六月十二日
你被稱在天平裏，顯出你的虧欠；（但5：27）
我們當常用神的話來稱量自己。常讀大衛的詩是很好的靈修方法，每當你念到幷默想一節的時候，要向自己說：“我能這樣說嗎？我所感到的和大衛一樣嗎？我的心曾因罪而破碎過，像大衛的悔罪詩所描寫的一樣嗎？我的心在患難之時也能有大衛在亞杜蘭洞或隱基底山寨裏歌頌神恩所表現出來的信心嗎？我能奉神的名舉起救恩的杯嗎？
那末讓我們再翻開基督的史迹，當你讀的時候，你要問問自己，到底有幾分像耶穌？也要竭力發現你是否有祂常常流露幷表現出來的柔和謙卑等可愛的精神的呢？
再看書信，你是否與使徒所說的經驗幷駕齊驅呢？你曾和保羅一樣嘆息道：“我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？”你也曾有他所有的自謙自抑之心嗎？你曾把你當作罪魁，幷看作聖徒中最小的嗎？你明白他的屬靈經驗嗎？你能和他一同說“我活著就是基督，我死了就有益處”嗎？若我們讀神的話時就這樣用以測驗我們屬靈的情況，我們必定會不時釋卷默禱說：“主啊！我覺得還不曾達到這步境地，求主帶領我！使我徹底地悔罪，正如我所念的。賜我真實的信心，賜我熱心，挑旺我的愛心，賜我柔和的美德，使我像耶穌。當我被稱在神的天平中，叫我不再覺得有‘虧欠’，免得我在審判的天平中顯出我的虧欠來。”“我們若是先分辨（審判）自己，就不至于受審。”
June
12
“Thou
art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.” — Daniel 5:27
It is well frequently to weigh ourselves
in the scale of God’s Word. You will find it a holy exercise to read some psalm
of David, and, as you meditate upon each verse, to ask yourself, “Can I
say this? Have I felt as David felt? Has my heart ever been broken on account
of sin, as his was when he penned his penitential psalms? Has my soul been full
of true confidence in the hour of difficulty as his was when he sang of God’s
mercies in the cave of Adullam, or in the holds of Engedi? Do I take the cup of
salvation and call upon the name of the Lord?” Then turn to the life of
Christ, and as you read, ask yourselves how far you are conformed to His
likeness. Endeavour to discover whether you have the meekness, the humility,
the lovely spirit which He constantly inculcated and displayed. Take, then, the
epistles, and see whether you can go with the apostle in what he said of his
experience. Have you ever cried out as he did–“O wretched man that I am!
who shall deliver me from the body of this death”? Have you ever felt his
self-abasement? Have you seemed to yourself the chief of sinners, and less than
the least of all saints? Have you known anything of his devotion? Could you
join with him and say, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain”? If we thus read God’s Word as a test of our spiritual condition, we
shall have good reason to stop many a time and say, “Lord, I feel I have
never yet been here, O bring me here! give me true penitence, such as this I
read of. Give me real faith; give me warmer zeal; inflame me with more fervent
love; grant me the grace of meekness; make me more like Jesus. Let me no longer
be ‘found wanting,’ when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, lest I be
found wanting in the scales of judgment.” “Judge yourselves that ye
be not judged.”
