0206 你预备好作为祭物被浇奠了吗？（2）
我现在被浇奠，我离世的时候到了。… —提摩太后书 4:6
你预备好作为祭物被浇奠了吗？这是你意志的作为，而不是你的情绪。告诉神你已经预备好作为祭物被献上，然后接受随之而来的后果，没有任何抱怨，不管神会如何安排你的道路。神让你经历一场私下危机，没有其他人能够帮助你。从外表上看，你的生活可能看起来是一样的，但变化正发生在你的意志中。一旦你经历了意志上的危机，当它外在的人事物开始影响你的时候，你将不再考虑代价。如果你不先在你的意志层面上来与神互动，结果只会引起对你自己的同情。
「用绳索把祭牲拴住，牵到坛角那里。」（诗篇 118:27）。你必须愿意被放在祭坛上并经历火炼；愿意经历祭坛所代表的——燃烧、净化和分别，只为一个目的——消除一切不根基于神或不指向神的欲望和感情。但你不消除它，是神消除它。你要「用绳索把祭牲…牵到坛角那里」，并确保一旦火开始，你不会沉溺于自怜中。在你经历火炼之后，就不再有任何事情能够困扰你或使你沮丧了。当另一次危机出现时，你会意识到事情已经不能像过去那样触动你了。在你的生命中，还有什么火在等待着你？
告诉神，你已经预备好作为祭物被倾倒浇奠，神就会证明祂自己就是你梦寐以求的一切。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们是通过相信被告知要相信的事情而开始基督徒的生活，然后我们必须继续如此同化我们的信仰，以至于它们以一种回响神荣耀的方式产生结果。危险是在于我们越来越接受我们自己没有活出的信念。《改变像祂的样式》
0206 Are You Ready To Be Poured Out As an Offering? (2)
I am already being poured out as a drink offering… —2 Timothy 4:6
Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. Tell God you are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then accept the consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what God may send your way. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no other person can help you. From the outside your life may appear to be the same, but the difference is taking place in your will. Once you have experienced the crisis in your will, you will take no thought of the cost when it begins to affect you externally. If you don’t deal with God on the level of your will first, the result will be only to arouse sympathy for yourself.
“Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents— burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose— the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don’t eliminate it, God does. You “bind the sacrifice…to the horns of the altar” and see to it that you don’t wallow in self-pity once the fire begins. After you have gone through the fire, there will be nothing that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What fire lies ahead in your life?
Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own. Conformed to His Image, 381 L