十二月十七日

我都记得。(耶利米记2：2)

我们要注意，基督喜欢思量祂的教会，并喜悦看她是美丽的。鸟儿怎样常常归窠，游子怎样急欲返家，所以人心也同样寻求自己所选择的对象。看我们所爱之人的脸就会觉得看不够，我们渴望将自己所宝贵的东西时时放在眼前；我们的主耶稣也是如此。从亘古，祂就“喜悦与世人同在”；祂在祂的选民未生在世上以前就想到他们，祂在祂先见的镜子里看到了他们。经上说：“我未成形的体质，你的眼早已看见了。你所定的日子，我尚未度一日，你都写在你的册上了。”(诗139：16)地的根基建立之时，祂就在那里，并“照以色列人的数目，立定万民的疆界。”(申32：8)在祂道成肉身之前，祂已经多次成为人形来到这卑贱的世界上；在幔利的平原上(创18)，在雅博渡口(创32：24—30)，在耶利哥的城下(书5：13)，在巴比伦烈火的窑中(但3：19，25)，人子都在看顾祂的子民。因为祂的灵喜悦他们，祂不会离开他们而停歇，因为祂心中思念他们。祂的心里一直装着他们，祂把他们的名字写在自己的掌心，刻在自己的肋旁。大祭司身上所戴最美的装饰便是刻有以色列十二支派名字的胸牌，基督所选之人的名字也是祂最贵重的宝石，在祂的心中晶莹放光。

我们时常忘记思念我们主的完全，但祂却时时挂念我们。我们当为过去的遗忘责备自己，并求祂施恩叫我们永远珍爱、记念祂。神啊!愿你在我灵魂的眼中刻画上你儿子的形象。

十二月十七日

经文: 我就是门。凡从我进来的，必然得救，并且出入得草吃。（约翰福音10：9）

耶稣，伟大的「我是」，是进入真正教会的门和通往神的道路。凡藉祂到神面前的人，祂就赐给他们四种上好的特权。第一，他必然得救。误杀人的逃亡者通过逃城的门之后就安全了。诺亚进入方舟的门以后就不再有危险。凡接受耶稣作为他们灵魂的信心之门的人，一个也不会失落。藉耶稣得以进入安息，表示他也可以藉这相同的门进入天国。耶稣是唯一的门，敞开的门，宽大的门，也是安全的门。把进入荣耀之盼望建立于钉十字架的救赎主身上是有福的。第二，他能进入。他获得进入神家的特权，可以分享儿女们的饼，可以分享他们一切的尊荣和快乐。他能进入与神相交的内室，享受祂的爱筵，得着立约之宝藏，并进入应许的库房。在圣灵的大能下，他得以到万王之王跟前，主的奥秘将与他同在。第三，他能出去。这一福份常被人遗忘。我们出去，进入世界，劳苦并受苦，但是奉耶稣的名，并在祂的权能中出去，是何等的大怜悯！我们蒙召为真理作见证，使低落者得鼓舞，使疏忽者得警告，去赢取灵魂，去荣耀神。耶和华的使者对基甸说，「你靠着你这能力去」（士师记6：14）。同样的，主喜悦我们在祂的名下，在祂的大能中，为祂作使者，奋勇前进。第四，他能得草吃。认识耶稣的人，永不缺乏。无论出入对他都有帮助：在与神的相交中他必会成长，浇灌他人时他必得着浇灌。以耶稣为他一切所有的人，将在耶稣里面得着一切。他的灵魂「必像浇灌的园子，又像水流不绝的泉源。」（赛58:11）。

Scripture: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”(John 10:9)

Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God himself. He gives to the man who comes to God by him four choice privileges.

First, He shall be saved. The fugitive manslayer passed the gate of the city of refuge and was safe. Noah entered the door of the ark, and was secure. None can be lost who take Jesus as the door of faith to their souls. Entrance through Jesus into peace is the guarantee of entrance by the same door into heaven. Jesus is the only door, an open door, a wide door, a safe door.Blessed is he who rests all his hope of admission to glory upon the crucified Redeemer. Second, He shall go in. He shall be privileged to go in among the divine family, sharing the children's bread and participating in all their honours and enjoyments. He shall go into the rooms of communion, to the banquets of love, to the treasures of the covenant, to the storehouses of the promises. He shall go in unto the King of kings in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the secret of the Lord shall be with him. Next, He shall go out. This blessing is much forgotten. We go out into the world to labor and suffer, but what a mercy to go in the name and power of Jesus! We are called to bear witness to the truth, to cheer the disconsolate, to warn the careless, to win souls, and to glorify God.The angel said to Gideon, “Go in this thy might” (Judg.6:14); likewise, the Lord wants us to proceed as his messengers in his name and strength. Fourth, he shall find pasture. He who knows Jesus shall never want. Going in and out shall both be helpful to him: in fellowship with God he shall grow, and in watering others he shall be watered. Having made Jesus his all, he shall find all in Jesus. His soul shall “be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” (Isa. 58:11).

《竭诚为主》12月17日 救赎创造需要，也满足需要

然而属血气的人不领会 神圣灵的事，反倒以为愚拙。（林前二14

神的福音能叫人产生对福音的需要。保罗说：“如果我们的福音蒙蔽......”是对那些恶人蒙蔽吗？不是的。“就是蒙蔽在灭亡的人身上，此等不信之人，被这世界的神弄瞎了心眼。”大多数人都有自己持守的道德观念，觉得不需要福音。神于是造出这个需要来；他若不彰显自己，根本没有人觉得有此需要。耶稣说：“祈求，就给你们。”但人未祈求，神就不能给；不是他保留不给，但这是他根据救赎所定下的原则。正因我们求，神就作工，为我们创造那些未求之前不存在的东西。救赎的精义，就是不断的创造；救赎既在我们里面创造了神的生命，也创造属于那生命的东西。惟有叫人产生这需要的，才能满足这需要，这就是救赎的意思－－它创造，它也满足

“人子若从地上被举起来，就必吸引万人来归我。”我们传讲自己的经历，别人虽感兴趣，可是却不唤起他的需要。若耶稣基督被举起来，神的灵便叫人觉得需要基督。在传扬福音的背后，是神不断创造的救赎大工在人心里动工。个人见证绝对不能拯救人，“我对你们说的话，就是灵，就是生命。”

祈祷◆主啊，我何其渴望看见你、听见你、默想你和愈来愈像你！你曾经说过：“又要以耶和华为乐，他就将你心里所求的赐给你。”

December 17 Redemption Creates The Need It Satisfies

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him.” 1 Corinthians 2:14

The Gospel of God creates a sense of need of the Gospel. Paul says – “If our gospel be hid, it is hid” – to those who are blackguards? No, “to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.” The majority of people have their morality well within their own grasp, they have no sense of need of the Gospel. It is God Who creates the need of which no human being is conscious until God manifests Himself. Jesus said – “Ask, and it shall be given you,” but God cannot give until a man asks. It is not that He withholds, but that that is the way He has constituted things on the basis of Redemption. By means of our asking, God gets processes into work whereby He creates the thing that is not in existence until we do ask. The inner reality of Redemption is that it creates all the time. As the Redemption creates the life of God in us, so it creates the things belonging to that life. Nothing can satisfy the need but that which created the need. This is the meaning of Redemption – it creates and it satisfies.

“I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” We preach our own experiences and people are interested, but no sense of need is awakened by it. If once Jesus Christ is lifted up, the Spirit of God will create a conscious need of Him. Behind the preaching of the Gospel is the creative Redemption of God at work in the souls of men. It is never pe

十二月十七日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

良朋密友

经文:「这样，我们就要和主永远同在。」（帖撒罗尼迦前书4︰17）

我们还活在世上时，主与我们同在；我们离世时，主仍与我们同住天堂。信徒与救主密不可分。他们是一体的，且必定永远是一体：耶稣不能没有祂自己的百姓，因为祂不会做没有身体的头。无论我们是被提到天空，或是在乐园休憩，或仍在世上做客旅，我们会一直与耶稣同在，谁能把我们和救主分开呢？

这是何等喜乐！我们至高无上的荣耀、休憩、安慰和喜乐，就是与主同在。我们无法想象，世界上还有其它什么样的事情，能比得上或超越与主同在的快乐。因着我们属主，我们也要与主一起受羞辱、被排斥、经受痛苦；而后，我们就可与祂共享荣耀。再过不久，耶稣就要迎接我们到尊贵美好的天堂，按祂的期盼，在祂显现的荣光中，享受属天的安息，接受得胜者的冠冕。我们当争战，因祂在争战；我们当得胜，因祂得胜。

喔，我的主啊，我若能与祢永远同在，我的命运真是好得无比；我不会嫉妒天使长。能与主永远在一起，是我能想到的天堂的至美之处；黄金的竖琴、永不失色的冠冕、无限的光明都不能叫我心动；只有耶稣，主耶稣自己，并我与祂永远至亲至近地在一起，是我所期盼的。

Nearest and Dearest Fellowship

Scripture: "So shall we ever be with the LORD" (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

While we are here the LORD is with us, and when we are called away we are with Him. There is no dividing the saint from His Savior. They are one, and they always must be one: Jesus cannot be without His own people, for He would be a Head without a body. Whether caught up into the air, or resting in paradise, or sojourning here, we are with Jesus; and who shall separate us from Him?

What a joy is this! Our supreme honor, rest, comfort, delight, is to be with the LORD. We cannot conceive of anything which can surpass or even equal this divine society. By holy fellowship we must be with Him in His humiliation, rejection, and travail, and then we shall be with Him in His glory. Before long we shall be with Him in His rest and in His royalty, in His expectation and in His manifestation. We shall fare as He fares and triumph as He triumphs.

O my LORD, if I am to be forever with Thee, I have a destiny incomparable. I will not envy an archangel. To be forever with the LORD is my idea of heaven at its best. Not the harps of gold, nor the crowns unfading, nor the light unclouded is glory to me; but Jesus, Jesus Himself, and myself forever with Him in nearest and dearest fellowship.

十二月十七日

主是活水的江河，浩浩荡荡，水势汹涌是没有限量的，凡口渴的人都可以到祂那里去喝，但喝了的人在心中有了活水的泉源，就永远不渴，这泉源直涌到永生。

主得了荣耀之后，就有圣灵因祂降临，主是活水的江河，圣灵是江河的活水。信的人就从圣灵受了洗，饮于一位灵，这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据，直到得赎的日子。神所赐的灵在我们外面，也在我们心中，从圣灵受洗是在外面，饮于一位灵是在里面，我们用不着到神那里另求圣灵，凡事回到心中就必得到清楚的启示。为什么我们有时口渴、干燥，就是因为另去找水。神所赐我们心中的灵是活水的泉源，是取之不尽用之不竭的，好象小水龙头却有流不尽的活水，因为是连在江河的洪流中。

我们若不在这里取水，就是到雅各井里去取水，雅各井里的水取了还要再取，喝了还要再喝，因为是在外面的，这是雅各和他的儿子并牲畜所喝的，就是以色列人所喝的，是因行律法所得着点滴的圣灵，时来时去，正如诗人的话：「不要从我收回你的圣灵。」（诗五十一11）

可见律法之下的人，行得好就有圣灵同在，行得不好，圣灵就离开他们。神的圣灵在我们心中，却不是那样，如同滋润的膏油，在凡事上随时教训我们，祂要领我们进入一切的真理；我们好的时候，祂与我们同在，我们犯了罪，祂也不离开我们，祂忠于祂的职守，直到把基督宝血所赎的人救到荣耀中。

耶稣回答说：凡喝这水的，还要再渴；人若喝我所赐的水就永远不渴；我所赐的水，要在他里头成为泉源，直涌到永生。（约四13至14）

《荒漠甘泉》12月17日

愿赐平安的神，亲自使你们全然成圣。又愿你们的灵，与魂，与身子，得蒙保守，在我主耶稣基督降临的时候，完全无可指摘。那召你们的本是信实的，他必成就这事。（帖前5:23,24）

