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经文: 人子。（约翰福音三：13）
我们的主常常用这个称谓──“人子”。倘若祂能选择，祂可以称自己为上帝的儿子、永在的父、奇妙、策士、和平的君。但是请看耶稣是何等谦卑！祂宁愿称自己为人子。让我们向救主学习谦卑的功课，永不热衷于寻求尊贵的头术或高傲的学位。不仅如此，在祂的名字中有更甜美的含义。耶稣如此爱人类以至祂喜欢尊重人。这真是一个极高的荣誉，是人类的最高尊严，耶稣是人的儿子！祂展示这个名字，在人类胸前挂上高贵的记琥，并显明上帝对亚伯拉罕后裔之爱。每当祂称个己是人子时，祂从亚当子孙头上放射出光辉。这名字还有更珍贵的含义。耶稣基督称自己是人子，为了表明祂与属祂之人的合一和对他们的关爱。祂提醒我们可以不存惧怕地亲近祂。我们可以将所有的忧伤和困难交给祂，因为祂曾经历过。因祂曾为“人子”，亲自遭受过苦难，所以祂能安慰我们。颂赞归于万福之耶稣！祢这甜美的名字使我们认识祢是一位长兄、一位朋友。祢的名字让我们永远记念祢的恩典、祢的谦卑、祢的大爱。
Evening, March 25
Scripture: “The Son of man.”(John 3:13)
How constantly our Master used the title, the “Son of man!” If he had chosen, he might always have spoken of himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Prince of Peace; but behold the lowliness of Jesus! He prefers to call himself the Son of man. Let us learn a lesson of humility from our Saviour; let us never court great titles nor proud degrees. There is here, however, a far sweeter thought. Jesus loved manhood so much, that he delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man, he is wont to display this name, that he may as it were hang royal stars upon the breast of manhood, and show forth the love of God to Abraham’s seed. Son of man－whenever he said that word, he shed a halo round the head of Adam’s children. Yet there is perhaps a more precious thought still. Jesus Christ called himself the Son of man to express his oneness and sympathy with his people. He thus reminds us that he is the one whom we may approach without fear. As a man, we may take to him all our griefs and troubles, for he knows them by experience; in that he himself hath suffered as the “Son of man,” he is able to succour and comfort us. All hail, thou blessed Jesus! inasmuch as thou art evermore using the sweet name which acknowledges that thou art a brother and a near kinsman, it is to us a dear token of thy grace, thy humility, thy love.
“Oh see how Jesus trusts himself
Unto our childish love,
As though by his free ways with us
Our earnestness to prove!
His sacred name a common word
On earth he loves to hear;
There is no majesty in him
Which love may not come near.”