十二月二十一日
神却与我立永远的约。（撒下23：5）
这约的来源是神。“神却与我立永远的约。”神是多麽伟大的一个字呀！我的心哪！要在此稍停。神，永在的父，自动与你立约；他说了一句话就有了世界；他，从他的宝座上俯身。拉着你的手与你立约。我们若真能了解他这样降卑的动作，我们的心就必永远狂欢不已。“神却与我立永远的约。”君王不曾与我立过约——其实他就是君王；但世上的万王之王，万君之君，全能者，足够的主，永有的耶和华，永在的以罗欣（希伯来文的神？–）“却与我立永远的约”。要注意，这一种行动是多麽特殊。“神却与我立永远的约。”每一位信徒都可在此得到极大的快乐。他使世界和平对我是没有用的，我们要知道的乃是他是否使我得和平！他立约与我幷不相干，我所要知道的乃是他是否与我立约。感谢神的可靠的恩典，他已经与我立了约！若圣灵叫我确实知道这事，那末他的救恩就是我的，他的心是我的，他自己也是我的——他是我的神。
这约的期限是永远的。永远的约乃是没有开头，幷且永远也不会终止的。倘若得知“神坚固的根基立住了”，幷有神自己的应许：“我必不背弃我的约，也不改变我口中所出的”，那是多麽快乐的一件事呀！虽然我的家庭幷未按我的心愿完全归向神，接受主，但我也要像大卫临终时一样地高唱：“神却与我立永远的约。”
December 21
“Yet He hath made with me an
everlasting covenant.”—2 Samuel 23:5
This
covenant is divine in its origin. “HE hath made with me an everlasting
covenant.” Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting
Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the
world into existence by a word; he, stooping from his majesty, takes hold of
thy hand and makes a covenant with thee. Is it not a deed, the stupendous
condescension of which might ravish our hearts for ever if we could really
understand it? “HE hath made with me a covenant.” A king has not made
a covenant with me-that were somewhat; but the Prince of the kings of the
earth, Shaddai, the Lord All-sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting
Elohim, “He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” But notice,
it is particular in its application. “Yet hath he made with ME an
everlasting covenant.” Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. It
is nought for me that he made peace for the world; I want to know whether he
made peace for me! It is little that he hath made a covenant, I want to know
whether he has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that he hath
made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Ghost gives me assurance of this, then
his salvation is mine, his heart is mine, he himself is mine-he is my God.
This covenant is everlasting
in its duration. An everlasting covenant means a covenant which had no
beginning, and which shall never, never end. How sweet amidst all the
uncertainties of life, to know that “the foundation of the Lord standeth
sure,” and to have God’s own promise, “My covenant will I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” Like dying David, I will
sing of this, even though my house be not so with God as my heart desireth.
