Daily Devotion - Mar 16 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

三月十六日

經文: 「我在您面前是客旅、是寄居的，像我列祖一般。」（詩篇三十九：12）

主啊，因著與您相親相近，同行在這罪惡的世界，我有如一個往異國朝聖的陌生客。您在您所造的世界，也像是個陌生人，人們忘記您，不尊重您，制定些屬地的律法與習俗來遵行，他們卻不認識您。
您的兒子來到這世界，世上的人不認識祂，也不接待祂。所以，若我們按著主的樣式而活，分別為聖，世上的人也不認識我們。主啊，我是天國的公民，因為您釘痕的雙手，把我地上的捆綁鬆開，我視自己如地上的客旅。就如同您在地上曾遭遇的那樣，我們的言行舉止，被這地的巴比倫人視為怪異，格格不入，但我知道您與我同行，同我說話，我正往天國的方向去，這是何等蒙福的事。


Morning, March 16

Scripture: "I am a stranger with thee."(Psalm 39:12)

Yes, O Lord, with thee, but not to thee. All my natural alienation from thee, thy grace has effectually removed; and now, in fellowship with thyself, I walk through this sinful world as a pilgrim in a foreign country. Thou art a stranger in thine own world. Man forgets thee, dishonours thee, sets up new laws and alien customs, and knows thee not. When thy dear Son came unto his own, his own received him not. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Never was foreigner so speckled a bird among the denizens of any land as thy beloved Son among his mother's brethren. It is no marvel, then, if I who live the life of Jesus, should be unknown and a stranger here below. Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien. His pierced hand has loosened the cords which once bound my soul to earth, and now I find myself a stranger in the land. My speech seems to these Babylonians among whom I dwell an outlandish tongue, my manners are singular, and my actions are strange. A Tartar would be more at home in Cheapside than I could ever be in the haunts of sinners. But here is the sweetness of my lot: I am a stranger with thee. Thou art my fellow-sufferer, my fellow-pilgrim. Oh, what joy to wander in such blessed society! My heart burns within me by the way when thou dost speak to me, and though I be a sojourner, I am far more blest than those who sit on thrones, and far more at home than those who dwell in their ceiled houses.

"To me remains nor place, nor time:
My country is in every clime;
I can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.
While place we seek, or place we shun,
The soul finds happiness in none:
But with a God to guide our way,
'Tis equal joy to go or stay."


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