从前我曾竭力追求圣洁，并且鼓励一切和我交往的人都追求圣洁。十年以后，神给我清楚看见一个我以前从未看见过的得到圣洁的方法，就是相信神的儿子。

我就立刻传扬这个真理：信能把我们从罪恶中拯救出来，信能使我们成为圣洁。

我把这真理在私人生活上见证出来，在公共场所见证出来，在印刷物上见证出来；神也借着许多见证人来证实。

我继续传扬这个真理，到现在已经差不多三十年了，神继续给了我无数证实。

－－约翰卫斯理（JohnWesley）

主耶稣，对于我是非常宝贵的；但是我发见在我里面有一件东西使我不能温柔、不能忍耐、不能仁爱。我尽力把这件东西压制下去，但是它仍在那里。

直到我把我的意志完全让位给主的时候，主就替我拿去了一切使我不能温柔的、不能仁爱的、不能忍耐的。

－－福克斯（GeorgeFox）

现在我的心不再希图人的称赞了。神填满了我心的一切空处；除祂以外，我不再有甚么希图、甚么意志、甚么欲望了。

我自己也觉得非常奇怪－－神竟用爱来征服了我的一切！

－－亨丁登（JonathanEdwards）

十二月十八日

你们要撕裂心肠，不撕裂衣服。(珥2：13)

撕裂衣服和外面的宗教情绪的表现，是很容易表现出来的，而且也常是虚伪的；但真正的悔改却是很困难，而且也是很鲜见的。人们常愿作一些最繁多而琐屑的宗教仪式，因为这些事情能使肉体满足；但真实地相信，却很不合属肉体之人的口味，因为那太卑屈、太扎心、太彻底了；他们宁愿喜欢一些浮夸、虚幻和属世的事。外表的仪式是暂时安适的，既可取悦耳目，又可满足自尊心，更可藉此靠己称义；但他们是完全自欺的，因为在死时和在审判的日子，人的灵魂还得靠赖比仪式和礼节更真实的东西才行。若无真实的敬虔，一切宗教的仪式都是完全虚空的；若无诚心，一切敬拜的形式都是虚伪的，并且也是冒渎了天上的神。

撕裂心肠是神所成就的事，并且也能深深地感到。这种隐秘的忧伤乃是个人经验中的事，不仅在形式方面，而且在信徒心灵的深处大大受了圣灵的感动。这并不是徒托空言，单单相信的事，而是在永活神的每一个孩子心中所切实感到的。大大谦卑，完全除罪，然后便可尝到恩慰的甜蜜滋味，这是高傲的人所不能领受到的；这恩乃是特特分别归与神的选民，并单单属于他们。

这节经文叫我们撕裂我们的心肠，但我们的心肠自有生一来，就坚硬如石；那么，怎么行呢?我们要把我们的心肠带到十字架下：救主死时大声一喊磐石为之震裂，他的声音现在也能撕裂我们的心肠。圣灵啊!愿你使我听到耶稣死时的呼喊，好使我们的心肠裂开，正像人在悲哀之日撕裂自己的衣服一样。

十二月十八日

经文: 你要详细知道你羊群的景况，留心料理你的牛群。（箴言27：23）

每位聪明的商人都会定期评估他的公司。他会更新他的帐目、查验他的存货，并且检视他的事业是繁荣昌盛或是在走下坡。在天国中的每一位智者都会呼求：「 神啊，求祢鉴察我，知道我的心思；试炼我，知道我的意念。」（诗一三九：23）。他常会定出自我反省的时间，以察验他的灵魂与 神之间的关系是否正常。我们所敬拜的神是一位伟大的心灵鉴察者。在古时，祂的仆人认识到祂是鉴察人心、试验人肺腑的神（见耶17：10)。我以祂的名鼓励你要勤勉地和严肃的探究自己的属灵光景，免得你缺乏 神所应许之安息。每个聪明人都会如此去行，神自己也这样鉴察我们所有人，我劝你今晚就来省察自己的光景。但愿年长的圣徒审察自己信心的基础，因为白发苍苍之下可能隐藏着罪恶的心灵。但愿年轻的信徒不要忽视神的警告，因为蓬勃的朝气可能掺杂假冒为善的腐朽。常常有香柏树坠落在我们中间。要知道，敌人不断地将稗子撒播在麦子里。我并非要在你的思想中挑起疑惑和恐惧；反而我希望自我反省之强风能将这些消极情感吹散。我们要除灭的是属肉体的安全感，而非真正的安全；我们要排除属肉体的信心，而非真正的信心；要毁灭假平安，而非真平安。基督所流之宝血，不是要使你成为假冒为善的人，却要教真诚的心灵向祂发出颂赞之声。我恳求你，鉴察并省察自我，以免最后神对你说：「弥尼，弥尼，提客勒...你被称在天平里，显出你的亏欠。」（但5:25,27）。

Scripture: “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”(Proverbs 27:23)

Every wise businessman will periodicallytake stock of his company.He will update his accounts, examine his inventory, and evaluate whether his trade is prospering or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven will cry, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me” (Ps. 139:23).He will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul. The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher.In times past, his servants knew him as the Lord who searches the heart and examines the minds of the children of men. (See Jeremiah 17:10) Let me encourage you in his name to diligent search and solemn investigate your spiritual condition, lest you come short of the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God himself does with us all, I exhort you to do with yourself this evening. Let the oldest saint look well to the fundamentals of his faith, for gray heads may cover black hearts. let not the young believer despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy. Every now and then a cedar falls into our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat. It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind; instead, I hope that the rather that the rough wind of self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but carnal security, which we want to kill; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, that we want to overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we want to destroy. By the precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but so that sincere souls might show forth his praise, I beg you, search and look, lest inthe end it will be said of you, “Mene, Mene, Tekel; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” (Dan. 5:25,27).

《竭诚为主》12月18日 忠心的考验

我们晓得万事都互相效力，叫爱神的人得益处。（罗八28）

只有忠心耿耿的人，才相信神安排环境。我们往往过于随便，不相信自己的境遇是神所安排；口头上虽然说相信，但当事情发生，往往视作人的作为。在任何情况下忠心，是指只有一个忠心的对象，就是我们的主。神若忽然改变某一个环境，我们就发现自己的不忠，因为没有看出这是出于神。我们根本看不出他的用意，而那件事我们的一生中也不会再重演。忠心的考验都是在那刻临到的。我们若学会在苦痛的环境中敬拜他，神愿意的话，可以在两秒钟内把环境扭转。

向耶稣基督效忠，是我们今日抗拒的事。我们可以忠于工作、事奉、或任何事情，但别叫我们效忠耶稣基督。不少信徒对效忠基督感到不耐烦。信主的人把主从宝座上推下来，比世界的人更甚。神成为一部祝福人的机器，耶稣基督成为工人中的工人。重点不是在我们为神工作，而是在我们完全效忠，以致他能透过我作工－－“我寄望于你的，是要你全力事奉，不发怨言，不求解释。”神要用我们，像他用他儿子一样。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你今天的脸光光照我们，使我们都以极大的甜蜜和自由来配合你的计划，并且活泼轻快地与你一起走过。

December 18 The Test Of Loyalty

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28

It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberty with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances, and the realization comes that we have been disloyal to Him by not recognizing that He had ordered them; we never saw what He was after, and that particular thing will never be repeated all the days of our life. The test of loyalty always comes just there. If we learn to worship God in the trying circumstances, He will alter them in two seconds when He chooses.

Loyalty to Jesus Christ is the thing that we “stick at” to-day. We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything, but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ. Many Christians are intensely impatient of talking about loyalty to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by Christian workers than by the world. God is made a machine for blessing men, and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among workers.

The idea is not that we do work for God, but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us – “I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine.” God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

十二月十八日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

神的保护

经文:「雀鸟怎样搧翅覆雏，万军之耶和华也要照样保护耶路撒冷」（以赛亚书31︰5）

母鸟用急促呼扇的翅膀，迅速地飞去保护她的幼雏。当要喂养敖敖待哺的幼雏或保护他们脱离危险时，母鸟总是迫不及待地全速飞回鸟巢。 主对祂的百姓也是如此，祂会像乘着雄鹰的翅膀快速地去保护祂所拣选的；是的，祂是驾驭着风的翅膀而来。

母鸟用完全张开的翅膀，褓抱着巢中的幼雏。她甘冒暴露自己身体的危险，也要舍身保护幼鸟的安全。母鸟用自己的体温温暖幼雏，用她的翅膀搭建房屋，让她的儿女居住其中。耶和华也是如此保护祂的选民；祂自己就是他们的避难所、他们的家、他们一切的一切。

雀鸟展翅既可飞翔也可覆蔽，主也会这样对我们，而且祂会一次次如此行，绝不会落空。祂必能保护我们安全，保守我们免于各样罪恶：主将祂自己比作雀鸟，却不像它们那样软弱，因为祂是万军之耶和华。让这应许成为我们的安慰，因为全能者的大爱会迅速地帮助我们，稳妥地覆蔽我们。神的双臂比鸟的双翅来得更温柔、更迅速，我们只管把自己的信靠藏在祂的荫蔽下，从今时直到永远。

Defended and Covered

Scripture: "As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem" (Isaiah 31:5).

With hurrying wing the mother bird hastens up to the protection of her young. She wastes no time upon the road when coming to supply them with food or guard them from danger. Thus as on eagle's wings will the LORD come for the defense of His chosen; yea, He will ride upon the wings of the wind.

With outspread wing the mother covers her little ones in the nest. She hides them away by interposing her own body. The hen yields her own warmth to her chicks and makes her wings a house, in which they dwell at home. Thus doth Jehovah Himself become the protection of His elect. He Himself is their refuge, their abode, their all.

As birds flying and birds covering (for the word means both), so will the LORD be unto us: and this He will be repeatedly and successfully. We shall be defended and preserved from all evil: the LORD who likens Himself to birds will not be like them in their feebleness, for He is Jehovah of hosts. Let this be our comfort, that almighty love will be swift to succor and sure to cover. The wing of God is more quick and more tender than the wing of a bird, and we will put our trust under its shadow henceforth and forever.

十二月十八日

在基督的生命之外，还有圣灵住在我们心中帮助我们，祂象慈爱的母亲抚养幼儿，随时感动我们，教导我们所当作的事，禁止我们所不当有的意念。古时的人好的时候圣灵就帮助他们，犯罪的时候圣灵就离开他们，但到新约之下，保惠师圣灵永远不离开有基督生命的人，直等到得赎的日子来到，这才完成祂的任务，主告诉我们祂永远不离开我们，祂要将受于主的一切事都告诉我们，并且祂要帮助我们作更大的事。

圣灵来了，住在信徒各人的心中，祂更大的责任就是成全教会，祂看着教会在各时代随时的需要，就随己意分赐各样的恩赐，我们不能主动的对圣灵说：我要这样，我要那样。我们不能支配祂，而是祂支配我们，现在没有方言，因为祂没有赐下方言，我们就不能吩咐祂「你给我方言的灵」。现在没有翻方言的，因为祂没有赐下来，我们就不能吩咐祂「你给我翻方言的灵」，祂所赐的恩赐总是合乎教会在时代中的需要。

我们若是在什么事上有错误，就在什么事上有魔鬼的工作，魔鬼遍地游行，作事从来不失掉机会，我们若在错误的意念和方式之下追求圣灵充满，圣灵不来作工，魔鬼却来作工，它来鱼目混珠，将教会陷在混乱的状况中。

