一月二十四日
他必救你脱离捕鸟人的网罗（诗91:3）
神拯救他的子民脱离捕鸟人的网罗有两种意义。就是“脱”和“离”。第一，他救他们得脱网罗——不叫他们被捕，不使他们进入网罗；第二，若他们已经被捕去，他就救他们离开网罗。对于某些人第一个应许是宝贵的，而在另一些人后者便是最好的了。
“他必救你脱网罗。”怎样救法呢？苦难常是神救我们的方法。神知道我们的背道，必使我们趋于毁灭，他因为怜悯我们，所以使刑杖临到我们。我们说：“主啊！为什么要这样呢？”我们并不明白我们的苦难是救我们不犯更大之罪的方法。有很多人因着他们的悲哀和十架而救了自己，得免毁灭；这些像网罗一样使鸟吓飞了。有时，神为要救他的民脱离捕鸟人的网罗，就赐更大的灵力给他的子民，好在他们被罪恶引诱时说：“我怎能作这大恶得罪神呢？”当信徒在罪恶来临之时，进了网罗，但神仍能使他脱离，这是一件多么好的事呀？远离神的人啊！虽然你被打倒了，却不要失望。你虽流离失所，且听你的救赎主对你所说的话吧：“背道的孩子啊！回来吧！我要怜悯你。”但你说你不能回来，因为你已被掳去。那么，你要留心听这应许吧：“他必救你脱离捕鸟人的网罗。”你虽落在百般的罪恶当中，也必被救拔出来，你虽不停地为已罪懊悔，但他曾爱你，必不抛弃你；他要接受你，给你欢喜和快乐，被折断的骨头必得欢乐。乐园的鸟必没有一个死在捕鸟人的网罗的。
January
24
“Surely
he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.” –Psalm 91:3
God delivers His people from the snare of
the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, He delivers them from the
snare–does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught
therein, He delivers them out of it. The first promise is the most precious to
some; the second is the best to others.
“He shall deliver thee from the snare.” How? Trouble is often
the means whereby God delivers us. God knows that our backsliding will soon end
in our destruction, and He in mercy sends the rod. We say, “Lord, why is
this?” not knowing that our trouble has been the means of delivering us
from far greater evil. Many have been thus saved from ruin by their sorrows and
their crosses; these have frightened the birds from the net. At other times,
God keeps His people from the snare of the fowler by giving them great
spiritual strength, so that when they are tempted to do evil they say,
“How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” But what a
blessed thing it is that if the believer shall, in an evil hour, come into the
net, yet God will bring him out of it! O backslider, be cast down, but do not
despair. Wanderer though thou hast been, hear what thy Redeemer
saith–“Return, O backsliding children; I will have mercy upon you.”
But you say you cannot return, for you are a captive. Then listen to the
promise–“Surely He shall deliver thee out of the snare of the
fowler.” Thou shalt yet be brought out of all evil into which thou hast
fallen, and though thou shalt never cease to repent of thy ways, yet He that
hath loved thee will not cast thee away; He will receive thee, and give thee
joy and gladness, that the bones which He has broken may rejoice. No bird of
paradise shall die in the fowler’s net.
