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经文: 耶和华是我的亮光，是我的拯救、我还怕谁呢？耶和华是我性命的保障（或力量），我还惧谁呢？（诗篇二十七：1）
“耶和华是我的亮光，是我的拯救”。这是与个人有关的；我的亮光、我的拯救。心灵确信此事，以至口舌能勇敢的宣告。在得救以前，上帝的光就已注入人的心灵。若光不足以揭露我们的黑暗，令我们渴望主耶稣，那我们就没有拯救的证据。悔改后，上帝成为我们的喜乐、安慰、引导、教师，在各方面成为我们的亮光。祂是我们里面的光、我们周围的光、从我们反射出的光、也是向我们启祂的光。主不仅仅赐亮光，祂本身就是光。祂不仅赐予拯救，祂本身就是救恩。当你藉着信心紧紧依靠上帝时，所有立约的福气都属于你了。“我还怕谁呢？”黑暗的权势不足畏惧，因为主，我们的光，毁灭了黑暗。地狱之定罪不能恐吓我们，因为主是我们的拯救。这与夸口的歌利亚之挑战是截然不同的。它并不依靠人自负的力量，乃靠全能“我是”的真正大能。“耶和华是我性命的力量”。在主厚赐恩典之处，我们容易献上赞美。我们生命的全部力量皆从上帝而来。祂若要我们强壮，任何计谋之力量都不能削弱我们。“我还惧谁呢”？这一勇敢的问号不仅只看到眼前，更透视到未来。“上帝若帮助我们，谁能敌挡我们呢？”（罗八：31），不论目前抑或要来的时日，这话唯真。
Evening, June 16
Scripture: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”(Psalm 27:1)
“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation;” the soul is assured of it, and therefore declares it boldly. Into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation; where there is not enough light to reveal our own darkness and to make us long for the Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. After conversion our God is our joy, comfort, guide, teacher, and in every sense our light: he is light within, light around, light reflected from us, and light to be revealed to us. Note, it is not said merely that the Lord gives light, but that he is light; nor that he gives salvation, but that he is salvation; he, then, who by faith has laid hold upon God, has all covenant blessings in his possession. This being made sure as a fact, the argument drawn from it is put in the form of a question, “Whom shall I fear?” A question which is its own answer. The powers of darkness are not to be feared, for the Lord, our light, destroys them; and the damnation of hell is not to be dreaded by us, for the Lord is our salvation. This is a very different challenge from that of boastful Goliath, for it rests, not upon the conceited vigour of an arm of flesh, but upon the real power of the omnipotent I AM. “The Lord is the strength of my life.” Here is a third glowing epithet, to show that the writer’s hope was fastened with a threefold cord which could not be broken. We may well accumulate terms of praise where the Lord lavishes deeds of grace. Our life derives all its strength from God; and if he deigns to make us strong, we cannot be weakened by all the machinations of the adversary. “Of whom shall I be afraid?” The bold question looks into the future as well as the present. “If God be for us,” who can be against us, either now or in time to come?
