八月廿五日 清晨甘露 Morning by Morning
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我欢欢喜喜坐在祂的荫下，尝祂果子的滋味，觉得甘甜。（雅歌2:3）

   圣经中说到信心，使用了人所有的感官行为作为象征。信心是视：“都当仰望我，就必得救。”（赛45:22）信心是听：“侧耳而听，你的灵魂就必得活。”（赛55:3）信心是嗅：“你的衣服，都有没药、沉香、肉桂的香气。”（诗45:8）“你的名如同倒出来的香膏。”（歌1:3）信心是属灵的触：因有这信心，患病的妇人悄悄地跟在耶稣后面摸祂的衣繸；因着信心，我们抓住圣善的生命言语。信心也是属灵的尝：“你的言语在我上膛何等甘美，在我口中比蜜更甜！”（诗119:103）基督说：“你们若不吃人子的肉，不喝人子的血，就没有生命在你们里面。”（约6:53）

   “尝”是出自信心最上乘的行为之一。信心的初步表现乃是听。我们听神的声音，不只用外面的耳朵，也要用内心的耳朵；我们听到那是神的话语，就相信了祂的话，这就是出于信心的“听觉”。于是我们的心便仰望那显明的真道；也就是说我们明白了真理，并领受了其中含义，这就是充满信心的“视觉”。接下来我们会发现真道的宝贵；我们切慕它，闻到它的香味，这就是出于信心的“嗅觉”。于是我们就享用主在基督里为我们所预备的怜悯，这就是出于信心的“触觉”。之后，快乐、平安、喜乐、交通就临到了我们，那就是出于信心的“味觉”。

    出于信心的任何一个官觉都能使人得救。听见基督的声音，一如听见神对我们灵魂的确实呼召，这将拯救我们。然而我们真正的富乐乃是拥有了基督的信心，藉着神圣的一尝，因信把基督接在我们里面，使他的宝贵和甜蜜在我们里面成为我们灵魂的食粮。然后，我们才算“坐在祂的荫下”，并尝祂甘美的果子。

Scripture: “His fruit was sweet to my taste.”(Song of Solomon 2:3)

　　 Faith, in the Scripture, is spoken of under the emblem of all the senses. It is sight: “Look unto me and be ye saved.” It is hearing: “Hear, and your soul shall live.” Faith is smelling: “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia”; “thy name is as ointment poured forth.” Faith is spiritual touch. By this faith the woman came behind and touched the hem of Christ's garment, and by this we handle the things of the good word of life. Faith is equally the spirit's taste. “How sweet are thy words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my lips.” “Except a man eat my flesh,” saith Christ, “and drink my blood, there is no life in him.”

This “taste” is faith in one of its highest operations. One of the first performances of faith is hearing. We hear the voice of God, not with the outward ear alone, but with the inward ear; we hear it as God's Word, and we believe it to be so; that is the “hearing” of faith. Then our mind looketh upon the truth as it is presented to us; that is to say, we understand it, we perceive its meaning; that is the “seeing” of faith. Next we discover its preciousness; we begin to admire it, and find how fragrant it is; that is faith in its “smell.” Then we appropriate the mercies which are prepared for us in Christ; that is faith in its “touch.” Hence follow the enjoyments, peace, delight, communion; which are faith in its “taste.”

Any one of these acts of faith is saving. To hear Christ's voice as the sure voice of God in the soul will save us; but that which gives true enjoyment is the aspect of faith wherein Christ, by holy taste, is received into us, and made, by inward and spiritual apprehension of his sweetness and preciousness, to be the food of our souls. It is then we sit “under his shadow with great delight,” and find his fruit sweet to our taste.🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍎🍎