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经文: 论到基督，你们的意见如何？（马太福音二十二：42）
论到基督，你的意见如何？这问题是对你心灵光景的极大测试。祂于你是否“比世人更美”（诗四十五：2），是否“超乎万人之上”（歌五：10），是否“全然可爱”（歌五：16）？若以刻度表来量度你的信心：“基督在你心中的地位有多高？”倘若你很少思念基督、倘若你满足于没有祂同在的生活、倘若你对祂的尊荣并不关心、若你忽视祂的律法，那么你的心灵是有病的，但愿上帝尚不使死亡接近你！但是倘若你心的首要思念是：“我如何能荣耀耶稣？”，倘若你灵魂每日的愿望是：“哦，我深愿能知道往何处去寻见祂。”纵然你有千万困难，即使你在基督内尚属婴儿，仍是安全的，因为你尊崇耶稣。你一定睛于祂高贵的衣饰，你的褴褛就消失了。只要思想祂的伤痕，你受鞭打而流血的伤口就变小了。在你所宝贵之物中这些伤痕像闪烁的红宝石吗？对于王的荣美，你以为如何？在你的心中，祂是否高坐于荣耀的宝座上？倘若你能在宣扬颂赞祂的乐声中加入另一号角声，你愿意为此而死吗？若然，你就有一健康的属灵生命。不论你对自己的意见如何，若基督于你是重要的，不久你就必与祂在一起。
Evening, December 29
Scripture: “What think ye of Christ?”(Matthew 22:42)
The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is he to you “fairer than the children of men”－“the chief among ten thousand”－the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your piety by this barometer: does Christ stand high or low with you? If you have thought little of Christ, if you have been content to live without his presence, if you have cared little for his honour, if you have been neglectful of his laws, then I know that your soul is sick－God grant that it may not be sick unto death! But if the first thought of your spirit has been, how can I honour Jesus? If the daily desire of your soul has been, “O that I knew where I might find him!” I tell you that you may have a thousand infirmities, and even scarcely know whether you are a child of God at all, and yet I am persuaded, beyond a doubt, that you are safe, since Jesus is great in your esteem. I care not for thy rags, what thinkest thou of his royal apparel? I care not for thy wounds, though they bleed in torrents, what thinkest thou of his wounds? are they like glittering rubies in thine esteem? I think none the less of thee, though thou liest like Lazarus on the dunghill, and the dogs do lick thee－I judge thee not by thy poverty: what thinkest thou of the King in his beauty? Has he a glorious high throne in thy heart? Wouldest thou set him higher if thou couldest? Wouldest thou be willing to die if thou couldest but add another trumpet to the strain which proclaims his praise? Ah! then it is well with thee. Whatever thou mayest think of thyself, if Christ be great to thee, thou shalt be with him ere long.
“Though all the world my choice deride,
Yet Jesus shall my portion be;
For I am pleased with none beside,
The fairest of the fair is he”