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经文: 我从你旁边经过，……对你说，……仍可存活。（以西结书十六：6）
蒙救的人，请以感恩的心来思考这句充满怜悯的话。请注意上帝这个命令是威严的。在这节经文中，我们发现一个罪人，除罪恶以外，一无所有，他所能期盼的不是别的，只是上帝的忿怒。但是永生的主带着荣耀经过他的身旁。祂看到他，停下来，然后宣告这简单却带能力的话──仍可存活。这个命令有多重意思。当祂说：“仍可存活”这话中包括许多事情。这个罪人正在等待定罪，但是全能者说：“你可存活”，他被饶恕、被赦免了。命令使人得着属灵的生命。我们并不认识耶稣。我们的眼睛不能看见基督，我们的耳朵也听不到祂的声音。耶和华说：“活吧！”，我们这些死在罪恶过犯中的人就活过来了。这命令包括荣耀的生命，就是属灵生命的完美。“就对你说……仍可存活。”那话继续在他身上，终其一生。在死亡的阴影之中，仍可以听到主的声音：“存活！”在复活的凌晨，天使长以相同的话声回响：“复活了”。蒙救赎之灵升上高天，要在上帝的荣耀中接受永远的祝福时，也是靠着这相同的话“活了”的能力。这是一个不可抗拒的命令。大数的扫罗要往大马色去逮捕上帝的众圣徒时，从天上有声音向他说话，并且天上发出比太阳更明亮的光。扫罗说：“主阿，我当作什么？”（徒二十二：10）这命令也是一个无价的恩典。罪人蒙救，只是因为上帝要彰显祂无价的、非买来的、非寻找可得的恩典。基督徒啊，将你自己的地位视为债主所赐的恩典吧。以恳切的心来过像基督的生活，以此显示你的感恩吧。
Evening, July 7
Scripture: “When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.”(Ezekiel 16:6)
Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in his glory; he looks, he pauses, and he pronounces the solitary but royal word, “Live.” There speaks a God. Who but he could venture thus to deal with life and dispense it with a single syllable? Again, this fiat is manifold. When he saith “Live,” it includes many things. Here is judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but the mighty One saith, “Live,” and he rises pardoned and absolved. It is spiritual life. We knew not Jesus－our eyes could not see Christ, our ears could not hear his voice－Jehovah said “Live,” and we were quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. Moreover, it includes glory-life, which is the perfection of spiritual life. “I said unto thee, Live:” and that word rolls on through all the years of time till death comes, and in the midst of the shadows of death, the Lord’s voice is still heard, “Live!” In the morning of the resurrection it is that self-same voice which is echoed by the arch-angel, “Live,” and as holy spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever in the glory of their God, it is in the power of this same word, “Live.” Note again, that it is an irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from heaven and a light is seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul is crying out, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” This mandate is a mandate of free grace. When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God will do it to magnify his free, unpurchased, unsought grace. Christians, see your position, debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest, Christlike lives, and as God has bidden you live, see to it that you live in earnest.