圣灵充满不用哭求，只要我们圣洁，祂就很自然地随着教会的需要充满我们，祂在等候充满一切信的人，就象神的救恩等候赐给一切世人一样。

圣灵显在各人身上，是叫人得益处。（林前十二7）

这一切都是这位圣灵所运行，随己意分给各人的。（林前十二11）

《荒漠甘泉》12月18日

靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上，已经得胜有余了。罗8:37

真奇怪，攻击我们的仇敌，反对我们的势力，是我们进到神前的梯阶。

正如鹫鹰坐在峭壁上，守望黑云密布的天空；虽然叉状的闪电穿上穿下，牠仍顶安静的坐着，期待那将来的风雨。

牠从不肯早一刻飞行的；牠必须觉到风雨已经爆发了，已经打到身上了；然后尖叫一声，乘坐风雨而去。

这正是神要祂每一个孩子作的事－－把黑云当作火车，藉此得胜有余。『得胜有余』不单是把对方驱逐出去，并且还掠得对方一切的军火、粮食……。

亲爱的，你有没有得到战利品呢？当你进入苦难谷的时候，你有没有带着掠物出来呢？当毁灭临到你的时候，你有没有信靠神：祂必叫你出来的时候，比进去的时候更丰富呢？

『得胜有余』就是从仇敌那里把掠物夺来，拨作己用。

英国孟博士（Dr.Moon）瞎眼的时候，说，『主阿，我从你手里接受这盲目的恩典。求你叫我用它铸造你的荣耀，好使你来的时候，得着满足。』神果然藉他发明盲人所用的凸版文字，千万盲人得读神的话语；有许多竟因此蒙了救赎。

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神并不挪去保罗的刺；神作的比『挪去』更好－－神利用那刺。刺的用处比宝座的用处更大。

－－选

十二月十九日

定事由耶和华。(箴16：33)

定事既由耶和华，那么谁能安排我们一生的事呢?若我们完全靠着他的引导，终生一切的事，都必像我们的救主所说的：“……若是你们的父不许，一个也不能掉在地上。就是你们的头发也都被数过了。所以，不要惧怕，你们比许多麻雀还贵重。”亲爱的朋友!若你能常常记住这话，你的心就必大得平安。它能使你的心脱离忧烦，使你忍耐、平静、快乐地过着一个基督徒所当有的生活。当一个人忧虑的时候，他就不能凭信心祷告；当他为世事愁烦的时候，他就不能服侍主；他的心思乃是在服侍自己。若你“先求他的国和他的义，”一切东西都要加给你们了。当你为你的环境思虑烦扰的时候，你就在干预基督的事，疏忽你自己的事了。你曾筹备策划工作，而忘记你的责任是顺服。要聪明地、当心地顺服，而让基督来筹划你的事。来，看你父的仓库吧!是否他有丰富的口粮，而肯叫你挨饿!?看他满有恩怜的慈心，是否会不恩待你!?看他不可量度的智慧，是否会发生错误!?更当看你的中保耶稣基督，再问问你自己，当你求他的时候，你的父会错待你吗?若他顾念麻雀，还会忘记他儿女中最小的一个吗?“你要把你的重担卸给耶和华，他必抚养你，他永不叫义人动摇。”

“要倚靠主，专心靠主，在一切事上要认定主，他必指引你的路。……”

十二月十九日

经文: 海也不再有了。（启示录21：1）

当我们想到将失去那荣美的古老海洋时，几乎就快乐不起来：若真如字面所言，新天新地中没有伟大和宽广的大海，没有闪烁的波浪，没有贝壳的海滩，没有海的迷人处，真是令人难以想象。难道这不是略带偏见的比喻，就像古时东方人对海的理解？没有海的真实的物质世界想起来都让人觉得可悲。就像缺少蓝宝石的铁戒指一般，不再珍贵。此处必有其属灵的含义。在新天地中没有分隔——海将国家和民族彼此分割。深水如同牢狱的墙，将拔摩岛上的约翰和他的弟兄、他的工作隔离了。在将要来的世界中，不再有这样的阻隔。在我们和许多弟兄姊妹之间也有翻腾波涛之海洋，今晚我们只能以祈祷来纪念他们。但在我们将要去的光明世界中，在蒙救赎的家庭中每一位都可以毫无拦阻地彼此相交，也就是不再有海了。海也是变化的象征：海潮时涨时落——有时平静如镜，有时波涛汹涌，有时喃喃细语，有时惊涛怒吼——总不会长久不变。作为变幻莫测的风和多变之月球的奴仆，海的不稳定性是众所周知的。而在这必朽的尘世中，我们有太多类似之事，地球唯一恒定不变的是其反复无常。但是在天国中，一切悲哀的变化都不会被数算，令我们希望破灭、喜乐湮没的风暴都不存在了。玻璃海发出荣耀的光辉，没有波浪将它破坏。在乐园的平静岸上不再有暴风雨的怒吼。不久我们就将到达那快乐之地，届时不再有分离、变化和风暴！耶稣就要带我们到那里去。我们是否在祂里面？这是最重要的问题。

Scripture: “And there was no more sea.”(Revelation 21:1)

Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores. Is not the text to be read as a metaphor, tinged with the prejudice with which the Oriental mind universally regarded the sea in the olden times? A real physical world without a sea it is mournful to imagine.It would be an iron ring without the sapphire which made it precious. There must be a spiritual meaning here. In the new dispensation there will be no division—the sea separates nations and divides peoples from each other. To John in Patmos the deep waters were like prison walls, shutting him out from his brethren and his work.There shall be no such barriers in the world to come. Leagues of rolling billows lie between us and many relatives whom tonight we prayerfully remember, but in the bright world to which we go, there shall be unbroken fellowship for all the redeemed family. In this sense there shall be no more sea. The sea is the emblem of change; with its ebbs and flows -- its glassy smoothness and its mountainous billows, its gentle murmurs and its tumultuous roarings -- it is never the same for long. Slave of the fickle winds and the changeful moon, its instability is proverbial. In this mortal state we have too much of this.Earth is constant only in her inconstancy.But in the heavenly state, all mournful change shall be unknown, and with it all fear of storm to wreck our hopes and drown our joys. The sea of glass glows with a glory unbroken by a wave. No tempest howls along the peaceful shores of paradise. Soon shall we reach that happy land where partings,changes, and storms shall be ended! Jesus will carry us there. Are we in him or not? This is the grand question.

《竭诚为主》12月19日 注意什么？

我来，并不是叫地上太平，乃是叫地上动刀兵。（太十34）

若有人的遭遇令你觉得神是冷酷无情的，不要对这人表示同情。神比想像中更柔和，他有时让我们经历艰难，是为我们的好处。人若不能通达主前，是由于他藏着不肯放下的东西－－“我承认有错，但我不打算放弃它。”对这样的人是不需要同情的：即使他们憎恶敌挡我们的信息，也要直斥其非。人都爱神的祝福，可是却不肯接受那些命中要害的东西。

神若是使用你作他的仆人，你的信息就该不通融迁就，直指问题根源，否则人就得不着医治。把信息清楚传讲，使人无可避讳。先从人的本相着手，直到他们发现自己的缺欠，然后举出主耶稣的榜样，“我们永远也不能像耶稣一样！”你就立即说：“耶稣基督说你必须如此。”“我们怎能如此？”“你不能，除非你有了更新的圣灵。”（路十一13）

先要唤起人的需要，你的信息才生果效。世上千万人心中没有神，生活依然快活。我在耶稣未来以先，原是快活的，道德也不差，他来到底做什么？原来那种快乐平安是建筑在错误的水平上；耶稣基督来，就是要用刀剑刺透一切不是建基于与他个人关系的平安。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，今天我来到你的面前，愿你的美善、恩典和充满安慰的平安临到我。愿没有任何风暴、不适或焦虑，触动你在我生命中和在此处的平安。

December 19 What To Concentrate On

“I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34

Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is hard. God is more tender than we can conceive, and every now and again He gives us the chance of being the rugged one that He may be the tender One. If a man cannot get through to God it is because there is a secret thing he does not intend to give up – I will admit I have done wrong, but I no more intend to give up that thing than fly. It is impossible to deal sympathetically with a case like that: we have to get right deep down to the root until there is antagonism and resentment against the message. People want the blessing of God, but they will not stand the thing that goes straight to the quick.

If God has had His way with you, your message as His servant is merciless insistence on the one line, cut down to the very root, otherwise there will be no healing. Drive home the message until there is no possible refuge from its application. Begin to get at people where they are until you get them to realize what they lack, and then erect the standard of Jesus Christ for their lives – “We never can be that.” Then drive it home – “Jesus Christ says you must.” “But how can we be?” “You cannot, unless you have a new Spirit.” (Luke 11:13.)

There must be a sense of need before your message is of any use. Thousands of people are happy without God in this world. If I was happy and moral till Jesus came, why did He come? Because that kind of happiness and peace is on a wrong level; Jesus Christ came to send a sword through every peace that is not based on a personal relationship to Himself.

十二月十九日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

受苦，骨头却不折断

经文:「又保全他一身的骨头，连一根也不折断。」（诗篇34︰20）

根据上下文，这应许是针对身受许多苦楚的义人所言：“义人多有苦难，但耶和华救他脱离这一切。”义人会遭皮肉之苦，但也仅止于此，“他一身的骨头，连一根也不折断”。

这对正在受考验的神的儿女是一帖良药，这也是我可以见证的，因为到目前为止，苦难虽一波接一波地纷沓而至，我却没有受到真正的伤害，我未曾失去信心、爱心，与盼望；不但没有失去品格中的这些脊梁，反而更得着了力量和活力。较之受到各项试炼之前，我有了更多知识、更多经验、更多耐心、更加坚固，就连我的喜乐也没有被摧毁。虽然曾因遭病魔摧残、丧亲之痛、沮丧失望、诽谤排挤，而伤痕累累，但这些挫伤已经治愈，并且从未连带骨头折断，就连一根也没有。理由何在？就是因为若我们信靠主，祂必保全我们一身的骨头；若祂保全它们，我们就可以放心连一根也不折断。

来吧，我的心，切莫悲伤自怜。你是在疼痛，但没有骨头折断。承受苦难，向恐惧发出挑战。

Afflictions, But No Broken Bones

Scripture: "He keepeth all His bones; not one of them is broken" (Psalm 34:20).

This promise by the context is referred to the much afflicted righteous man: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." He may suffer skin wounds and flesh wounds, but no great harm shall be done; "not a bone of him shall be broken."

This is great comfort to a tried child of God, and comfort which I dare accept; for up to this hour I have suffered no real damage from my many afflictions. I have neither lost faith, nor hope, nor love. Nay so far from losing these bones of character, they have gained in strength and energy. I have more knowledge, more experience, more patience, more stability than I had before the trials came. Not even my joy has been destroyed. Many a bruise have I had by sickness, bereavement, depression, slander, and opposition; but the bruise has healed, and there has been no compound fracture of a bone, not even a simple one. The reason is not far to seek. If we trust in the LORD, He keeps all our bones; and if He keeps them, we may be sure that not one of them is broken.

Come, my heart, do not sorrow. Thou art smarting, but there are no bones broken. Endure hardness and bid defiance to fear.

