六月九日
耶和华果然爲我们行了大事，我们就欢喜。（诗126：3）
有一些基督徒常是愁眉不展、唉声叹气地往每一件事情的黑暗方面看，常想到自己所经过的路而不想到神所爲他们成就的。若问他们的灵性生活如何，他们必说出他们内心的不断斗争、他们的苦痛、他们的忧患和他们心中的罪，很少提到神所给他们的怜悯和帮助。
但一个基督徒如果灵命健全的话，就必欢然向前，幷且说：“我要提说，不是我自己，乃是神的尊荣。他曾把我从可怕的无底坑、从泥淖中救上来，使我的脚站立在磐石之上，稳步行走；他把新歌放在我口中，叫我能赞美神。耶和华爲我行了大事，因此我欢喜。”这是神的儿女所当有的一种深奥的经验。我们受苦，这是真的；但我们已被救出来了，这也是真的。我们有败坏，我们爲此难过，这是真的；但我们有使我们胜过这些败坏，幷救我们脱离它的权势的全能救主。
往后看我们不能否认我们曾在忧郁潭中，幷在居谦谷中匐匍前行，但是我们也不当忘记我们已经平安地、顺利地经过了它们。感谢那帮助我们的全能者和司令，他没有把我们撇下，而把我们带到“丰富之地”。我们的困难越深，我们感谢神的声音也越大。他曾领我们经过了一切，幷保守我们直到现在。我们的忧伤不能损害我们赞美的歌声，我们把它当作我们生命之歌的低音部：“耶和华果然爲我们行了大事，我们就欢喜。”
“行过大事的神啊，谁能像你？你是叫我们多经历重大急难的，必使我们复活。……”
June
9
“The
Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.” — Psalm 126:3
Some Christians are sadly prone to look on
the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through
than upon what God has done for them. Ask for their impression of the Christian
life, and they will describe their continual conflicts, their deep afflictions,
their sad adversities, and the sinfulness of their hearts, yet with scarcely
any allusion to the mercy and help which God has vouchsafed them. But a
Christian whose soul is in a healthy state, will come forward joyously, and say,
“I will speak, not about myself, but to the honour of my God. He hath
brought me up out of an horrible pit, and out of the miry clay, and set my feet
upon a rock, and established my goings: and He hath put a new song in my mouth,
even praise unto our God. The Lord hath done great things for me, whereof I am
glad.” Such an abstract of experience as this is the very best that any
child of God can present. It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as
true that we are delivered out of them. It is true that we have our
corruptions, and mournfully do we know this, but it is quite as true that we
have an all-sufficient Saviour, who overcomes these corruptions, and delivers
us from their dominion. In looking back, it would be wrong to deny that we have
been in the Slough of Despond, and have crept along the Valley of Humiliation,
but it would be equally wicked to forget that we have been through them safely
and profitably; we have not remained in them, thanks to our Almighty Helper and
Leader, who has brought us “out into a wealthy place.” The deeper our
troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us through all, and
preserved us until now. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we
reckon them to be the bass part of our life’s song, “He hath done great
things for us, whereof we are glad.”
