0206 你預備好作為祭物被澆奠了嗎？（2）
我現在被澆奠，我離世的時候到了。… —提摩太後書 4:6
你預備好作為祭物被澆奠了嗎？這是你意志的作為，而不是你的情緒。告訴神你已經預備好作為祭物被獻上，然後接受隨之而來的後果，沒有任何抱怨，不管神會如何安排你的道路。神讓你經歷一場私下危機，沒有其他人能夠幫助你。從外表上看，你的生活可能看起來是一樣的，但變化正發生在你的意志中。一旦你經歷了意志上的危機，當它外在的人事物開始影響你的時候，你將不再考慮代價。如果你不先在你的意志層面上來與神互動，結果只會引起對你自己的同情。
「用繩索把祭牲拴住，牽到壇角那裡。」（詩篇 118:27）。你必須願意被放在祭壇上並經歷火煉；願意經歷祭壇所代表的——燃燒、凈化和分別，只為一個目的——消除一切不根基於神或不指向神的慾望和感情。但你不消除它，是神消除它。你要「用繩索把祭牲…牽到壇角那裡」，並確保一旦火開始，你不會沉溺於自憐中。在你經歷火煉之後，就不再有任何事情能夠困擾你或使你沮喪了。當另一次危機出現時，你會意識到事情已經不能像過去那樣觸動你了。在你的生命中，還有什麼火在等待着你？
告訴神，你已經預備好作為祭物被傾倒澆奠，神就會證明祂自己就是你夢寐以求的一切。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們是通過相信被告知要相信的事情而開始基督徒的生活，然後我們必須繼續如此同化我們的信仰，以至於它們以一種迴響神榮耀的方式產生結果。危險是在於我們越來越接受我們自己沒有活出的信念。《改變像祂的樣式》
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