Daily Devotion - Apr 11 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(c]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening 四月十一日 經文: 求您看顧我的困苦、我的艱難、赦免我一切的罪。（詩篇二十五：18） 將我們的憂傷和懇求赦罪的心連結在一起來禱告是好的。我們不應被困苦壓倒以致忘記了自己的過犯得罪了上帝。大衛將他的憂傷帶到上帝的面前，同時也向上帝承認自己的罪。我們必須將憂傷帶到上帝前。即使小小的傷痛也可以帶到上帝面前，因為祂數點過你的頭髮。重大的憂傷也可以交託給祂，因為祂以手托住大海。不論你目前的困難是什麼，到祂眼前，你會發現祂能，也願意解除你的困難。但是，我們也必須將罪帶到上帝面前。我們必須將罪帶到十字架前。基督的寶血將洗滌一切罪孽並摧毀罪的破壞力量。最後，我們必須以正確的心態將憂傷和罪帶到主前。大衛為自己的憂傷所祈求的是：「求您看顧我的困苦、我的艱難。」接下去確切地懇求：「赦免我一切的罪。」許多在患難中的人會說：「除去我的困苦、我的艱難，鑒察我的罪。」但是大衛呼求：「主啊，至於我的困苦和艱難，我不能指揮您的大智，只求您看顧，我將它們給您。至於我的罪，主啊，我知道必須求您赦免，我不能再忍受被罪咒詛。」基督徒明白憂傷較罪容易忍受。他能繼續背負他的困難，但是絕無法承擔過犯的重壓。 Evening, April 11 Scripture: "Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins."(Psalm 25:18) It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David carried his sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for he counteth the hairs of your head; and your great sorrows you may commit to him, for he holdeth the ocean in the hollow of his hand. Go to him, whatever your present trouble may be, and you shall find him able and willing to relieve you. But we must take our sins to God too. We must carry them to the cross, that the blood may fall upon them, to purge away their guilt, and to destroy their defiling power. The special lesson of the text is this:—that we are to go to the Lord with sorrows and with sins in the right spirit. Note that all David asks concerning his sorrow is, "Look upon mine affliction and my pain;" but the next petition is vastly more express, definite, decided, plain—"Forgive all my sins." Many sufferers would have put it, "Remove my affliction and my pain, and look at my sins." But David does not say so; he cries, "Lord, as for my affliction and my pain, I will not dictate to thy wisdom. Lord, look at them, I will leave them to thee, I should be glad to have my pain removed, but do as thou wilt; but as for my sins, Lord, I know what I want with them; I must have them forgiven; I cannot endure to lie under their curse for a moment." A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions. www.glorypress.com