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经文: 使那不被震动的长存。(希伯来书十二:27)
我们所拥有的许多东西是能震动的。基督徒要依靠这些东西是愚蠢的,因为这世上没有一件东西是稳定的。然而我们仍有某些东西是“不被震动的”。若能被震动的东西都挪去了,你可以从那些不被震动的长存的东西中得到慰藉。不论你失去了多少,你都能欣赏目前的救恩。你正站在耶稣的十字架下,信靠祂宝血的功效。市场交之起落不能干扰你在祂里面的救恩。经营失败甚至倒闭也不能触及它。你是上帝的儿子。环境变迁不会夺去你的名份。你虽遭受贫困,赤身露体,却仍然说:“祂仍然是我的父。在我父家中有许多地方,因此我不必忧虑。”另一种永远的祝福是耶稣基督的爱。祂是上帝又是人,祂以祂本性中全部的爱爱你,没有任何事物能影响祂的爱。世上没有任何事物会影响那歌唱“良人属我,我也属祂。”(歌二:16)的人。我们不会失去那最丰富的继承权。因难来临时,让我们坚定站稳。让我们表明自己不是幼童,会在这飞逝的时光中被可能发生的事击倒。我们的国家在以马内利的土地上,我们的盼望在天上。因此,我们能平静如夏天的海洋,我们将见土地上所生的一切破灭,却仍然在上帝里面因我们的救恩欢呼。
Evening, June 22
Scripture: “That those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”(Hebrews 12:27)
We have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written upon all things. Yet, we have certain “things which cannot be shaken,” and I invite you this evening to think of them, that if the things which can be shaken should all be taken away, you may derive real comfort from the things that cannot be shaken, which will remain. Whatever your losses have been, or may be, you enjoy present salvation. You are standing at the foot of his cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus’ precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that. Then you are a child of God this evening. God is your Father. No change of circumstances can ever rob you of that. Although by losses brought to poverty, and stripped bare, you can say, “He is my Father still. In my Father’s house are many mansions; therefore will I not be troubled.” You have another permanent blessing, namely, the love of Jesus Christ. He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of his affectionate nature-nothing can affect that. The fig tree may not blossom, and the flocks may cease from the field, it matters not to the man who can sing, “My Beloved is mine, and I am his.” Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time. Our country is Immanuel’s land, our hope is above the sky, and therefore, calm as the summer’s ocean; we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation.