第三十五周 满足
“祂使心里渴慕的人，得以知足。”（诗107:9）
诗：我心满福气─ 天上永远有欢喜！
我魂享安息，天界运用它能力。
神只能在基督里得到安息。我们只管偏察天下，我们就看见，除主耶稣以外，没有其他东西，可以满足我们的心。
当我们的心，给神以基督丰满的福乐充满时，就不会回头去自寻苦恼。
所有能使我在天上蒙福的东西，现在都已具备了。你们如果要晓得，什么能叫一个基督徒，在世或离世都喜乐，那就是他现今所得着的基督。也就是他后来在天上所要得的基督。他已有了一个家在那边，他所爱，所认识最深的那一位主，正在那边等候。事实上是：你们的心太大，是世界不能满足的；但当这心让基督充满时，却嫌太小，因为基督是充满万有者，祂会使你完全满足。
“这些事，已经对你们说了，是要叫我的喜乐，存在你们心里。”主没有从世界得到喜乐，祂在父里面已有完全的喜乐。祂的喜乐，在于结果子归荣耀与父。为此，主在这里给我们看见，我们现今在地上，如何因结果子而得到喜乐与祝福。“并叫你们的喜乐可以满足。”这乃是主喜欢我们具有的──满足的喜乐。这喜乐不是从世界来的，乃是主自己所有的那种喜乐。祂切望我们也得着祂自己的喜乐。
所有不认识基督的人，若不在失望的光景中，就是颠倒在叫人到底失望的事情上。
倘若基督的爱没有充满我心，我就必定到世上浮华都市中去求满足，我的心必定被我的事业抓住。如果我的灵是给基督的爱所包围，就必有活水的江河涌流。
所有见证、讲道、教训，即使内容都不错，但心灵若不是先已必先饮得满腹，不然的话，心灵必定枯干。
这世界顶会一目了然，知道某人是不是以神作中心，人若以神作中心。他的心必定不苦闷，乃是完全以神为乐，并绝对以神为满足。这就叫他在生活上，有与众不同之处。
前途漫漫旷野处，荒漠旱地是否苦，不竭甘泉流自天，复生你灵满新鲜。
“你们若是爱我，就必喜乐，因我到父那里去。”主既然爱了我们，祂就与我们联结，并且愿意我们因祂喜乐，你想，祂给我们的是何等的地位！就是叫我们能够说：“我今欢乐，因祂已得了荣耀。”我们心满意足，因为那爱我们，叫我们有喜乐的基督，是心满意足的，我们看见主在祂当得的荣耀里！我们别不他求了。主期望我们因祂的喜乐而喜乐！
THIRTY-FIFTH WEEK SATISFACTION
“He satisfieth the longing soul.” Psalm 107:9
My heart is filled with bliss—
Heaven’s own eternal joys:
My soul at rest—
Of peace possessed—
That world its strength employs.
God could find no rest save in Jesus. We may look throughout the world, we shall find nothing which can satisfy our hearts but Jesus.
When the heart is made full with the rich blessings of Christ, it will not turn back to gnaw upon itself.
All the things that will make me blessed in heaven I have now. … If you want to know what makes a Christian happy in life and death it is that the Christ he has got now is the Christ that he will have in heaven. He has got his home there, where the One he loves and knows best is already.
The fact is, your hearts are too big for the world, it cannot fill them; they are too little for Christ, for He fills heaven; yet will He fill you to overflowing.
“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you;” He had no joy from the world. He had perfect joy in the Father. His joy was in bringing forth fruit to the Father’s glory. He is thus shewing to us how in fruit bearing we can have joy and blessedness down here. “That your joy might be full.” That is what He wants us to have—fulness of joy; and it is not from the world, but the kind of joy He had. It is His desire that we should have His own joy.
Every one who does not know Christ has either a disappointed heart or a heart seeking what will disappoint it.
If His love is not filling my heart, I shall go to some vanity in a shop to satisfy me: my heart will get into my business. If my spirit is wrapped up in the love of Christ, there will be rivers of water flowing out.
No testimony, no preaching, no teaching, even if the matter of it be all right, is right teaching, when the soul is not filled for itself first from God. We must drink for ourselves that rivers may flow. Indeed all else dries up the soul.
The world at once sees if God is the centre of a person. The heart is not morbid, but thoroughly happy in God; it has perfect satisfaction in Him, this is what makes such a difference in life.
“Is the wilderness before thee—
Desert lands where drought abides?
Heavenly springs shall there restore thee
Fresh from God’s exhaustless tides.”
“If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I … go unto the Father.” Inasmuch as He has exercised love to us, He associates us with Himself, and expects us to rejoice in His happiness. What a place to give us: to be able to say, “I am happy because He is glorified;” our hearts satisfied that Christ, who has loved us and made us happy, is contented! We see Him in the glory due to Him, and we are satisfied. … He expects us to be glad in His happiness!