Daily Devotion - Apr 21 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(?e) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning 四月二十一日 經文: 「我知道我的救贖主活著。」（約伯記十九：25） 約伯喜樂安慰的秘訣是──「我的」救贖主，不是別人，乃是專屬我私人有的，而且這位救贖主是「真正活著」。喔，緊緊抓住這應許吧！若我不能憑著信心說：「我能將我的一生交託在這位永活的上帝手中。」就不讓我的心得著安息！ 或許你會以為「我的救贖主活著」，只不過是屬靈的台詞或慣用語，那麼你就錯了。記得嗎？你若有信心像小小的芥菜種子，它就會發旺，長成一棵大樹。若你有信心，你就敢大膽地宣告：「我的救贖主活著。」 約伯堅定的信心，可從他說「我知道」這詞表露出來，我們說「我希望」或「我認為」救贖主活著，這只是膚淺的體認，但「我知道」卻是深度的認知。很少人能很肯定，有把握地說「我知道」我主活著，如此就很難達到「不為所動」的高度信心境界，疑懼是平安的致命殺手，尤其在徬徨的時候，懷疑的心更增加心的茫然無助。若一艘有破洞的船，許多平安、喜樂與福份，都會漏失掉。但你若知道救主活著為你，那麼黑夜也不算是黑夜，它必光亮如白晝。想想，約伯在耶穌未降臨的時代，敢宣稱「我知道我救贖主活著。」更何況我們，活在新約的信徒，理當大膽地宣告：「我知我救贖主活著。」若我們有著這種篤定的確據在心頭，那將是怎樣一種有榮耀，有喜樂的生活啊！ Morning, April 21 Scripture: "I know that my Redeemer liveth."(Job 19:25) The marrow of Job's comfort lies in that little word "My"—"My Redeemer," and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of a living Christ. We must get a property in him before we can enjoy him. What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars in Peru, and beg their bread in California. It is gold in my purse which will satisfy my necessities, by purchasing the bread I need. So a Redeemer who does not redeem me, an avenger who will never stand up formy blood, of what avail were such? Rest not content until by faith you can say "Yes, I cast myself upon my living Lord; and he is mine." It may be you hold him with a feeble hand; you half think it presumption to say, "He lives as my Redeemer;" yet, remember if you have but faith as a grain of mustard seed, that little faith entitles you to say it. But there is also another word here, expressive of Job's strong confidence, "I know." To say, "I hope so, I trust so" is comfortable; and there are thousands in the fold of Jesus who hardly ever get much further. But to reach the essence of consolation you must say, "I know." Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow. Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled with the gall of death; but if I know that Jesus lives for me, then darkness is not dark: even the night is light about me. Surely if Job, in those ages before the coming and advent of Christ, could say, "I know," we should not speak less positively. God forbid that our positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable. www.glorypress.com