十二月十九日

圣灵充满是在特殊的光景中，祂不是每时每刻充满在人肉体之中，就象使徒在五旬节被圣灵充满了，圣经上虽然未记何时又不充满了，却是记载又被圣灵充满了，圣经中几次说使徒又被圣灵充满，这很显然充满是有间断的。圣灵充满是圣灵的能力充满了灵、魂、体。

有时看见人冲冲大怒，眼中冒火，满面赤红，言语暴戾，他的肺腑心肝都紧张起来，整个的人都被怒气充满了；有时人的眼也笑，口也笑，全身的肌肉都笑，这是被喜乐充满了。被圣灵充满是圣灵掌握了全人，全人都在圣灵的支配之下，一切都不是出乎自己，是被动的。

圣灵充满人常是在特殊的情形之中，在需要能力的时候，在工作紧急的时候，在与神相交的时候，过了这些时候，圣灵仍要在安居在人的灵里。

圣灵充满不但身体充满了能力，甚至于达到人衣服上，和人所占的物上。主耶稣和使徒都在这情形中：有人摸了主的衣服，病就痊愈了；有人把使徒的手巾或围裙放在病人身上，病就退了；恶鬼也出去了；有时连祷告的地方都震动。

圣灵是乐意充满人的，所以用不着作哭求，凡是圣洁的器皿，在他需要的时候圣灵就充满他。若是追求圣灵充满是出于自己的私意；不是圣灵支配我们，而是我们要支配圣灵，是最容易被邪灵所附的。

那里有破口，那里就有撒但进入；它是遍地游行，寻找可吞吃的人。

祷告完了，聚会的地方震动；他们就都被圣灵充满，放胆讲论神的道。（徒四31）

《荒漠甘泉》12月19日

这些事终必为你们的见证。路21:13

基督人的生活是爬山的生活；如果爬在前面的人能常回头喊一声，笑一笑，点一点头，招一招手，对于爬在后面的人是大有帮助的。

我们都是爬山的人，我们应该互相帮助、勉励、纔是。

这样的爬山是顶危险的，可是也是顶荣耀的。我们要爬上山顶，一方面必须费力，一方面必须谨慎、坚忍。我们越爬得高，前途的景色越望得清。

我们中间如果有甚么人发见了甚么值得注意的东西，应该立即回头喊一声，叫后面疲倦的同伴得着兴奋。

－－选

十二月廿日

我以永远的爱爱你。(耶3l：3)

有时主耶稣把他的爱告诉他的教会。“他想在背后告诉是不够的，所以他当她的面说：‘我的佳偶，你全然美丽。’不错，他平常的方法并不是这样；他的爱是出于智慧的，他知道什么时候该表白或不该表白他的爱；有很多时候他毫不隐藏地表示出来，也有很多时候，他也使他的民在心中捉摸不到。”(R．Erskine所讲的话)圣灵满有恩惠的，常在我们的心灵中见证耶稣的爱，因此得到喜悦。他把基督的一切启示给我们。我们没有听到云彩里发出什么声音，夜里也没有看到什么异象，但我们却有比这更确实的见证。若是天使自天而来向圣徒说明救主对他的爱，也不能比圣灵在我们的心里的明证更能使我们满意。我们若询问一些生活靠近天门的神的儿女们，他们必能告诉你说基督有时对他们的爱是非常清楚而确实的，这是他们丝毫不能怀疑的事实，正如他们的生存一样的

真实。是的，亲爱的信徒!你我也有主同在的生活经验，那时我们的信心便到了稳固确实的高峰。我们有信心把我们的头倚在主的怀里，那时我们不再疑惑主的爱了，正像约翰当时的经验一样；此外，“主啊!是我吗?”这一类不快的问题也不会临到我们了。他曾用他的嘴亲我们，因他的亲近斩除了我们的疑心。他的爱对于我们的心灵，比酒还美。

“凡靠着他进到神面前的人，他都能拯救到底；因为他是长远活着，替他们祈求。”

十二月二十日

经文: 叫工人都来，给他们工钱。（马太福音20：8）

神是一位好雇主，不但在仆人工作时祂付他们工钱，工作完成后，祂也给他们赏赐。祂所付的工钱中有一项是平安的良心。倘若今日你向一位朋友忠实地述说耶稣，晚上当你躺卧时可以愉快地想：「我今日告诉他关乎生命之事，我的良心得安稳」为耶稣所做之事中有极大的安慰。能为祂的冠冕增添珍宝，让主看到祂拯救工作的果效，那是多么大的喜乐啊！看到灵魂因信主而萌发出嫩芽，也是何等大的赏赐啊！说到你班上的某位女孩：「她的心是何等柔和。但愿她的敏感是主在她心中动工的证明。」或是你回家后为某位男孩代祷，因他所说的话令你想到他应该明白更多 神的真理——哦，这是有盼望的喜乐！至于成功的喜悦，那是无法言表的。这压倒性的喜悦会唤起人内在的渴慕——你渴望得到更多。能成为赢取灵魂的人是世上最快乐的事。每当你领着一个灵魂到基督面前，就等于是在地上获得了一个新天堂。但是谁能想象那在上面等待着我们的福乐呢？「可以进来享受你主人的快乐」（太二十五：21）。哦，这话是多么甘甜！你知道一个得救的罪人会给基督带来多大的快乐吗？这也是我们将来在天堂所能拥有的快乐。是的，当祂登上宝座时，你会和祂一起登上去。当天堂响起「好，好」的称许声音时，你就会获得赏赐。你曾与祂一同辛劳，你曾与祂一同受苦，现在你要与祂一同作王。你曾与祂同撒种，就要与祂一同收割。你曾像祂一般汗流满面，你的灵曾如祂的灵一般为人的罪忧伤，现在你的脸将如祂的面容一般闪耀着天堂的光辉，你的灵将如祂的灵一般充满极大的幸福快乐。

Scripture: “Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.”(Matthew 20:8)

God is a good employer.He pays his servants while they work as well as when they have finished working.One of his payments is an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel happy in thinking, “I have this day discharged my conscience of that man's blood.” There is a great comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh, what a happiness it brings to place jewels in his crown and to allow him to see of the results of his saving work! There is also great reward in watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul. To say of a girl in your class, “She is tender of heart. I hope that her sensitivity reflects the Lord's work within.” To go home and pray over that boy who said something that made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared -- Oh, the joy of hope! As for the joy of success, it is unspeakable. This joy, overwhelming as it is, is a hungry thing—you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ, you get a new heaven upon earth. But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above? Oh, how sweet is that sentence, “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!”(Matt.25:21) Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven. Yes, when he mounts the throne, you shall mount with him. When the heavens ring with “Well done, well done,” you shall partake in the reward.You have toiled with him, and you have suffered with him, you shall now reign with him.You have sown with him, and you shall reap with him.Your face was covered with sweat like his, and your soul was grieved for the sins of men as his soul was.Now your face will be bright with heaven's splendor as is his countenance, and your soul will be filled with blissful joy even as his soul is.

《竭诚为主》12月20日 正确工作的路线

我若从地上被举起来，就要吸引万人来归我。（约十二32）

很少人真正明白主耶稣受死的原因。若世人需要的只是同情，那么耶稣的十字架不过是场闹剧，根本用不着。世界所需要的，不是一点点爱，乃是开刀动手术。

当你面对一个在灵性上遇到困难的人，要提醒自己那在十字架上的耶稣基督。若那人可以从别的途径到神那里，耶稣基督的十字架就是多余。你若以为能用自己的同情心或体谅去帮助人，你就是主的叛徒。你必须与神保持正确的关系，依他的方法为他倾倒，而不是忽略了神、依人的方法去倾倒，但今日最响的调子，却是温和派的宗教。

有一件事不能不做的，就是每时每刻高举被钉的主耶稣。任何教义不植根于耶稣的十字架的，必领人入歧途。工人若深信耶稣基督，紧抓他救赎的真实，和他说话的人必然被吸引。神的工人是否有用，全赖他与耶稣基督的单纯关系。而这种关系是长存的，也是日益加深的。

新约的工人蒙召，是要揭发罪恶并指出耶稣是救主，因此他不能诗情画意，乃是要严谨开刀。我们被差是要高举主耶稣，不是要发表美妙的论说。我们对人的察验必须深入，像神察验我们一样；对圣经要敏锐，把真理直截阐明，勇敢地应用出来。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，我察觉到我最近的内心是何其缺少将我对耶稣的信心实践出来，那些隐藏的意欲似乎经常出没。愿你将基督里的单纯引进我的生命，又使我对事情有更深入的看法－－唯一关注的是凡事获得你的认可。

December 20 The Right Lines Of Work

“I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.” John 12:32

Very few of us have any understanding of the reason why Jesus Christ died. If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is a farce, there was no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love,” but a surgical operation.

When you are face to face with a soul in difficulty spiritually, remind yourself of Jesus Christ on the Cross. If that soul can get to God on any other line, then the Cross of Jesus Christ is unnecessary. If you can help others by your sympathy or understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You have to keep your soul rightly related to God and pour out for others on His line, not pour out on the human line and ignore God. The great note to-day is amiable religiosity.

The one thing we have to do is to exhibit Jesus Christ crucified, to lift Him up all the time. Every doctrine that is not imbedded in the Cross of Jesus will lead astray. If the worker himself believes in Jesus Christ and is banking on the Reality of Redemption, the people he talks to must be concerned. The thing that remains and deepens is the worker's simple relationship to Jesus Christ; his usefulness to God depends on that and that alone.

The calling of a New Testament worker is to uncover sin and to reveal Jesus Christ as Saviour, consequently he cannot be poetical, he must be sternly surgical. We are sent by God to lift up Jesus Christ, not to give wonderfully beautiful discourses. We have to probe straight down as deeply as God has probed us, to be keen in sensing the Scriptures which bring the truth straight home and to apply them fearlessly.

十二月廿日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

把神当神，把人当人

经文:「惟有我，是安慰你们的。你是谁？竟怕那必死的人，怕那要变如草的世人，却忘记铺张诸天、立定地基、创造你的耶和华。又因欺压者图谋毁灭要发的暴怒，整天害怕!其实那欺压者的暴怒在哪里呢？」（以赛亚书51︰12，13）

让这节经文成为你今日的灵粮。没有必要再进一步详述这经文的意思。畏惧的人啊，阅读它，相信它、享用它，在神的面前索要它。你所畏惧的不过是人，然而那应许要赐你安慰的却是神——天地的主、创造你的天父，祂无限安慰的覆蔽远超过极其有限的危险。

“那欺压者的爆怒在哪里呢？“是在神的手中。那不过只是将死的受造之物的愤怒，他鼻孔的气息一停止，他的怒气也随之消失。因此，我们何须畏惧一个像我们一样脆弱的人呢?让我们不要将微不足道的人当作神明，这是对神的辱没。当我们对人过度热爱或极端惧怕，我们可能会把他当作偶像。让我们把神当作神，把人当作人来对待；如此，我们在事工的路上就可以沉着前行，除神以外，别无畏惧。

Men as Men; God as God

Scripture: "I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?" (Isaiah 51:12-13).

Let the text itself be taken as the portion for today. There is no need to enlarge upon it. Trembling one, read it, believe it, feed on it, and plead it before the LORD. He whom you fear is only a man after all; while He who promises to comfort you is God, your Maker, and the creator of heaven and earth. Infinite comfort more than covers a very limited danger.

"Where is the fury of the oppressor?" It is in the LORD's hand. It is only the fury of a dying creature; fury which will end as soon as the breath is gone from the nostril. Why, then, should we stand in awe of one who is as frail as ourselves? Let us not dishonor our God by making a god of puny man. We can make an idol of a man by rendering to him excessive fear as well as by paying him inordinate love. Let us treat men as men, and God as God; and then we shall go calmly on in the path of duty, fearing the LORD and fearing nobody else.

