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第三十四周 顺服

“当负我的轭。”（太11:29）

诗：万福轭里有安息，只要顺服祂意旨；
从中学习祂道路，并祂口出的言词，
哦！这可爱的忍耐何希奇！

民所有的能力，和真实有效的事奉，是从完全顺服而产生的。

除非我们里面，有什么与神相反的事，不然环境就不能加客于我们，完全顺服，环境对他就只像风一样，一吹即逝。

我们的意志，在神的威严前，若不完全被破碎，我们在神面前的光景，就不算是对的。

没有一件事，象我们在基督里与父相交所得的喜乐那样，参建立我们的心，和打破我们里头的意志。

什么时候我任意行事，什么时候我就得罪了神因基督宝血所当受尊重的主权。

意志一经破碎，就大开悟性之门。

什么时候我们的意志与忧患混合，什么时候这忧患必产生伤痛，而感到没有基督同在那种的痛苦。

“你的美意本是如此。”是得主安慰的关键。

自由的意志，不过是摩鬼的奴隶。

我们的心必须规正，我们的意志必须破碎，如果我们注目在客西马尼园中的基督，我们还敢固执，而贯彻自己的意志吗？

一个意志破碎并降服了的人，和另一个存心作好，却随己意而行的人，二者之间，有惊人的差别。

一个人若是与神同行，他的心灵就不是刚硬，而是柔顺，除了顺服的灵，再没有别的灵那么柔软，那么容易呼应神的每一个感觉，这样的灵把情感里的己意抽出，而又不毁掉情感。这是一件很宝贵的事！

神是充满怜悯，能体贴我们和我们的软弱，祂的作为总是满了温柔和慈怜；但我们总偏行己意，祂知道如何将它破碎……那最可怕的管教，就是祂让我们任意偏行己路。

主耶稣也曾尝过人生的忧患，就如疲乏、饥饿，当进行爱心的事奉时，祂的心就从未疲乏过。能看见这一点，和看见祂事奉的毫无己意，是甘甜而有福的。有人告诉祂说：“你所爱的人病了。”我们必定想，祂马上就要动身了。但是没有，祂还在原处住了两天，因祂还没有父的命令，我们看出，那是要表明祂的神性。祂作一个仆人，祂安静，在没有奉到命令之先，就停留不前，这样的作法，似乎是很难的，因祂在地上时，若说有家的话，就是伯大尼那一个，你从不会看见，祂曾有一次越过祂作仆人的地位，而祂所表彰的，乃是完全的爱。

THIRTY-FOURTH WEEK SUBMISSION

“Take my yoke upon you.” Matthew 11:29

There is rest in the blessed yoke
That knows no will but His;
That learns from His path, and
the words He spoke,
What that loving patience is!

All power and real effective service will be found to spring from entire submission.

Circumstances would not trouble if they did not find something in us contrary to God; they would rustle by as the wind.

Until the will has been crushed in the presence of the majesty of God, there cannot be a right state before God.

There is nothing that forms the heart, breaking down the will in us, like the delight that we have in Christ in fellowship with the Father.

Whenever I act in my own will in anything, I am wronging God of His own title through the blood of Christ.

The breaking of the will is a great means of opening the understanding.

It is only when the will mixes itself up with the sorrow that there is any bitterness in it, or a pain in which Christ is not.

“So it seemed good in thy sight” was the hinge of the Lord’s comfort.

Liberty of will is just slavery to the devil.

We want our hearts to get right; we want our wills broken down; if we go to look at Christ as … presented to us in Gethsemane, can we seek to satisfy the will now?

There is a wonderful difference between a soul … whose will has been broken and made subject, and one which, while seeking to do right, does it according to its own will.

If the soul walks with God, it is not hard, but it is submissive; and there is no softer spirit, nor one which is more susceptible of every feeling than submission; but then it takes the will out of the affections without destroying them, and that is very precious.

God is full of mercy and has compassion on us and on our weakness. He is tender and pitiful in His ways; but if we are determined to follow our own will, He knows how to break it. … The worst of all chastening is that He should leave us to follow our own ways.

He (the Lord Jesus Christ) takes the sorrows of human nature—weariness, hunger; but with a heart that never was weary when a service of love was to be performed. … It is most sweet and blessed to see it, and to see He had no will of His own in it. When they tell Him, “He whom thou lovest is sick,” we should have thought He would have started off at once. No, He abode two days still where He was, He had no commandment from His Father. We see it was to shew His Godhead. Still, as a servant, He had no word, and He did not stir. It seemed very hard. His home, if He had one on earth, was that house at Bethany. You never find Him going out of the place of a servant, and He never was anything but the perfection of love in it.

