Daily Devotion - Apr 19 - ?H?sao?a2?A‾ Faith's check book

信心的支票簿 Faith's check book 良牧善尋 經文: 「主耶和華如此說：看哪，我必親自尋找我的羊，將牠們尋見。」（以西結書卅四︰11） 當我們如羊走迷時，還不認識這位好牧人，而祂己親自找到了我們。多麼奇妙啊，祂竟先來尋找，揀選我們。祂不僅是個拯救的牧者，更是個善找迷羊的牧者。雖然天父賜給祂的人，已走到地獄的邊緣，但我們的主，仍切切尋找，費盡心思地將他們吸引歸入羊圈。祂已經找到我們。那些常發現在我們心頭進而在禱告中記念的對象，讓我們存著信心，相信祂也必能找到他們。 只要有任何一隻羊遠離聖潔真理的草場，主必不辭勞苦，用慈繩愛索將他們帶回。他們或許會跌倒、犯罪、走入歧途。但耶穌這位神人的中保，絕不致任其迷走游蕩，以致滅亡。即使在荒郊野外，困苦流離；或是落在絕望深淵，痛苦掙扎，耶穌必以祂的慈悲恩典，全力設法營救，祂絕不會漏失一個天父所賜給祂的羊。這對耶穌是一種榮譽，祂能尋找、拯救迷羊，毫無差錯。若我是迷途的群羊之一，這是多麼寶貴的應許，我可向祂懇求︰「主必救我！」 An Expert Searcher Scripture: "For thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I, even I, will both search My sheep, and seek them out"(Ezekiel 34:11). This He does at the first when His elect are like wandering sheep that know not the Shepherd or the fold. How wonderfully doth the LORD find out His chosen! Jesus is great as a seeking Shepherd as well as a saving Shepherd. Though many of those His Father gave Him have gone as near to hell-gate as they well can, yet the LORD by searching and seeking discovers them and draws nigh to them in grace. He has sought out us: let us have good hope for those who are laid upon our hearts in prayer, for He will find them out also. The LORD repeats this process when any of His flock stray from the pastures of truth and holiness. They may fall into gross error, sad sin, and grievous hardness; but yet the LORD, who has become a surety for them to His Father, will not suffer one of them to go so far as to perish. He will by providence and grace pursue them into foreign lands, into abodes of poverty, into dens of obscurity, into depths of despair; He will not lose one of all that the Father has given Him. It is a point of honor with Jesus to seek and to save all the flock, without a single exception. What a promise to plead, if at this hour I am compelled to cry, "I have gone astray like a lost sheep!" www.glorypress.com