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喜乐与亮光
经文: 「散布亮光是为义人；预备喜乐是为正直人。」（诗篇九七︰11）
在艰难困厄的环境中持守公义正直，需要付出昂贵的代价，但最终却有丰富的
报偿与回收。过圣洁的生活有如一个人在撒种，撒出去一大把，却都埋在土里，看不见
也收不回来。我们常困惑，为何敬虔度日，但对人的影响却没有什么明显的效果，会有
这样的迷惑也是正常的。 「光」是不能「埋」起来，但圣经明明说，「散布」亮光，
是的，光是暂时隐蔽在一处，总有一天，这暧暧内敛的光，终将外显，大大照亮四处。
我们敢确定上帝必为那些散布亮光的人，预备丰收，他们要在上帝面前满有欢
欣喜乐。也许世人看他们是人间的渣滓，地上的粪土，但他们心存正直，上帝必算他们
为义。只要他们耐心等待，像农夫等待收成，上帝必赏赐他们心中满溢的喜乐，以及充
满活力与亮光的生活。
弟兄姊妹们，鼓起勇气，迎向挑战，只问耕耘，不问收获，保守我们的心，下
定决心，敬虔度日，上帝必要以亮光与喜乐作为他们的回报。
Harvest of Light, Gladness
Scripture: "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in
heart" (Psalm 97:11).
Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all
hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses and return an infinite
profit. A holy life is like sowing seed: much is going out, and apparently
it is buried in the soil, never to be gathered up again. We are mistaken
when we look for an immediate harvest; but the error is very natural, for it
seems impossible to bury light. Yet light is "sown," says the text. It lies
latent: none can see it; it is sown. We are quite sure that it must one day
manifest itself.
Full sure are we that the LORD has set a harvest for the sower of
light, and they shall reap it, each man for himself. Then shall come their
gladness. Sheaves of joy for seeds of light. Their heart was upright before
the LORD, though men gave them no credit for it, but even censured them:
they were righteous, though those about them denounced them as censorious.
They had to wait, as husbandmen wait for the precious fruits of the earth:
but the light was sown for them, and gladness was being prepared on their
behalf by the LORD of the harvest.
Courage, brothers! We need not be in a hurry. Let us in patience
possess our souls, for soon shall our souls possess light and gladness. |
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