0313 神对我们的完全交出
因为神爱世人，甚至赐下……《约翰福音 3:16》
救恩并不仅仅意味着从罪中得拯救或经历个人的圣洁；从神而来的救恩意味着完全从自我解脱，并被放进与神完全的联合中。当我想到我的救恩经历时，我想到的是脱离罪并获得个人的圣洁；但救恩远不止于此！它意味着神的灵把我带入与神自己真实位格的亲密接触。当我被带入对神的完全降服时，我被远超过我自己的无比伟大之事物所震撼。
说我们被呼召宣讲圣洁或成圣，那就错失要点。我们被呼召去宣扬耶稣基督（见哥林多前书 2:2）。祂救我们脱离罪并使我们圣洁的这个事实，实际上是祂对我们奇妙而完全交出的效力之一。
如果我们真正降服，我们将永远不会意识到我们自己努力维持降服。我们整个生命将全神贯注在我们所降服的那一位。如果你对降服一无所知，要小心谈论之。事实上，你永远不会了解降服，直到你明白约翰福音 3:16 的意思，即神完全并绝对地将自己给了我们。在我们的降服中，我们必须将自己以同样方式给神，就像祂把祂自己给我们一样：完全、无条件、毫无保留。我们降服的后果和环境永远不会进入我们的头脑里，因为我们的生命将完全专注于祂。
来自章伯斯的智慧
当我们不再为神的祝福而寻求神时，我们就有时间为祂而寻求祂自己。《生命的道德基础》
0313 God’s Total Surrender to Us
For God so loved the world that He gave… —John 3:16
Salvation does not mean merely deliverance from sin or the experience of personal holiness. The salvation which comes from God means being completely delivered from myself, and being placed into perfect union with Him. When I think of my salvation experience, I think of being delivered from sin and gaining personal holiness. But salvation is so much more! It means that the Spirit of God has brought me into intimate contact with the true Person of God Himself. And as I am caught up into total surrender to God, I become thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself.
To say that we are called to preach holiness or sanctification is to miss the main point. We are called to proclaim Jesus Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:2). The fact that He saves from sin and makes us holy is actually part of the effect of His wonderful and total surrender to us.
If we are truly surrendered, we will never be aware of our own efforts to remain surrendered. Our entire life will be consumed with the One to whom we surrender. Beware of talking about surrender if you know nothing about it. In fact, you will never know anything about it until you understand that John 3:16 means that God completely and absolutely gave Himself to us. In our surrender, we must give ourselves to God in the same way He gave Himself for us— totally, unconditionally, and without reservation. The consequences and circumstances resulting from our surrender will never even enter our mind, because our life will be totally consumed with Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself. — The Moral Foundations of Life, 728L