六月廿八日
仰望……耶稣。（来12：2）
圣灵的工作是把我们的眼从自己转向耶稣；撒但的工作却正相反，因爲他时时要我们看到自己，忽略基督。它诱惑人说：“你的罪太大了，是不会蒙赦的。你没有信心，你的悔改幷不彻底，你不能信到底，你没有神衆儿女的快乐，你动摇不定幷抓不住耶稣。”这一切都是光想到自己，我们若往里看是不会有安慰和安全的。但圣灵却使我们的眼完全不看自己，他使我们知道自己一无所有，但“基督是一切的一切”。
因此，要知道，抓住基督幷不能救你，救你的乃是基督；在基督里有快乐幷不能救你，救你的是基督；甚至于信基督也不能救你——当然这是必需的——救你的乃是基督的宝血和功劳。因此，不要仰仗你的手能抓住基督，而要仰望基督；不要仰仗自己的盼望，乃要仰望盼望的来源耶稣；不要仰仗你的信心，乃要仰望那爲你的信心创始成终的耶稣。仰仗我们自己的祷告、行爲或感觉是永也不会得到快乐的；赐你灵魂安息的是耶稣，幷非我们自己。若我们胜过撒但与神和好，就必须要“仰望耶稣”。你的眼要单单仰望他，你的心要常想到他的钉死、他的受苦、他的功劳、他的荣耀、他的代求；早晨醒来要仰望他，夜晚睡下要仰望他。不要叫盼望或惧怕隔在你和耶稣之间，要紧紧跟随他，他必不使你失望。
“我若从地上被举起来，就要吸引万人来归我。”
June
28
“Looking
unto Jesus.” — Hebrews 12:2
It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn
our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of
this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of
Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no
faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end;
you have not the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold of
Jesus.” All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort
or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely
away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that “Christ is all
in all.” Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves
thee–it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee–it is Christ;
it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument–it is Christ’s
blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art
grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source
of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of
thy faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings,
or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the
soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by
“looking unto Jesus.” Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death,
His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy
mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at
night look to Him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus;
follow hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.
“My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesu’s blood and righteousness:
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesu’s name.”
