Daily Devotion - Mar 9 - 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

信服上帝

經文: 耶穌回答說：「你們當信服上帝」（馬可福音十一：22）

藉著肉眼我們可觀察周圍有形的事物，並在光中見物；同樣的，屬靈的事情，則需信心的眼睛來體察，以便在上帝的光中行事。�

人是按上帝的形象所造，有真理的仁義與聖潔在其中。再想想奇妙的大自然，這背後隱藏了上帝多少的智慧與巧思；還有上帝的心，包含了何等長闊高深的愛，竟願捨命救世人。人是爲祂造的，被模造成祂的形象，爲要尋找祂，榮耀祂，將心獻給祂做居所。而信心就幫助我們不憑眼見，而用心靈仰望祂的榮顔，在光中見光，上帝也因著我們的信，就將自己向我們顯現。�

常常我們很努力地費勁去感覺上帝，說服自己去相信有上帝。其實，上帝已經與我們同在，就如同空氣環繞著我們，也在我們身體裡面。我們只要用信心接受這事實，默念宣告這事實，上帝同在的感覺，就會在我們安靜地定睛注視祂的時候，滿溢我們全身。�

人若無信，就不得上帝的喜悅，也無法認識祂。我們獨處時要禱告暗中的父，祂要把我們藏在至高的隱密處，在那兒我們開口讚美上帝、敬拜上帝，而上帝的榮光就自然而然照進我們的心，祂同在的喜樂也如膏油般滋潤我們的靈。�

你巴望信心堅固嗎？你渴望明白上帝的心意嗎？花時間等候上帝！相信上帝樂意向我們顯明祂的心意，更渴望佔有我們的全人，藉著不斷操練，我們的信心會逐漸成長，也慢慢知道上帝榮耀的權能是何等浩大！�

藉著每天不斷敬拜上帝、等候上帝，我們的信心必操練得更剛強，而時刻緊密依靠主也成爲我們的習慣，我們的心思也可隨時回到上帝面前，如同呼吸那樣自然，上帝也會保守我們在祂同在的喜樂中，並經歷得勝罪惡的能力！�

「亞伯拉罕因信，心�得堅固，將榮耀歸給上帝。且滿心相信，上帝所應許的必能作成。」（羅馬書四：20，21）�

「我信上帝祂怎樣對我說，事情也要怎樣成就。」（使徒行傳廿七：25）�

「要等候耶和華。當壯膽、堅固你的心。我再說，要等候耶和華。」（詩篇廿七：14）


FAITH IN GOD

Scripture: "Jesus said unto them: 'Have faith in God.' "—MARK xi. 22.

As the eye is the organ by which we see the light and rejoice in it, so faith is the power by which we see the light of God and walk in it.
Man was made for God, in His likeness; his whole being formed after the Divine pattern. Just think of his wonderful power of thinking out all the thoughts of God hidden in nature. Think of the heart, with its unlimited powers of self-sacrifice and love. Man was made for God, to seek Him, to find Him, to grow up into His likeness and show forth His glory; in the fullest sense to be His dwelling. And faith is the eye which, turning away from the world and self, looks up to God and in His light sees light. To faith God reveals Himself.
How often we toil and try to waken thoughts and feelings concerning God, which are but a faint shadow, and we forget "to gaze on the Incomparable Original."
Could we but realize it, in the depth of our soul God reveals Himself.
Without faith it is impossible to please God, or to know Him. In our quiet time we have to pray to our Father which is in secret. There "He hides us in the secret of His pavilion." And there, as we wait and worship before Him, He will in very deed, just as the light by its very nature reveals itself, let His light shine into our heart.
Let our one desire be to take time and be still before God, believing with an unbounded faith in His longing to make Himself known to us. Let us feed on God's Word, to make us strong |n faith. Let that faith have large thoughts of what God's glory is; of what His power is to reveal Himself to us; of what His longing love is to get complete possession of us.
Such faith, exercised and strengthened day by day in secret fellowship with God, will become the habit of our life, keeping us ever in the enjoyment of His presence and the experience of His saving power.
"Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God; being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to Perform" (Rom. iv. 20, 21).
"I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me"(Acts xxvii. 25).
"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart, wait, I say, on the Lord" (Ps. xvii. 14).


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