十月二十四日
耶和华所栽种的，都满了汁浆。（诗104：16）
没有汁浆，树就不能茂盛，甚至也不能存活。活力对于基督徒是很重要的。必须有生命——生活的根本乃是圣灵所赐给我们的，不然我们就不能成爲神的树。徒有基督徒的名字是死的，我们必须充满神的生命。这生命是奥秘的。我们不懂汁浆怎样输送，有什麽力量使它升上，又有什麽能力使它降下。
我们里面的生命也是一个奥秘。重生乃是圣灵进入人里面成爲人的生命所成就的一件事，这个属神的生命以后也必须靠着基督的血肉来养育，但它怎样来，又怎样去，谁能给我们解说呢？汁浆真是一个秘密！根在土壤中用许多小孔寻找食物，但我们幷不能看到它们怎样吸取各种气体，或是怎样把旷物变成绿叶；这种工作是在暗中作的。我们的根在基督耶稣里，我们的生命乃是藏在他里面；这是主的秘密。
基督徒生命的根和生命都是一个秘密。汁浆是永远在香柏树中活动的！基督徒里面的属神的生命也是满有活力的——幷不一定常常结果子，乃是在里面用功夫。信徒的德行，每一种都是永远不间断地活跃着吗？但他的生命在里面却是不停地动着。他幷非常常爲神作工，但他的心却总是靠他活着。有了汁浆树木自会茂盛、结果，所以一个真正健全的基督徒，也必在言行方面表现出他的美德来。如果你和他说话，他是不能不谈说耶稣的。若你看他的行爲，你必看出他是跟过耶稣的。他里面有很多汁浆，他的言行必充满了生命。
October
24
“The
trees of the Lord are full of sap.”–Psalm 104:16
Without sap the tree cannot flourish or
even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life–a vital
principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees of the
Lord. The mere name of being a Christian is but a dead thing, we must be filled
with the spirit of divine life. This life is mysterious. We do not understand
the circulation of the sap, by what force it rises, and by what power it
descends again. So the life within us is a sacred mystery. Regeneration is
wrought by the Holy Ghost entering into man and becoming man’s life; and this
divine life in a believer afterwards feeds upon the flesh and blood of Christ
and is thus sustained by divine food, but whence it cometh and whither it goeth
who shall explain to us? What a secret thing the sap is! The roots go searching
through the soil with their little spongioles, but we cannot see them suck out
the various gases, or transmute the mineral into the vegetable; this work is
done down in the dark. Our root is Christ Jesus, and our life is hid in him;
this is the secret of the Lord. The radix of the Christian life is as secret as
the life itself. How permanently active is the sap in the cedar! In the
Christian the divine life is always full of energy–not always in fruit- bearing,
but in inward operations. The believer’s graces are not every one of them in
constant motion, but his life never ceases to palpitate within. He is not
always working for God, but his heart is always living upon him. As the sap
manifests itself in producing the foliage and fruit of the tree, so with a
truly healthy Christian, his grace is externally manifested in his walk and
conversation. If you talk with him, he cannot help speaking about Jesus. If you
notice his actions you will see that he has been with Jesus. He has so much sap
within, that it must fill his conduct and conversation with life.
