0216 灵性主动性的激励
从死里复活！《以弗所书 5:14》
并非所有的主动性、迈出第一步的意愿，都是神所激励的。有人可能会对你说：「起来并采取行动！【抓住你的犹豫，将其抛入海中】要决心面对你的不情愿，弃绝不情愿——就做需要做的！」这就是我们所说的普通人的主动性。但当神的灵临到我们，实际上说：「起来并采取行动」，我们突然发现主动性受到了激励。
年轻时我们都有很多梦想和志向，但迟早我们会意识到我们无力去实现它们。我们无法做我们渴望做的事情，所以我们倾向是认为我们的梦想和志向已经死了。但神来对我们说：「从死里复活」。当神赐下祂的灵感时，它会带着如此神奇的力量降临到我们身上，使我们能够「从死里复活」并做不可能的事情。灵性主动性的非凡之处，是在我们「起来并采取行动」之后，生命和力量就来了。神并没有赐给我们得胜的生命——在我们得胜的时候，祂赐给我们生命。当神的灵感来临时，祂说：「从死里复活」，我们就必须起来，神不会高举我们。我们的主对枯手的人说：「伸出手来」（马太福音 12:13）。当那人一伸出手来，他的手就痊愈了；但他必须采取主动。如果我们会主动去克服，我们就会发现我们有神的激励，因为神立刻就赐给我们生命的力量。
来自章伯斯的智慧
耶稣基督总是不屈服于我对自己权利的要求。我们的主关于门徒训练的所有教导中，唯一一个必要要素就是舍弃、没有计算、没有任何自我利益的痕迹。《真的门徒》
0216 The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative
Arise from the dead… —Ephesians 5:14
Not all initiative, the willingness to take the first step, is inspired by God. Someone may say to you, “Get up and get going! Take your reluctance by the throat and throw it overboard— just do what needs to be done!” That is what we mean by ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes to us and says, in effect, “Get up and get going,” suddenly we find that the initiative is inspired.
We all have many dreams and aspirations when we are young, but sooner or later we realize we have no power to accomplish them. We cannot do the things we long to do, so our tendency is to think of our dreams and aspirations as dead. But God comes and says to us, “Arise from the dead….” When God sends His inspiration, it comes to us with such miraculous power that we are able to “arise from the dead” and do the impossible. The remarkable thing about spiritual initiative is that the life and power comes after we “get up and get going.” God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome. When the inspiration of God comes, and He says, “Arise from the dead…,” we have to get ourselves up; God will not lift us up. Our Lord said to the man with the withered hand, “Stretch out your hand” (Matthew 12:13). As soon as the man did so, his hand was healed. But he had to take the initiative. If we will take the initiative to overcome, we will find that we have the inspiration of God, because He immediately gives us the power of life.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ is always unyielding to my claim to my right to myself. The one essential element in all our Lord’s teaching about discipleship is abandon, no calculation, no trace of self-interest.–Disciples Indeed