6月5日 真理是坚固的
6月5日 真理是坚固的
紧紧依附真理的人是自由的：“真理必叫你们得以自由。”（约8:32）
真理有其坚固的根基，我们可以把整个灵魂的重量都安系其上，并且确信它绝不会断裂。你紧紧依附真理，真理也必紧紧依附你。它会与你一同下在监里，也会陪你走到任何你必须为它而去的地方。正如约书亚所说：“耶和华你们神所应许赐福与你们的话没有一句落空，都应验在你们身上了。”（书23:14）
凡是真理所应许的，你都可以将其视为已收入囊中的财富。坡旅甲曾说：“八十六年来，我一直服事神，并且发现祂是一位极其良善的主。”当人们为了抬高自己而离弃真理时，他们其实是在自取其辱。他们被空洞的应许阿谀诱骗、偏离了真理，其最终的下场绝不会比那向犹太人出卖主的犹大更好。
紧紧依附真理的人是自由的：“真理必叫你们得以自由。”（约8:32）但基督也直截了当地指出了犹太人为何仍在捆绑之中：“你们是出于你们的父魔鬼，你们父的私欲你们偏要行。”（约8:44）所有罪人都是撒但的奴仆。一个人的私欲若像寄生虫一般附在身上，当他日复一日地服事它、供养它时，便永远得不到安息。但倘若魔鬼的所有私欲将一个罪人死死地锁在牢底，而基督的真理一旦开启了他的心，你便很快就会看见那监牢的根基摇动，牢门大开，锁链脱落。
真理绝不受捆绑。同样，真理也绝不会停留在一个被罪捆绑的灵魂中。因此，一旦真理与灵魂相契合，也就是基督与灵魂相联合，这个人就可以抬起头来，确知他蒙救赎、脱离属灵奴役的日子近了。那把开启牢门的钥匙已经插进了锁孔，随时准备将他释放。如果我们真正认识那“在耶稣里的”真理，就绝不可能对这真理所带来的自由一无所知。（弗4:21）
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：申9章，诗92-93章，
个人灵修：赛37章，启7章
JUNE 5, FRIDAY
TRUTH IS SOLID
The man who cleaves to it is free: ‘The truth shall make you free’ (John 8:32).
Truth has a firm bottom; we can lay the whole weight of our souls upon it and know it will not break. Cleave to truth and it will cleave to you. It will go with you to prison and anywhere else you must go for her sake. “Not one thing,” said Joshua, “hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof” (Joshua 23:14).
Whatever truth promises, count it as money in your pocket. “Fourscore years,” Polycarp said, “I have served God and found Him a good Master.” When men forsake truth to advance themselves they are asking for disappointment. They are flattered away from truth by empty promises and fare no better than Judas after he betrayed his Master into the hands of the Jews.
The man who cleaves to it is free: “The truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). But Christ bluntly told the Jews why they were in bondage: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (v. 44). All sinners are slaves to Satan. The man who has lust living on him like a parasite finds no rest as he serves and provides for it every day. But if all the devil’s lusts bolted a single sinner to his dungeon floor, and the truth of Christ opened his heart, you would soon see the foundations of the prison shaken, its doors thrown open, and the chains falling off.
Truth will not be bound. And neither will it stay in a soul that is tied up in sin. Therefore, once truth and the soul agree—Christ and the soul—the person can lift up his head and know that his redemption and delivery from spiritual slavery draw near. The key is already in the lock to let him out. It is impossible for us to know truth as it “is in Jesus” and remain strangers to the freedom that comes with it (Ephesians 4:21).