Daily Devotion - May 1 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(c]) Evening by Evening

司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening 五月一日 經文: 我是沙崙的玫瑰。（雅歌二：1） 無論在世上是何等的美麗，在屬靈的世界中，耶穌基督的美麗都十倍於它。許多人認為玫瑰是花中最甜美的，但是耶穌在人心中的花園�，比起世上任何花園中的玫瑰都還要美。祂在萬人中是最美麗的。祂是太陽，其他的不過是星宿。與祂相比，天空的白晝皆成黑暗，因為主的美麗超越一切。耶穌不僅是玫瑰，且是沙崙的玫瑰──最好中的最好。祂確實是可愛，並且超越一切的可愛。玫瑰是悅人眼目的，其香氣更是令人愉快、甦醒人心的。同樣地，心靈中的每種感覺都向耶穌存著感激之情。即使回憶祂的愛也是甜美的。拿一朵沙崙的玫瑰，將其花瓣一片片剝下，存放在回憶之罐內，香氣將長久存留，充滿整個房間。基督能完全滿足受過最高教育之心靈的最高鑑賞力。最偉大的香水專家十分滿意玫瑰的香味。當心靈達到真正鑑賞力的最高層次時，她將只滿足於基督，也將更能欣賞祂。天國所擁有最偉大的莫過於沙崙的玫瑰。人的言語和世上的事物都無法形容祂。地上最佳之美妙組合，只能描述祂豐富的珍貴於萬一。賜福的玫瑰啊，永遠在心中盛開吧。 Evening, May 1 Scripture: "I am the rose of Sharon."(Song of Solomon 2:1) Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree. Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the fairest among ten thousand. He is the sun, and all others are the stars; the heavens and the day are dark in comparison with him, for the King in his beauty transcends all. "I am the rose of Sharon." This was the best and rarest of roses. Jesus is not "the rose" alone, he is "the rose of Sharon," just as he calls his righteousness "gold," and then adds, "the gold of Ophir"—the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the loveliest. There is variety in his charms. The rose is delightful to the eye, and its scent is pleasant and refreshing; so each of the senses of the soul, whether it be the taste or feeling, the hearing, the sight, or the spiritual smell, finds appropriate gratification in Jesus. Even the recollection of his love is sweet. Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf from leaf, and lay by the leaves in the jar of memory, and you shall find each leaf fragrant long afterwards, filling the house with perfume. Christ satisfies the highest taste of the most educated spirit to the very full. The greatest amateur in perfumes is quite satisfied with the rose: and when the soul has arrived at her highest pitch of true taste, she shall still be content with Christ, nay, she shall be the better able to appreciate him. Heaven itself possesses nothing which excels the rose of Sharon. What emblem can fully set forth his beauty? Human speech and earth-born things fail to tell of him. Earth's choicest charms commingled, feebly picture his abounding preciousness. Blessed rose, bloom in my heart for ever! www.glorypress.com