0118 那是主！
多馬說：我的主！我的神！《約翰福音20:28》
「耶穌對她說：『請你給我水喝』」（約翰福音 4:7）。 我們有多少人在本應滿足耶穌基督的時候，卻期待祂來解我們的乾渴！ 我們應該傾倒我們的生命，投資我們的全人，而非利用祂來滿足我們。「你們…作我的見證。」（使徒行傳 1:8）。 這意味着要對主耶穌有純潔、不妥協和無拘無束的委身生活，無論祂把我們差到哪裡，這都會令祂滿意。
要謹防任何與你對耶穌基督的忠誠相競爭的事情。 對耶穌真正委身的最大競爭者，是我們為祂所做的事奉；事奉祂比完全為祂傾倒我們的生命更容易。 神呼召的目的是祂的滿足，而不僅僅是我們應該為祂做些什麼。我們不是被差遣去為神而戰，而是要在祂的爭戰中被使用。 我們是否委身於事奉，勝過委身於耶穌基督自己呢？
來自章伯斯的智慧
神創造人類，讓他成為地上、海里和空中生命之主，而他之所以不是，是因為他擅自掌握律法，成為自己的主，但卻不是其他之主。 《痛苦的陰影》
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