0215 我是我兄弟的看守者吗？
我们没有一个人为自己活，也没有一个人为自己死。《罗马书 14:7》
你曾否意识到，灵性上你对他人是向神负责的？例如，如果我允许在我私人生活中离开神，我周围的每个人都会受苦。我们「一同坐在天上」（以弗所书 2:6）。 「如果一个肢体受苦，所有的肢体也跟着受苦……」（哥林多前书 12:26）。如果你允许身体上的自私、思想上的粗心、道德上的麻木不仁，或灵性上的软弱，与你接触的每个人就会受苦。但你问：「谁能够达到如此崇高的标准？」，「因我们的能力本是从神而来…」并且唯独从神而来（哥林多后书 3:5）。
「你们作我的见证…」（使徒行传 1:8）。我们中有多少人愿意为耶稣基督付出我们每一个神经、心智、道德和灵性的能量？这就是神使用「见证」这个词的意思。但这需要时间，所以，对自己要有耐心。为什么神把我们留在世界上？仅仅是为了得救和成圣吗？不，是为服事祂而工作。我愿意为祂而成为擘开的饼、倾倒的酒吗？我是否愿意在这个时代或今生毫无价值，除了一个目的之外，而且只有一个目的，那就是被用来使男男女女成为主耶稣基督的门徒呢？我事奉神的生活，就是我对祂难以言喻的奇妙救恩说「谢谢」的方式。请记住，如果我们拒绝服事神，神完全有可能将我们中的任何一个人放在一边——「…恐怕我传福音给别人，自己反被弃绝了。」（哥林多前书 9:27）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
圣经是唯一一本给我们关于罪的真实本质及其来源任何指示的书。《罪的哲学》
0215 Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
None of us lives to himself… —Romans 14:7
Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people? For instance, if I allow any turning away from God in my private life, everyone around me suffers. We “sit together in the heavenly places…” (Ephesians 2:6). “If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it…” (1 Corinthians 12:26). If you allow physical selfishness, mental carelessness, moral insensitivity, or spiritual weakness, everyone in contact with you will suffer. But you ask, “Who is sufficient to be able to live up to such a lofty standard?” “Our sufficiency is from God…” and God alone (2 Corinthians 3:5).
“You shall be witnesses to Me…” (Acts 1:8). How many of us are willing to spend every bit of our nervous, mental, moral, and spiritual energy for Jesus Christ? That is what God means when He uses the word witness. But it takes time, so be patient with yourself. Why has God left us on the earth? Is it simply to be saved and sanctified? No, it is to be at work in service to Him. Am I willing to be broken bread and poured-out wine for Him? Am I willing to be of no value to this age or this life except for one purpose and one alone— to be used to disciple men and women to the Lord Jesus Christ. My life of service to God is the way I say “thank you” to Him for His inexpressibly wonderful salvation. Remember, it is quite possible for God to set any of us aside if we refuse to be of service to Him— “…lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible is the only Book that gives us any indication of the true nature of sin, and where it came from. —The Philosophy of Sin, 1107 R