Daily Devotion - Mar 7 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

靜默的敬拜

經文: 「我的心默默無聲，專等候上帝。我的救恩是從祂而來。」（詩篇六二：1，5）�

人的渺小與上帝的偉大相遇時，不禁要俯首承認，上帝的話語要比人的言語份量重千萬倍；然而人還是習慣在禱告時喋喋不休，惟恐上帝聽不懂我們的話，以致沒時間留給上帝，讓祂對我們說話。這的確是我們要好好學習的一項功課——在上帝面前靜默聆聽——此乃真正敬拜的祕訣。切記上帝的應許：「你們得力在乎平靜安穩。」

「我的心單單仰望您，因爲我的希望從您而來。」�

「我要等候耶和華，因爲您的應許是我的磐石。」�

當你敞著臉仰望耶和華，安靜在祂面前默想上帝的聖潔、權能與大愛，並將祂應得的榮耀、讚美歸給祂時，你的心就會被打開，大大感受到上帝同在的降臨，以及祂大愛的包圍籠罩，也覺察到祂大能在你體內運行。�

喔，親愛的弟兄姐妹們，如此謙卑地俯伏敬拜，將提昇你的靈遨翔在上帝同在的安息中，這也是最高層次、最蒙福的禱告，這是上帝與人交會的喜樂時刻。�

不要以爲這樣安靜等候的時間，是一種浪費；剛開始操練時，或許你會覺得思想無法集中，或覺得這段時間很難挨，沒什麽收穫，但繼續操練，相信這樣的時刻，正是上帝以祂溫柔的慈愛注視著你，並且暗暗地動工在你心中，讓你與上帝的關係更堅定美好。漸漸的你將嚐到與主同在是怎樣甜美的滋味，並且操練到整天都能擁有主的同在，如同呼吸一樣自然，藉此你可成爲強健的基督徒，常常流露耶穌同在的馨香之氣，在你週圍的人都要爲你的氣質所吸引，並被你的德行潛移默化。�

「惟耶和華在祂的聖殿中。全地的人，都當在祂面前肅敬靜默。」（哈巴谷書二：20）�

「凡有血氣的，都當在耶和華面前靜默無聲。因爲祂興起，從聖所出來了。」（撒迦利亞書二：13）


SILENT ADORATION

Scripture: "My soul is silent unto God." "My soul, be thou silent unto God; for my expectation is from Him."—Ps. Ixii. 1, 5.

When man in his littleness and God in His glory meet, we all understand that what God says has infinitely more worth than what man says. And yet our prayer so often consists in the utterance of our thoughts of what we need, that we give God no time to speak to us. Our prayers are often so indefinite and vague. It is a great lesson to learn, that to be silent unto God is the secret of true adoration. Let us remember the promise, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
"My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him."
"I will wait for the Lord; my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope."
It is as the soul bows itself before Him to remember His greatness and His holiness, His power and His love, and seeks to give Him the honour and the reverence and the worship that are His due, that the heart will be opened to receive the Divine impression of the nearness of God and of the working of His power.
O Christian, do believe that such worship of God—in which you bow low and ever lower in your nothingness, and lift up your thoughts to realize God's presence, as He gives Himself to you in Christ Jesus—is the sure way to give Him the glory that is His due, and will lead to the highest blessedness to be found in prayer.
Do not imagine that it is time lost. Do not turn from it, if at first it appears difficult or fruitless. Be assured that it brings you into the right relation to God. It opens the way to fellowship with Him. It leads to the blessed assurance that He is looking on you in tender love and working in you with a secret but Divine power.
And as at length you become more accustomed to it, it will give you the sense of His presence abiding with you all the day. It will make you strong to testify for God. Someone has said, "No one is able to influence others for goodness and holiness, beyond the amount that there is of God in him." Men will begin to feel that you have been with God.
"The Lord is in His holy temple; be silent before Him, all the earth." (Hab. ii. 20).
"Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for He is raised up out-of His holy habitation" (Zech. ii. 13).


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