Daily Devotion - Apr 11 - ?H?sao?a2?A‾ Faith's check book

信心的支票簿 Faith's check book 親密溝通 經文: 「他們各人不再教導自己的鄰舍和自己的弟兄說：『你該認識耶和華』，因為他們從最小的到至大的都必認識我。」（耶利米書卅一︰34） 即使我們對其他事一無所知，但我們認識上帝。今天這經文是真實的經驗，而此事非同小可。在我們當中最小的信徒，雖然不能全然了解上帝，但至少我們在基督�認識上帝。我們不只在頭腦中，認識教義中的上帝，更是在生活中主觀經歷到上帝，體會到祂是我的天父，也是我的朋友，我與祂有親密的溝通，我們經常像朋友般地促膝談心，我對上帝而言，不再是陌生人，上帝的心意也不向我隱瞞。 大自然教導我的，尚屬有限；屬血氣的也未曾引領我們認識上帝，但耶穌基督卻在我們心中啟示真上帝，既是如此，我們豈不明白救恩之源﹖認識上帝就有永生，我們何其蒙福，竟能與這新生命有份，朋友們，讓我們高唱救恩的樂歌！ Close Fellowship Scripture: "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD"(Jeremiah 31:34). Truly, whatever else we do not know, we know the LORD. This day is this promise true in our experience, and it is not a little one. The least believer among us knows God in Christ Jesus. Not as fully as we desire; but yet truly and really we know the LORD. We not only know doctrines about Him, but we know Him. He is our Father and our Friend. We are acquainted with Him personally. We can say, "My LORD, and my God." We are on terms of close fellowship with God, and many a happy season do we spend in His holy company. We are no more strangers to our God, but the secret of the LORD is with us. This is more than nature could have taught us. Flesh and blood has not revealed God to us. Christ Jesus had made known the Father to our hearts. If, then, the LORD has made us know Himself, is not this the fountain of all saving knowledge? To know God is eternal life. So soon as we come to acquaintance with God we have the evidence of being quickened into newness of life. O my soul, rejoice in this knowledge, and bless thy God all this day! www.glorypress.com