七月三十一日
我在他们里面。（约17：23）
若我们的心灵与我们的主有这样密切的关系，你看我们的交通有多深广呀！这幷不是小管之中的一綫细流，而是又深又广的河道，涌流着汪洋的活水。看哪！他在我们面前给我们一个敞开的门，我们爲何迟疑不前？这一座交通的城有许多珍珠门，每一个门都有一颗珍珠，幷且都爲我们大开，等待幷迎接我们进去。若仅有一个小洞让我们与耶稣交谈，那已是极大的权利，我们也必从窄门里和主说话；那末，我们有这末大的一个门，岂不是更蒙大福吗？若主耶稣距我们很远，中间隔开许多风浪大作的海洋，那末我们必切慕著派遣使者把我们的爱带给他，幷把神家的信息带来；但你看他的恩慈，他家的门就靠近我们，不，他乃是与我们同在，他在我们卑微的心中安设帐棚，好不断地与我们交谈。
若我们不常与他相交，那是一件多麽愚蠢的事呀！若是路途遥远、危险幷艰难，那末我们不怪朋友们彼此的疏淡；但是既然住在一起，那末约拿单会忘记大卫吗？丈夫远出，妻子虽然不能与丈夫谈话，也可以安心独居；但若丈夫就在隔壁一间屋子里，那末她能忍受与他分离的苦吗？信徒啊！你不是坐在他的筵席之上吗？要寻求主，因爲他已经靠近你；要抱住他，因爲他是你的兄长；紧紧抓住他，因爲他是你的丈夫；把他放在你的心上，因爲他是你自己的骨肉。
“常在我里面的，我也常在他里面。”
July 31
“I in them.” — John 17:23
If such be the union which subsists between
our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our
communion! This is no narrow pipe through which a thread-like stream may wind
its way, it is a channel of amazing depth and breadth, along whose glorious
length a ponderous volume of living water may roll its floods. Behold He hath
set before us an open door, let us not be slow to enter. This city of communion
hath many pearly gates, every several gate is of one pearl, and each gate is
thrown open to the uttermost that we may enter, assured of welcome. If there
were but one small loophole through which to talk with Jesus, it would be a
high privilege to thrust a word of fellowship through the narrow door; how much
we are blessed in having so large an entrance! Had the Lord Jesus been far away
from us, with many a stormy sea between, we should have longed to send a
messenger to Him to carry Him our loves, and bring us tidings from His Father’s
house; but see His kindness, He has built His house next door to ours, nay,
more, He takes lodging with us, and tabernacles in poor humble hearts, that so
He may have perpetual intercourse with us. O how foolish must we be, if we do
not live in habitual communion with Him. When the road is long, and dangerous,
and difficult, we need not wonder that friends seldom meet each other, but when
they live together, shall Jonathan forget his David? A wife may when her
husband is upon a journey, abide many days without holding converse with him,
but she could never endure to be separated from him if she knew him to be in
one of the chambers of her own house. Why, believer, dost not thou sit at His
banquet of wine? Seek thy Lord, for He is near; embrace Him, for He is thy
Brother. Hold Him fast, for He is thine Husband; and press Him to thine heart,
for He is of thine own flesh.