十二月二十日

分别诸灵，看他们所结的果子是一个方法；还有一个方法就是看他所受的灵与圣经所记载的相合不相合。关于圣灵当有的动作，在圣经中有很清楚的指示；如果灵的表现与圣经所记的不合，我们可以肯定地说：那不是圣灵的工作。我们可以在这个原则之下分别诸灵，因为圣经就是圣灵感动所写的，就可以说是圣灵写的。圣灵是信实无谎言的神，祂决不能背乎自己，祂决不能把自己所说的话推翻了，祂决不能自己说了自己不照办。

圣灵感动古圣徒所写的圣经，和圣灵所充满圣徒的动作，必是一致的，绝不会是而又非的。若有什么充满的表现，与圣经所记的不合，我们就可以分辨这充满是从谁来的。

看见人很热心，口中爱主，长时间祷告，甚至于治病赶鬼，这些都不是被圣灵充满的凭据，因为撒但会装作光明的天使，也能行各样奇事。所以要分辨诸灵，必须从圣经中取原则。

我们要看被充满的人，动作是否与圣经相合；看被充满的人的目的何在，是为了教会还是为了高举自己；看被充满的人私人的生活如何，是圣洁的还是污秽的；看被充满的人是不是与使徒们的充满一样；看被充满的后果是不是与使徒们的后果一样----叫许多人信了耶稣。这样就很容易分辨了。

亲爱的阿！一切的灵，你们不可都信；总要试验那些灵是出于神的不是；因为世上有许多假先知已经出来了。（约壹四1）

《荒漠甘泉》12月20日

 其实我不是独自一人，因为有父与我同在。约16:32

我们都知道；要跟从主，是要出重大代价的。也许要我们放弃合法的权利，也许要我们离开至亲的爱人，叫我们尝到非常的剥夺和孤独。但是我们如果像鹫鹰那样飞上高天，直穿云霄，我们就能与神同居；虽然地上的生活孤独一点，也可以叫我们知足了。

鹫鹰是鸟类中最喜欢独栖的。牠们从不集群而飞；每次我们看见牠们，只能看见一只，最多两只。

一个与神同居的人，虽然没有人的交往，定规有神的交往。

神在寻找像鹫鹰那样的人。因为凡不与神单独同行的人，决不能明白神的最好。

摩西虽然精通埃及人的一切学问，他还须在旷野与神单独亲近四十年，保罗虽然精通希腊学问，且曾在迦玛列门下受教，他还须到亚拉伯去学习沙漠生活。

所以，信徒阿，任神隔离我们罢。不过我并不指寺院式的隔离。隔离能使我们有独立的信心和生活－－使我们不再不断的依赖别人的帮助、祷告、信心和照顾。

别人的照顾和激励，对于基督人的长进，是绝对必需的，但是到了一个时期，它们会成为个人信心和幸福的直接妨碍。

神知道甚么时候我们的环境需要更换，甚么时候我们需要隔离生活，所以让我们把一切交给神罢，祂必带领我们过去。

我们敢不敢过孤独的生活呢？

主独自踹酒醡。我们预备跟从祂的脚踪行呢？还是预备叫祂失望呢？

十二月廿一日

神却与我立永远的约。(撒下23：5)

这约的来源是神。“神却与我立永远的约。”神是多么伟大的一个字呀!我的心哪!要在此稍停。神，永在的父，自动与你立约；他说了一句话就有了世界；他，从他的宝座上俯身。拉着你的手与你立约。我们若真能了解他这样降卑的动作，我们的心就必永远狂欢不已。“神却与我立永远的约。”君王不曾与我立过约——其实他就是君王；但世上的万王之王，万君之君，全能者，足够的主，永有的耶和华，永在的以罗欣(希伯来文的神?-)“却与我立永远的约”。要注意，这一种行动是多么特殊。“神却与我立永远的约。”每一位信徒都可在此得到极大的快乐。他使世界和平对我是没有用的，我们要知道的乃是他是否使我得和平!他立约与我并不相干，我所要知道的乃是他是否与我立约。感谢神的可靠的恩典，他已经与我立了约!若圣灵叫我确实知道这事，那么他的救恩就是我的，他的心是我的，他自己也是我的——他是我的神。

这约的期限是永远的。永远的约乃是没有开头，并且永远也不会终止的。倘若得知“神坚固的根基立住了”，并有神自己的应许：“我必不背弃我的约，也不改变我口中所出的”，那是多么快乐的一件事呀!虽然我的家庭并未按我的心愿完全归向神，接受主，但我也要像大卫临终时一样地高唱：“神却与我立永远的约。”

十二月廿一日

经文: 我也使你身穿绣花衣服，脚穿海狗皮鞋，并用细麻布给你束腰，用丝绸为衣披在你身上。（以西结书16：10）

请看主竟是如此慷慨地为祂的百姓预备衣裳。他们的穿着如此华美，让人看到神圣的技艺生产出无与伦比的绣工，其中彰显了神的每一属性和荣美。世上没有任何艺术可以与展现在我们救恩中的艺术相比，也没有任何手艺像我们在圣徒的公义上所见到的那样。称义吸引历世历代教会中有才能的作者，而那也将是永恒中赞美之主题。神的确“精心成就了这事。”藉着这一阐述，它融合了实用性和耐用性，就如提到我们脚穿海狗皮鞋。海狗其含义是未知的，但它的皮被用来作会幕的顶盖且形成目前已知最细又最韧的皮革之一。因信而得着的神的义是存到永远的，穿上这双神所预备的鞋，就能安然行过沙漠，甚至能“践踏狮子和虺蛇”（见诗91:13）。我们圣洁衣裳的纯净和高贵完全展现在细麻布上。当主使祂的百姓成圣时，他们就和祭司一样穿上洁白的衣服，白雪也无法超越它们。在人和天使看来他们是美好的，甚至在主的眼中，他们仍是没有污点的。尊贵的装饰如丝绸般细致高贵。没有多余的材料，不隐藏美丽，也不吝于使之雅致。从这里可推出什么呢？我们必然会感激父 神所赐的美丽衣裳并释放我们的喜乐。来吧，我的心，将管乐器调音，弹奏你的琴弦！今晚不可忘记赞美主！

我的灵魂奇妙的得着艺术般的装饰

藉着伟大的圣三位一体！

在最甜美和谐的赞美声中

愿你的大能得荣耀。

Scripture: “I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”(Ezekiel 16:10)

See the matchless generosity the Lord provides for his people. They are clothed such that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled embroidered work, in which every attribute takes its part and every divine beauty is revealed. No art like the art displayed in our salvation and no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engaged learned writers in all ages of the church, and it will be the theme of admiration in eternity. God has indeed “curiously wrought it.” With all this elaboration, there is mingled utility and durability, comparable to our being shod with badgers’ skins. The animal mentioned here meant is unknown, but its skin covered the tabernacle and formed one of the finest and strongest leathers known. The righteousness that is of God by faith endures for ever, and he who is shod with this divine preparation will tread the desert safely. He may even set his foot “upon the lion and the adder.”(Ps. 91:13). Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are brought out in the fine linen. When the Lord sanctifies his people, they are clad as priests in pure white. The snow itself does not excel them. They are in the eyes of men and angels fair to look upon, and even in the Lord's eyes they are without spot. Meanwhile the royal apparel is delicate and rich as silk. No expense is spared, no beauty is withheld, and no daintiness is denied. What then? Is there no inference from this? Surely there is gratitude to be felt and joy to be expressed. Come, my heart. Do not refuse your evening hallelujah! Tune your pipes! Touch your chords!

Strangely, my soul, art thou arrayed

By the Great Sacred Three!

In sweetest harmony of praise

Let all thy powers agree.

《竭诚为主》12月21日 经历还是启示？

我们所领受的……乃是从 神来的灵，叫我们能知道 神开恩赐给我们的事。（林前二12）

救赎本身是事实，而不是我对救恩的经历；不过若不是用我能体会的语言传递出来，救恩对我就毫无意义。重生之后，神的灵就立即把我从自己和自己的经历中领出来，使我与耶稣基督连合。若我仍留在自己的经历中，那些经历必然不是从救恩而来。那经历若是由救恩产生的，最好的明证是我脱离自己，不再以自己的经历作为事实的基础，而只专注于带来这些经历的实体。我的经历若不叫我对准源头－－主耶稣，就一文不值。

你若堵住圣灵，要为自己制造一些主观的经历，你会发觉他会爆溢而出，把你带回历史的基督面前。经历若不植根于神，也不叫你对神产生信心，就不当培育。若然，不管你所见的异象是什么，你的经历与基督敌对的，主耶稣是你经历中的主？还是你要经历作他的主？有没有经历是比主更宝贵的？他要作你的主，你对那些不以他为主的经历不应重视。你会来到一个地步，神叫你对自己的经历不耐烦－－“不管我的经历是什么，我只求持定神。”你若有很多机会谈及自己的经历，就得对自己无情一点。肯定自信的信心，不是信心；对神有把握的信心，才是唯一的信心。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，求你除去这思想上的枷锁，为我带来平安、纯洁和能力。愿今天你以温柔、怜悯和恩典来充满我。

December 21 Experience Or Revelation

“We have received . . . the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:12

Reality is Redemption, not my experience of Redemption; but Redemption has no meaning for me until it speaks the language of my conscious life. When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me right out of myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ. If I am left with my experiences, my experiences have not been produced by Redemption. The proof that they are produced by Redemption is that I am led out of myself all the time, I no longer pay any attention to my experiences as the ground of Reality, but only to the Reality which produced the experiences. My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source, Jesus Christ.

If you try to dam up the Holy Spirit in you to produce subjective experiences, you will find that He will burst all bounds and take you back again to the historic Christ. Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? He must be Lord over you, and you must not pay attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience – I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him.

Be ruthless with yourself if you are given to talking about the experiences you have had. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

十二月廿一日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

义怒与慈爱

经文:「必再怜悯我们，将我们的罪孽踏在脚下，又将我们的一切罪投于深海。」（弥迦书7︰19）

神绝对不会收回祂的爱，而会很快从祂的怒气中转回。祂对选民的爱是出于祂的本性，祂的怒气是出于祂的责任。祂爱我们，因为祂就是爱；祂对我们不悦，是因为那本是为我们好。神会回到祂心所安然居住的地方，换句话说，祂要住在爱祂、也为祂所爱的人心中，怜悯我们的忧伤，并设法以喜乐代之。

这应许多好啊——”将我们的罪孽踏在脚下”！祂会战胜它们。罪恶高声喊叫，急切地想俘虏我们为奴，但主会让我们战胜他们，祂要用祂的右手击打他们，就像对待迦南地的异族，将他们伏在轭下，最后杀戮他们。

至于我们的罪过不义，能被除掉洗净，这是何等荣耀！“将我们的一切罪”——是的，所有的罪；“投于”——惟有全能的膀臂可以施行这样的奇迹！“深海”——法老王和他的战车战马葬身之处。不是在浅处，可以被水冲刷后再起来，乃是将我们的罪投到“深“处，一去不复返，就像磨石沉到海底。哈利路亚，荣耀归主名！

From Anger to Love

Scripture: "He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19).

God never turns from His love, but He soon turns from His wrath. His love to His chosen is according to His nature; His anger is only according to His office. He loves because He is love; He frowns because it is necessary for our good. He will come back to the place in which His heart rests, namely, His love to His own, and then He will take pity upon our griefs and end them.

What a choice promise is this--"He will subdue our iniquities"! He will conquer them. They cry to enslave us, but the LORD will give us victory over them by His own right hand. Like the Canaanites, they shall be beaten, put under the yoke, and ultimately slain.

As for the guilt of our sins, how gloriously is that removed! "All their sins"--yes, the whole host of them; "thou wilt cast"--only an almighty arm could perform such a wonder; "into the depths of the sea"--where Pharaoh and his chariots went down. Not into the shallows out of which they might be washed up by the tide, but into the "depths" shall our sins be hurled. They are all gone. They sank into the bottom like a stone. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

十二月二十一日

基督已经来了，犹太人不接待祂，反而羞辱祂，把祂钉了十字架，却另等候别人；撒但看着有机可乘，就打发它的差役假基督来到世上，也能行大神迹、大奇事，和基督相似，就迷惑了许多人。

如今圣灵保惠师已经来了，且住在一切相信之人的心中；如果不相信圣经上的话，仍然哭号着求圣灵再来浇灌、想看神迹奇事，撒但也要打发它的邪灵来附在妄求者的身上行奇事来迷惑人。因他们不领受爱真理的心，使他们得救。故此，神就给他们一个生发错误的心，叫他们信从虚谎。（帖后二10至11）

因为人有错误的意念，神就不能工作，却是撒但工作的好机会。破口不论大小，撒但都能进来。它是遍地游行，无孔不入。撒但不但在不信主的人心中能作工，在信主的人心中也能工作；它不但在犹大心中能作工，在彼得心中也能作工；它在犹大心中作工，属神的人都能看出来它的凶狠诡计，它在彼得心作工，若不是主耶稣能分辨，即无人能分辨出来，就是彼得自己也不知道是被撒但利用了。

信徒若是在不正确的方式下求圣灵，圣灵不来，撒但却要来；若不用圣经中极精细的标准去分辨所得着的灵，也要象彼得心中的灵，很难分辨是从谁来的。我们应当在神的话上不打折扣，神怎样说，我们就怎样信，不在神的真理之外另求别的，堵绝撒但工作的机会。撒但作吼叫狮子的时候，我们很容易认识它；惟有它装作光明天使的时候，我们就很容易上它的当。

