0118 那是主！
多马说：我的主！我的神！《约翰福音20:28》
「耶稣对她说：『请你给我水喝』」（约翰福音 4:7）。 我们有多少人在本应满足耶稣基督的时候，却期待祂来解我们的干渴！ 我们应该倾倒我们的生命，投资我们的全人，而非利用祂来满足我们。「你们…作我的见证。」（使徒行传 1:8）。 这意味着要对主耶稣有纯洁、不妥协和无拘无束的委身生活，无论祂把我们差到哪里，这都会令祂满意。
要谨防任何与你对耶稣基督的忠诚相竞争的事情。 对耶稣真正委身的最大竞争者，是我们为祂所做的事奉；事奉祂比完全为祂倾倒我们的生命更容易。 神呼召的目的是祂的满足，而不仅仅是我们应该为祂做些什么。我们不是被差遣去为神而战，而是要在祂的争战中被使用。 我们是否委身于事奉，胜过委身于耶稣基督自己呢？
来自章伯斯的智慧
神创造人类，让他成为地上、海里和空中生命之主，而他之所以不是，是因为他擅自掌握律法，成为自己的主，但却不是其他之主。 《痛苦的阴影》
0118 It Is the Lord!
Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” —John 20:28
“Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink’” (John 4:7). How many of us are expecting Jesus Christ to quench our thirst when we should be satisfying Him! We should be pouring out our lives, investing our total beings, not drawing on Him to satisfy us. “You shall be witnesses to Me…” (Acts 1:8). That means lives of pure, uncompromising, and unrestrained devotion to the Lord Jesus, which will be satisfying to Him wherever He may send us.
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him. We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles. Are we more devoted to service than we are to Jesus Christ Himself?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
God created man to be master of the life in the earth and sea and sky, and the reason he is not is because he took the law into his own hands, and became master of himself, but of nothing else。— The Shadow of an Agony, 1163 L