八月壹日 每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

經文: 禰以恩典為年歲的冠冕。（詩篇65：11）

神每日每時豐富的賜福予我們。無論我們或睡或醒，祂的恩典都臨到我們。太陽尚可能留下黑影，但我們的神永不停止以愛的光芒照射在祂兒女身上。祂的仁慈之愛像壹條河流，源源不斷地流，這就是祂豐滿無窮盡的本性。如同大氣包圍地球並維持人的生命，祂的仁慈善心包圍壹切被造之物。在裏面的意思是，在自身的生活，動作，存留的環境裏面。夏季的光輝令我們感到比平時更加的溫暖和明亮，河流有時被暴雨張滿，空氣有時也比平常更為清新、爽快、芳香。 神的仁慈也是如此。當主將祂的恩典向人類彰顯時，就是洋溢著喜樂的黃金時刻。收成喜樂的日子是蒙主恩寵的特殊日子。榮耀的秋天是 神供應豐富成熟禮物的日子。當過去的壹切不過是盼望和期待時，那麽現在就是成就收獲的時期。收成的喜樂是何其大啊！收割的人因天國的慷慨滿載而歸時，是何等快樂啊！

詩人告訴我們，收成是年歲的冠冕。這些冠冕的恩典必然帶出人的感恩！讓我們獻上內心感激之情。但願我們的心意是誠懇的，但願我們的靈銘記並默想主的恩慈。讓我們贊美祂，顯揚祂的名，從祂身上源源流出壹切的美善來。讓我們按神的旨意獻上禮物來榮耀祂。為主的豐收，獻上特別的感謝祭，以實際行動證實我們的感激之情。

Scripture: “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.”(Psalm 65:11)

 All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon his children with beams of love. Like a river, his lovingkindness is always flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as his own nature. Like the atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their being. Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore, so is it with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours; its days of overflow, when the Lord magnifieth his grace before the sons of men. Amongst the blessings of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realization, whereas all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these crowning mercies call for crowning thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate, and think upon this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise him with our lips, and laud and magnify his name from whose bounty all this goodness flows. Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to his cause. A practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to the Lord of the harvest.