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经文: 他们必因祢殿里的肥甘得以饱足。（诗篇三十六：8）
示巴的女王对于所罗门王的富有生活感到惊讶，看见侍立在国宴桌旁的仆人行列诧异得神不守舍（参阅王上十：4～5）。但是这与上帝丰盛的恩典相比，又算得了什么呢？上帝每日喂养祂成千上万的百姓，饥肠辘辘的人来到筵席前，没有一人不得饱足而离开的。虽然在耶和华桌上被喂养之众多如天上星辰，各人却都能获得他所需之分。试思量，即使只是一位圣徒所需之恩典，除了无限的上帝，还有谁能供应呢？然而上帝将祂的餐桌展现在众圣徒之前，一代又一代地喂养他们。因着上帝家中的丰裕，在施恩桌前的宾客皆得以饱足。那些投靠在耶和华恩翅之荫下的人，上帝信实地应允赐给他们这样的筵席。我曾经思忖：“我只要从上帝恩典的后门得到一些肉屑，就会满足了。”如同那位妇人说：“狗也吃祂主人桌子上掉下来的碎渣儿。”（太十五：27）。但是上帝不会只把碎屑给祂的儿女，他们都能从王的筵席上得享饱足。我们得到的思典是便雅悯的分──比我们所期望的还多出五倍（参阅创四十三：34）。虽然我们的需要是大的，然而因着上帝赐给我们所享受的恩典，我们能不断地讶异于祂奇妙的丰富。
Evening, March 4
Scripture: “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house.”(Psalm 36:8)
Sheba’s queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon’s table. She lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day; and she marvelled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the royal board. But what is this to the hospitalities of the God of grace? Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed; hungry and thirsty, they bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all, enough for evermore. Though the host that feed at Jehovah’s table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat. Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads his table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many years; not for many years only, but for generation after generation. Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy’s banquet are satisfied, nay, more “abundantly satisfied;” and that not with ordinary fare, but with fatness, the peculiar fatness of God’s own house; and such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah’s wings. I once thought if I might but get the broken meat at God’s back door of grace I should be satisfied; like the woman who said, “The dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master’s table;” but no child of God is ever served with scraps and leavings; like Mephibosheth, they all eat from the king’s own table. In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin’s mess－we all have ten times more than we could have expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvellous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to enjoy.
