0205 你預備好作為祭物被澆奠了嗎？（1）
我以你們的信心為供獻的祭物，我若被澆奠在其上，也是喜樂，並且與你們眾人一同喜樂。《腓立比書 2:17》
你是否願意為另一位信徒的事工而犧牲自己 ——為他人的事奉和信心而犧牲傾倒你的生命呢？還是你會說：「我現在不願意被傾倒，我不想讓神告訴我要如何事奉祂。我要選擇我自己犧牲的地方，而且我希望有人看着我並說：『幹得好』。」
如果你被視為英雄而跟隨神的事奉之路，這是一回事，但如果神為你劃定的道路要求你成為別人腳下的「門墊」，那又是另外一回事了。神的目的可能是教導你說：「我知道怎樣處卑賤…。」（腓立比書 4:12）你預備像這樣子被犧牲嗎？你預備好比水桶中的一滴都還不如——變得如此微不足道，以至於無人紀念，即使他們想到你所服事的人呢？你是否願意付出並被傾倒，直到你被用盡，精疲力竭——不是尋求被服事，而是去服事人呢？有些聖徒不能同時做卑微的工作，又保持聖潔的態度，因為他們覺得這種服事是有損他們的尊嚴。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們容易認為發生在我們身上的一切，都要轉化為有益的教訓；它是要成為比教訓更好的東西，即轉化為品格。我們會發現，神帶我們進入的領域並不是要教導我們什麼，而是要陶塑我們。《神的愛——不被注意的事工》
0205 Are You Ready To Be Poured Out As an Offering? (1)
If I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. —Philippians 2:17
Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for the work of another believer—to pour out your life sacrificially for the ministry and faith of others? Or do you say, “I am not willing to be poured out right now, and I don’t want God to tell me how to serve Him. I want to choose the place of my own sacrifice. And I want to have certain people watching me and saying, ‘Well done.’”
It is one thing to follow God’s way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a “doormat” under other people’s feet. God’s purpose may be to teach you to say, “I know how to be abased…” (Philippians 4:12). Are you ready to be sacrificed like that? Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket— to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted— not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister? Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude, because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, viz. into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. –The Love of God—The Ministry of the Unnoticed, 664 L