《荒漠甘泉》12月21日

我要将他所踏过的地赐给他……因为他专心跟从我。申1:36

信徒阿，在你所走的道路上，你是不是常遇见困难的事、不愿意的事、痛苦的事呢？在每一件这样的事里面，都藏着一个极大的祝福。你如果不肯出任何代价去作的话，你就会失去顶宝贵的祝福。

每一条有主足迹的道路，无论如何艰险，你必须跟着去行，因为那是带领你进入祝福的；如果你不能走那样险阻的荆棘道路，你就不要想得祝福。

路上每一个战争，你都有获胜的可能；这样的胜利，对于你的灵命，是极大的祝福。

－－密勒（J.R. Miller）

十二月廿二日

我必加力量给你。(改译)(赛41：10)

神为要履行义务，而贮存着很多力量，因为他万事都能作。信徒啊!若你不能使全能的海干涸，若你不能使大力的山破碎，你就用不到惧怕。你不要以为人的力量能胜过神的力量。只要大地的柱子矗立不移，你就有足够的理由坚信到底。使地球按轨道而行，时时添火给太阳，遍布满天星斗的神，曾应许天天赐力量给你。只要他能维系宇宙的存在，你决

不会梦想到他会不成全他的应许的。你要记念他在古时、在从前所行的事。你要想到他的话一出口，事就这样成了；他一发命令，就坚立不动。创造世界的神会发软弱吗?他把地球悬在毫无凭依的虚空之中，他既有这样的能力，还不能扶持他的儿女吗?谁约束海里的狂浪呢?他不是以风为翼，以云为车，以手掌盛海洋吗?他怎能不帮助你呢?他既把这信实的应许写了下来，你还会疑惑他不能遵守自己的诺言，或是没有成就应许的能力吗?那是决定不会的，你不当再疑惑了。

我的神，我的力量啊!我信你必成全这应许，因为你的朋友的需用或仇敌的劫取，都不能使你无限恩典的宝藏竭尽，使你丰满力量的府库倒空。

“软弱的人都必要强壮 向耶和华的膀臂歌唱。”

十二月廿二日

经文: 祂儿女的记号（The spot of his children）（改译）（申命记32：5）

将 神的儿女与世上的人分别开来的秘密记号是什么呢？我们若妄想依靠自己的判断来决定这点可就太大胆了；然而 神的话语已将其启示给我们。在有 神圣启示引导之处我们可以满有信心的前行。主告诉我们说：「凡接待祂的，就是信祂名的人，祂就赐他们权柄，作 神的儿女。」（约一：12）我若已接受基督耶稣进入心中，那我就是 神的孩子。这一接待在同一节经文中表述为信耶稣基督的名。我若已信靠耶稣基督的名——也就是我简单地从心里把自己交托给那位曾被钉十架而现在已升天的救赎者——我就是至高者家庭中的一份子。无论我缺少别的什么，若有了这些，我就有成为 神儿女的特权。我们的主耶稣用另外一种方式说：「我的羊听我的声音，我也认识他们，他们也跟着我。」（约十：27）在此简要的说明这点：基督作为祂自己羊群——而非其他羊群——的牧者。只要祂一出现，祂的羊必马上认出祂，他们信赖祂，准备随时跟从祂。祂认识他们，他们也认识祂。这是相互的认识，他们之间有紧密的联系。如此一来，这记号、这确实的记号、重生与进入 神家绝对无误之记号，就是对 神所命定的救赎主之衷心信靠。读者，你是否还在疑惑之中，你还不确定自己是否有 神儿女的秘密记号吗？那么就不可再浪费片刻的光阴，愿你现在就能说：「 神啊，求祢鉴察我，知道我的心思。」（诗一三九：23）切勿掉以轻心的对待这事！倘若你一定要对某些事心不在焉，让它是一些次要的事：你若愿意的话，这可以是你的健康，或是你房地产的契约。但关乎你的灵魂，你永不灭的灵魂及其永恒的归宿，恳求你一定要严肃对待。务要确认你将会在哪里度过永恒！

Scripture: “The spot of his children.”(Deuteronomy 32:5)

What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It would be vain presumption to decide this based upon our own judgment; but God's word reveals it to us.We may walkconfidently where we have divine revelation as our guide. Now, we are told concerning our Lord, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.”(John 1:12). Then, if I have received Christ Jesus into my heart, I am a child of God. That reception is described in the same verse as believing on the name of Jesus Christ. If, then, I believe on Jesus Christ's name—that is, simply from my heart, I trust myself with the crucified, but now exalted, Redeemer -- I am a member of the family of the Most High. Whatever else I may not have, if I have this, I have the privilege to become a child of God. Our Lord Jesus puts it in another way: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”(John 10:27). Here is the matter in a nutshell. Christ appears as a shepherd to his own sheep, not to others. As soon as he appears, his own sheep recognize him. They trust him and are prepared to follow him.He knows them, and they know him. There is a mutual knowledge, and there is a constant connection between them. Thus the one mark, the sure mark, the infallible mark of regeneration and adoption, is a hearty faith in the appointed Redeemer. Reader, are you in doubt, are you uncertain whether you bear the secret mark of God's children? Then let not an hour go byuntill you have said, “Search me, O God, and know my heart.” (Ps. 139:23). Do not handle this matter lightly, I beg you! If you must trifle anywhere, let it be about some secondary matter: your health, if you will, or the deeds of your estate.But about your soul, your never-dying soul and its eternal destiny. I beseech you to be in earnest. Be certain about where you will spend eternity!

《竭诚为主》12月22日 父吸引人

若不是差我的父吸引人，就没有能到我这里来的。（约六44）

神吸引我的时候，就是要运用意志的时候－－我对神赐的启示有反应吗？我肯到他那里去吗？把属灵的事拿来议论，是不合体统的；神说话的时候，不要人讨论。信心不是一项智力上的举动，乃是一种道德的反应，特意要把自己投上去。我愿否绝无保留地把自己投上，照神所说的去做？若肯，就会发现自己扎根于安稳如神宝座的实体上。

传福音的时候，记得要提出意志的问题。信仰必须出于意志。意志必须顺服，而不是屈服在说服力之下，乃是立志全部投向神和他所说的话，直至不再把信心建在自己所作的事上，而是惟独信神。其中的拦阻在于我不肯信神，只信自己头脑的理解。以感觉上来说，我必须不顾一切的投注，必须凭意志相信；这样，我必须尽很大的努力，把以往对事物的看法丢弃，只对准神自己，否则便无法做到。

人有一种向自己以外去寻索的本能。是神先吸引我，我与他的首要关系，是个人的，不是理智上的。我因着神的吸引，和我决意的相信，便进入与神的关系中，然后，开始在理智上体会并明白这相交的奇妙。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你大能的同在，今天如帐棚般四面环绕我，愿你的荣耀就在其中。

December 22 The Drawing Of The Father

“No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him.” John 6:44

When God draws me, the issue of my will comes in at once – will I react on the revelation which God gives – will I come to Him? Discussion on spiritual matters is an impertinence. Never discuss with anyone when God speaks. Belief is not an intellectual act; belief is a moral act whereby I deliberately commit myself. Will I dump myself down absolutely on God and transact on what He says? If I will, I shall find I am based on Reality that is as sure as God's throne.

In preaching the gospel, always push an issue of will. Belief must be the will to believe. There must be a surrender of the will, not a surrender to persuasive power, a deliberate launching forth on God and on what He says until I am no longer confident in what I have done, I am confident only in God. The hindrance is that I will not trust God, but only my mental understanding. As far as feelings go, I must stake all blindly. I must will to believe, and this can never be done without a violent effort on my part to disassociate myself from my old ways of looking at things, and by putting myself right over on to Him.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp. It is God who draws me, and my relationship to Him in the first place is a personal one, not an intellectual one. I am introduced into the relationship by the miracle of God and my own will to believe, then I begin to get an intelligent appreciation and understanding of the wonder of the transaction.

十二月廿二日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

神同在

经文:「神是我们的避难所，是我们的力量，是我们在患难中随时的帮助。」（诗篇46︰1）

在需要之时不能得到的帮助，实在价值不大。放在家里的锚对风雨中的船只而言，没有一点用处。法院判决不再属于他的财产，对债务人而言，已经没有任何价值。世人的帮助“马后炮“居多，”及时雨“甚少：在寻找时，遥不可及；在要用时，触不可及；一旦曾用到过，就会变得更加遥远。但主我们的神却不是如此，当我们呼求祂名的时候，祂就垂听，当我们寻求祂面的时候，祂就显现；祂伸援手做我们及时的帮助。

祂不仅是“及时的“帮助，祂还贯乎众人之间，住在信徒的心中。当我们身陷困难之中时，祂比我们最亲密的朋友还要亲近；有时候，我们自己还会迷糊，不清楚状况，祂会比我们自己更有担当。祂总是与我们同在，切实地同在，满有怜悯地同在，全然地同在。即使当我们处在灵性低潮的时候，祂仍然与我们同在。让我们在祂里面得到安歇；神是我们的避难所，让我们在祂里面躲藏；祂是我们的力量，让我们与祂一起排兵列阵；祂是我们的帮助，让我们依靠祂；祂是我们随时的帮助，让我们现在就扶住祂的手臂。我们无需有一丝的忧虑或一刻的恐惧。“万军之耶和华与我们同在，雅各的神是我们的避难所。”

Immediately Present

Scripture: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1).

A help that is not present when we need it is of small value. The anchor which is left at home is of no use to the seaman in the hour of storm; the money which he used to have is of no worth to the debtor when a writ is out against him. Very few earthly helps could be called "very present": they are usually far in the seeking, far in the using, and farther still when once used. But as for the LORD our God, He is present when we seek Him, present when we need Him, and present when we have already enjoyed His aid.

He is more than "present," He is very present. More present than the nearest friend can be, for He is in us in our trouble; more present than we are to ourselves, for sometimes we lack presence of mind. He is always present, effectually present, sympathetically present, altogether present. He is present now if this is a gloomy season. Let us rest ourselves upon Him. He is our refuge, let us hide in Him; He is our strength, let us array ourselves with Him; He is our help, let us lean upon Him; He is our very present help, let us repose in Him now. We need not have a moment's care or an instant's fear. "The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge."

