

從上帝超越的恩典清楚地顯明，上帝不僅尋找我們，更把我們尋見了。我們如同混雜於泥漿�。當一塊珍貴的金子掉入排水溝時，人會聚集在週圍仔細觀察一團團的污泥。他們不停攪動，掃視並搜尋直至覓回寶貝為止。或者，我們就如同在迷宮中迷失了一樣，絕望地徘徊，直至慈悲的福音來尋見我們。我們並不是輕易就被尋見，乃是經過搜尋才將我們分別出來。我們如同迷失的羊一樣，絕望地以為好牧人找不到我們了。榮繀歸於永遠得勝的恩典，我們被分別出來了！沒有幽暗能遮蔽我們；沒有污穢能隱藏我們。我們被祂尋見，被祂領回家。榮耀歸於無限的愛，聖靈拯救我們！上帝常使用奇妙特殊的方法將祂自己的人帶回來。願祂的名受稱頌，祂永不放棄搜尋直至祂的選民被尋見和分別出來為止。他們不是今天被尋見，明天就被拋棄。全能與智慧的結合永不失敗。上帝的百姓被稱為是「蒙眷顧（察見）的」！任何人都會蒙眷顧是無可比擬的恩典，但我們之蒙眷顧卻是無可量度之恩典！不需要任何理由，上帝至高的大愛就說明一切。讓我們舉起驚嘆的心讚美主。因為今晚我們披戴了「蒙眷顧的名號」。

Evening, March 11

Scripture: "Thou shalt be called, Sought out."(Isaiah 62:12)

The surpassing grace of God is seen very clearly in that we were not only sought, but sought out. Men seek for a thing which is lost upon the floor of the house, but in such a case there is only seeking, not seeking out. The loss is more perplexing and the search more persevering when a thing is sought out. We were mingled with the mire: we were as when some precious piece of gold falls into the sewer, and men gather out and carefully inspect a mass of abominable filth, and continue to stir and rake, and search among the heap until the treasure is found. Or, to use another figure, we were lost in a labyrinth; we wandered hither and thither, and when mercy came after us with the gospel, it did not find us at the first coming, it had to search for us and seek us out; for we as lost sheep were so desperately lost, and had wandered into such a strange country, that it did not seem possible that even the Good Shepherd should track our devious roamings. Glory be to unconquerable grace, we were sought out! No gloom could hide us, no filthiness could conceal us, we were found and brought home. Glory be to infinite love, God the Holy Spirit restored us!
The lives of some of God's people, if they could be written would fill us with holy astonishment. Strange and marvellous are the ways which God used in their case to find his own. Blessed be his name, he never relinquishes the search until the chosen are sought out effectually. They are not a people sought to-day and cast away to-morrow. Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures, they shall be called, "Sought out!" That any should be sought out is matchless grace, but that we should be sought out is grace beyond degree! We can find no reason for it but God's own sovereign love, and can only lift up our heart in wonder, and praise the Lord that this night we wear the name of "Sought out."


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