十一月二十四日
在那里，耶和华必显威严与我们同在，当作江河宽阔之地。（赛33：21）
宽阔的江河使土地肥沃富饶。靠近宽大江河的地方出産既繁多又丰富。神对于他的教会也是这样。教会有神就有丰富。凡她所求的有什麽他不给她呢？凡她所要的，有什麽他没有呢？“在这山上，万军之耶和华必爲万民用肥甘设摆筵席。”
你要生命粮吗？它必如吗哪一样白天而降；你要甘美的溪水吗？必有磐石随着你，那磐石就是基督。若你有所缺少，那是你自己的错；若你穷困，你的穷困幷不在他，而是在于你自己。江河宽阔之处，也是商业繁盛之区：我们荣耀的主对于我们好像是一个天上的商场。借着我们的救赎主，我们便得与过去贸易；加弗瑞的丰富，恩约的宝藏，古时拣选的大福，永生的府库，都借着我们恩主的大河源源不绝地临到了我们。我们与将来也有交易；河边满载的船只已自禧年驶来！我们已看到圣城降在地上的异象！借着我们荣耀的主，我们得以与天使交通；与那被宝血洗净的光明圣者相交。不但这样，我们还得与无始无终的神相交。宽阔的江河更有安全的意思：古时用江河的天险作爲屏障。
亲爱的读者！神必作他的教会的屏障！魔鬼不能渡过神宽广的大河。它虽然欲使水逆流而行，但是不要怕，因爲神是永远不改变的。撒但或者有这样的图谋，但它幷不能损害我们；“其中必没有荡桨摇橹的船来往，也没有威武的船经过。”
撒但可以加害于我们的肉身，但它不能危害我们的生命！
November
24
“The
glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams.”–Isaiah
33:21
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land.
Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and
their plentiful harvests. God is all this to his Church. Having God she has
abundance. What can she ask for that he will not give her? What want can she
mention which he will not supply? “In this mountain shall the Lord of
Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things.” Want ye the bread of
life? It drops like manna from the sky. Want ye refreshing streams? The rock
follows you, and that Rock is Christ. If you suffer any want it is your own
fault; if you are straitened you are not straitened in him, but in your own
bowels. Broad rivers and streams also point to commerce. Our glorious Lord is
to us a place of heavenly merchandise. Through our Redeemer we have commerce
with the past; the wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches
of the ancient days of election, the stores of eternity, all come to us down
the broad stream of our gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the future.
What galleys, laden to the water’s edge, come to us from the millennium! What
visions we have of the days of heaven upon earth! Through our glorious Lord we
have commerce with angels; communion with the bright spirits washed in blood,
who sing before the throne; nay, better still, we have fellowship with the
Infinite One. Broad rivers and streams are specially intended to set forth the
idea of security. Rivers were of old a defence. Oh! beloved, what a defence is
God to his Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he
wishes he could turn the current, but fear not, for God abideth immutably the
same. Satan may worry, but he cannot destroy us; no galley with oars shall
invade our river, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
