Daily Devotion - Mar 4 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

三月四日

經文: 「我的恩典夠你用。」（哥林多後書十二：9）

若後未曾經歷困苦、試煉，我們對上帝的恩典，就還認識的不夠清楚。或許我們會遇到一位居無定所的流浪漢，但他卻說：「我仍舊靠我的主。」或許我們會遇到一位三餐不繼的老乞丐，但他卻仍誇耀他的主。或許我們也曾遇到食不溫飽的貧苦寡婦，仍安貧樂道，信賴她的主。他們對上帝的忠心，即使在苦難試煉中，也信守不渝，這是多麼美好的信仰見證。忠貞的信徒落在試煉中，卻以為大喜樂，因為他們相信，萬事互相效力，叫愛上帝的人得益處，而且深信上帝若沒有即時把苦難考驗移開，祂也會賜下足夠的力氣，讓我們撐下去，渡過難關。信徒所表現的這種耐力、意志、證明上帝能力的供應與保守。是的、若沒有苦難、衝突，你的潛能就迸發不出來，上帝的恩典也凸顯不出來。所以，假如你現在正落入大試煉中，要格外喜樂，因為上帝看你配得上這考驗，而且要賜你夠用的恩典。那曾經幫助過你的上帝，必幫助你到底，祂絕不會令你失望的。

Morning, March 4

Scripture: "My grace is sufficient for thee."(2 Corinthians 12:9)

If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, "Still will I trust in the Lord;" when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ, oh! what honour it reflects on the gospel. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring—that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as he is pleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints proves the power of divine grace. There is a lighthouse out at sea: it is a calm night—I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm; the tempest must rage about it, and then I shall know whether it will stand. So with the Spirit's work: if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not know that it was true and strong; if the winds did not blow upon it, we should not know how firm and secure it was. The master-works of God are those men who stand in the midst of difficulties, stedfast, unmoveable,—

"Calm mid the bewildering cry,
Confident of victory."
He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then, yours be a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for his failing you, never dream of it—hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.


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