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经文: 正当那时，耶稣被圣灵感动就欢乐。（路加福音十：21）
救主是“多受痛苦”（赛五十三：3）的人，但是在祂的心灵最深处，有属天欢乐的无穷尽宝藏。从无一人如我们的主耶稣基督，有那么深、那么纯和那么永久的平安，因为上帝用喜乐油膏祂，胜过膏祂的同伴（参阅诗四十五：7）。祂宽广的仁慈带给祂最大的喜乐，因为仁慈就是喜乐。圣经中只有少数几次记载这种喜乐从耶稣在世的生活中显明出来。“正当那时，耶稣被圣灵感动就欢乐说，父阿，天地的主，我感谢祢。”（路十：21）虽然黑暗四面环绕、基督仍歌唱。祂无美貌，祂的面容也无属地欢乐的光彩，然而当他想到祂所作的最后必得赏赐时，祂脸上绽放出无比的满足。在众人聚集时，祂歌唱赞美上帝。就是这样，主耶稣成为祂的教会在地上的祝福。在此时刻，教会要与她的主亲密同在荆棘路上。背负十架是她呼召，遭受亲人的藐视是她的命运。然而，教会的喜乐泉源可以支持属上帝的圣徒。像救主一般，我们也有无比喜乐的时刻，因为“有一道河，这河的分汊使上帝的城欢喜。”（诗四十六：4）虽然我们不属这个世界，却能因我们的王而欢乐。
Evening, March 24
Scripture: “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.”(Luke 10:21)
The Saviour was “a man of sorrows,” but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in his innermost soul he carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a man who had a deeper, purer, or more abiding peace than our Lord Jesus Christ. “He was anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows.” His vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy. There were a few remarkable seasons when this joy manifested itself. “At that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth.” Christ had his songs, though it was night with him; though his face was marred, and his countenance had lost the lustre of earthly happiness, yet sometimes it was lit up with a matchless splendour of unparalleled satisfaction, as he thought upon the recompense of the reward, and in the midst of the congregation sang his praise unto God. In this, the Lord Jesus is a blessed picture of his church on earth. At this hour the church expects to walk in sympathy with her Lord along a thorny road; through much tribulation she is forcing her way to the crown. To bear the cross is her office, and to be scorned and counted an alien by her mother’s children is her lot; and yet the church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour’s case, we have our seasons of intense delight, for “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God.” Exiles though we be, we rejoice in our King; yea, in him we exceedingly rejoice, while in his name we set up our banners.