四月十一日
我如水被倒出来，我的骨头都脱了节……（诗22:14）
天地曾看到过比这更凄惨的悲哀景象吗？我们的主在魂与体中感到他软弱得像水一样被倒在地上。十字架竖起来的时候他的一切关节都受到极大的震动，每一节、每一根神经都痛楚非凡，他的骨头几皆脱节分离了；全身的重量都在他的双手双脚上，疼痛一秒一秒地加甚起来，足足受了六个钟点的煎熬。他昏晕软弱至极，他的意识之中除了难过和昏晕之外别无所有。但以理看到一个大异象时，他说：“我……便浑身无力，面貌失色，毫无气力。”当我们的大先知看到神忿怒的可怕的异象时，他心中又是怎样的感觉呢？我们若受主所受的苦，我们的感觉必然痛苦难当，但也必会昏厥过去不省人事，因此得免当时的苦痛；但我们的主却不如此，他受了伤，他觉得枪的刺扎，他喝尽了杯中的每一滴苦酒。“忧患之王啊！（这名号虽奇特，但君王中独有你堪当此称）受伤之王啊！我当如何为你伤悲，因你的忧患使我不经一切忧患！”当我们跪在现已升天的救主宝座之前时，让我们注意他为我们开了一条通到施恩宝座的路，让我们在心灵中也喝他所喝的杯，好当沉重的日子临到我们时作我们的力量。他在世时每一个肢体都忍受了很大的苦，灵中也是如此，但当他出离他的忧患和悲痛时，他的身体却毫无创伤地进入荣耀和权能中，即使当他奥秘的身体经过烈火的炉中，也不带火燎的气味。
April 11
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
joint.” –Psalm 22:14
Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder
spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt Himself to be weak as water
poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken Him
with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and
more or less dislocated all His bones. Burdened with His own weight, the august
sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours. His
sense of faintness and general weakness were overpowering; while to His own consciousness
He became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning sickness. When Daniel saw
the great vision, he thus describes his sensations, “There remained no
strength in me, for my vigour was turned into corruption, and I retained no
strength:” how much more faint must have been our greater Prophet when He
saw the dread vision of the wrath of God, and felt it in His own soul! To us,
sensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and kind
unconsciousness would have come to our rescue; but in His case, He was wounded,
and felt the sword; He drained the cup and tasted every drop.
“O King of Grief! （a title strange,
yet true
To Thee of all kings only due）
O King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for
Thee,
Who in all grief preventest me!”
As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour’s throne, let us remember
well the way by which He prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in
spirit drink of His cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness
whenever it may come. In His natural body every member suffered, and so must it
be in the spiritual; but as out of all His griefs and woes His body came forth
uninjured to glory and power, even so shall His mystical body come through the
furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon it.
