0423 你崇拜工作吗？
我们是与神同工的……《哥林多前书 3:9》
当心任何会导致或让你无法专注于神的事工，许多基督工人都崇拜他们的工作，基督工人唯一关心的应该是他们对神的专注，这意味着生命的其他界限，无论是心智上、道德上的、或灵性上的限制，随着神赋予祂孩子的自由，是完全自由的；那就是，一个敬拜的孩子，而非任性的孩子。一个工人缺乏这种对神专注认真控制的强调，就很容易被工作所压倒。他成了自己局限的奴隶，身心灵都没有自由。因此，他变得筋疲力尽并被击败；生活中没有任何自由和快乐，他的神经、思想和心灵都如此不堪重负，以致神的祝福无法临到他身上。
但反之亦然——一旦我们的注意力在神身上，我们生命的所有限制就都得自由了，并且只受神的控制和掌握。你身上不再有工作上的任何责任，你唯一的责任就是保持与神活泼持续的接触，并确保不让任何事情阻碍你与祂的同工。成圣后带来的自由是赤子般的自由，那些曾经控制你生活的东西都消失了。但要小心记住，你被释放只是为了一件事——绝对忠于你的那位同工。
我们没有权利决定我们应该被安置在何处，也不能有关于神正在准备我们做什么的预设观念。神设计了一切；无论祂把我们安置在哪里，我们唯一至高的目标应该是在这项特定的工作中，倾注我们的生命，全心委身于神。 「凡你手所当做的事，要尽力去做。」（传道书 9:10）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们的危险在于淡化神的话来迎合自己。神从不调整祂的话来迎合我；祂调整我来符合祂的话。 《不知往何处去》
0423 Do You Worship The Work?
We are God’s fellow workers… —1 Corinthians 3:9
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God. This will mean that all the other boundaries of life, whether they are mental, moral, or spiritual limits, are completely free with the freedom God gives His child; that is, a worshiping child, not a wayward one. A worker who lacks this serious controlling emphasis of concentration on God is apt to become overly burdened by his work. He is a slave to his own limits, having no freedom of his body, mind, or spirit. Consequently, he becomes burned out and defeated. There is no freedom and no delight in life at all. His nerves, mind, and heart are so overwhelmed that God’s blessing cannot rest on him.
But the opposite case is equally true– once our concentration is on God, all the limits of our life are free and under the control and mastery of God alone. There is no longer any responsibility on you for the work. The only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone. But be careful to remember that you have been freed for only one thing– to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.
We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Our danger is to water down God’s word to suit ourselves. God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word. —Not Knowing Whither, 901 R