第三十二周 安息
“到我这里来，我就使你们得安息。”（太11:28）
诗：救主心里有安息，祂不忘记人痛苦；
罪恶霸占的身心，成祂大爱彰显处。
我们看自己的光景，自己的果子，自己的感觉，要证实自己是不是属乎主，这样作不能给，也不会给我们安息。主耶稣不是说，你们要察看你们的光景如何，你们就必定有安息，乃是说：“凡劳苦担重担的人，可以到我这里来”。照着本相而来，“我就给你们安息。”我们能够有安息，不是因为我们与祂所要求的符合，而是因为祂符合我们的需要。
是主耶稣能给我们的心灵有永久不变的安息，但我们的自我估量，却是不能。信心永不以我们自己里头的情形来作安息的根据，信心就是接受神已经启示出来的基督，以及神对主耶稣的看法；在主耶稣里面才有他的安息。
我们蒙恩儿女，在此走祂道路，
因父爱而时刻欢喜；
我们蒙恩儿女，从祂面光领悟，
那忧患难摧的安息。
祂不凡使人与神和好（平安）了，祂也能说：“我将我的平安赐给你们。”基督的平安是怎样的呢？祂在世时，祂总是无间断的与父神相交──这就是由于祂与父交通所产生的超凡的平安。基督把我们安置在祂自己的地位上，就便我们与永在的父相交，我们若如此行，我们就得到基督这一个平安。
只有一个人，在地上没有安息之所，“狐狸有洞，天空的飞鸟有窠，只是人子没有枕头的地方。”
主耶稣在地上，心中疲惫，因为祂找不到一个给伤心的人能安息的地方；但祂给人看见，地上疲倦的心，对自己和自己的所行，对全世界和任何事物，都觉得疲倦失意时；能在胸怀里寻得安息，这是何等的福气。
我们能与神同工，也能与祂同安息，因为我们若无有祂，所作的就必生枝节，即使存心不错，也无济于事。
主耶稣经历苦难，在烦扰中有安息，无人能及，所以祂能给我们最超凡的安息。
我寻求以基督供应人，这乃人类心灵之所需。我们如此行，为要使我得安息，并使人模成祂的形象。世上没有安息的人，就是那些没有与主耶稣同在的人。
你若因认识神的儿子，心中安然信靠，进到父面前，那灵里所得的，是何等安稳平静呢？请问你们的心得到了这个没有？你们的心是否专注于父神？我们能不能说，我已经在基督里寻到天父了呢？
THIRTY-SECOND WEEK REST
“Come unto me … and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
There is rest in the Saviour’s heart,
Who never turned sorrow away,
But has found, in what sin had made
our part,
The place of His love’s display.
We … look to our state and our fruit and our feelings to know if we are His … which cannot give rest, and ought not. Jesus does not say, Find out our state and you shall have rest, but “Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden,” as you are, “and I will give you rest.” Our rest comes not from our being what He wants, but His being what we want.
It is Jesus who gives abiding rest to our souls, and not what our thoughts about ourselves may be. Faith never thinks about that which is in ourselves as its ground of rest; it receives, loves and apprehends what God has revealed, and what are God’s thoughts about Jesus, in whom is His rest.
And here we walk, as sons through grace,
A Father’s love our present joy:
Sons, in the brightness of Thy face,
Find rest no sorrows can destroy.
He has not only made peace, but “My peace I give unto you.” … What was the peace of Christ? He was here in uninterrupted intercourse with the Father—the peace of perfect communion. Christ puts us into His place, and we have fellowship with the Father; and when we walk in that, we have this peace of Christ.
There is but one man … who never had a place of rest. … “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” And if we now have a nest, a place of rest in God, it is because for our sakes Jesus was without rest on earth.
After weariness of heart in the world—after the Lord Jesus had gone through the world and found no place where a really broken heart could rest—He came to shew that what could not be found for man anywhere else could be found in God. This is so blessed! that after all, the poor wearied heart, wearied with itself, with its own ways, wearied with the world and everything, can find rest in the blessedness of the bosom of the Father.
One may rest sometimes with God, as well as act with Him; for one cannot act without Him, save to trouble, even though meaning to do good.
He gives rest supreme as One who knew what peace was in trouble as none ever did.
I … seek to minister Christ. It is what souls want, both for quietness and forming them in His image. It is those who are not with Him who are restless.
What settled quietness of spirit it gives, to have found yourself with the Father, through the knowledge of the Son, in confidence of heart! Have your hearts got that? Are they really occupied with the Father? … Can our hearts say, I have found the Father in Christ?