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“My meditation of Him shall be sweet!”
“我对祂的默想必是甘甜！”
(William Bridge, 1600-1670, “The Sweetness and Profitableness of Divine Meditation”)
(威廉·布里奇，1600-1670，”神圣默想的甘甜与益处”)
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“My meditation of Him shall be sweet!” Psalm 104:34
“我对祂的默想必是甘甜！”诗篇104:34
By meditation . . .
通过默想……
your knowledge is raised;
你的知识得以提升；
your memory is strengthened;
你的记忆得以加强；
your hearts are warmed;
你的心得以温暖；
you will be freed from sinful thoughts;
你将从罪恶的思想中得释放；
your hearts will be tuned to every duty;
你的心将调谐于每一项职责；
you will grow in grace;
你将在恩典中成长；
you will fill up all the chinks and crevices of your lives, and know how to spend your spare time and improve that for God;
你将填补生命中的所有缝隙，并知道如何善用闲暇时光，为神而提升；
you will draw good out of evil;
你将从邪恶中提取善良；
you will converse with God, have communion with God, and enjoy God.
你将与神交谈，与神相交，享受神。
And I ask, is not here profit enough to sweeten the voyage of your thoughts in meditation?
我要问，这里难道不是足够的益处来使你在默想中的思想之旅变得甘甜吗？
As meditation is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man’s heart is much indisposed to prayer, yet if he can but fall into meditation on God and the things of God-his heart will soon come off to prayer.
正如默想是阅读的姊妹，它也是祷告的母亲。虽然人的心可能不愿意祷告，但若他能陷入对神和神之事物的默想中，他的心很快就会转向祷告。
Begin with reading;
从阅读开始；
go on with meditation;
继续以默想；
and end in prayer.
以祷告结束。
Reading without meditation is unfruitful;
没有默想的阅读是不结果子的；
meditation without reading is hurtful.
没有阅读的默想是有害的。
To meditate and to read without prayer upon both, is without blessing.
若默想与阅读都没有祷告相伴，就得不到祝福。
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2
“不从恶人的计谋，不站罪人的道路，不坐亵慢人的座位。惟喜爱耶和华的律法，昼夜思想，这人便为有福。”诗篇1:1-2
Something to ponder
值得思考
Charles Spurgeon: “Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. Would that our meditation were more in Heaven, and that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord.”
司布真说：”默想如同把望远镜放在眼前，使我们能比生活在祂肉身时代更清楚地看见耶稣。愿我们的默想更多地在天上，更多地被我们道成肉身之主的位格、工作和荣美所吸引。”