Daily Devotion - Mar 22 - «H¤ßªº¤ä²¼Ã¯ Faith's check book

信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

虛心的人有福

經文: 「上帝……賜恩給謙卑的人。」（雅各書四︰6）

虛心的人渴慕恩典，切慕得著聖靈的恩膏，所以就被大大地充滿。就像山谷裡流著恩典之溪，他們飲於此水，得著飽足，就把榮耀歸給上帝，而上帝因著祂的尊榮，也源源不絕地供應他們一切所需的。

來吧！讀者，放下身段，莫志氣高大，否則上帝無法賜福予你。「我害怕自己不夠謙卑」，或許這樣的喟歎，正是真正謙卑的語言。有些人為自己的謙卑沾沾自喜，這是最糟的一種。我們是無助的、不配的，需要上帝的救恩。若我們還不謙卑，我們就該好好反省。

因我們天生的「罪性」與「謙卑」是背道而馳的，但是，當我們想存心謙卑時，就會得主的幫助，我們一謙卑，就能嚐到主的恩惠，「謙卑」愈多，體嚐主恩的滋味愈深。讓我們願意甘就卑下，靈裡覺得貧窮，上帝必使我們富足高升。


Grace for the Humble

Scripture: "He giveth grace unto the humble"(James 4:6).

Humble hearts seek grace, and therefore they get it. Humble hearts yield to the sweet influences of grace, and so it is bestowed on them more and more largely. Humble hearts lie in the valleys where streams of grace are flowing, and hence they drink of them. Humble hearts are grateful for grace and give the LORD the glory of it, and hence it is consistent with His honor to give it to them.
Come, dear reader, take a lowly place. Be little in thine own esteem, that the LORD may make much of thee. Perhaps the sigh breaks out, "I fear I am not humble." It may be that this is the language of true humility. Some are proud of being humble, and this is one of the very worst sorts of pride. We are needy, helpless, undeserving, hell-deserving creatures, and if we are not humble we ought to be. Let us humble ourselves because of our sins against humility, and then the LORD will give us to taste of His favor. It is grace which makes us humble, and grace which finds in this humility an opportunity for pouring in more grace. Let us go down that we may rise. Let us be poor in spirit that God may make us rich. Let us be humble that we may not need to be humbled but may be exalted by the grace of God.


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