十月二十八日 [mp3_embed playlst=”/downloading/audio/evening/10/1028.mp3″]
经文: 祂的头像至精的金子。祂的头发厚密累垂，黑如乌鸦。（雅歌五：11）
要拿别的事物来和耶稣作比较几乎是不可能的，但是这位新妇却用她能想到的最美词藻来形容她的良人。我们能从耶稣的头来了解祂的神性，因为“上帝是基督的头”（林前十一：3）。最纯的金子是最令人信服的比喻，即使如此，用以形容主耶稣仍然相去甚远，因为祂的珍贵、纯洁、可爱与荣耀是无限的。耶稣不是一粒金沙，而是一颗巨大金球，是无价之宝，非天上地下之价值能胜过，被造之物不过是铁是泥，他们也像草木、禾秸般会逝去。造物主的永恒之头永远发出光辉。祂是无限圣洁、全然神圣的。厚密累垂的头发描述了祂人性的活力。我们的至爱者乃人中之人。祂勇猛如狮子、劳苦如公牛、快速如飞鹰。在祂身上可以找到可见和不可见之美，虽然祂曾被人藐视、被人厌弃。现在，祂却以无敌的尊严永远为王。黑发表年青健壮、朝气蓬勃，因为祂有少年时光耀如清晨的甘露。人会因年迈而衰弱，祂即永远为祭司。人来去无定，祂却永坐宝座为上帝。祂的国永无止境。今晚让我们来朝见敬仰祂。天使凝视祂，蒙祂救赎的子民更应定睛在祂身上。何处能找到像祂这般心爱的人呢？耶稣啊，吸引我，我必快跑跟随。
Evening, October 28
Scripture: “His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.”(Song of Solomon 5:11)
Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand his deity, “for the head of Christ is God” and then the ingot of purest gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all too poor to describe one so precious, so pure, so dear, so glorious. Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay, they all shall perish like wood, hay, and stubble, but the ever living Head of the creation of God shall shine on for ever and ever. In him is no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever infinitely holy and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict his manly vigour. There is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men. Bold as a lion, laborious as an ox, swift as an eagle. Every conceivable and inconceivable beauty is to be found in him, though once he was despised and rejected of men.
“His head the finest gold;
With secret sweet perfume,
His curled locks hang all as black
As any raven’s plume.”
The glory of his head is not shorn away, he is eternally crowned with peerless majesty. The black hair indicates youthful freshness, for Jesus has the dew of his youth upon him. Others grow languid with age, but he is for ever a Priest as was Melchizedek; others come and go, but he abides as God upon his throne, world without end. We will behold him to-night and adore him. Angels are gazing upon him－his redeemed must not turn away their eyes from him. Where else is there such a Beloved? O for an hour’s fellowship with him! Away, ye intruding cares! Jesus draws me, and I run after him.