0317 仆人的首要目标
我们立了志向，要得主的喜悦。 《哥林多后书 5:9》
「我们立定目标……」它需要有意识的决定和努力来将我们的主要目标始终保持在我们面前；这意味着我们年复一年地把自己放在最高优先的目标；不是以赢得灵魂、或建立教会或有奋兴为优先目标，而是只追求「讨神喜悦」。导致失败的并不是缺乏属灵经验，而是缺乏努力保持我们的目光集中在正确的目标上。每周要至少一次在神面前省察自己，看看你的生活是否达到祂对你的标准。保罗就像一个音乐家，根本不考虑观众的赞许，只要他能从指挥家那里看到赞许的眼神。
我们任何一个目标如果使我们偏离「蒙神喜悦」（提摩太后书 2:15）的中心目标，即使最轻微程度的偏离，都可能导致我们被拒绝进一步服事神。当你辨别目标通向何方时，你就会明白为什么保持「仰望耶稣」（希伯来书12:2）是如此必要。保罗谈到管制自己身体的重要性，以至于身体不会把他带向错误的方向。他说：「我攻克己身，叫身服我，恐怕我传福音给别人，自己反被弃绝了。」（哥林多前书 9:27）。
我必须学会将一切与主要目标联系起来，没有间断地维持主要目标。我对神在公开场合的价值是被我在私生活中的真实所是来衡量的。我人生的首要目标是讨神喜悦并被祂接纳？还是其它的目标，无论听起来是多么崇高？
来自章伯斯的智慧
圣经并不激动人心；圣经滋养人心。花时间阅读圣经，其休养效果就像呼吸新鲜空气一样真实。《真的门徒》
0317 The Servant’s Primary Goal
We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2 Corinthians 5:9
“We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first priority to win souls, or to establish churches, or to have revivals, but seeking only “to be well pleasing to Him.” It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.
Any goal we have that diverts us even to the slightest degree from the central goal of being “approved to God” (2 Timothy 2:15) may result in our rejection from further service for Him. When you discern where the goal leads, you will understand why it is so necessary to keep “looking unto Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2). Paul spoke of the importance of controlling his own body so that it would not take him in the wrong direction. He said, “I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest…I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27).
I must learn to relate everything to the primary goal, maintaining it without interruption. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how lofty it may sound?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically. — Disciples Indeed, 387 R