Daily Devotion - Mar 2 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

三月二日

經文: 我本來比眾聖徒中最小的還小，然而祂還賜我這恩典，叫我把基督那測不透的豐富，傳給外邦人（以弗所書三：8）

保羅感到主允許他去傳講福音是一項大特權，他並不認為他的呼召是重擔，反以無比喜稅的心情去完成使命。雖然保羅為他的職事心存感恩，但成功卻使他更為謙卑。容器裝得越滿，若置於水中，將下沈得越深。懶惰者因稍有成就便陶醉在虛假的驕傲之中，只因為他們未經試驗。勤勞的工人卻會很快的發現自己的不足。你若尋求謙卑，那就嘗試去作艱難之工。你若要知道自己是毫無所有的，那就嘗試去為耶穌作一些大事。你若期望知道離了永活的真神你是如何無能，那就嘗試去宣告基督那不可尋盡的豐盛。你將明瞭自己是多麼軟弱、多麼不配，那是你以前未能明瞭的。雖然使徒知道且承認自己的軟弱，卻沒有對他事奉的主旨感到迷惑。保羅的講道從頭至尾只傳講基督，別無其他事物。他高舉十架並頌揚上帝的兒子。學習祂的榜樣，去廣傳救恩的大喜信息!信徒必須如同花朵將自己朝向公義的太陽。唯獨基督是我們的目標，祂既賜種給撒種的，又賜糧給人吃（參閱林後九：10）。

Evening, March 2

Scripture: "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."(Ephesians 3:8)

The apostle Paul felt it a great privilege to be allowed to preach the gospel. He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery, but he entered upon it with intense delight. Yet while Paul was thus thankful for his office, his success in it greatly humbled him. The fuller a vessel becomes, the deeper it sinks in the water. Idlers may indulge a fond conceit of their abilities, because they are untried; but the earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus. If you would feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before, what a weak unworthy thing you are. Although the apostle thus knew and confessed his weakness, he was never perplexed as to the subject of his ministry. From his first sermon to his last, Paul preached Christ, and nothing but Christ. He lifted up the cross, and extolled the Son of God who bled thereon. Follow his example in all your personal efforts to spread the glad tidings of salvation, and let "Christ and him crucified" be your ever recurring theme. The Christian should be like those lovely spring flowers which, when the sun is shining, open their golden cups, as if saying, "Fill us with thy beams!" but when the sun is hidden behind a cloud, they close their cups and droop their heads. So should the Christian feel the sweet influence of Jesus; Jesus must be his sun, and he must be the flower which yields itself to the Sun of Righteousness. Oh! to speak of Christ alone, this is the subject which is both "seed for the sower, and bread for the eater." This is the live coal for the lip of the speaker, and the master-key to the heart of the hearer.

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