7月19日 不可忽略敬拜
不可忽略敬拜
向我们拥有主权的主献上敬意，是祂理所当得的。若没有敬拜，我们怎能宣告我们的生活、动作、存留都在乎祂呢？
所以，基督徒啊，你要谨慎，不可忽略任何一个敬拜的特权，因为那极可能正是耶稣站着等候进入你灵魂的门！圣灵是自由的。不要将圣灵限制在某一项本分中，要在每一项本分中等候祂。凡能推动你灵魂奔走天路的水流，你都不该让它白白从你的水车旁流过，否则绝非明智之举。
也许你在公共敬拜中寻求神时，并未得着所期盼的那么多光照。让我问你一个问题，你在隐密处与神相交的景况如何呢？这里若有一个破口，若不加以修补，足以让你在公共聚会中所得的恩典漏失殆尽。撒母耳不肯与耶西和他的众子一同坐席，直到大卫，也就是家中最小的那个儿子，被带进来与他们同席。若你渴望在任何蒙恩管道中得着神的同在，就必须把你曾打发走的那一个带回来。在你看来它也许最微不足道，但它极可能是神所拣选，要用来将最特别的赐福加冕在你灵魂上的途径。
要寻求神的目的。神在敬拜中有两个目的。第一，祂定意要我们尊荣祂为拥有主权的主。第二，敬拜是祂将自己的同在和赐福交通给祂儿女的蒙恩管道。
向我们拥有主权的主献上敬意，是祂理所当得的。若没有敬拜，我们怎能宣告我们的生活、动作、存留都在乎祂呢？神最先教导亚当和他儿女的功课之一，就是对神的敬拜。圣洁的人将尊神的名为圣并归荣耀给神，视为一生中最要紧的事。臣民向君王献礼，若举止荒唐可笑，君王不仅未受尊荣，反觉受了藐视；兵丁曾向耶稣屈膝，他们的心却在戏弄这位圣洁的神。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：士2章，徒6章，
个人灵修：耶15章，可1章
JULY 19, SUNDAY
DO NOT NEGLECT WORSHIP
Homage to our sovereign Lord is His just due. If there were no worship, how could we declare that it is in Him that we live and move and have our being?
Be careful, then, Christian, not to neglect any one privilege of worship—it might be the door where Jesus stands waiting to enter your soul! The Spirit is free. Do not bind Him to one duty only; but wait on Him in every one of them. It is not wisdom to let any water run past your mill which might be useful to send your soul moving toward heaven.
Maybe you do not receive as much enlightenment as you want when you seek God in public services. Let me ask you this—what kind of communion do you have with Him in secret? Here is a hole wide enough to lose everything you get in public, if you do not repair it. Samuel would not sit down to the feast with Jesse and his sons until David—the youngest of the family—was brought in to join them. If you want God’s presence in any of the ordinances you must bring back the one you sent away; it might be the least important in your way of thinking but the one God has chosen to crown with His most special blessing to your soul.
Seek God’s goals. God has two purposes in worship. First, He intends for us to honor Him as sovereign Lord. And second, worship is the way He communicates His presence and blessings to His children.
Homage to our sovereign Lord is His just due. If there were no worship, how could we declare that it is in Him that we live and move and have our being? One of the first things God taught Adam and his children was divine worship. And the holy person makes it the most important thing in his life to sanctify God’s name and give Him glory. A subject may offer a present to his prince in such a ridiculous fashion that the ruler may be more scorned than honored; the soldiers bowed their knees to Jesus but their hearts mocked the holy God.