| 天上的父 | |
| 經文: 「奉父子聖靈的名，給他們施洗。」（馬太福音廿八：19） | |
| 在你靈修親近上帝的時候，可曾想過我們所信靠的主，是怎樣一位三位一體的真上帝？當我們想到天父，祂好似高高地坐在聖潔寶座上，我們罪人只配俯伏在祂腳前，深深懺悔；當我們想到聖子耶穌，就覺得祂極爲親近，因祂降世爲人，經歷如你我般的成長過程，最後爲你我的罪死在十架上，並復活賜相信祂的人永生的盼望；至於聖靈，就讓我們連想到祂如春風化雨般地感化人心，叫人知罪悔改，藉著祂的內住，使我們的身體成爲聖靈的殿。 耶穌曾教導我們這樣禱告：「我們在天上的父。」馬上祂接著說：「願人都尊祢的名爲聖。」因爲上帝是聖潔的，所以我們也當聖潔，而成聖之道無它，惟有多多親近這位聖潔的上帝，使我們越來越像祂。 常常我們把禱告看爲例行公事，對「天父」這個稱呼也習以爲常，不覺得我們能稱這位創造天地的主爲「天父」有什麽大不了。喔，這就大錯特錯，若你能花些時間安靜在上帝面前，用敬畏的心默念「耶穌」這奇妙甘甜的聖名，單單地敬拜祂，享受祂的愛，你會彷如已到天堂門口，有在地如在天的感覺。 上帝的兒女們，若你能進到密室，謙卑俯伏敬拜這位聖潔的主，我告訴你，那將是最大的福份。 「禱告你在暗中的父，你父在暗中察看，必然報答你。」（馬太福音六：6） 能在隱密處單獨親近上帝，並向這位上帝說：「我的阿爸父。」喔，這是何等大的特權與恩典！讓我們確信祂在暗中察看，且要將你心願得償。弟兄姐妹們，要花時間親近主，直到你能說： 「我面對面見了上帝，我的性命仍得保全。」（創世記卅二：30） | |
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| GOD THE FATHER | |
| Scripture: "Baptising in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and' of the Holy Ghost."—MATT, xxviii. 19. | |
| It is well we should remember that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
has a deep devotional aspect. As we think of God we remember the inconceivable
distance that separates Him in His holiness from sinful men, and we bow in deep
contrition and holy fear. As we think of Christ the Son, we remember the
inconceivable nearness in which He came to be born of a woman, a daughter of
Adam, and to die the accursed death, and so to be inseparably joined to us to
all eternity. And as we think of the Holy Spirit we remember the inconceivable
blessedness of God having His abode in us, and making us His home and His temple
through eternity. When Christ taught us to say, "Our Father, which art in heaven," He immediately added, "Hallowed be Thy Name." As God is holy, so we are to be holy too. And there is no way of becoming holy but by counting that name most holy, and drawing nigh to Him in prayer. How often we speak that name without any sense of the unspeakable privilege of our relation to God. If we would just take time to come into contact with God and to worship Him in His Father love, how the inner chamber would become to us the gate of heaven. Child of God, if you pray to your Father in secret, bow very low before Him, and seek to adore His name as most holy. Remember that this is the highest blessedness of prayer. "Pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly" (Matt. vi. 6). What an unspeakable privilege, to be alone with God in secret, and say, "My Father." To have the assurance that He has indeed seen me in secret, and will reward me openly. Take time until you can say: "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved" (Gen. xxxii. 30). | |
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