2014年3月3日 星期一

Daily Devotion - Mar 4 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(©]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

三月四日

經文: 他們必因您殿�的肥甘得以飽足。(詩篇三十六:8)

示巴的女王對於所羅門王的富有生活感到驚訝,看見侍立在國宴桌旁的僕人行列詫異得神不守舍(參閱王上十:4∼5)。但是這與上帝豐盛的恩典相比,又算得了什麼呢?上帝每日餵養祂成千上萬的百姓,飢腸轆轆的人來到筵席前,沒有一人不得飽足而離開的。雖然在耶和華桌上被餵養之眾多如天上星辰,各人卻都能獲得他所需之分。試思量,即使只是一位聖徒所需之恩典,除了無限的上帝,還有誰能供應呢?然而上帝將祂的餐桌展現在眾聖徒之前,一代又一代地餵養他們。因著上帝家中的豐裕,在施恩桌前的賓客皆得以飽足。那些投靠在耶和華恩翅之蔭下的人,上帝信實地應允賜給他們這樣的筵席。我曾經思忖:「我只要從上帝恩典的後門得到一些肉屑,就會滿足了。」如同那位婦人說:「狗也吃祂主人桌子上掉下來的碎渣兒。」(太十五:27)。但是上帝不會只把碎屑給祂的兒女,他們都能從王的筵席上得享飽足。我們得到的思典是便雅憫的分──比我們所期望的還多出五倍(參閱創四十三:34)。雖然我們的需要是大的,然而因著上帝賜給我們所享受的恩典,我們能不斷地訝異於祂奇妙的豐富。

Evening, March 4

Scripture: "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house."(Psalm 36:8)

Sheba's queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon's table. She lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day; and she marvelled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the royal board. But what is this to the hospitalities of the God of grace? Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed; hungry and thirsty, they bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all, enough for evermore. Though the host that feed at Jehovah's table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat. Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads his table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many years; not for many years only, but for generation after generation. Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy's banquet are satisfied, nay, more "abundantly satisfied;" and that not with ordinary fare, but with fatness, the peculiar fatness of God's own house; and such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah's wings. I once thought if I might but get the broken meat at God's back door of grace I should be satisfied; like the woman who said, "The dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table;" but no child of God is ever served with scraps and leavings; like Mephibosheth, they all eat from the king's own table. In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin's mess—we all have ten times more than we could have expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvellous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to enjoy.

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