Daily Devotion - Mar 17 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

三月十七日

經文: 「當記念窮人」（加拉太書二：10）

為什麼上帝讓祂的許多兒女，仍然貧窮如昔？其實若祂願意，祂可以讓他們成為富有，祂可以放一袋黃金在他們家門口，祂可以祝福他們使他們收入增多，祂可以恩待他們，使其庫房滿盈。就像祂在曠野降嗎哪，賜泉水給以色列人那樣，「遍地的牛群羊群都是祂的」（詩五十：10）祂可以讓人成為達官巨富，將財富及權勢分給祂所愛的兒女，因世人的心都在上帝手中。但祂並沒有這樣做，為什麼？
原因一之，就是讓境遇不錯的基督徒有機會來流露耶穌的愛。當然，我們可以藉著唱詩歌、禱告來崇拜我們敬愛的主，但世上若沒有貧窮弟兄，我們就失去為耶穌向他們行善的機會，因為真實的愛不只是在口頭上，必須落實在實際行動上。若我們真心愛耶穌，就願意犧牲自己的方便或自己的利益，去幫助那有需要的弟兄，因為上帝所愛的，也是我們愛的對象，我們也不要把它當作不得不去做的責任去做，而要把它看成上帝賜的特權與機會，能有份於這項善行，實在與有榮焉，就如同耶穌所說：「那做在我最小的兄弟身上，就是做在我身上。」（太廿五：40）


Morning, March 17

Scripture: "Remember the poor."(Galatians 2:10)

Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor? He could make them all rich if he pleased; he could lay bags of gold at their doors; he could send them a large annual income; or he could scatter round their houses abundance of provisions, as once he made the quails lie in heaps round the camp of Israel, and rained bread out of heaven to feed them. There is no necessity that they should be poor, except that he sees it to be best. "The cattle upon a thousand hills are his"—he could supply them; he could make the richest, the greatest, and the mightiest bring all their power and riches to the feet of his children, for the hearts of all men are in his control. But he does not choose to do so; he allows them to suffer want, he allows them to pine in penury and obscurity. Why is this? There are many reasons: one is, to give us, who are favoured with enough, an opportunity of showing our love to Jesus. We show our love to Christ when we sing of him and when we pray to him; but if there were no sons of need in the world we should lose the sweet privilege of evidencing our love, by ministering in alms-giving to his poorer brethren; he has ordained that thus we should prove that our love standeth not in word only, but in deed and in truth. If we truly love Christ, we shall care for those who are loved by him. Those who are dear to him will be dear to us. Let us then look upon it not as a duty but as a privilege to relieve the poor of the Lord's flock—remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Surely this assurance is sweet enough, and this motive strong enough to lead us to help others with a willing hand and a loving heart—recollecting that all we do for his people is graciously accepted by Christ as done to himself.

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