Daily Devotion - Mar 16 - 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

暗中的父

經文: 「要進你的內屋，關上門，禱告你在暗中的父，你父在暗中察看，必然報答你。」（馬太福音六：6）

耶穌極度企盼祂的門徒能深刻認識天父，且渴望與天父有密室的交通。在耶穌的一生中，與天父獨處的密室交通，不僅是不可少的需要，更是至高的一種喜樂。�
<BR> 在世俗物質的世界，你找不著上帝，祂要我們遠離牽絆我們心靈的事，只單單地被祂吸引，享受與祂親近、緊密契合的相交之樂，這是上帝兒女該瞭解的真理。
<BR> 舊約的信徒常有這樣的經驗，「您是我的藏身之所。」「住在至高者隱密處的，必住在全能者的蔭下。」�
<BR> 在新約時代的基督徒，更應該加倍珍惜、操練與上帝的相近相親。經上說：「我要藉著耶穌保守你的性命在上帝的裡面。」我們若真相信真理，知道上帝既然保護我們，我們還懼怕誰呢？我們每天都可以藉著禱告我們暗中的父，更新靈命，支取新的能力。�
<BR> 經上又記著說：「我們若在祂死的形狀上與祂聯合，也要在祂復活的形狀上與祂聯合。」（羅六：5）又如同樹的根深深地埋在地底下，卻吸收養份供應樹枝樹葉；同理，若我們在密室與天父連合，也要如此經歷到主復活的大能運行在我們身上。�
<BR> 讓我們來思考這真理：�
<BR> 「您必把他們藏在您面前的隱密處，免得遇見人的計謀。」（詩篇卅一：20）�
<BR> 禱告時我們必須先想到：我知道，我是單獨與上帝同在，而上帝也與我同在。�
<BR> 「把我藏在祂帳幕的隱密處。」（詩篇廿七：5）


THE SECRET OF THE LOUD

Scripture: &quot;Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.&quot;—MATT. vi. 6.

Christ longed greatly that His disciples should know God as their Father, and that they should have secret fellowship with Him. In His own life He found it not only indispensable, but the highest happiness to meet the Father in secret.
And He would have us realize that it is impossible to be true, wholehearted disciples without daily intercourse with the Father in heaven, who waits for us in secret.
God is a God who hides Himself from the world, and all that is of the world. God would draw us away from the world and from ourselves. He offers us instead, the blessedness of close, intimate communion with Himself. Oh that God's children would understand this!
Believers in the Old Testament enjoyed this experience, "Thou art my hiding-place." "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him."
How much more ought Christians in the New Covenant to value this secret intercourse with God. We read: "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." If we really believe this, we shall have the joyful assurance that our life, hid with Christ in God in such Divine keeping, is safe and beyond the reach of every foe. We should day by day confidently seek the renewal of our spiritual life in prayer to our Father who is in secret.
Because we are dead with Christ, one plant with Him in the likeness of His death, and of His resurrection too, we know that, as the roots of a tree are hidden under the earth, so the roots of our daily life are hidden deep in God.
O soul, take time to realize:
"Thou shalt hide me in the secret of Thy presence" (Ps. xxxi. 20).
Our first thought in prayer should be: I must know that I am alone with God, and that God is with me.
"In the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me" (Ps. xxvii. 5).


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