四月十六日
基督的宝血……（彼前1：19）
站在十字架下，仰望双手、双足和肋旁，都涌流着鲜红的宝血。他的血所以“宝”，乃因它有拯救、有赎罪的功效。因这血，属基督之人的罪才得替赎，他们得从律法以下被救赎出来，他们得以与神和好、与他合一。基督的血所以“宝”，也因为它有洗净的能力，它“洗净我们一切的罪”。“你们的罪虽像朱红，必变成雪白”，信徒经过耶稣的血之后就没有些微污点了，也不留什么皱纹等类的病。洁净我们的宝血！洗除我们众罪的玷污！虽然我们在许多事上悖逆神，也使我们得以在爱子里蒙悦纳。基督的血之所以“宝”，还在于它保全的能力。灭命的天使看到我们已经被血涂过，我们便可安全无事。要记得神看见了血，他才赦免我们。当信眼迷蒙时，这是我们的安慰，因为神的眼是一样的。基督的血是“宝”贵的，也因为它有使人成圣的能力。这血除去了罪之后，还有善后的工作，它苏醒人的新性情使这新人能继续制服罪，并顺服神的命令。惟有耶稣所流的血能引起人追求圣洁的动机。这血是“宝”贵的，它的宝贵是言词所不能形容的，因为它有一种得胜的能力。启示录上说：“弟兄胜过它，是因羔羊的血……。”他们怎能靠别的方法得胜呢?那靠耶稣宝血争战的人，乃是靠着一种所向无敌的兵器争战。耶稣的血！罪恶必死在它的面前，死也不再成其为死了：天门必因它而开。耶稣的血！我们只要倚靠它的能力，就能奋勇向前，得胜而又得胜！
April 16
“The precious blood of Christ.” –1 Peter 1:19
Standing at the foot of the cross, we see
hands, and feet, and side, all distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It
is “precious” because of its redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it
the sins of Christ’s people are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the
law; they are reconciled to God, made one with Him. Christ’s blood is also
“precious” in its cleansing power; it “cleanseth from all
sin.” “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow.” Through Jesus’ blood there is not a spot left upon any believer, no
wrinkle nor any such thing remains. O precious blood, which makes us clean,
removing the stains of abundant iniquity, and permitting us to stand accepted
in the Beloved, notwithstanding the many ways in which we have rebelled against
our God. The blood of Christ is likewise “precious” in its preserving
power. We are safe from the destroying angel under the sprinkled blood.
Remember it is God’s seeing the blood which is the true reason for our being
spared. Here is comfort for us when the eye of faith is dim, for God’s eye is
still the same. The blood of Christ is “precious” also in its
sanctifying influence. The same blood which justifies by taking away sin, does
in its after-action, quicken the new nature and lead it onward to subdue sin
and to follow out the commands of God. There is no motive for holiness so great
as that which streams from the veins of Jesus. And “precious,”
unspeakably precious, is this blood, because it has an overcoming power. It is
written, “They overcame through the blood of the Lamb.” How could
they do otherwise? He who fights with the precious blood of Jesus, fights with
a weapon which cannot know defeat. The blood of Jesus! sin dies at its
presence, death ceases to be death: heaven’s gates are opened. The blood of
Jesus! We shall march on, conquering and to conquer, so long as we can trust
its power!
