第三十九周 我们的需要与他丰富供应
“蒙恩惠作随时的帮助。”（来4:16）
诗：仍朝迦南往前行，缺乏、苦难带进恩，
天上供应永不吝，丰满活泉在于神。
人的智慧与哲学永远找不到神；祂是借着我们的缺乏而使我们认识祂；只有紧急的需要，才能打到神。罪人的心甚至连圣徒的心也是一样，必如此，才能进入正常的光景，我怀疑，除了这一个途径之外，是否还有虽的方法，除非我们在任何事物上有实际的学习，我怀疑，人还有什么别的方法能找到神。
我们总不应该灰心丧志，因为我们所倚靠的主，永不失败，也永不能失败。正如在提摩太后书那里，当四面都是败落的时候，保罗要他亲爱的儿子有刚强的信心。这是最好运用信心的机会，因为当时遭遇着大需要，但主总是替人解决需要的。
在十字架，我已了解神是如何对待我们这个罪人；现在我是圣徒了，还要学习知道神如何解决我所有的缺乏，就是先要感觉我的需要，然后把需要带到主前，只觉得饥饿还不够，我必须真的好像饥饿到将死的地步，不明白主的心对我们是怎样。当那个浪子饿的时候，他去吃豆荚，饥饿到将要死的时候，他转回父家从此才认识父亲心里的大爱。
只要我们能明白一点，饱饮于神的爱河，是何等安慰与喜乐，我们就必会感觉，现在的一切环境，是不是介意的了。
在旷野中，无论可时真的有缺乏，若疑惑神到底肯不肯帮助我们的话，那就是罪，所谓试探神，就是疑惑神是否他恩，是否供应我们一切的需要。
“主，你若肯，必能叫我洁净了。”那个长大麻疯的人，对于主的能力够认识，但不晓得能力背后的爱心，主把他的爱，带到大麻疯者的跟前〖就介手摸他说：“我肯，你洁净了罢”假使常人摸了长大麻疯的，他自己就变成不洁，要被赶出营外。但主是不人被玷污的，圣洁本身没有玷污，也不会被玷污，这样就把罪人所需要的爱带到罪人那里！
“神阿，你的意念向我何等宝贵！”这个讲论神意念的题目，是一个何等蒙福的题目。祂的意念高过我们的意念，如同天高过地一样。这个题目，也是关乎神难测和无限的恩爱，这里有真的自由，我们是否认识，我们自己狭隘、卑下和鄙吝的意念，该被神高起、宽大，慷慨的意念打倒？这到底是怎么一回事呢？祂对我们的意念，乃是根据我们在基督里的地位，神最大的意念，就是主耶稣。神所有的意念，都是在主耶稣里面向我们彰显出来，一个没有堕落过的天使，还不能够造进入神奥秘的意念中，只有因着受圣灵而活过来的罪人才可以。
THIRTY-NINTH WEEK OUR NEEDS AND HIS FULNESS
“Grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16
On to Canaan’s rest still wending,
E’en thy wants and woes shall bring
Suited grace from high descending ;—
Thou shalt taste of mercy’s spring.
Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs; necessity finds Him out. … The sinner’s heart—yes, and the saint’s heart too—is put in its right place in this way. I doubt much if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learnt it thus.
We never ought to be discouraged, because the Lord we trust in never fails, nor can. It is just in 2 Timothy, when all was in ruin and declension, that Paul looks for his dear son to be strong in the faith: there never is so good a time for it, because it is needed, and the Lord always meets need.
I have learnt at the cross what God was to me as a sinner; and now I have to learn how He meets my wants as a saint, by feeling my need and bringing it to Him. To be hungry is not enough, I must be really starving to know what is in His heart towards me. When the prodigal was hungry he went to feed upon husks; but when he was starving, he turned to his father’s house, and then learnt the love of the father’s heart.
If we did but know a little more of the comfort and joy of drinking into the fulness of God’s love, we should feel present circumstances to be as nothing.
Whenever there is real need in the wilderness, it is a sin to doubt whether God will help us or not. … Tempting the Lord is doubting the supply of His goodness in giving all that we need.
“Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” The leper was sure of the power, but did not know the love that was there. He carries the love right up to the leper, “and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.” If man touched a leper he was unclean and put out of the camp. But He cannot be defiled. … Holiness undefiled and undefilable carries to sinners the love they need.
“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! “… This is a blessed theme, the theme of God’s thoughts—higher, as the heavens are higher than the earth, than our thoughts, the theme of God’s fathomless and illimitable grace. Here is real liberty. Do we know what it is to have our own thoughts, so narrow, so beggared, so mean, beaten down by God’s high, generous, liberal thoughts—His thoughts of us as to what we are in Christ? … Jesus is the great thought of God—God’s thoughts are expressed to us in Him. It is not an unfallen angel but a sinner quickened by the Spirit of God who can thus get into the deep thoughts of God.