我在磨炼之中,常和我同在的就是你们。(路二十二28)
是的,我们受试探的时候,主耶稣的确与我们同在。可是,他受试探时我们与他同行吗?不少人一经验到主为我们成就什么之后,就不再与他往前行了。注意神把你的环境转移,看你是否仍与主耶稣同行,还是与世界为友,随从肉体与魔鬼。我们佩戴着他的徽号,可是有没有与他同行?“从此他门徒中多有退去的,不再和他同行。”耶稣在地上生命的前期不断受到试探;这些试探也会继续在领受神儿子生命的我们里面。我们是否在现在的生活中与耶稣同行?
我们会有保护自己的念头,以为应该躲避一些神安排在我们周围的东西。千万不可!神所安排的际遇,不管是什么,我们都必须面对;同时在他的试探里,要与他不断同行。那些试探不是对我们而发,乃是对他,对我们里面神的儿子而发的。耶稣基督的尊荣,系于我们这肉身上,我们是否持守对神儿子的忠贞?
你不断与主同行吗?这条路要经过客西马尼园、城门口,直到营外;这道路孤单寂寞,你不会再看见任何足迹,只剩下一个声音说:“跟从我。”
祈祷◆主啊,为着这个清晨,我能享有与你相交这个珍贵权利,我赞美你;愿你今天在我里面动工,以致我可以“立志行事……为要成就你的美意”。
September 19: Do You Continue To Go With Jesus?
“Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations.” Luke 22:28
It is true that Jesus Christ is with us in our temptations, but are we going with Him in His temptations? Many of us cease to go with Jesus from the moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God shifts your circumstances, and see whether you are going with Jesus, or siding with the world, the flesh and the devil. We wear His badge, but are we going with Him? “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.”
The temptations of Jesus continued throughout His earthly life, and they will continue throughout the life of the Son of God in us. Are we going with Jesus in the life we are living now?
We have the idea that we ought to shield ourselves from some of the things God brings round us. Never! God engineers circumstances and whatever they may be like we have to see that we face them while abiding continually with Him in His temptations. They are His temptations, not temptations to us, but temptations to the life of the Son of God in us. The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you?
Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, “Follow Me.”