8月27日 为你的需要信靠神
为你的需要信靠神
神向基督徒保证说：“万有全是你们的”，并且“你们是属基督的”（林前3:21、23）。
如果神已经与你和好，并且赦免了你的罪，你就有充足的理由在一切所需上完全信靠祂。在你操练信心时，有两件事会带来极大的帮助。首先，神赐给祂儿女的，远超过他们永远的所需。当神赦免你时，祂已经将自己的独生子赐给了你；“神既不爱惜自己的儿子为我们众人舍了，岂不也把万物和祂一同白白地赐给我们吗？”（罗8:32）当父亲将整座果园都赐给儿子时，孩子若再去索要一个苹果，就显得极其荒谬了。神向基督徒保证说：“万有全是你们的”，并且“你们是属基督的”（林前3:21、23）。
另一方面，一位充满智慧的父亲可能会将巨额产业留给孩子，却不会让孩子掌管超出其妥善管理能力之外的产业。同样，神虽将享用今生各样福分的权利赐给信徒，但祂以无限的智慧，按照每个灵魂的实际需要，将较少的分量按比例分配给他们使用。因此，若你所拥有的远少于他人，这并不意味着神更爱那个人；相反，这表明神极其顾念你，祂是照着你能有益吸收的程度来供应你。我们倒酒是看杯子的大小；能装满大杯的酒，若倒进小器皿里，必定会溢出来。
尽管不信之人很快就会跌入地狱，但当他们尚在地上时，神的护理之恩依然临到他们。祂岂不真的喂养那些不洁净的乌鸦吗？祂岂不也降雨在恶人的田地上吗？既然如此，祂又怎会忽略信徒呢？如果君王尚且按时供应监牢中叛徒的饮食，那么王宫里的儿女当然更不会挨饿。
总而言之，若神在祂的护理中如此善待不敬虔的人，若祂给田野的草这样的妆饰（这草正是恶人的象征），“野地里的草今天还在，明天就丢在炉里，神还给它这样的妆饰，何况你们呢！你们这小信的人哪！”（太6:30）
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：撒上19章，林前1章，
个人灵修：哀4章，路24章
AUGUST 27, THURSDAY
TRUST GOD FOR YOUR NEEDS
“All things are yours,” and “ye are Christ’s”(1 Corinthians 3:21,23), God assures the Christian.
If God has made peace with you and has forgiven your sins, you can always afford to trust Him completely for everything you need. Two things will help your faith as you exercise it. God gives His children more than they will ever need. When God pardoned you He gave you His Son. And “how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). When a father gives his son the whole orchard, it is absurd for the child to ask for one apple. “All things are yours,” and “ye are Christ’s” (1 Corinthians 3:21, 23), God assures the Christian.
On the other hand, a wise father may bequeath a huge estate to his child—but not let him control any more of this inheritance than he can manage properly. In the same way, God gives believers a right to all the comforts of life, but His infinite wisdom proportions out smaller amounts for their actual use according to the needs of each soul. Thus if you should have much less than someone else, this does not mean God loves that person more, but that He cares enough to supply according to your ability to profitably use. We pour a drink according to the size of the cup; the wine which fills the whole cup would be spilled if poured into a smaller vessel.
Though unbelievers will soon stumble into hell, His providence reaches them while they are still on earth. Does He really feed these unclean ravens? And cause His rain to fall on their fields too? Then how can He neglect a believer? If the king regularly feeds the traitor in his prison cell, surely the child in his castle shall not starve either.
In a word, if God in His providence takes such good care of the ungodly, if He “so clothes the grass of the field”—a symbol of wicked man—“which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” (Matthew 6:30).