一月三日

使你作眾民的中保（“中保”原文作“約”）……（賽49:8）

耶穌基督自己就是約的內容和實體，其中有一款說他是每個信徒的基業。信徒啊！你能估計你從基督得到些什麼嗎？“神本性一切的豐盛，都有形有體地居住在基督裡面。”想想“神”和他的無限，再想想“完全人”和他一切的美點；因為基督既是神又是人，他所有所能有的一切都是你的，完全是白白的恩賜，毫無代價地歸到你的名下，永遠成為你的產業。可稱頌的耶穌，因為是神，所以是全能、權智、全在的。你知道你也有這一切偉大的、榮耀的屬性嗎？這還不足安慰你嗎？他有能力嗎？那能力也是你的，為要扶持你，加力量給你，使你勝過仇敵，並保守你直到末時。他有慈愛嗎？他心中每一滴愛都是你的；你可以在他茫茫無際的愛洋裡任意遊棲，你也可以說：“那都是屬我的。”他有公義嗎？雖然這好像是一個威嚴的屬性，但這也是你的，因為他必按他的公義，把恩約中所應許給你的一切都交付於你。他是一個“完全人”，完全人一切所有的也是你的。因為他作人完全，所以父喜悅他，至終至高者把他接到榮耀裡。信徒啊！神接受了基督就等於接受你，你不知道他所賜給完美無疵之基督的愛，現在也已經給了你嗎？因為基督所作的一切都是你的。耶穌所成就的完全公義，因為他毫無玷污地生活；他遵守了並尊重了律法，這也是你的，並且歸於你。基督就是這約的內容，這約就是耶穌基督自己。

January 3

"I will give thee for a covenant of the people." --Isaiah 49:8

Jesus Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine--out of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has he power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Has He love? Well, there is not a drop of love in His heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." Hath He justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for He will by His justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that He has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father's delight was upon Him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, He sets on thee now? For all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out, when through His stainless life He kept the law and made it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. Christ is in the covenant.