二月七日
你们起来去吧！（弥2:10）
这个信息临到我们和一切人的时候到了！——“起来，离开你所住的地方，离开你作事的城市，离开你的家庭和你的朋友。起来，走上你最后的一段路程吧！”我们知道我们的路程是什么样子吗？我们知道我们所居留的地方是什么样子吗？我们念的圣经虽少，但也受了圣灵的启示；可是我们对于将来的境况所知道的是太少了！我们知道有一条黝黑而汹涌的河名叫“死”。神叫我们过去，应许与我们同在。而死后，又会有什么情形呢？在我们惊讶的眼前展开了什么样的奇妙的世界呢？我们要看到一种多么荣耀的景象呢？从来没有一个过客再回来告诉我们。我们对于天堂所知道的已够我们被欢迎到快乐和欢喜当中。死的路虽然黑暗，但我们可以大胆无惧地向前走去，要知道当我们经过幽谷时神必与我们同在，因此我们就不怕遭害了。我们要离开这里一切所知、所爱的，但我们要回到我们父的家里——我们父的家里就是耶稣所在的地方，要到“那座有根基的城，就是神所经营、所建造的”。这是我们最后所去的地方，在他的民中和神的面前，永远与我们所爱的主同在。基督徒呀！要常常想到天堂，就必使你盼望快些前往，并能使你忘怀路途中的辛劳；流泪谷不过是去到更美之地的过程，这个悲哀的世界不过是福乐世界的跳板罢了！
“主啊！愿神恩预备我们，好进入高天的明宫；
那时我灵要兴起，与众圣同唱天上的妙歌。”
February
7
“Arise,
and depart.” –Micah 2:10
The hour is approaching when the message
will come to us, as it comes to all–“Arise, and go forth from the home in
which thou hast dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from
thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take thy last journey.” And what
know we of the journey? And what know we of the country to which we are bound?
A little we have read thereof, and somewhat has been revealed to us by the
Spirit; but how little do we know of the realms of the future! We know that
there is a black and stormy river called “Death.” God bids us cross
it, promising to be with us. And, after death, what cometh? What wonder-world
will open upon our astonished sight? What scene of glory will be unfolded to
our view? No traveller has ever returned to tell. But we know enough of the
heavenly land to make us welcome our summons thither with joy and gladness. The
journey of death may be dark, but we may go forth on it fearlessly, knowing
that God is with us as we walk through the gloomy valley, and therefore we need
fear no evil. We shall be departing from all we have known and loved here, but
we shall be going to our Father’s house–to our Father’s home, where Jesus
is–to that royal “city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is
God.” This shall be our last removal, to dwell for ever with Him we love,
in the midst of His people, in the presence of God. Christian, meditate much on
heaven, it will help thee to press on, and to forget the toil of the way. This
vale of tears is but the pathway to the better country: this world of woe is
but the stepping-stone to a world of bliss.
“Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine,
For Thy bright courts on high;
Then bid our spirits rise, and join
The chorus of the sky.”
