7月6日 不要夸耀自己的纯全
不要夸耀自己的纯全
那位恩典丰盛的主，既已亲自承担供应你的责任，你还会挨饿吗？
你面包盒里的那一条面包，撑不了你的余生；但你手里有一个约！神岂不是教你祷告，求祂赐下“日用的饮食”吗？只要你天天殷勤跟从祂的呼召，祂的赐福就必供应你一切所需。
你也有一位供应属灵“日用饮食”的主。你有一位宝贵的长兄，一位丈夫，祂特意上到天上去，那里有取之不尽的恩典，好在这个满了压力与重担的艰难世界中，扶持我们的灵魂。一切权柄都在祂手里；祂亲自前往供应之处，将你所需的一切赐下。那位恩典丰盛的主，既已亲自承担供应你的责任，你还会挨饿吗？
那好撒玛利亚人留下的两个银钱，本不够那受伤旅客食宿康复的花费；于是他留下了自己的应许：等他再来时，凡所欠的都要偿还。基督给我们的，也不只是从祂手中赐下一点恩典，而是赐下“更多的恩典”（雅4:6），多到足以把我们一路带上天，与祂同在。“因为耶和华神是日头，是盾牌，要赐下恩惠和荣耀；祂未尝留下一样好处不给那些行动正直的人”（诗84:11）。
所以，你不该夸耀自己的纯全。不错，纯全能使你抵挡试探，也能把你从罪中扶起来；但又是谁把这能力赐给纯全的呢？滋养你恩典的那条根，究竟长在哪里？不是长在你自己的土壤里，而是长在天上。唯独神赐下它，也唯独神保守它。主是你的力量；愿祂也成为你的诗歌。斧头再锋利，若没有工人的手，又能作什么呢？斧头岂能夸口说自己砍倒了什么？凿子岂能夸口说自己雕刻了什么？这一切，岂不都是工人的技艺与巧手吗？所以，当你抵挡试探得胜的时候，你只能说出一个真理：“若不是耶和华帮助我，我早已跌倒了。”
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：书8章，诗139章，
个人灵修：耶2章，太16章
JULY 6, MONDAY
DON’T GLORY IN SINCERITY
Can you ever starve, then, when he who has fullness of grace has undertaken to provide for you?
The loaf in your bread box is not enough to feed you the rest of your life. But you have a covenant! Has not God taught you to pray for your “daily bread”? If you diligently follow His calling every day, His blessing supplies everything you need.
And you have a Provider of spiritual “daily bread” as well. You have a precious Brother, a Husband who purposely has gone to heaven, where there is plenty of grace, so He can sustain our soul in this demanding world of stress and pressure. All power is in His hands: He goes to the Supply and sends whatever you need. Can you ever starve, then, when he who has fullness of grace has undertaken to provide for you?
The two coins which the Samaritan left were not enough to pay for the board and recovery of the wounded traveler: so he left his word that he would pay whatever was required when he came again. Christ does not just give a little grace from His hand, but “more grace” (James 4:6), as much as necessary to take us to heaven with Him. “The Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11).
You should not glory in your sincerity. It is true—sincerity empowers you to resist temptation and will lift you out of sin; but who empowers sincerity? Where does the root grow which feeds your grace? Not in your own ground but in heaven. It is God alone who gave it and will keep it. The Lord is your strength; let Him be your song. What can the axe do, even a sharp one, without the workman? Shall the axe brag that it has cut down something? Or the chisel boast that it has carved? Is it not the skill and art of the workman? When you resist temptation there is only one truth you can speak: “If the Lord had not been on my side I would have fallen.”