8月7日 颂赞神赐下护心镜
颂赞神赐下护心镜
如今，藉着神的恩典，你能够以天上源源不断的安慰来护卫自己，抵挡撒但的权势。
每天都有人被魔鬼毁灭，因为他们没有公义的护心镜，无法护卫自己的心免受其致命毒箭的攻击。倘若神在世上使你声名显赫、家财万贯，却没有使你成为圣洁，那么祂给你的不过是地狱的燃料。既然如此，我们又怎能忘记为神所赐这宝贵的公义护心镜而感恩称颂呢？
当敌军逼近一座既无城墙又无防御武器的城池时，这座城越是富有，其遭受的毁灭就越是惨烈。同样，每当撒但逼近一个拥有许多属世之物、灵魂中却无神作他盾牌的人时，牠必会将这人彻底摧毁。牠可以任意掠夺自己所贪求的，也可对这样的灵魂为所欲为。魔鬼对俘虏的掠夺与占据是如此彻底，以至于这人根本不会去想推迟或拒绝某项私欲。尽管他心知肚明，满足这私欲将使自己在阴间付上何等代价，他却依然一意孤行，宁可让自己的灵魂遭受永刑，也不愿去抵挡试探那如烈火般的索求。
希律曾将半壁江山抛掷在一个恶毒女子的脚前；当她觉得这还不够时，他竟牺牲了自己所拥有的一切。如果施洗约翰的血最终使希律失去了今生的王位，那么与他临死之际立刻从神护理之手领受的报应相比，这损失实在算不得什么。
然而，愿圣徒谦卑地高呼：“哈利路亚！”当神使你成为圣洁的男人或女人时，祂便是为你灵魂的城池安上了坚固的门闩。如今，藉着神的恩典，你能够以天上源源不断的安慰来护卫自己，抵挡撒但的权势。你从前是牠怯懦的奴仆，如今牠却被践踏在你的脚下。当神使你成为圣洁的那一日，祂便将你的脚稳稳地踏在了古蛇的头上。你里面的私欲曾是撒但坚固的营垒，使牠得以轻易控制你，如今这些营垒已经从牠手中被夺回。撒但已被驱逐下台，再也无法将自己立为你灵魂的王。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：士21章，徒25章，
个人灵修：耶35章，路4章
AUGUST 7, FRIDAY
BLESS GOD FOR FURNISHING THE BREASTPLATE
Now through His grace you are able to defend yourself with the continual comforts which heaven sends to withstand Satan’s power.
People are destroyed by the devil every day because they do not have the breastplate of righteousness to defend their hearts against his murdering shot. If God had made you famous and rich in the world, but not holy, He would have given you nothing more than fuel for hell. How then can we forget to thank God for His precious breastplate of righteousness?
When an enemy approaches a city without walls or arms for defense, the wealthier the city the worse the destruction. And each time Satan comes to a man who has much of the world but nothing of God in his soul to defend him, he makes a miserable wreck of the person. He takes whatever he pleases and does whatever he wants with such souls. The devil’s plundering possession is so thorough that the captive would not think of postponing or denying a lust. Although he knows what this fulfillment will cost him in hell, he goes ahead and damns his soul rather than stand against the burning demands of temptation.
Herod threw down half his kingdom at the feet of a malicious wench; and when she decided this was not enough, he sacrificed everything he had. But if the blood of John the Baptist cost Herod his throne in this life, surely it was nothing compared to the wages of divine providence paid immediately when he met death.
But let the saints humbly shout “Hallelujah!” When God made you a holy man or woman He gave you gates and bars to your city. Now through His grace you are able to defend yourself with the continual comforts which heaven sends to withstand Satan’s power. Once you were a timid slave to him but now he is under your feet. The day you became holy God firmly planted your foot on the serpent’s head. Your lusts—mighty strongholds which gave him easy control—have been taken out of his hand. Satan has been dislodged and can never again set himself up as king of your soul.