三月十五日
你要在基督耶稣的恩典上刚强起来。（提后2:1）
耶稣的恩典是没有限量的，但他并非据为己有。蓄水池怎么倾入水管，基督的恩典也照样倾倒给他的子民。“从他丰满的恩典里，我们都领受了，而且恩上加恩。”似乎他的恩典只是为了赐给我们。他像一口泉源一样，长流不息，但却只能满足空瓶和就近他的口渴的人。他像一棵结好果子的树，并非为了挂在树枝上好看，而是要叫需要的人来摘食。恩典的工作，不论是赦罪、洁净、保守、扶持、光照、滋润或振兴，都可以随时白白地从他那里取得，他为他的民所贮存的恩典样样都齐备。他的血虽然从心里流出，但这血是属身体各部的，所以每一个与羔羊有肢体关系的圣徒都能承受恩典之流；在此基督与他的教会有一种亲密的交通，他们都因此领受同等的恩典。基督是头，膏油先倒在头上，这膏油再流到衣边，所以最卑微的圣徒也能发出自头下滴的膏油的同一香气。恩典的汁水自干输入枝上，并且得明了是干把营养供给枝。我们天天领受耶稣的恩典，常承认这恩是从他而来，我们就必得与他相交，并且得享与他相交之乐。让我们天天使用我们的丰富恩典，并且时时求那与我们立约的主来补充我们，我们要大胆地从他那里得到我们一切所需用的，正像一个人毫无顾忌地从自己的荷包中拿出钱来使用一样。
March 15
“Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” –2 Timothy
2:1
Christ has grace without measure in Himself, but He hath not retained it
for Himself. As the reservoir empties itself into the pipes, so hath Christ
emptied out His grace for His people. “Of His fulness have all we
received, and grace for grace.” He seems only to have in order to dispense
to us. He stands like the fountain, always flowing, but only running in order
to supply the empty pitchers and the thirsty lips which draw nigh unto it. Like
a tree, He bears sweet fruit, not to hang on boughs, but to be gathered by
those who need. Grace, whether its work be to pardon, to cleanse, to preserve,
to strengthen, to enlighten, to quicken, or to restore, is ever to be had from
Him freely and without price; nor is there one form of the work of grace which
He has not bestowed upon His people. As the blood of the body, though flowing
from the heart, belongs equally to every member, so the influences of grace are
the inheritance of every saint united to the Lamb; and herein there is a sweet
communion between Christ and His Church, inasmuch as they both receive the same
grace. Christ is the head upon which the oil is first poured; but the same oil
runs to the very skirts of the garments, so that the meanest saint has an
unction of the same costly moisture as that which fell upon the head. This is
true communion when the sap of grace flows from the stem to the branch, and
when it is perceived that the stem itself is sustained by the very nourishment
which feeds the branch. As we day by day receive grace from Jesus, and more
constantly recognize it as coming from Him, we shall behold Him in communion
with us, and enjoy the felicity of communion with Him. Let us make daily use of
our riches, and ever repair to Him as to our own Lord in covenant, taking from
Him the supply of all we need with as much boldness as men take money from
their own purse.
