主是靈糧 Sustained by Feeding
October 15, 2010 by PiLgRiM
經文: 「永活的父怎樣差我來,我又因父活著;照樣,吃我肉的人也要因我活著。」(約翰福音六︰57) |
我們藉著與上帝的兒子聯合而活;而神子耶穌又是靠著差祂來的天父而活。同理,我們也是靠著甦醒我們靈魂的耶穌而活。祂是我們生命的源頭;也是支持我們活力的補品。我們屬靈的生命,需要屬靈糧食的供給,而這靈糧就是耶穌自己;不是祂的生命、祂的死亡、祂的工作、或祂的話,而是祂自己,當然,祂就包括了一切。耶穌是我們的靈糧嗎哪。
主的肉是可吃的,主的血是可喝的,這意義在主的聖餐擘餅聚會中可表徵出來;事實上,當我們藉著默想主自己,運用信心相信祂,藉著愛的回應思念主名,將上帝內化到我們的生命,就是享受主自己。我們瞭解吃主的肉,喝主的血是怎樣的滋味,但我們說不出來,也寫不出來。這種只可意會不能言傳的感受,惟有親身去做,才能體嚐那種甘甜。上帝邀我們來享受這豐盛的宴席,祂自己就是取之不盡,用之不竭的補給站。
主啊,祢不但是我新生命的必需品,更是我心中所愛慕的對象,讓我現在就在默念主名,享受耶穌自己。
Scripture: “As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me” (John 6:57). |
We live by virtue of our union with the Son of God. As God-man Mediator, the LORD Jesus lives by the self-existent Father who has sent Him, and in the same manner we live by the Savior who has quickened us. He who is the source of our life is also the sustenance of it. Living is sustained by feeding. We must support the spiritual life by spiritual food, and that spiritual food is the LORD Jesus. Not His life, or death, or offices, or work, or word alone, but Himself, as including all these. On Jesus Himself we feed.
This is set forth to us in the LORD’s Supper, but it is actually enjoyed by us when we meditate upon our LORD, believe in Him with appropriating faith, take Him into ourselves by love, and assimilate Him by the power of the inner life. We know what it is to feed on Jesus, but we cannot speak it or write it. Our wisest course is to practice it and to do so more and more. We are entreated to eat abundantly, and it will be to our infinite profit to do so when Jesus is our meat and our drink. LORD, I thank Thee that this, which is a necessity of my new life, is also its greatest delight. So, I do at this hour feed on Thee. |
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