一月三日
使你作众民的中保（“中保”原文作“约”）……（赛49:8）
耶稣基督自己就是约的内容和实体，其中有一款说他是每个信徒的基业。信徒啊！你能估计你从基督得到些什么吗？“神本性一切的丰盛，都有形有体地居住在基督里面。”想想“神”和他的无限，再想想“完全人”和他一切的美点；因为基督既是神又是人，他所有所能有的一切都是你的，完全是白白的恩赐，毫无代价地归到你的名下，永远成为你的产业。可称颂的耶稣，因为是神，所以是全能、权智、全在的。你知道你也有这一切伟大的、荣耀的属性吗？这还不足安慰你吗？他有能力吗？那能力也是你的，为要扶持你，加力量给你，使你胜过仇敌，并保守你直到末时。他有慈爱吗？他心中每一滴爱都是你的；你可以在他茫茫无际的爱洋里任意游栖，你也可以说：“那都是属我的。”他有公义吗？虽然这好像是一个威严的属性，但这也是你的，因为他必按他的公义，把恩约中所应许给你的一切都交付于你。他是一个“完全人”，完全人一切所有的也是你的。因为他作人完全，所以父喜悦他，至终至高者把他接到荣耀里。信徒啊！神接受了基督就等于接受你，你不知道他所赐给完美无疵之基督的爱，现在也已经给了你吗？因为基督所作的一切都是你的。耶稣所成就的完全公义，因为他毫无玷污地生活；他遵守了并尊重了律法，这也是你的，并且归于你。基督就是这约的内容，这约就是耶稣基督自己。
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.
