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经文: 你也必称为被眷顾的（察见）。（以赛亚书六十二：12）
从上帝超越的恩典清楚地显明，上帝不仅寻找我们，更把我们寻见了。我们如同混杂于泥浆里。当一块珍贵的金子掉入排水沟时，人会聚集在周围仔细观察一团团的污泥。他们不停搅动，扫视并搜寻直至觅回宝贝为止。或者，我们就如同在迷宫中迷失了一样，绝望地徘徊，直至慈悲的福音来寻见我们。我们并不是轻易就被寻见，乃是经过搜寻才将我们分别出来。我们如同迷失的羊一样，绝望地以为好牧人找不到我们了。荣繀归于永远得胜的恩典，我们被分别出来了！没有幽暗能遮蔽我们；没有污秽能隐藏我们。我们被祂寻见，被祂领回家。荣耀归于无限的爱，圣灵拯救我们！上帝常使用奇妙特殊的方法将祂自己的人带回来。愿祂的名受称颂，祂永不放弃搜寻直至祂的选民被寻见和分别出来为止。他们不是今天被寻见，明天就被抛弃。全能与智慧的结合永不失败。上帝的百姓被称为是“蒙眷顾（察见）的”！任何人都会蒙眷顾是无可比拟的恩典，但我们之蒙眷顾却是无可量度之恩典！不需要任何理由，上帝至高的大爱就说明一切。让我们举起惊叹的心赞美主。因为今晚我们披戴了“蒙眷顾的名号”。
Evening, March 11
Scripture: “Thou shalt be called, Sought out.”(Isaiah 62:12)
The surpassing grace of God is seen very clearly in that we were not only sought, but sought out. Men seek for a thing which is lost upon the floor of the house, but in such a case there is only seeking, not seeking out. The loss is more perplexing and the search more persevering when a thing is sought out. We were mingled with the mire: we were as when some precious piece of gold falls into the sewer, and men gather out and carefully inspect a mass of abominable filth, and continue to stir and rake, and search among the heap until the treasure is found. Or, to use another figure, we were lost in a labyrinth; we wandered hither and thither, and when mercy came after us with the gospel, it did not find us at the first coming, it had to search for us and seek us out; for we as lost sheep were so desperately lost, and had wandered into such a strange country, that it did not seem possible that even the Good Shepherd should track our devious roamings. Glory be to unconquerable grace, we were sought out! No gloom could hide us, no filthiness could conceal us, we were found and brought home. Glory be to infinite love, God the Holy Spirit restored us!
The lives of some of God’s people, if they could be written would fill us with holy astonishment. Strange and marvellous are the ways which God used in their case to find his own. Blessed be his name, he never relinquishes the search until the chosen are sought out effectually. They are not a people sought to-day and cast away to-morrow. Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures, they shall be called, “Sought out!” That any should be sought out is matchless grace, but that we should be sought out is grace beyond degree! We can find no reason for it but God’s own sovereign love, and can only lift up our heart in wonder, and praise the Lord that this night we wear the name of “Sought out.”