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经文: 众民当从新得力。（以赛亚书四十一：1）

地上万物皆需被更新。没有一样被造之物能靠自己的能力得以维生。当诗人说：“祢使地面更换为新”（诗一○四：30）时，他认定一切皆出于上帝的作为。甚至那些不会因忧虑而耗尽自己，或因辛劳而缩减寿命的树木，也必须饮取从天降下的雨露和吸收隐藏于泥土中的宝物。人要维持生命，就必须抑赖从上帝而来的更新。如同每日三餐对补充身体所需的重要性一样，我们的灵命也必须靠上帝的圣言来喂养，藉聆听所传的真道得供养，或藉着敬拜和赞美使灵命长进。若属灵的食粮被忽视，我们基督徒的生命将是何等沮丧啊！有些圣徒不勤于运用上帝的话语和暗中的祈祷，他们是何等贫乏和饥饿啊！若我们的信心能无上帝而活，那一定不是上帝所造的。既然信心生发于上帝，就必须等候祂如同花朵等候朝露。缺乏经常的复兴，我们就无法应付从地狱而来的攻击，甚至不能应付内心的争战。当旋风刮起时，那些没有用许多纠缠在一起的根紧紧抓住磐石的树有祸了。倘若我们不注重善，那恶者必定集中一切力量，拚命挣扎，要征服我们。但愿我们藉着谦卑的祷告来靠近上帝慈悲的脚凳，在那里，我们会看到上帝应许的实现──“那等候耶和华的，必从新得力”（赛四十：31）

Evening, January 2

Scripture: “Let the people renew their strength.”(Isaiah 41:1)

All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. “Thou renewest the face of the year,” was the Psalmist’s utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the hidden treasures of the soil. The cedars of Lebanon, which God has planted, only live because day by day they are full of sap fresh drawn from the earth. Neither can man’s life be sustained without renewal from God. As it is necessary to repair the waste of the body by the frequent meal, so we must repair the waste of the soul by feeding upon the Book of God, or by listening to the preached Word, or by the soul-fattening table of the ordinances. How depressed are our graces when means are neglected! What poor starvelings some saints are who live without the diligent use of the Word of God and secret prayer! If our piety can live without God it is not of divine creating; it is but a dream; for if God had begotten it, it would wait upon him as the flowers wait upon the dew. Without constant restoration we are not ready for the perpetual assaults of hell, or the stern afflictions of heaven, or even for the strifes within. When the whirlwind shall be loosed, woe to the tree that hath not sucked up fresh sap, and grasped the rock with many intertwisted roots. When tempests arise, woe to the mariners that have not strengthened their mast, nor cast their anchor, nor sought the haven. If we suffer the good to grow weaker, the evil will surely gather strength and struggle desperately for the mastery over us; and so, perhaps, a painful desolation, and a lamentable disgrace may follow. Let us draw near to the footstool of divine mercy in humble entreaty, and we shall realize the fulfilment of the promise, “They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.”

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经文: 我们必因祢欢喜快乐。（雅歌一：4）

我们必因上帝欢喜快乐。我们不必带着一丝愁烦来开启岁首之门，开始这新的一年。反之，我们要与欢乐竖琴之甜美旋律唱和，要与欣喜钹之宏亮声音共鸣。“来啊，我们要向耶和华歌唱，向拯救我门的磐石欢呼。”（诗九十五：1）。我们这些蒙召的、忠心的、被拣选的人啊，要以上帝的名驱除忧愁，高举信心的旗帜。让那些不信的人去为他们的烦恼哀伤吧！我们却拥有使水变甜的树，可不将它投入玛拉的苦泉中，因此，我们要以欢乐赞美主。永恒之灵，完全的保惠师，我们要永不止息崇拜颂扬耶稣之名！耶稣必要获得我们心中欢乐之冠冕。新郎来临的时候，我们不能带着哀伤的心情，因为那是对祂的羞辱。上帝任命我们作天上的歌颂者。让我们在进入新耶稣撒冷的华厅向祂颂赞以前，预先演习这永恒之歌。我们必欢喜快乐──欢喜与快乐是同义词──双重之喜乐，颂赞加上颂赞！纵使在尘世中，有什么事物能限制我们在主里的喜乐呢？在耶稣里满有丰盛！祂是无尽福乐河流之源头，河中丰盛的每一滴水皆在祂里面！甜美的主耶稣，祢是祢子民当今的产业。在这一年中，恩待我们，让我们珍视祢的宝贵，从岁首至年终，让我们能因祢而欢喜快乐。但愿正月能始于在主里的欢乐，让腊月结束于在耶稣里的欣喜。

Evening, January 1

Scripture: “We will be glad and rejoice in thee.”(Song of Solomon 1:4)

We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. “O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise unto the rock of our salvation.” We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God. Let others lament over their troubles, we who have the sweetening tree to cast into Marah’s bitter pool, with joy will magnify the Lord. Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in which thou dwellest, will never cease from adoring and blessing the name of Jesus. We WILL , we are resolved about it, Jesus must have the crown of our heart’s delight; we will not dishonour our Bridegroom by mourning in his presence. We are ordained to be the minstrels of the skies, let us rehearse our everlasting anthem before we sing it in the halls of the New Jerusalem. We will BE GLAD AND REJOICE : two words with one sense, double joy, blessedness upon blessedness. Need there be any limit to our rejoicing in the Lord even now? Do not men of grace find their Lord to be camphire and spikenard, calamus and cinnamon even now, and what better fragrance have they in heaven itself? We will be glad and rejoice IN THEE . That last word is the meat in the dish, the kernel of the nut, the soul of the text. What heavens are laid up in Jesus! What rivers of infinite bliss have their source, aye, and every drop of their fulness in him! Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, thou art the present portion of thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.