六月九日

耶和華果然爲我們行了大事，我們就歡喜。（詩126：3）

有一些基督徒常是愁眉不展、唉聲嘆氣地往每一件事情的黑暗方面看，常想到自己所經過的路而不想到神所爲他們成就的。若問他們的靈性生活如何，他們必說出他們內心的不斷鬥爭、他們的苦痛、他們的憂患和他們心中的罪，很少提到神所給他們的憐憫和幫助。

但一個基督徒如果靈命健全的話，就必歡然向前，幷且說：“我要提說，不是我自己，乃是神的尊榮。他曾把我從可怕的無底坑、從泥淖中救上來，使我的脚站立在磐石之上，穩步行走；他把新歌放在我口中，叫我能贊美神。耶和華爲我行了大事，因此我歡喜。”這是神的兒女所當有的一種深奧的經驗。我們受苦，這是真的；但我們已被救出來了，這也是真的。我們有敗壞，我們爲此難過，這是真的；但我們有使我們勝過這些敗壞，幷救我們脫離它的權勢的全能救主。

往後看我們不能否認我們曾在憂鬱潭中，幷在居謙穀中匐匍前行，但是我們也不當忘記我們已經平安地、順利地經過了它們。感謝那幫助我們的全能者和司令，他沒有把我們撇下，而把我們帶到“豐富之地”。我們的困難越深，我們感謝神的聲音也越大。他曾領我們經過了一切，幷保守我們直到現在。我們的憂傷不能損害我們贊美的歌聲，我們把它當作我們生命之歌的低音部：“耶和華果然爲我們行了大事，我們就歡喜。”

“行過大事的神啊，誰能像你？你是叫我們多經歷重大急難的，必使我們復活。……”

June 9

"The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." -- Psalm 126:3

Some Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through than upon what God has done for them. Ask for their impression of the Christian life, and they will describe their continual conflicts, their deep afflictions, their sad adversities, and the sinfulness of their hearts, yet with scarcely any allusion to the mercy and help which God has vouchsafed them. But a Christian whose soul is in a healthy state, will come forward joyously, and say, "I will speak, not about myself, but to the honour of my God. He hath brought me up out of an horrible pit, and out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings: and He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. The Lord hath done great things for me, whereof I am glad." Such an abstract of experience as this is the very best that any child of God can present. It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as true that we are delivered out of them. It is true that we have our corruptions, and mournfully do we know this, but it is quite as true that we have an all-sufficient Saviour, who overcomes these corruptions, and delivers us from their dominion. In looking back, it would be wrong to deny that we have been in the Slough of Despond, and have crept along the Valley of Humiliation, but it would be equally wicked to forget that we have been through them safely and profitably; we have not remained in them, thanks to our Almighty Helper and Leader, who has brought us "out into a wealthy place." The deeper our troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us through all, and preserved us until now. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, "He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad."