Daily Devotion - Mar 21 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

三月二十一日

經文: 你能繫住昂星的結麼，能解開參星的帶麼？（約伯記三十八：31）

倘若我們企圖鼓吹自己的能力，自然界的壯麗立即會顯出我們是何等的渺小。在熠熠閃爍的眾星中，我們不能使最小的一顆移動。明亮的晨光中，我們也不能熄滅其中任何一線光輝。我們談論能力，天體不禁因輕蔑而嘲笑我們。當昂星，那壯觀的一束星團在春天出現時，我們不能抑制它的輝煌。當參星高懸天際，嚴冬已臨，我們不能鬆開冰封之帶。四季依照上帝的定規運轉，無人能變更其時序。主啊，「人算甚麼，您竟顧念他？」（詩八：4）。在靈界和自然界�，人的能力實在有限。人盡其巧藝和預謀，無法停止保惠師賜生命的能力。當祂降臨於一教會並使之復興時，最強勁的敵人也無法抵擋其善工。他們可能發出譏誚，但是無法抑制這能力，如同當昂星高照時，他們不能抵擋春天來臨一樣。上帝定意的事必然成就。唯獨上帝能從人或教會中除去屬靈死亡之冬。祂能作到，那是何等的祝福！主啊，求您結束我的冬天，開始我的春天！我無能將我的靈從死亡與陰霾中提升，但是在您凡事都能。我需要從天而來的力量、您大愛的照亮、您恩典的光芒和您面容的榮光。這是我的昂星。我在罪惡和試探中已經受夠了苦，那是我的寒冬，是我的可怕參星。主啊，求您在我身上行奇妙之工，為我行奇妙之工！

Evening, March 21

Scripture: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"(Job 38:31)

If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny we are. We cannot move the least of all the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of the beams of the morning. We speak of power, but the heavens laugh us to scorn. When the Pleiades shine forth in spring with vernal joy we cannot restrain their influences, and when Orion reigns aloft, and the year is bound in winter's fetters, we cannot relax the icy bands. The seasons revolve according to the divine appointment, neither can the whole race of men effect a change therein. Lord, what is man?
In the spiritual, as in the natural world, man's power is limited on all hands. When the Holy Spirit sheds abroad his delights in the soul, none can disturb; all the cunning and malice of men are ineffectual to stay the genial quickening power of the Comforter. When he deigns to visit a church and revive it, the most inveterate enemies cannot resist the good work; they may ridicule it, but they can no more restrain it than they can push back the spring when the Pleiades rule the hour. God wills it, and so it must be. On the other hand, if the Lord in sovereignty, or in justice, bind up a man so that he is in soul bondage, who can give him liberty? He alone can remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or a people. He looses the bands of Orion, and none but he. What a blessing it is that he can do it. O that he would perform the wonder to-night. Lord, end my winter, and let my spring begin. I cannot with all my longings raise my soul out of her death and dulness, but all things are possible with thee. I need celestial influences, the clear shinings of thy love, the beams of thy grace, the light of thy countenance, these are the Pleiades to me. I suffer much from sin and temptation, these are my wintry signs, my terrible Orion. Lord, work wonders in me, and for me. Amen.


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