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经文: 胸间束着金带。（启示录一：13）
在拔摩岛上的约翰见到“有一位好像人子”这位主所爱的门徒注意到祂束了一条金带。对耶稣来说，束上带子代表的就是随时准备服事。现在，在永恒的宝座前，祂继续着祂的神圣职事，穿上祭司的袍子，并且束上“巧工织的带子，要和以弗得一样的作法”（出二十八：8）。我们是蒙福的，因为祂并未停止为我们去完成那爱的工作，我们最大的安全乃是“祂是长远活着，替他们祈求。”（来七：25）。祂继续不断地为祂的百姓服务，祂的服事并没有停止，祂的外袍并没有脱下。金腰带彰显了祂桌越的服事、祂高贵的位格、祂神子的地位、祂所得的荣耀。祂不再于尘世上大声疾呼，却以权柄来为世人代求，祂既是君王又是祭司。我们的主为祂百姓立下一个楷模。现在不是休息的时刻，是服事与争战的时刻。我们更需要用真理把腰紧紧束住。我们的心若不以耶稣的真理和圣灵的声音为支柱很容易会被今生的事务缠累，落人试探诱惑之网罗。除非我们能以上帝的话束腰，用祂的话围住我们全人、管理我们的性情，否则即使读圣经也枉然。“所以要站隐了，用真理当作带子束腰。”（弗六：14）
Evening, December 6
Scripture: “Girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”(Revelation 1:13)
“One like unto the Son of Man” appeared to John in Patmos, and the beloved disciple marked that he wore a girdle of gold. A girdle, for Jesus never was ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for service, and now before the eternal throne he stays not is holy ministry, but as a priest is girt about with “the curious girdle of the ephod.” Well it is for us that he has not ceased to fulfil his offices of love for us, since this is one of our choicest safeguards that he ever liveth to make intercession for us. Jesus is never an idler; his garments are never loose as though his offices were ended; he diligently carries on the cause of his people. A golden girdle, to manifest the superiority of his service, the royalty of his person, the dignity of his state, the glory of his reward. No longer does he cry out of the dust, but he pleads with authority, a King as well as a Priest. Safe enough is our cause in the hands of our enthroned Melchizedek.
Our Lord presents all his people with an example. We must never unbind our girdles. This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the season of service and warfare. We need to bind the girdle of truth more and more tightly around our loins. It is a golden girdle, and so will be our richest ornament, and we greatly need it, for a heart that is not well braced up with the truth as it is in Jesus, and with the fidelity which is wrought of the Spirit, will be easily entangled with the things of this life, and tripped up by the snares of temptation. It is in vain that we possess the Scriptures unless we bind them around us like a girdle, surrounding our entire nature, keeping each part of our character in order, and giving compactness to our whole man. If in heaven Jesus unbinds not the girdle, much less may we upon earth. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.