Daily Devotion - Apr 15 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(c]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening 四月十五日 經文: 扶持他們，直到永遠。（詩篇二十八：9） 上帝的百姓需要被扶持。他們需要上帝的恩典使他們乘上有金色羽毛並覆以銀子的翅膀。自然界的定律是火光向上飛昇，但是人的罪惡心靈卻下墮。主啊，永遠扶持他們！大衛親口說：「耶和華阿，我的心仰望您。」（詩二十五：1）當你為自己如此祈求時，勿忘記也為其他人求。上帝的百姓在三方面需要被扶持舉起。他們必須在品格上被舉起。主啊，扶持他們，不要讓他們像世人一樣！世界是在邪惡者的權勢下，將您的兒女高舉脫離這世界！世人尋求金銀財寶，尋歡作樂、滿足於肉體的慾望。主啊，高舉您的百姓，超越這些。保守他們脫離「嗜金」；這是本仁約翰為那搜刮金子的人所冠的稱號。讓他們的心專注於復活的主並天上的產業。還有，信徒在衝突中也需要成功。在爭戰中，他們似乎要失敗了。主啊，賜他們勝利。倘若仇敵的腳已踐踏他們的頸項，助他們緊握聖靈的寶劍，贏得勝利。主啊，從每日的爭戰中高舉您兒女的心，保守他們免受敵人加予他們的酷刑。但若是他們在迫害中，讓他們高唱拯救之上帝的憐憫。我們也要求主在最後的日子高舉他們！從墳墓中舉起他們的身體，在榮耀中，將他們的靈魂提升到永恆的國度中。 Evening, April 15 Scripture: "Lift them up for ever."(Psalm 28:9) God's people need lifting up. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, "lift them up for ever!" David himself said, "Unto thee, O God, do I lift up my soul," and he here feels the necessity that other men's souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God's people require to be lifted up. They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world's people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world's people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift thy people up above all this; keep them from being "muck-rakers," as John Bunyan calls the man who was always scraping after gold! Set thou their hearts upon their risen Lord and the heavenly heritage! Moreover, believers need to be prospered in conflict. In the battle, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory. If the foot of the foe be upon their necks for a moment, help them to grasp the sword of the Spirit, and eventually to win the battle. Lord, lift up thy children's spirits in the day of conflict; let them not sit in the dust, mourning for ever. Suffer not the adversary to vex them sore, and make them fret; but if they have been, like Hannah, persecuted, let them sing of the mercy of a delivering God. We may also ask our Lord tolift them up at the last! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls to thine eternal kingdom in glory. www.glorypress.com