Daily Devotion - Apr 8 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(c]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening 四月八日 經文: 不怕遭害。因為您與我同在。（詩篇二十三：4） 請看聖靈如何教基督徒不依靠外在的環境。當周圍黑暗環繞，在我們心中仍有明光照耀。當世界搖動，支撐地球的柱子移除時，我們仍能堅定、快樂、寧靜、平安！甚至死亡本身也不能使基督徒心中的音樂停頓，反而能教那音樂更甜美、更清晰、更屬天。死亡的最後行動所能作到的就是屬地的旋律融入天堂的合唱，暫時的歡樂匯入永遠的祝福！讓我們在賜福的聖靈之能力中充滿信心，獲得慰藉。你面臨貧困嗎？不要怕，聖靈能令你比富足者更豐富。不要憂傷！每次的悲痛可能都是精煉的火，要用來燒去你的渣滓；是一線榮耀的光輝，用來照亮你靈魂的隱密之處。你的視力衰退了嗎？耶穌是你的光。你的耳朵失聰了嗎？耶穌之名是你心靈的最佳音樂。蘇格拉底曾經說過：「哲學家可以不靠音樂而喜樂。」當外界所有欣喜之緣由皆逝去時，基督徒能比哲學家更喜樂。無論發生何事，我的心在上帝�面高唱凱歌。賜福之聖靈啊，藉您的大能，雖然萬事皆逆我意，我的心仍要歡喜快樂。 Evening, April 8 Scripture: "I will fear no evil: for thou art with me."(Psalm 23:4) Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian's heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit's power to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross—a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the ears fail you? Jesus' name will be your soul's best music, and his person your dear delight. Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. In thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below. www.glorypress.com