第二十九周 基督的全足
“我的恩典是够你用的。”(林后12:9)
诗:主耶稣!恩典之源,
在荣光中多完全!
这是一个何等有福的真理,我们无论进入任何环境中,基督都是能应付。无论是教会,或是圣徒个人,都不会落在一个祂恩典不够用的境地。
不久以前,我一直在想“要常常喜乐。”是何等完全的话这一句是正面的一半,跟着下去是“应当一无挂念。”这是对于一切地上事物的态度。当我们所有重担卸给宝座,并让主去管理时,平安就来到。因为主是不会急燥的。什么事正在开头时,他已知道这事的结局了。神的平安,保守我们的心怀意念。这是个美好的避难所,它是给我们经历的。
最要紧的是一直要相信──“我的恩典是够你用的。”当我们的心在基督身上时,一切都是轻松的,且能远离一切的陷阱。
祂是永远不改变的,能满足青年人,也能满足老年人,并且充满慈爱与恩典。但愿主保守我们谦卑在他面前,叫我们真的认识祂,和在祂里面所有的丰富。祂的丰富也能应付孤单,因为祂曾经历过:“你们要分散,留下我独自一人;其实我不是独自一人,因为有父与我同在。”因此,你们可以说:“我与在我里面的基督。”
我们越认识主耶稣,就越知道祂是一切的一切。
我们的智慧,那在于认识我们这个人,若在主耶稣之外,就不能作什么,有祂,就什么都能作(只要合乎祂的旨意。)得安息的秘诀,就是我们的心,因基督的全足而让他占有。这样,我们就必借着祂,而在祂里面找到了平安,当难处来到,也能得胜有余了。
基督在我们里面的力量,能使我们完全胜过一切的事物。看见这一点,乃是一件大事。
“各样美善的事,和各样全备的赏赐,都是从上头来的,从众光之父那里降下来的,在他并没有改变,也没有轩动的影儿。”我们实际的生活,往往违背了这一个真理,而向世界钻营,因而濒于失望。但神永不会因我们的失望而失望。他让我们对自己失望,好叫我们更加知道,我们所需要的是基督,并以祂为满足。
“引导我走永生的道路。”这一条道是记不生之路,岂不就是基督自己么?……祂乐意察验我们自己所走的路,好叫我们蒙他带领,去走他的路,为要指示给我们看,基督之于我们,实际上必须如祂自己所宣告的那样,祂是“首先的、末后的”,也是我们的“阿拉法,俄梅戛”。凡引我们走永生道路的,都是好的,因能管教我们脱开自己,而走上祂的道路,除了在开头的时候外结果还会叫我们因这道路而宝贝基督。最后,我们不但认识基督为我们担罪,更认识基督是我们赖以为生的粮食。
TWENTY-NINTH WEEK THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST
“My grace is sufficient for thee.” 2 Corinthians 12:9
Lord Jesus! Source of every grace,
Glorious in light divine.
It is a blessed truth that … we cannot be in circumstances Christ is not sufficient for. Whether it be the church or individual saints, it is impossible to be in a place for which Christ is not sufficient.
I was noticing awhile back how perfect the words, “Rejoice in the Lord always”!—there is the positive portion. “Be careful for nothing” then, as to all that is down here; and in laying our burdens on His throne and heart, it is peace—for He is not troubled and knows the end from the beginning—the peace of God keeps our hearts. What a sanctuary to have in going through!
Above all, believe ever—“My grace is sufficient for thee.” When the heart gets on Christ, all is easy: it is away from what is a snare to us.
He is always the same, sufficient for the young, and sufficient also for the old, and so full of tenderness and grace. May we be kept humble, so as to know Him, and all the resources that are in Him, and they are in Him for … even loneliness—for He has felt it: “Ye shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” So you can say, “I and Christ that is with me.”
The more we know of Him, the more we know He is everything.
Our wisdom is to know that we can do nothing without Jesus—with Him everything that is according to His will. The secret of peace is to be occupied with Him for His own sake, and then we shall find peace in Him and through Him, and be more than conquerors when trouble comes.
It is a great thing to see that the power of Grist in us can set us entirely above everything.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” In practice we often contradict this truth, probing into that which is below, and only learning disappointment. But God is never disappointed when we are disappointed. He allows us to be disappointed with ourselves, in order that we may better learn our need of, and be satisfied with, Christ.
“Lead me in the way everlasting.”… Is not this way Christ Himself, the only way, the way everlasting? … He (is) pleased to search out our own ways, that He may lead us therein—to shew us that Christ must be practically to us that which He declares Himself to be in His word, “the first and the last,” our “Alpha and Omega.”… All is well that leads us “in the way everlasting,” that beats us out of our own ways and brings us there, that makes us in result value Christ for the way, as well as at the outset, and the end—Christ learnt as our portion to live upon, as well as known for the pardon of our sins.