十月十四日
我也将万事当作有损的，因我以认识我主基督耶稣爲至宝。（腓3：8）
认识基督乃是个人亲身的经历。我不能借着别人认识耶稣的经验来认识他。不，我必须亲自认识他，我必须爲自己的缘故认识他。这经验必须出于理智——我必须认识他，幷非幻想他，而是照神的话所记得把他启示出来。我必须认识他的神人二性，我必须知道他的职分、他的本性、他的工作、他的受辱、他的得荣。我必须默想他直到我“能以和衆圣徒一同明白基督的爱是何等长阔高深；幷知道这爱是过于人所能测度的”。
认识基督必须出于爱情；若我真认识他，我就必爱他。在心灵里认识了一两，远超过头脑中学来的一吨。我们对于他的认识是一种满足的认识。当我认识救主时，我的心被充满了，我感到我已得了我的灵所渴慕的。“我就是生命的粮，到我这里来的，必定不饿。”同时这认识也是激励人的；我若多认识我的爱主，就多渴慕认识他。当我爬高山时，越靠近绝顶，越起劲拔步往上攀登。我得的越多，要的也越多，真是得陇望蜀；正像一个守财奴一样地贪得无厌，有了一些黄金便要更多的黄金。末了，认识基督耶稣是一种最快乐的知识；事实上，它能使我完全驾乎一切苦难、疑惑和忧伤之上；我若有这知识就不像约伯所说的：“人爲妇人所生，日子短少，多有患难。”因爲永活的救主必赐我永远的生命，幷用他永远快乐的腰带爲我束腰。我的心哪！来吧，今天你要坐在耶稣的脚前，听他的教训吧！
October
14
“I
count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord.”–Philippians 3:8
Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a
personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance
with him. No, I must know him myself; I must know him on my own account. It
will be an intelligent knowledge–I must know him, not as the visionary dreams
of him, but as the Word reveals him. I must know his natures, divine and human.
I must know his offices–his attributes–his works–his shame–his glory. I
must meditate upon him until I “comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge.” It will be an affectionate knowledge of him; indeed, if
I know him at all, I must love him. An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton
of head learning. Our knowledge of him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I
know my Saviour, my mind will be full to the brim–I shall feel that I have
that which my spirit panted after. “This is that bread whereof if a man
eat he shall never hunger.” At the same time it will be an exciting
knowledge; the more I know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The
higher I climb the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps.
I shall want the more as I get the more. Like the miser’s treasure, my gold
will make me covet more. To conclude; this knowledge of Christ Jesus will be a
most happy one; in fact, so elevating, that sometimes it will completely bear
me up above all trials, and doubts, and sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it,
make me something more than “Man that is born of woman, who is of few
days, and full of trouble”; for it will fling about me the immortality of
the ever living Saviour, and gird me with the golden girdle of his eternal joy.
Come, my soul, sit at Jesus’s feet and learn of him all this day.
