Daily Devotion - Mar 18 - ¯îºz¥Ì¬u Streams in the Desert

荒漠甘泉 Streams in the Desert

祂仍不回答

經文: 「耶穌仍不回答。」（可十五5）

聖經中頂希奇的一幕，就是創造天地的主，一聲不響地站在毀謗祂的人面前受冤枉。祂可以運用祂的能力，向他們一看，或者向他們出一聲責備，就使他們倒在祂的腳前。但是祂不動聲色，任憑他們作惡妄為。祂站著是彰顯上帝鎮靜的能力──上帝無聲的羔羊。

我們也當有這樣的鎮靜。這樣的鎮靜可以給上帝機會替我們工作，給我們平定；這樣的鎮靜就是停止自己的謀劃和活動，摒除自己的智慧和成見，讓上帝單獨去應付人們的攻擊。

多少時候，我們失敗，就是因為沒有上帝的鎮靜。我們頂會用自己的智慧和力量來自衛，頂不會用上帝的鎮靜來得勝。因此失去了上帝愛的力量，以致落入急躁慌亂。因爲這正是上帝所賜下的緘默和自制力量。當塵世的擾攘過去之後，人們將懷念我們，好像我們懷念露珠，曙光和太陽，那晚風和各各他的羔羊，和那至善至尊至福的天堂。上帝啊，給我們您的鎮靜！──信宣（A. B. Simpson）

在明尼蘇達州的威波主教，衆人都稱他爲印地安人的使徒，我記得他曾說過這樣一句動人的話：「三十年來，當我與人齟齬不合的時候，我總是想法從對方的臉上見到基督的聖容。」假若我們亦被這種美德所感動，我們能立刻化偏狹爲謙容，不至有報復的衝動，而損傷了我們爲主作見證人的立場，因爲祂來到塵世，不是要毀滅生命，乃是要拯救生命. ──W. H. Griffith Thomas


He Answered Nothing

Scripture: "He answered nothing" (Mark 15:3).

There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not a word to the men who were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of Divine power, or one word of fiery rebuke. But He let them say and do their worst, and He stood in THE POWER OF STILLNESS--God's holy silent Lamb.
There is a stillness that lets God work for us, and holds our peace; the stillness that ceases from its contriving and its self-vindication, and its expedients of wisdom and forethought, and lets God provide and answer the cruel blow, in His own unfailing, faithful love.
How often we lose God's interposition by taking up our own cause, and striking for our defense. God give to us this silent power, this conquered spirit! And after the heat and strife of earth are over, men will remember us as we remember the morning dew, the gentle light and sunshine, the evening breeze, the Lamb of Calvary, and the gentle, holy heavenly Dove. --A. B. Simpson
I remember once hearing Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, so well known as "The Apostle of the Indians," utter these beautiful words: "For thirty years I have tried to see the face of Christ in those with whom I differed." When this spirit actuates us we shall be preserved at once from a narrow bigotry and an easy-going tolerance, from passionate vindictiveness and everything that would mar or injure our testimony for Him who came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. --W. H. Griffith Thomas


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