五月十五日
信靠这人，就都得称义了。（徒13：39）
信基督的人现在就得称为义，并非逐渐结出称义的果子，而是现在。既然称义是信所结的果子，当人在靠近基督，并接受他作他一切的一切的刹那就得了这义。现在站在神宝座之前的人已经被称为义了吗?——因此我们也必像那穿着白衣侍立神前歌唱弹琴的人一样地被称为义，这是真确而又清楚的一件事。十字架上的强盗用信眼转向耶稣的一刹那就被称为义了，而年迈的、为主劳苦了多年的保罗和那一无所作的强盗一样的被称为义。我们今天就在爱子里得蒙悦纳，今天解脱了罪恶，今天就不受神的审判了。这是一种多么令人向往、令人心旷神怡的意思呀！以实各谷的葡萄在我们上了天堂后才能采食，但这是一枝越出墙外的葡萄。这并不是到我们过了约旦河才能吃的那地的出产，而这却是旷野中的吗哪，是神在我们行走路程时所给我们的天天的饮食。我们现在——就是现在被赦免；就是现在，罪被除去；就是现在，我们在神的面前蒙悦纳，像是从来没有犯过罪一样。“现在那些在基督耶稣里的，就不定罪了。”现在，神的律法中没有一种罪名，能攻击他任何一个子民了。“因为耶稣已撤去了有碍于他们的字据。”谁敢再定他们的罪呢?现在已毫无皱纹、玷污等类的罪了，全地的审判者也不会查出他们还有什么玷污。让我们现在所享的权利提醒我们现在所当尽的责任。现在，还活着的时候，让我们都为我们可称颂的主耶稣使用。
May 15
“All that believe are
justified.” — Acts 13:39
The believer in
Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit
by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given
to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ, and accepts Him as its
all in all. Are they who stand before the throne of God justified now?–so are
we, as truly and as clearly justified as they who walk in white and sing
melodious praises to celestial harps. The thief upon the cross was justified
the moment that he turned the eye of faith to Jesus; and Paul, the aged, after
years of service, was not more justified than was the thief with no service at
all. We are to-day accepted in the Beloved, to-day absolved from sin, to-day
acquitted at the bar of God. Oh! soul-transporting thought! There are some
clusters of Eshcol’s vine which we shall not be able to gather till we enter
heaven; but this is a bough which runneth over the wall. This is not as the
corn of the land, which we can never eat till we cross the Jordan; but this is
part of the manna in the wilderness, a portion of our daily nutriment with
which God supplies us in our journeying to and fro. We are now–even now
pardoned; even now are our sins put away; even now we stand in the sight of God
accepted, as though we had never been guilty. “There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” There is not a sin in the
Book of God, even now, against one of His people. Who dareth to lay anything to
their charge? There is neither speck, nor spot, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing
remaining upon any one believer in the matter of justification in the sight of
the Judge of all the earth. Let present privilege awaken us to present duty,
and now, while life lasts, let us spend and be spent for our sweet Lord Jesus.
