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经文: 随时的帮助。（诗篇四十六：1）
盟约之福是要我们去领取使用的。信徒啊，你应当依靠耶稣，但你没有。当困难来临时，你是否告诉祂所有忧虑？祂同情的心能安慰舒解你。或是你向所有的朋友倾诉，却不告诉你最好的朋友？你是否到处讲述你悲惨的遭遇，却不到你主的胸怀？你是否背着今天的罪担？这里是一充满宝血之泉，好好取用吧！你是否仍被罪恶感所缠？耶稣赦罪之恩可以一再证明是有效的。立即到祂这里来洗净吧！你感到赤身露体吗？有耶稣公义的外袍。不要只是在旁观看，要穿上它！剥下你自以为义的恐惧，穿上美丽洁白的细麻衣。你病了吗？摇响祈求的守望铃，呼唤那位亲爱的大医生，祂将给你复苏之药。你虽贫穷，却有“一位亲戚……一个大财主”（得二：1）。到祂那里去，求祂给你祂的丰富。祂使你与祂一同作继承者。祂一切所是的和祂一切所有的，你都可以取用。基督最不喜欢的莫过于祂的百姓以祂为傲却不取用祂。祂喜欢我们用祂。我们将越多的重担放在祂肩上，祂于我们就越宝贵。
Evening, May 3
Scripture: “A very present help.”(Psalm 46:1)
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated. Even our Lord Jesus is given to us for our present use. Believer, thou dost not make use of Christ as thou oughtest to do. When thou art in trouble, why dost thou not tell him all thy grief? Has he not a sympathizing heart, and can he not comfort and relieve thee? No, thou art going about to all thy friends, save thy best Friend, and telling thy tale everywhere except into the bosom of thy Lord. Art thou burdened with this day’s sins? Here is a fountain filled with blood: use it, saint, use it. Has a sense of guilt returned upon thee? The pardoning grace of Jesus may be proved again and again. Come to him at once for cleansing. Dost thou deplore thy weakness? He is thy strength: why not lean upon him? Dost thou feel naked? Come hither, soul; put on the robe of Jesus’ righteousness. Stand not looking at it, but wear it. Strip off thine own righteousness, and thine own fears too: put on the fair white linen, for it was meant to wear. Dost thou feel thyself sick? Pull the night-bell of prayer, and call up the Beloved Physician! He will give the cordial that will revive thee. Thou art poor, but then thou hast “a kinsman, a mighty man of wealth.” What! wilt thou not go to him, and ask him to give thee of his abundance, when he has given thee this promise, that thou shalt be joint heir with him, and has made over all that he is and all that he has to be thine? There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for his people to make a show-thing of him, and not to use him. He loves to be employed by us. The more burdens we put on his shoulders, the more precious will he be to us.
“Let us be simple with him, then,
Not backward, stiff, or cold,
As though our Bethlehem could be
What Sinai was of old.”