我已经预备好被浇奠。（提后四6，意译）
你是否已经预备好被献上为祭？这是你意志的抉择，不是情绪的冲动。告诉神你已预备好为他献上；然后接受随之而来的后果，神怎样安排也没有丝毫的怨叹。神私下里把你带过难关，是没有人可以帮你的。外面环境可能依旧，里面的心志却有了不同。一旦你在心志上经历这种转变，那么当外部的事情临到，就不会斤斤计较了。你若没有在心志上与神这样处理好，最终便会产生自怜自叹。
“用绳索把祭牲绑上、拴在祭坛的角上。”你必须愿意被放在祭坛上，经历火的洗礼；必须愿意体验祭坛所代表的一切——燃烧、净化和分离，目的只有一个——消除一切不以神为根基或指向神的欲望和感情。但不是你去烧毁，乃是神；你只要把祭牲拴在坛角。当火起来燃烧，不要去惋惜这些东西。经过了火的焚烧，就再没有什么会压制你，或使你沮丧。当下一次危机临到，发觉没有什么可以像以前那样影响你了。
你前面的“火”是什么？告诉神已经预备好被献上为祭，神便会向你显示他自己，就是你一直以来所梦想的。
祈祷◆“但到了神我们救主的恩慈，和他向人所施的慈爱显明的时候……”噢，主啊，这句话经常萦绕我的心头；然而，我极少将你的恩典和慈爱展示人前！
February 6: Are You Ready To Be Poured Out As an Offering? (2)
I am already being poured out as a drink offering . . . —2 Timothy 4:6
Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. Tell God you are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then accept the consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what God may send your way. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no other person can help you. From the outside your life may appear to be the same, but the difference is taking place in your will. Once you have experienced the crisis in your will, you will take no thought of the cost when it begins to affect you externally. If you don’t deal with God on the level of your will first, the result will be only to arouse sympathy for yourself.
“Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents -burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose- the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don’t eliminate it, God does. You “bind the sacrifice . . . to the horns of the altar” and see to it that you don’t wallow in self-pity once the fire begins. After you have gone through the fire, there will be nothing that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What fire lies ahead in your life?
Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.