Daily Devotion - Apr 15 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(?e) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning 四月十五日 經文: 「我的上帝，我的上帝哪！您為何離棄我？」（詩篇廿二：1） 在十架上的耶穌，這句驚天地泣鬼神的淒厲吶喊，正淋漓盡致地刻劃出祂內心極度地憂傷哀痛，與肉體極度地痛苦衰弱。因為祂承擔所有人類的罪孽，以致上帝只好掩面拂袖而去，這樣的羞辱、震驚、戰慄的經驗，是無法言傳的。對耶穌而言，失去上帝的同在，就等於墜入漆黑幽暗的地獄，那是非常恐怖，悚慄的靈性折磨。 沒有人能完全了解耶穌這樣從肺腑深處，驚心動魄吶喊的真義，有時候我們也會情緒化地喊著：「上帝哪，上帝哪，你為什麼離棄我？」但那只是我們靈性低沈，看不到天父笑顏時的感受，事實上天父上帝並沒有遺棄我們，我們只是暫時體會不到上帝的同在。但對耶穌在十字架的事件而言，上帝是「真正」離棄祂，祂「真正」經歷到地獄的黑暗。至於我們所謂的「上帝離棄我」，其實是出於我們的小信，以為上帝不要我們了；但即使是這樣，這樣的感覺，已經夠讓我們消沈難受了，更何況耶穌被掛在十架的那一陣，上帝是「真正地」離棄祂，那樣的黑暗、不幸是何等的大！難怪祂喊著：「我的上帝，我的上帝，您為何離棄我？」時，天地都要變色，聖殿的幕子也從上而下裂成兩半。 Morning, April 15 Scripture: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"(Psalm 22:1) We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which his cry rends the air—"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" At this moment physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy through which he had to pass; and to make his grief culminate with emphasis, he suffered spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of his Father's presence. This was the black midnight of his horror; then it was that he descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these words. Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness; but let us remember that God never does really forsake us. It is only a seeming forsaking with us, but in Christ's case it was a real forsaking. We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father's love; but the real turning away of God's face from his Son, who shall calculate how deep the agony which it caused him? In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief: in his case, it was the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from him for a season. O thou poor, distressed soul, who once lived in the sunshine of God's face, but art now in darkness, remember that he has not really forsaken thee. God in the clouds is as much our God as when he shines forth in all the lustre of his grace; but since even the thought that he has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Saviour have been when he exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" www.glorypress.com