Daily Devotion - Apr 11 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(?e) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning 四月十一日 經文: 「我如水被倒出來，我的骨頭都脫了節。」（詩篇廿二：14） 天上人間可曾有比十字架更殘酷的刑罰？比加略山更悽慘的經驗？看哪！耶穌精疲力竭，元氣耗盡，祂的身心感覺如水被倒出，羅馬士兵用尖銳的鐵釘，狠狠地敲進耶穌的手腕腳踝。每一次的撞擊，都刺痛每一根脆弱的神經，每一次的敲打都幾乎要振散祂的骨頭，而且當祂整個身體懸在木架時，因著重量的拉扯，那種錐心的痛苦，一分一秒更形劇烈，而且慢慢煎熬到六小時之久。祂有形的肉體只不過是奄奄一息的軀殼，但裡面的靈魂所感覺的昏厥、虛脫、軟弱，卻是無以復加。想想，天父上帝看到耶穌身上背著全人類的罪惡，因而大為震怒，拂袖而去，這對耶穌而言，是何等恐怖悽慘，無法忍受的景象！換了我們，將無法承受那樣的折磨與痛苦，必致昏死過去，這對我們倒是個解脫。但耶穌意識卻是清醒的，不但手腳被釘刺穿，肋骨間也被人用長矛戳透，祂默默地忍受這種摧肝斷腸的痛楚，內心也讓被上帝棄絕的孤絕、悽涼之感所啃蝕佔滿，祂獨自愴然地飲盡苦杯每一滴的汁液，只為了完成上帝愛人類的使命。當我們跪在祂的腳前，要思想祂的寶座是用何等的恩典做成的！讓我們在靈�也分擔祂的苦難，使我們在受考驗，覺得難以撐下去時，因著耶穌為我們所做的一切，就能咬緊牙關，忍耐到底，繼續熬下去。 Morning, April 11 Scripture: "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint."(Psalm 22:14) Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all his bones. Burdened with his own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness were overpowering; while to his own consciousness he became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning sickness. When Daniel saw the great vision, he thus describes his sensations, "There remained no strength in me, for my vigour was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:" how much more faint must have been our greater Prophet when he saw the dread vision of the wrath of God, and felt it in his own soul! To us, sensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue; but in his case, he was wounded, and felt the sword; he drained the cup and tasted every drop. "O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true To thee of all kings only due) O King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for thee, Who in all grief preventest me!" As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour's throne, let us remember well the way by which he prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in spirit drink of his cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness whenever it may come. In his natural body every member suffered, and so must it be in the spiritual; but as out of all his griefs and woes his body came forth uninjured to glory and power, even so shall his mystical body come through the furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon it. www.glorypress.com