十月十六日
耶稣说：“你们来吃早饭。”（约21：12）
这话乃是叫信徒亲近圣洁的耶稣。“来吃饭”的意思是说，一张桌子，一样的食物；有时也表示幷坐得意思，我们的头便得以靠在救主的怀里。他就把我们带到筵宴所，以救赎的爱旗飘扬在我们以上。“来吃饭”，叫我们想到与基督联合，因爲我们能与耶稣同吃的食物乃是他自己。这是一种什麽联合呢！我们吃耶稣，乃是理智所不能测度的。“吃我肉喝我血的人常在我里面，我也常在他里面。”也是叫我们得以与衆圣徒一同相交。
基督徒虽然有一些地方彼此不一样，但他们属灵的食欲却是一样的；我们的感觉虽然不同，但我们所吃的从天上降下来的生命粮却是一样的；在于耶稣相交的桌上我们乃是一饼一杯。当爱杯轮流传到我们各人的时候，我们从心里彼此祝福。我们越亲近耶稣，在灵里也越能与那和我们一样的、同吃天上吗哪得人联结起来；我们越亲近耶稣，也就越能彼此亲近；我们从这句话里也可以看出每一位基督徒的力量的来源。仰望基督就得存活，但若要得着服侍他的力量就必须“来吃”。我们常在非必要的软弱辛苦下工作，都因我们忽略了耶稣的教训。我们都勿须吃粗劣的食物；相反地，我们当多吸收福音的精髓与肥甘作爲我们的力量，好完全用以服侍主。因此，若我们要亲近耶稣，与耶稣联合，爱属他的人，幷且从耶稣得到力量，就当存信“来吃”。
October
16
“Jesus
saith unto them, Come and dine.”–John 21:12
In these words the believer is invited to
a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table,
the same meat; aye, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our
head upon the Saviour’s bosom. It is being brought into the banqueting-house,
where waves the banner of redeeming love. “Come and dine,” gives us a
vision of union with Jesus, because the only food that we can feast upon when
we dine with Jesus is himself. Oh, what union is this! It is a depth which
reason cannot fathom, that we thus feed upon Jesus. “He that eateth my
flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.” It is also an
invitation to enjoy fellowship with the saints. Christians may differ on a
variety of points, but they have all one spiritual appetite; and if we cannot
all feel alike, we can all feed alike on the bread of life sent down from
heaven. At the table of fellowship with Jesus we are one bread and one cup. As
the loving cup goes round we pledge one another heartily therein. Get nearer to
Jesus, and you will find yourself linked more and more in spirit to all who are
like yourself, supported by the same heavenly manna. If we were more near to
Jesus we should be more near to one another. We likewise see in these words the
source of strength for every Christian. To look at Christ is to live, but for
strength to serve him you must “come and dine.” We labour under much
unnecessary weakness on account of neglecting this precept of the Master. We
none of us need to put ourselves on low diet; on the contrary, we should fatten
on the marrow and fatness of the gospel that we may accumulate strength
therein, and urge every power to its full tension in the Master’s service.
Thus, then, if you would realize nearness to Jesus, union with Jesus, love to
his people and strength from Jesus, “come and dine” with him by
faith.
