Daily Devotion - Apr 4 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(c]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening 四月四日 經文: 來罷，我們登耶和華的山。（以賽亞書二：3） 讓心靈提升至這邪惡的世界之上，達到更高貴更美好的境界，於我們是有益的。愛世界的心以及財富之陷阱，試圖扼殺我們內心中的每一個良善。我們變得煩躁、喪膽、驕傲、屬肉體。我們最好剷除這些荊棘和蒺藜，因為摻雜在其中的天國之種籽無法生長。能將它們割斷的最佳鎌刀，莫過於與上帝交通和思念天國之事。在瑞士山谷中居住的村民是不健康的，因為那�的空氣被污染了，而且大氣是停滯不流動的。反之在山頂上的居民是健康的，因為他們呼吸的是從阿爾卑斯山巔上吹過原始積雪的新鮮清潔空氣。山谷中的居民若能常常離開他們在沼澤地的家，離開那使人致病的霧氣，登上高山去呼吸沁人肺腑的清爽空氣，必會使他們重新得力。但願聖靈助我們離開恐懼之霧、焦慮的煩躁，和所有聚集在地球山谷中的疾病，讓我們登上喜樂並蒙福的高山。但願聖靈助我們割斷把我們捆綁在低地的繩索，助我們攀上高峰！我們像被鐵鏈捆鎖於岩石上的老鷹。但是不像老鷹，我們會漸漸愛上鐵鏈，不願意將其砍斷。倘若我不能脫離捆綁肉體的鐵鍊，教我們的靈的得到自由，但願上帝憐憫我們。讓我們將肉體留在山腳下，願我們的心靈攀上頂峰，享受與至高者的相交。 Evening, April 4 Scripture: "Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord."(Isaiah 2:3) It is exceedingly beneficial to our souls to mount above this present evil world to something nobler and better. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches are apt to choke everything good within us, and we grow fretful, desponding, perhaps proud and carnal. It is well for us to cut down these thorns and briers, for heavenly seed sown among them is not likely to yield a harvest; and where shall we find a better sickle with which to cut them down than communion with God and the things of the kingdom? In the valleys of Switzerland many of the inhabitants are deformed, and all wear a sickly appearance, for the atmosphere is charged with miasma, and is close and stagnant; but up yonder, on the mountain, you find a hardy race, who breathe the clear fresh air as it blows from the virgin snows of the Alpine summits. It would be well if the dwellers in the valley could frequently leave their abodes among the marshes and the fever mists, and inhale the bracing element upon the hills. It is to such an exploit of climbing that I invite you this evening. May the Spirit of God assist us to leave the mists of fear and the fevers of anxiety, and all the ills which gather in this valley of earth, and to ascend the mountains of anticipated joy and blessedness. May God the Holy Spirit cut the cords that keep us here below, and assist us to mount! We sit too often like chained eagles fastened to the rock, only that, unlike the eagle, we begin to love our chain, and would, perhaps, if it came really to the test, be loath to have it snapped. May God now grant us grace, if we cannot escape from the chain as to our flesh, yet to do so as to our spirits; and leaving the body, like a servant, at the foot of the hill, may our soul, like Abraham, attain the top of the mountain, there to indulge in communion with the Most High. www.glorypress.com