9月7日 福泉

我所赐的水，要在他里头成为泉源。（约四14）

主所描写的，不是一条河道，乃是一个活泉。“要被充满”，这样，圣徒与主耶稣生命关系的甜美，就会丰富不绝地涌流，正如主倾倒给他的一样。你若发现生命并不能如意地涌流，问题一定是在你身上；一定是有阻塞的障碍物。要保持与源头接驳，这样你就会大得福祉？不，你会有活水江流涌流，是无法遏止的生命。

我们要成为活水涌流的江河，让主耶稣涌流而出，使每个人得福。有些人像死海，只接受而不付出，因为他们与主耶稣得关系并不和谐。我们接受他的生命，是肯定的；这样，他透过我们涌流，也该是肯定的。主若没有顺畅的涌流，你与他的关系必然有了缺陷。你与他之间有何阻隔？什么阻拦你对他的信念？若没有，耶稣说：“你要涌流出活水江河。”不是福气的传递，不是经验的申述，乃是江河的涌流。要持定源头，谨守对主的信心和与他的关系，这样，你就有不住的水供应别人，不枯干，也不死涸。

个别信徒要涌流出江河，是否夸张之言？你会说：“我看不见江河。”记着不要从“我是什么人？”的观点来看自己。神工作的历史，往往是从隐藏的、不为人知的、被人忽视的，但对主耶稣基督坚贞不移的人开始。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，让我重拾那因你与我同在而有的独特喜乐，使我在这个地方全属于你。我似乎不适宜作任何事情，惟独等候你。噢，主啊，给我显示一个永久的标记。

September 7 Springs Of Benignity

“The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water.” John 4:14

The picture Our Lord gives is not that of a channel but a fountain. “Be being filled,” and the sweetness of vital relationship to Jesus will flow out of the saint as lavishly as it is imparted to him. If you find your life is not flowing out as it should, you are to blame; something has obstructed the flow. Keep right at the Source, and – you will be blessed personally? No, out of you will flow rivers of living water, irrepressible life.

We are to be centres through which Jesus can flow as rivers of living water in blessing to every one. Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. As surely as we receive from Him, He will pour out through us, and in the measure He is not pouring out, there is a defect in our relationship to Him. Is there anything between you and Jesus Christ? Is there anything that hinders your belief in Him? If not, Jesus says, out of you will flow rivers of living water. It is not a blessing passed on, not an experience stated, but a river continually flowing. Keep at the Source, guard well your belief in Jesus Christ and your relationship to Him, and there will be a steady flow for other lives, no dryness and no deadness.

Is it not too extravagant to say that out of an individual believer rivers are going to flow? “I do not see the rivers,” you say. Never look at yourself from the standpoint of – Who am I? In the history of God's work you will nearly always find that it has started from the obscure, the unknown, the ignored, but the steadfastly true to Jesus Christ.