第三十三周 神的信实

“神是信实的。”（林前1:9）。

诗：哦！何日云翳消减，得以瞻祂慈颜，
在恩中更能赏识，祂信袂的爱顾。
哦！何日享祂爱情，缅怀今天路径，
软弱中全信于祂，爱的工作扶护。

我们应当有信心，信神是信实的，能保守祂自己的人。

祂虽不会在任何事上都使用我们，但他常会作祂自己的工，我们可以（也应当）信靠祂所作的工。

忍耐往往是一个很好的办法，因为有神在其中行事；有许多事我们必须让神自己去作。

千万不可疑惑神的信实，哦，假若我不为神的信实作见证，不述说祂对无用的仆人的伟大，甘甜，和可贵的忍耐，那我就是一个忘恩负义的人。

我觉得，我们永不用去答复人的攻击，如果失败是在我，就应当坦白承认，若不在我，交托给主就好了。

“我主，我神，你必替我回答。”……你若与一个打扫烟窗的人纠缠，你必沾染肮脏。我们该有的立场是，活在超越这些事的上头，不去想人的攻击，只想到人的灵魂。

神一作工，我们必定可以预期有圆满的结果。

我时常发现，真的有事临到时，把这事带到神前，是使事情获致妥善处理的法子。

祂的爱与恩永不止息。我们在地上，纵使是子然一身，祂的恩典也会够用，赞美祂的名，祂是我们永远的良伴。

保罗因为那加给他力量的，凡事都能作。这是何等甘甜和宝贵的经历，这不只是因得着能力，可以应付一革的环境（当然这是已经够宝贵的了）。更是因这一位永不改变，信实而大能的至友被他认识了。不是“我凡事都能作。”而是“在那加给我力量者的里面，凡事都有作。”这力量源源不绝的涌流，都因在心中连结着基督。事实上人并不是“凡事都能作”者，但保罗已在经历上学会了这功课，他知道他所倚靠的谁，基督对他一直是信实的，曾带他经过那么多的难处，也经过那么多享通的日子，所以他已经学会信靠祂而不看环境。基督是永不改变的。

保罗的心是安息在神里面，他写给腓立比人那安慰的话语，曾透亮的表达了这一点。他说，我的神必照祂荣耀的丰富，在基督耶稣里，使你们一切所需用的都充足。他并不是表示一个愿望说，愿神这样行，他根据自己的经历，己熟识他的神是怎样的一位神。他说我的神，就是在我经历种种环境中所认识的神。必定用诸般的好处充满你们。他把神如何恩待他个人，以及基督对他是何等信实可靠的丰富经历，全应用在腓立比人身上。

但愿那信实并完全良善的主耶稣，用祂的同在托住你们，并使你们的心欢乐。

THIRTY-THIRD WEEK THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD

“God is faithful.” 1 Corinthians 1:9

Oh! when—without a cloud­—
His features trace,
Whose faithful love so long
We’ve known in grace;

That love itself enjoy­—
Which ever true
Did, in our feeble path,
Its work pursue?

We should … have faith in the faithfulness of God to keep His own.

He will not always use us in everything, but He will always do His own work, and we can or ought to trust Him for it.

Patience is often a great remedy, because there is a God who acts. … There are cases where we must let God alone do all.

Do not doubt His faithfulness … oh, how ungrateful I should be if I did not testify to His faithfulness, and to His great and sweet and precious patience with His poor servant.

Mere attacks, I feel, are never to be answered. If we have failed—acknowledge it; if not—leave it to the Lord.

“Thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God.” … You get as dirty in contending with a sweep as in hugging him … our part is to live above these things, and not to think of attacks but of souls.

When God works we look for full results.

I have constantly found that bringing things to God, if real, is the way of having them done.

His love and grace never fail. Were we alone in the world, His grace would be sufficient, and blessed be His name, perpetual company.

Paul … could do all things through Him who strengthened him. Sweet and precious experience! not only because it gives ability to meet all circumstances, which is of great price, but because the Lord is known, the constant, faithful, mighty friend of the heart. It is not “I can do all things,” but “I can do all through him who strengtheneth me.” It is a strength which continually flows from a relationship with Christ, a connection with Him maintained in the heart. Neither is it only “one can do all things.” This is true; but Paul had learnt it practically. He knew what he could … reckon on. Christ had always been faithful to him, had brought him through so many difficulties, and through so many seasons of prosperity, that he had learnt to trust in Him, and not in circumstances. And Christ was the same ever.

(Paul’s) heart rested in God; his assurance with regard to the Philippians expresses it. My God, he says, shall richly supply all your need. He does not express a wish that God may do so. He had learnt what his God was by his own experience. My God, he says, He whom I have learned to know in all the circumstances through which I have passed, shall fill you with all good things. … He applies his own experience of that which God was to him, and his experience of the faithfulness of Christ, to the Philippians.

May the presence of that faithful and all good Jesus sustain you and rejoice your heart.

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?

第三十一周 从至圣所来的帮助

“那等候耶和华的，必重新得力。”（40:31）

诗：漫漫长途你虽倦，祂赐新车壮如鹰。
盔甲鲜明脚步健，证实神恩带你行。

我们应有天城旅客那个等候的灵，不应有失意者疲倦的灵。

你不要自称衰老，好象疲乏无能一样。主永不疲倦，是恒古常存者，你应当如鹰一样，重新得力，在老年时，仍要结果子。

真力量的来源，是在于深。信主是施恩者。我们这天然的人，总是怀疑基督，不信祂是独一无二之力量与祝福的源头。

如果祂的道路是在“海中”，祂的道路也是在“圣所里”；如果我们与祂同在至圣所，大海就必向祂的能力低头，当祂一起来作工，海中一切就立刻恢复平静。但除他以外，我从来获悉何人能作此工。

哦，主自己若不亲自作工，我们想作工在有需要的人身上是多么的不可能。所以祂能给我们仰望，实在我们的安慰，我们一仰望，祂的看顾和恩典，就会临到罪人身上了。

我只有一句宝贵的话告诉你：要紧靠主耶稣身边！你知道在那里能得着喜乐、力量，并享受随时随在，给你扶持和爱的偎养。那爱使万事尽都虚空，而叫人摸着基督，我们的喜乐和生命。就在于此。

“神是我们的避难所，是我们的力量，是我们在患难中随时的帮助。”人自己的努力，会把这一人帮助关在门外，人的计划都是不对的。神有祂的方法，且在祂自己的时间中来到。……人的挣扎，不过证明缺乏信心和安息，打算也不过是肉体。

我救主经历的路途，直指祂父祂神之所，

到祂现今宝座之处，我现在从此路经过。

祂力如何，我必如何。

工作的本分会引我们进入难处，但我们可以安心说，神在那里必然得胜。

要专心注意于基督，使你们能灵里新鲜，并力量充沛。与主同经忧患是一件大事，忧患跟看会变成有水的井泉，恩典也必丰满降下，要为众圣徒祷告，将所有忧患都带给基督，并要在灵里把基督带到忧患中。

有一件顶大的安慰，就是当我们瞻仰基督时，不能只看见该如何行，并且也能得着所该达到的“恩上加恩”，“我们众人既然敞着脸，得以看见主的荣光，就变成主的形状，荣上加荣”。与基督的形状相似，这就是真正的长进；这长进应该是每时每刻的。

我进常有许多责任上的事情，重重的压在身上。但我将这些事交托主，祂的大能胜过这可怜的世界所要求的一切，在祂无重担之可言，祂能照着祂的意念安排一切。

THIRTY-FIRST WEEK HELP FROM THE SANCTUARY

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” Isaiah 11:31

Though thy way be long and dreary,
Eagle strength He’ll still renew
Garments fresh and foot unweary
Tell how God hath brought thee through.

We should be in the spirit of waiting pilgrims, not weary ones.

You must not call yourself old as if you were tired. The Lord is never weary, yet the Ancient of Days; you have to renew your strength as an eagle to bear fruit in old age.

The source of real strength is in the sense of the Lord’s being gracious. The natural man in us always disbelieves Christ as the only source of strength and every blessing.

His way is “in the sanctuary” if His way is “in the sea,” and if we are with Him there, the sea bows to His power; but to none else that I know of … when He works all is soon still.

Oh, if the Lord Himself was not the workman, how hopeless would be the thought of reaching all the souls that are in need. It is a comfort then to be able to look to Him, that His eye and grace may reach them.

I have only one precious word to say to you: keep close to Jesus, you know you will find there joy, strength, and that consciousness of His love which sustains everywhere and makes everything else become nothing, there is our happiness and our life.

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” … Human efforts shut this help out. … No human planning is ever right. In His own time and way, God will come in. … Human efforts prove want of faith and restlessness, and planning is mere flesh.

For the path where my Saviour is gone
Has led up to His Father and God—
To the place where He’s now on the throne:
And His strength shall be mine on the road.

Duty ever leads into difficulty, but I have the consolation of saying, God is there, and victory certain.

Occupy yourselves with Christ that you may be refreshed and strengthened. … It is a great thing to pass through sorrows with Him; they are then turned to a well, and grace comes down too. Pray for the saints—all of them—carry the sorrows to Christ, and in your own spirit bring Christ to the sorrows.

It is a great comfort that, in looking at Christ, I not only see the thing I ought to be, but I get the thing I ought to be, “grace for grace.” “We all, with open face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory unto glory.” There is real growth there. … In likeness to Christ, and it ought to be growth every instant.

I generally have many things which press heavily within the range of my responsibility. But I commit them to Him who is mighty above all which this poor world can require, and to whom a burden is no burden at all. … He orders everything according to the counsel of His will.