84:1 〔可拉後裔的詩，交與伶長。用迦特樂器。〕萬軍之耶和華啊，你的居所何等可愛！ How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!
84:2 我羨慕渴想耶和華的院宇；我的心腸，我的肉體向永生 神呼籲〔或譯：歡呼〕。 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
84:3 萬軍之耶和華─我的王，我的 神啊，在你祭壇那裏，麻雀為自己找著房屋，燕子為自己找著菢雛之窩。 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young-- a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
84:4 如此住在你殿中的便為有福！他們仍要讚美你。〔細拉〕 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.((Selah))
84:5 靠你有力量、心中想往錫安大道的，這人便為有福！ Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
84:6 他們經過「流淚谷」，叫這谷變為泉源之地；並有秋雨之福蓋滿了全谷。 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. 84:6 Or ((blessings))
84:7 他們行走，力上加力，各人到錫安朝見 神。 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
84:8 耶和華─萬軍之 神啊，求你聽我的禱告！雅各的 神啊，求你留心聽！〔細拉〕 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.((Selah))
84:9 神啊，你是我們的盾牌；求你垂顧觀看你受膏者的面！ Look upon our shield, 84:9 Or ((sovereign)) O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
84:10 在你的院宇住一日，勝似在別處住千日；寧可在我 神殿中看門，不願住在惡人的帳棚裏。 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
84:11 因為耶和華─ 神是日頭，是盾牌，要賜下恩惠和榮耀。他未嘗留下一樣好處不給那些行動正直的人。 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
84:12 萬軍之耶和華啊，倚靠你的人便為有福！ O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
"Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son……I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven; ……because thou hast obeyed my voice." (Gen. 22:16-18.)
ＡND from that day to this, men have been learning that when, at God's voice, they surrender up to Him the one thing above all else that was dearest to their very hearts, that same thing is returned to them by Him a thousand times over. Abraham gives up his one and only son, at God's call, and with this disappear all his hopes for the boy's life and manhood, and for a noble family his name. But the boy is restored, the family becomes as the stars and sands in number, and out of it, in the fullness of time, appears Jesus Christ.
That is just the way God meets every real sacrifice of every child of His. We surrender all and accept poverty; and He sends wealth. We renounce a rich field of service; He sends us a richer one than we had dared to dream of. We give up all our cherished hopes, and die unto self; He sends us the life more abundant, and tingling joy. And the crown of it all is our Jesus Christ. For we can never know the fullness of the life that is in Christ until we have made Abraham's supreme sacrifice. The earthly founder of the family of Christ must commence by losing himself and his only son, just as the Heavenly Founder of that family did. We cannot be members of that family with the full privileges and joys of membership upon any other basis.
─C. G. Trumbull.
We sometimes seem to forget that what God takes He takes in fire; and that the only way to the resurrection life and the ascension mount is the way of the garden, the cross, and the grave.
Think not, O soul of man, that Abraham's was a unique and solitary experience. It is simply a specimen and pattern of God's dealings with all souls who are prepared to obey Him at whetever cost. After thou hast patiently endured, thou shalt receive the promise. The moment of supreme sacriflce shall be the moment of supreme and rapturous blessing. God's river, which is full of water, shall burst its banks, and pour upon thee a tide of wealth and grace. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts down his foot he finds a rock beneath him.
─F. B. Meyer.
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