0126 再次观看并圣化
你们这小信的人哪！野地里的草今天还在，明天就丢在炉里，神还给它这样的妆饰，何况你们呢！《马太福音 6:30》
耶稣这简单陈述对我们来说总是一个谜，因为我们不愿意简单。 我们如何能保持耶稣的纯一，以便我们能理解祂呢？ 透过接受祂的圣灵，认识并依靠祂，且顺从祂，当祂将祂话语的真理带给我们时，生活将变得惊人的简单。 耶稣要我们思考：「如果神给野地里的草这样的装饰…」如果你保持与神正确的关系，「祂岂不更加…」装饰你吗？
每当我们在与神相交中失去立足点时，都是因为我们无礼地认为自己比耶稣基督更懂。 我们允许「世上的忧虑」进来（马太福音13:22），却忘记了我们天父的「更何况」。
「你们看天上的飞鸟…」（马太福音6:26），牠们的功能是顺从神放在牠们里面的本能，而神看顾着牠们。 耶稣说，如果你与祂有正确的关系，并顺从祂在你里面的圣灵，那么神也会照顾你的「羽毛」。
「你想野地里的百合花….」（马太福音6:28），它们生长在被种植的地方。我们中的许多人拒绝在神种植我们的地方成长； 因此，我们不会在任何地方扎根。 耶稣说，如果我们顺服在我们里面神的生命，祂就会照顾所有其他的事情。耶稣基督欺骗我们了吗？ 我们是否正在经历祂所应许的「更何况」呢？ 如果没有，那是因为我们没有顺从神所赐予我们的生命，并且我们的心中充满了混乱的思想和忧虑。我们本应当完全自由地专注于服事祂，然而我们浪费了多少时间在问神毫无意义的问题？分别为圣是一种作为，就是不断将自己从一切分开来，除了上帝指定我去做的事。 这不会是一次性的经历，而是一个持续进行的过程。 我是否生命中每一天都不断地把自己分别出来并仰望神？
来自章伯斯的智慧
耶稣对门徒所说的伟大之语是「舍己」。当神把我们带进门徒的关系中时，我们必须冒险相信祂的话，完全信靠祂，并注意当祂带我们去冒险时，我们就接受之。《登山宝训研究》
0126 Look Again and Consecrate
If God so clothes the grass of the field…, will He not much more clothe you? —Matthew 6:30
A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us because we will not be simple. How can we maintain the simplicity of Jesus so that we may understand Him? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, and obeying Him as He brings us the truth of His Word, life will become amazingly simple. Jesus asks us to consider that “if God so clothes the grass of the field…” how “much more” will He clothe you, if you keep your relationship right with Him?
Every time we lose ground in our fellowship with God, it is because we have disrespectfully thought that we knew better than Jesus Christ. We have allowed “the cares of this world” to enter in (Matthew 13:22), while forgetting the “much more” of our heavenly Father.
“Look at the birds of the air…” (Matthew 6:26). Their function is to obey the instincts God placed within them, and God watches over them. Jesus said that if you have the right relationship with Him and will obey His Spirit within you, then God will care for your “feathers” too.
“Consider the lilies of the field…” (Matthew 6:28). They grow where they are planted. Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don’t take root anywhere. Jesus said if we would obey the life of God within us, He would look after all other things. Did Jesus Christ lie to us? Are we experiencing the “much more” He promised? If we are not, it is because we are not obeying the life God has given us and have cluttered our minds with confusing thoughts and worries. How much time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him? Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience but an ongoing process. Am I continually separating myself and looking to God every day of my life?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He brings us to the venture, we take it. –Studies in the Sermon on the Mount