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主是灵粮
经文: 「永活的父怎样差我来,我又因父活着;照样,吃我肉的人也要因我活着。」(
约翰福音六︰57)
我们借着与上帝的儿子联合而活;而神子耶稣又是靠着差祂来的天父而活。同
理,我们也是靠着苏醒我们灵魂的耶稣而活。祂是我们生命的源头;也是支持我们活力
的补品。我们属灵的生命,需要属灵粮食的供给,而这灵粮就是耶稣自己;不是祂的生
命、祂的死亡、祂的工作、或祂的话,而是祂自己,当然,祂就包括了一切。耶稣是我
们的灵粮吗哪。
主的肉是可吃的,主的血是可喝的,这意义在主的圣餐擘饼聚会中可表征出来
;事实上,当我们借着默想主自己,运用信心相信祂,借着爱的回应思念主名,将上帝
内化到我们的生命,就是享受主自己。我们了解吃主的肉,喝主的血是怎样的滋味,但
我们说不出来,也写不出来。这种只可意会不能言传的感受,惟有亲身去做,才能体尝
那种甘甜。上帝邀我们来享受这丰盛的宴席,祂自己就是取之不尽,用之不竭的补给站。
主啊,祢不但是我新生命的必需品,更是我心中所爱慕的对象,让我现在就在
默念主名,享受耶稣自己。
Sustained by Feeding
Scripture: "As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so
he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me" (John 6:57).
We live by virtue of our union with the Son of God. As God-man
Mediator, the LORD Jesus lives by the self-existent Father who has sent Him,
and in the same manner we live by the Savior who has quickened us. He who
is the source of our life is also the sustenance of it. Living is sustained
by feeding. We must support the spiritual life by spiritual food, and that
spiritual food is the LORD Jesus. Not His life, or death, or offices, or
work, or word alone, but Himself, as including all these. On Jesus Himself
we feed.
This is set forth to us in the LORD's Supper, but it is actually
enjoyed by us when we meditate upon our LORD, believe in Him with
appropriating faith, take Him into ourselves by love, and assimilate Him by
the power of the inner life. We know what it is to feed on Jesus, but we
cannot speak it or write it. Our wisest course is to practice it and to do
so more and more. We are entreated to eat abundantly, and it will be to our
infinite profit to do so when Jesus is our meat and our drink. LORD, I thank
Thee that this, which is a necessity of my new life, is also its greatest
delight. So, I do at this hour feed on Thee. |