十二月二十二日

辨别诸灵是圣灵的恩赐之一，圣灵居住在我们的灵里，我们的灵是正直的、光明的、圣洁的，我们的心不倾向于邪灵，就可以分辨显在别人身上的灵。邪灵显在人身上，是邪僻的、污秽的、是没有秩序的、是乱嚷乱闹的，若不管理制止它，任凭它支配被附者的动作，纵容被附者的发展，就可以清楚看出它是邪灵。若是被圣灵充满，不论充满的时间多久，绝不会有不圣洁、不光明的行动。

接受了邪灵的信徒很危险，虽然他不至于灭亡，但他每逢祷告的时候是与邪灵相交。邪灵拦住他不能与神相交，邪灵占了他祷告的时间，他得不着在基督里的长进；虽然他是整夜祷告、禁食祷告，但他不是与神相交，而是与充满他的邪灵相交。

这是撒但拦阻神的儿女在基督里长进的一种极巧妙的诡计，它若用完全与圣灵充满相反的动作来引诱信徒，信徒绝对不接受它；但它用「似乎、好象」的方法，就使许多信徒受了迷惑，以为是得着了圣灵充满，其实没有得着，叫信徒止在这种状态中就满足了。这和它把荣耀的神换为吃草如牛的形状是一样的作风。把人向着神的心转移到虚假上面。到了考验的时候，就显出偶像的虚假，没有能力去应付患难，也没胆量为主站立。惟愿受了欺骗的信徒及时悔改。请看司提反被圣灵充满的生活表现：「就拣选了司提反，乃是大有信心，圣灵充满的人。」「司提反满得恩惠能力，在民间行了大奇事和神迹。」「司提反是以智慧和圣灵说话，众人敌挡不住。」「在公会里坐着的人，都定睛看他，见人的面貌，好像天使的面貌。」（徒六5、8、10、15）

《荒漠甘泉》12月22日

耶和华若与我们同在，我们何至遭遇这一切事呢？士6:13

有时，过度的悲哀压伤我们，夺去我们一切的平安，把我们投入毫无盼望的深海里；『残忍』一直嘲笑那一颗信靠的心，直到它渐渐的疑惑说：『到底天上有没有一位看见这一切的神呢？这一切是不是祂所许可的呢？耶和华若与我们同在，我们何至遭遇这一切事呢？』

亲爱的阿，你何必这样发急呢？你当信靠那绝无错误的、智慧的、公义的神；那经历髑髅地的，『大声喊……我的神，我的神，为甚么离弃我』（太27:46）的，将陪伴你行过死荫的幽谷。

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我们常以为临到我们的患难是主忘记我们、不关心我们的凭据。哦，亲爱的朋友阿，这是魔鬼的诡计。当我们不信的恶心和基甸一样说：『耶和华若与我们同在，我们何至遭遇这一切事呢？』那时魔鬼就乘机前来欺骗我们说：『神已经忘记你了；神已经弃绝你了。』其实，你遭遇的患难，只能叫主更亲近你。患难并不是来隔离你和主的，乃是来使你更靠近主。

甚么时候，纔是我们放弃自己，完全交托神的时候呢？乃是亲友都弃绝你，似乎神也弃绝你了的时候。

朋友阿，让我们来享受神乐意赐给我们的亮光和安慰，让我们所寻的，不是祂的恩赐，乃是祂自己；虽然祂有时把我们投入信心之夜，我们仍愿在苦闷的黑暗中努力前进。

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十二月廿三日

朋友，请上坐。(路14：10)

当我们开始有蒙恩的属灵生命的时候，我们就会去亲近神，但却非常战兢恐惧。我们的灵魂意识到有罪以后就会变得谦卑，并为其所处的严肃地位惊恐万状；我们的心灵站在威容显赫的耶和华面前是不能不五体投地的。我们只能卑躬屈节地赧然居末。

但基督徒得了生命之后，虽然他还不能忘记他的严肃地位，并且蒙恩的人在那能创造、也能毁灭之 神的面前，永远不会失去他圣洁的敬畏感，但他在恩典上已有了长进；可是他的敬畏却不含着惧怕的成分了，此后乃是神圣的崇敬，不再是惶惶不安胆战心惊。他更加蒙召在基督里到达至高神的面前。那么属神的人将行走在神圣的尊荣之中，又好像荣耀的基路伯用双翼遮脸一样，他们乃是用耶稣基督的血和义遮盖起来，在灵里谦恭俯拜地就近宝座；在那里既看到慈爱、美善、怜悯的神，就更加认识到神立约的大德，而非祂绝对的神性。他将更多地看见神的美善和慈爱，而非祂的伟大和威严。于是我们的灵魂仍像原先一样地谦恭俯伏，享基督代求所成就的神圣自由；当我们俯伏在无限大神的荣面之前时，我们日益深刻地认识到自己处在无限的怜悯和慈爱中，并且 “在爱子里”已蒙悦纳。因此信徒蒙召得高升，得享在神里面喜乐的特权，并凭着圣洁的信心就近祂，呼叫“阿爸，父!”

“我们可力上加力，

天天在恩典中得以长进，

直到主在末日显现，

我们就面对面地看见你。”

十二月廿三日

经文: 黑夜也属祢。（诗篇74：16）

主，当夕阳西下时，祢并没有离开宝座，也没有离开世界任凭我们在漫长寒夜中孤苦无依地成为罪恶之猎物。祢的眼睛犹如天上众星看顾我们，祢的双臂犹如围绕天空的群星一般环抱我们。夜间滋润的露珠和月亮的影响力都在祢的手中。夜幕的肃静与警示也是出于你。当我午夜醒来，饱受痛苦煎熬时，祢于我是何等甘甜。月亮也可如太阳一般使植物结出宝贵的果实，愿主使我同享其中的恩宠。苦难的夜晚也如同一切皆是祝福的明亮的夏日一样处在主的安排和掌控之下。耶稣在暴风雨之中，祂的爱如同斗篷将夜晚包裹，信心的眼睛就能透过丧服的伪装见到里面的爱。从黄昏至破晓，永恒的守望者注视着祂的众圣徒。为了祂百姓的最大好处，祂统管着午夜的阴影和露珠。我们相信善与恶在争竞，但我们听到耶和华说：「我造光，又造暗。……造作这一切的是我耶和华。」（赛四十五：7）灵里冷漠和世上罪恶的阴郁时节也在神的旨意之中。当真理的祭坛被污秽、 神的道路被离弃时，主的仆人痛苦悲伤的流泪。但他们却不必绝望，因为最黑暗的时刻也是在主的手中，它们会在主的命令之下终结。在我们看来是失败的，在主却可能是得胜的。

「尽管包围于幽暗的黑夜，

亮光无法察觉；

既然主自己临在这里，

我们的惧怕就并不相宜。」

Scripture: “The night also is thine.”(Psalm 74:16)

Lord, thou dost not abdicate thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; thine eyes watch us as the stars, and thine arms surround us as the zodiac encircles the sky. The dews of benevolent sleep and all the influences of the moon are in thy hand.The alarms and solemnities of night are the same with thee. This is very sweet to me when watching through the midnight hours or when tossing to and fro in anguish. There are precious fruits put forth by the moon as well as by the sun.May my Lord make me to be a favoured partaker in them. The night of affliction is as much under the arrangement and control of the Lord of Love as the bright summer days when all is bliss. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. From the first watch of the night to the break of day, the eternal Watcher observes his saints.He overrules the shades and dews of midnight for his people's highest good. We believe in no rival deities of good and evil contending for the mastery, but we hear the voice of Jehovah saying, “I create light and I create darkness. I, the Lord, do all these things.” Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways of God forsaken, the Lord's servants weep with bitter sorrow.But they do not need to despair, for the darkest times are governed by the Lord, and they shall come to their end at his command. What may seem defeat to us may be victory to him.

“Though enwrapt in gloomy night,

We perceive no ray of light;

Since the Lord himself is here,

’Tis not meet that we should fear.”

《竭诚为主》12月23日 个人怎样有份于救赎？

但我断不以别的夸口，只夸我们主耶稣基督的十字架。（加六14）

耶稣基督的福音总牵涉到意志的问题。我接受神在基督十字架上对罪的宣判吗？我对耶稣的死有丝毫兴趣吗？我愿意与他的死连合，对罪、对世界、对自己的兴趣完全死去，以致除了他，将一切看为有损吗？作门徒的最大权利，就是在十字架上签上名字，表示对罪死了。你要单独来到耶稣面前，对他说你不愿意罪从你身上除净，或对他说你愿意不计代价，与他的死连合。只要你凭信与十架的主相遇，一种超然死的体验随即而生，你会有超乎知识的知识，告诉你“旧人”已经与基督同钉。旧人与基督同钉的明证，就是神在你里面的生命，叫你顺服主的声音，如今是出奇的轻省容易。

有时候，主会让我们看看没有了他我们会怎样，要证明他说：“离了我，你们就不能作什么。”因此，基督教的基石是个人对主耶稣全心全意的爱慕效忠。我们往往以为初信主进入天国时那种惊喜之情，就是神的目的；其实他给我们这经历，目的是要我们体会什么是与主耶稣合一。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，为着你自己，和靠着你那无所不能的恩典，我学习进入你的同在中；我赞美你。愿你的恩典、亮光和智慧触摸我的身体和心灵；愿你的触摸带来光明和生气。

December 23 How Can I Personally Partake In The Atonement?

“But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14

The Gospel of Jesus Christ always forces an issue of will. Do I accept God's verdict on sin in the Cross of Christ? Have I the slightest interest in the death of Jesus? Do I want to be identified with His death, to be killed right out to all interest in sin, in worldliness, in self – to be so identified with Jesus that I am spoilt for every thing else but Him? The great privilege of discipleship is that I can sign on under His Cross, and that means death to sin. Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you; or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death. Immediately you transact in confident faith in what Our Lord did on the Cross, a supernatural identification with His death takes place, and you will know with a knowledge that passeth knowledge that your “old man” is crucified with Christ. The proof that your old man is crucified with Christ is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.

Every now and again, Our Lord lets us see what we would be like if it were not for Himself; it is a justification of what He said – “Without Me ye can do nothing.” That is why the bedrock of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus. We mistake the ecstasy of our first introduction into the Kingdom for the purpose of God in getting us there; His purpose in getting us there is that we may realize all that identification with Jesus Christ means.

十二月廿三日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

天上宝物

经文:「论约瑟说：愿他的地蒙耶和华赐福，得天上的宝物、甘露，以及地里所藏的泉水」（申命记33︰13）

在这些事上，我们也会像约瑟所得的那样，蒙神赐福，并获得更高层次的祝福——得“天上的宝物！”

由神而来的力量和神所彰显的能力是最宝贵的。我们得以享受神所赐的平安、喜乐及荣耀。三位一体的真神在爱、恩典和团契中的赐福对我们而言比最纯的黄金还珍贵。地上的事物与天上的这些福气相比都相形失色，也令人无所恋慕。

“甘露”也是极为宝贵！看到晶莹剔透的露珠，我们不禁要高声赞美感谢！当甘露降临，大地更新、万物成长、欣欣向荣、遍地芬芳。作为主用右手亲自栽种的，我们需要出自祂圣灵的甘露更甚于其他的一切。

”地里所藏的泉水”——这是指地底的暗流，要化作汩汩流出的泉水，使大地复苏。但愿我们也能找到永生的泉源！这是无法言喻的福分；让我们不懈地找寻，直到得着它。耶和华一切的丰盛都是我们的，直到永远。让我们现在就应用它。

Precious Things

Scripture: "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath" (Deuteronomy 33:13).

We may be rich in such things as Joseph obtained, and we may have them in a higher sense. Oh, for "the precious things of heaven"!

Power with God and the manifestation of power from God are most precious. We would enjoy the peace of God, the joy of the LORD, the glory of our God. The benediction of the three divine Persons in love, and grace, and fellowship we prize beyond the most fine gold. The things of earth are as nothing in preciousness compared with the things in heaven.

"The dew." How precious is this! How we pray and praise when we have the dew! What refreshing, what growth, what perfume, what life there is in us when the dew is about' Above all things else, as plants of the LORD's own right hand planting, we need the dew of His Holy Spirit.

"The deep that coucheth beneath." Surely this refers to that unseen ocean underground which supplies all the fresh springs which make glad the earth. Oh, to tap the eternal fountains! This is an unspeakable boon; let no believer rest till he possesses it. The all-sufficiency of Jehovah is ours forever. Let us resort to it now.

