你们要常在我里面。(约十五4)
藉着救赎,耶稣的灵进到我里面。此后,我就得完全按照主的心意耐心地被塑造。神不会使我像耶稣一样去思想,我必须自己去做,我必须将所有的心意夺回,使之顺服基督。“常在我里面。”--在知识上、金钱上,并在一切与人生有关的事上。我们不是活在一个匣子里。
我有没有阻挠神在我的环境中行事,只因我认为这会妨碍我与他的交通?这是鲁莽的态度。环境怎样根本不重要,重要的是我是否确实的住在主里,正如我在祷告中与主同住一样。我无须自行改变或调整环境;对于主,这种内住的光景是分毫不受影响的。主无论置身何处,都与神同住。他从不挑选环境,只柔和谦卑的顺服父神为他所作的一切安排。试想主的人生是何等的闲适!至于我们,却把神置于紧张关头,没有与基督一同藏在神里面的那种平稳。
想想那些妨碍你与主同住的东西:“主啊,是的,不过等一下,我要先做这个;是的,我完成了这个就与你同住;过了这个星期就没事了,那时就可以与你同住。”赶快行动吧!现在就住在主里!在起初的阶段,要不断的努力工作,直至成为生命的律,使你在不知不觉中便与他同住。你无论置身何处,要立志住在耶稣里面。
祈祷◆噢,主啊,我怀着赞美和感恩来到你面前,但仍然渴求对你的良善自觉地有更深的欣赏。求你在今天赐福予我,让我有更广阔的胸怀和能力去赞美你。
June 14: Get A Move On
“Abide in Me.” John 15:4
The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by the Atonement, then I have to construct with patience the way of thinking that is exactly in accordance with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus, I have to do it myself; I have to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. “Abide in Me” – in intellectual matters, in money matters, in every one of the matters that make human life what it is. It is not a bandbox life.
Am I preventing God from doing things in my circumstances because I say it will hinder my communion with Him? That is an impertinence. It does not matter what my circumstances are, I can be as sure of abiding in Jesus in them as in a prayer meeting. I have not to change and arrange my circumstances myself. With Our Lord the inner abiding was unsullied; He was at home with God wherever His body was placed. He never chose His own circumstances, but was meek towards His Father’s dispensations for Him. Think of the amazing leisure of Our Lord’s life! We keep God at excitement point, there is none of the serenity of the life hid with Christ in God about us.
Think of the things that take you out of abiding in Christ – Yes, Lord, just a minute, I have got this to do; Yes, I will abide when once this is finished; when this week is over, it will be all right, I will abide then. Get a move on; begin to abide now. In the initial stages it is a continual effort until it becomes so much the law of life that you abide in Him unconsciously. Determine to abide in Jesus wherever you are placed.