0418 准备就绪
神呼叫他……他说：「我在这里。」《出埃及记 3:4》
当神说话时，我们很多人就像在迷雾中的人一样，不予回答。摩西对神的回答表明他知道自己在哪里，并且已经准备好了。准备就绪，意味着与神有正确的关系并知道我们所处的位置。我们是如此忙着告诉神我们想去哪里；然而，那些准备好迎接神和祂的工作的男男女女，当召唤来临时，就是获得奖赏的人。我们等待着，想着会有某个伟大的机会或轰动令人振奋的事情来到我们前面；当它真的来临时，我们很快就会喊出：「我在这里。」每当我们感到耶稣基督正在兴起要接管某项伟大任务的权柄时，我们就在那里，但我们还没有准备好去负某些不起眼的责任。
为神做好准备意味着我们准备好做最小的事情或最大的事情——这没有区别；这意味着我们对自己想做的事别无选择，无论神的计划是什么，我们都在那里并准备好了。每当有任何责任出现时，我们都会听到神的声音，就像我们的主听到祂父亲的声音一样；我们因对祂的爱而完全预备好了。耶稣基督期望对待我们正如祂的父对待祂一样，祂可以把我们放在任何祂想要的地方，无论是愉快的的职责还是卑微的职责，因为我们与祂的联合就像祂与天父的联合一样。 「…使他们合而为一，像我们合而为一。」（约翰福音 17:22）。
要准备好迎接神突然意外的降临；一个准备好的人永远不需要准备——他已经准备好了。想想一旦神呼召，我们浪费了多少时间在试着准备上！燃烧的荆棘是象征准备好的人周围的一切，在神自己的同在中燃烧。
来自章伯斯的智慧
要谨防孤立；提防你必须独自发展圣洁生活的想法，独自发展圣洁生活是不可能的；你会变得古怪和奇特，与神要你所是的样子完全不同。灵性发展唯一之道就是进入神儿女的社会里，你很快就会发现神如何改变你的布景。神不会违背我们的社会本能；祂改变它们。《圣经心理学》
0418 Readiness
God called to him….And he said, “Here I am.” —Exodus 3:4
When God speaks, many of us are like people in a fog, and we give no answer. Moses’ reply to God revealed that he knew where he was and that he was ready. Readiness means having a right relationship to God and having the knowledge of where we are. We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. Yet the man or woman who is ready for God and His work is the one who receives the prize when the summons comes. We wait with the idea that some great opportunity or something sensational will be coming our way, and when it does come we are quick to cry out, “Here I am.” Whenever we sense that Jesus Christ is rising up to take authority over some great task, we are there, but we are not ready for some obscure duty.
Readiness for God means that we are prepared to do the smallest thing or the largest thing— it makes no difference. It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God’s plans may be, we are there and ready. Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God’s voice as our Lord heard His Father’s voice, and we are ready for it with the total readiness of our love for Him. Jesus Christ expects to do with us just as His Father did with Him. He can put us wherever He wants, in pleasant duties or in menial ones, because our union with Him is the same as His union with the Father. “…that they may be one just as We are one…” (John 17:22).
Be ready for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to get ready— he is ready. Think of the time we waste trying to get ready once God has called! The burning bush is a symbol of everything that surrounds the person who is ready, and it is on fire with the presence of God Himself.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Beware of isolation; beware of the idea that you have to develop a holy life alone. It is impossible to develop a holy life alone; you will develop into an oddity and a peculiarism, into something utterly unlike what God wants you to be. The only way to develop spiritually is to go into the society of God’s own children, and you will soon find how God alters your set. God does not contradict our social instincts; He alters them. –Biblical Psychology, 189 L