十二月二十三日

撒但不但能在我们心中放进不对的意念，它也能把我们心中的好意念夺了去，它常使人忘记神的话。犯律法的人，不是不惧怕刑罚的，但他们正犯罪的时候，就忘记了刑罚的可怕。谁叫他们忘记的呢？就是在他们心中放恶意念、在他们心中运行的那恶者。

主耶稣说：凡听见天国道理不明白的，那恶者就来，把所撒在他心里的，夺了去。（太十三19）所以忘记神的话，有时是记忆力不强，有时并非记忆力不强，是撒但在我们心中的工作，是撒但蒙蔽了神的话。

有人在聚会的时间好睡觉，这也是魔鬼的工作，他听闲话的时候不瞌睡，听故事的时候也不瞌睡，惟独听真理听神的话的时候就睡觉，这显然是魔鬼在他身上工作，叫神的话不进入他的心。为什么魔鬼这样蒙蔽他，就是因为他没有寻求真理的心，没有爱慕真理的心。

有时人在别的事上记忆力很好，人所说的闲话他都一一记住，多年的事他都记得很清楚，就是记不住神的话；到礼拜堂去礼拜，还没出门就把所听的道忘记了，这也是魔鬼的工作，因为这是反常的事情，能听明白别的话，也当能听明白神的话；能记忆别的事，也当能记忆神的事；若是不能，显明他里面的情形不对，这实在是撒但作工。

所有的默示你们看如封住的书卷；人将这书卷交给识字的，说：请念罢！他说：我不能念，因为是封住了。（赛二十九11）

此等不信之人，被这世界的神弄瞎了心眼，不叫基督荣耀福音的光照着他们。（林后四4）

《荒漠甘泉》12月23日

你当走的路甚远。王上19:7

神怎样对待祂疲乏的仆人？

给他好东西吃，给他甜蜜睡眠。

以利亚曾行了奇妙的神迹，曾奔在亚哈的车子前头，所以他的身体非常疲惫；疲惫的反应就是受压。

在这里我们看见；身体的保重是必需的。今天许多神的仆人所缺乏的都是睡眠和调养。

有许多属灵的伟人都像以利亚一般－－在罗腾树下求死！啊，听哪，这声调何等甘甜『你当走的路甚远，起来吃罢！』

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十二月廿四日

却为你们成了贫穷。(林后8：9)

主耶稣基督永远是富足、荣耀、可尊崇的，但“他本来富足，却为你们成了贫穷。”他既然是富足的，那么与他的穷弟兄就不能有真正的交通，除非他满足了他们的需要(头与肢体的关系也是一样)。若我们的神、我们的主不把他自己的丰富赐与我们，并且自己成为贫穷，好使我们成为富足，就不能与我们相交。若他仍坐在他荣耀的宝座上，若我们仍然在堕落败坏之中，不接受他的救恩，那么两方面是不可能有交通的。我们堕落离了恩约之后的地位，使我们这些堕落的人不能与神有交通，正如彼列与基督不能相合一样。为了要有交通的可能，富足的亲属当把他的财富分赐给他贫穷的亲属；公义的救主必须把他自己的完全分赐给他有罪的弟兄，而我们这些贫穷、犯罪的人，就当为恩典的缘故接受他丰满的恩典；因着一造赐给，一造接受；高者降低，低者升高；那么两下才能接近，彼此才能有真正而热烈的相交。耶稣必须使他的民穿着他自己的衣服，不然他就不能准他们进入他的荣宫；并且他必须用自己的血洗净他们，不然他们便仍旧污秽不堪，不能与他相交。

信徒啊!这就是爱!为你的缘故，主耶稣“成为贫穷”，好使你能与他相交。

“在昔日我主为罪人降生，撇荣冕离天上宝位；

在大卫之城，一穷苦马棚，有空处是为你预备。”

十二月廿四日

经文: 耶和华的荣耀必然显现，凡有血气的必一同看见。（以赛亚书40：5）

我们期盼着全世界归向基督的欢乐日子。外邦的神明都被抛给「田鼠和蝙蝠」（赛2：20）；穆罕默德的新月会黯然失色，在各国中永不发出邪恶的光线。世上的王都要向和平之君下拜，万族都要称颂他们的拯救者。有人对这一日的来临已放弃希望。他们视这世界为破成碎片之船舶，永不再浮起。我们知道有一日这世界和其中所有的都要被烧毁，继之而起的就是新天新地。读经时，我们不可缺乏这样的确信：

「日月所照万国万方，

耶稣必为统治君王。」

我们并不会因耶稣迟延再来而失望。我们也不因祂在这漫长的阶段内忍心让教会陷于成就甚微而挫败甚多的冲突予盾之中而沮丧。我们相信 神既已教基督的宝血为世人所流，必不会让世界长久在撒但的控制之中。基督来，为要将这世界从黑暗的可憎权势中释放出来。当人与天使联合发出大声说：「哈利路亚！因为主我们的 神，全能者作王了。」（启十九：6），其声音是何等响亮啊！到那日，在为我们的主争战中有份的人，在折断弓之箭中有份的人，在赢得胜利中有份的人，是何等满足啊！将自己交托给这位得胜的主，与祂一齐并肩作战，奉祂的名靠祂的力量去行他们微薄之事的人是何等欢乐啊！反之，站在罪恶一方的人将是何等悲哀！因那是失败的一方，而且在此战役中失败就意味着永远的失丧。你在哪一方呢？

Scripture: “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”(Isaiah 40:5)

ipate theipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast “to the moles and the bats” (Isa.2:20); when the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is in it will one day to be burnt up; afterwards, we look for new heavens and for a new earth.We cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that—

“Jesus shall reign where'er the sun

Does his successive journeys run.”

We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never permit this world, which has once seen Christ's blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came here to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout that will be when men and angels shall unite to cry, “Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!” What satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On whose side are you?

《竭诚为主》12月24日 隐藏的生命

你们的生命与基督一同藏在 神里面。（西三3）

我与基督一同藏在神里面的生命有大能安稳，这事实是神的灵见证的，并且也不断见诸新约各书信中。我往往视成圣生活为最不稳定的东西，其实这是最有保障的，因为全能的神在里面、在后面支持着。最不稳固的生活，是不靠神而活。我们若已重生，只要肯听神的警告，行在光中，最容易的是与神有正确的关系，而最难的是走差路。

有时想脱离罪恶，被圣灵充满，行在光明中，好像高山的顶峰崇高峻妙，我们就会说：“可惜，我怎么也攀不上去！”但一旦靠神恩典上去了，却发现这原来不是一个山顶，而是一片高原，有足够的地方生长。“你使我的道路宽广。”

你若真看见耶稣，我保证你不会对他疑惑。当他说“你心里不要忧愁”，你若真看见他，必然不会忧愁，因为他在这里，根本不用疑惑。每次你单独与他相交，他的话都活现出来。“我将我的平安赐给你们。”这平安要从头顶渗透至脚踵，是无可抗拒的可靠。“你们的生命与基督一同藏在神里面”，主无比的平安就临到你。

祈祷◆“与基督一同藏在神里面”的生命，是何等喜乐的生命！可是，我的神，尽管有着你一切的恩典和忍耐，我仍然不敢有一刻想到我离开这生命有多远。然而，我是你所造的，我要感谢你。

December 24 The Hidden Life

“Your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

The Spirit of God witnesses to the simple almighty security of the life hid with Christ in God and this is continually brought out in the Epistles. We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live the sanctified life; it is the most secure thing, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most precarious thing is to try and live without God. If we are born again it is the easiest thing to live in right relationship to God and the most difficult thing to go wrong, if only we will heed God's warnings and keep in the light.

When we think of being delivered from sin, of being filled with the Spirit, and of walking in the light, we picture the peak of a great mountain, very high and wonderful, and we say – “Oh, but I could never live up there!” But when we do get there by God's grace, we find it is not a mountain peak, but a plateau where there is ample room to live and to grow. “Thou hast enlarged my steps under me.”

When you really see Jesus, I defy you to doubt Him. When He says – “Let not your heart be troubled,” if you see Him I defy you to trouble your mind, it is a moral impossibility to doubt when He is there. Every time you get into personal contact with Jesus, His words are real. “My peace I give unto you,” it is a peace all over from the crown of the head to the sole of the feet, an irrepressible confidence. “Your life is hid with Christ in God,” and the imperturbable peace of Jesus Christ is imparted to you.

十二月廿四日信心的支票簿 Faith’s check book

到达彼岸

经文:「（KJV版直译：你必发现仇敌向你说谎）」（申命记33:29）

我们的头号敌人撒但，从起初就是个说谎者，牠是那样的油滑诡诈，使我们都像始祖夏娃那样，很容易上牠的当。但凭经验，我们可以证明牠是个说谎者。

牠说我们必从恩典中堕落，生活中也不能见证神，最终必与叛教者一样趋向灭亡之路。但我们信靠主耶稣，知道必可守住我们的道，因为天父赐给耶稣的人，祂一个也不失落。撒但说我们会因食物不足而必与我们的孩子一同饿死；但是那让雀鸟存活的未忘记我们，祂永远不会忘记喂养我们，祂还要在敌人面前，为我们摆设筵席。

撒但会在我们耳边轻声细语：主不会把我们从远处那若隐若现的试炼中拯救出来，牠威胁说那将是压塌骆驼的最后一根稻草。撒但真是个大骗子!因为主永不离开我们，也不会丢弃我们。魔鬼会叫嚣：“让他自己救赎自己吧！“但是主必要禁止牠的口，主的拯救也必快速临到。

撒但最喜欢用死亡的阴影来吓唬我们，牠说：“你们在约但河边的丛林要怎样行呢？“但是牠会再次被证明是个骗子，我们必要高唱着荣耀的诗篇，安然渡河，到达彼岸。

Over Jordan with Singing

Scripture: "Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee" (Deuteronomy 33:29).

That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience we shall prove him a liar.

He says that we shall fall from grace, dishonor our profession, and perish with the doom of apostates; but, trusting in the LORD Jesus, we shall hold on our way and prove that Jesus loses none whom His Father gave Him. He tells us that our bread will fail, and we shall starve with our children; yet the Feeder of the ravens has not forgotten us yet, and He will never do so, but will prepare us a table in the presence of our enemies.

He whispers that the LORD will not deliver us out of the trial which is looming in the distance, and he threatens that the last ounce will break the camel's back. What a liar he is! For the LORD will never leave us or forsake us. "Let him deliver him now!" cries the false fiend: but the LORD will silence him by coming to our rescue.

He takes great delight in telling us that death will prove too much for us. "How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?" But there also he shall prove a liar unto us, and we shall pass through the river singing psalms of glory.

十二月二十四日

撒但在人心的工作，常是随着人心灵的状态和灵程的高低而作工，它在不信的人心中可以放进完全反对神的意念，但对信的人它不这样作，它常稍微改变神的话；完全改变神的话是很容易分辨的，稍微改变神的话就很难分辨了。似乎是神的话，好像是圣灵的声音，使人很容易忽略，很容易通融过去，若分辨不清楚，就失之毫厘，差之千里了。

今天有人起来说完全反对神的话，我们绝不能服从他，若有人起来讲了一半是神的话，一半不是神的话，我们也能分辨出来，惟有一等人讲似是而非的道理，把人渐渐地领转了方向，这才是撒但极巧妙的工作。

所以我们对神的话当看得清，记得牢，凡不甚相合众先知、众使徒所得的启示，虽有百分之九十相同了，我们决不可以接受，凡不甚相合神的话的异象，虽有百分之九十相同了，我们也不该相信，若不是百分之百地与圣经相合的真理，我们决不可以接受。

若有人对加拉太教会说主耶稣不是救主，他们绝不能接受；若说圣经不是神的话，他们一定要拒绝；但有人说主耶稣是救主，律法也是神所立的，割礼是神与亚伯拉罕和他子孙立约的证据，我们信主也要遵行神的话，他们就分别不出来了，以致他们从恩惠中坠落，几乎走了灭亡的道路。若不是保罗指责了他们的错谬，他们就破坏了神的救恩，又转回律法之下而灭亡了。

因为有偷着引进来的假弟兄，私下窥探我们在基督耶稣里的自由，要叫我们作奴仆；我们就是一刻的工夫，也没有容让顺从他们，为要叫福音的真理仍存在你们中间。

（加二4至5）

《荒漠甘泉》12月24日

天将晚，以撒出来在田间默想。创24:63

我们若有更多单独的时间，就必有更多属灵的长进；我们若少尝试，多退修，就必有更大工作的效果。

我们常以为不作事是懒惰，是羞耻，所以我们顶喜欢跑来跑去瞎忙。其实，默想的时间，与神谈话的时间，举目望天的时间，是对我们最有益的时间。这种时间从不会『太多』的。

这种时间绝对不是虚耗。渔夫坐下补网，你能不能说他虚耗时间呢？割草者坐下磨刀，你能不能说他虚耗时间呢？我们应该常学以撒的样子，从热闷的生活中出来，到田间去默想。

我们所过的是热闹的生活、喧噪的生活、忙碌的生活，能常与大自然接触的话，确是一件非常痛快的事情。田间散步，海边闲游，能使我们心中充满新的喜乐和盼望。

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