0506 自由与耶稣的标准
基督释放我们，叫我们得自由，所以要站立得稳…..《加拉太书5:1》
一个富有灵性之心的人永远不会到你那里提出这样的要求：「信这个或那个」；一个有属灵心思的人会要求你把你的生活与耶稣的标准对齐。我们没有被要求相信圣经，而是相信圣经所启示的那一位（见约翰福音5:39-40）。我们被呼召为他人的良心提供自由，而不是为他们的思想和观点带来自由。如果我们自己在基督的自由里获得了的自由，其他人也会被带入同样的自由——这种自由来自于意识到耶稣基督的绝对控制和权威。
永远只用耶稣的标准来衡量你的生活。将自己降服在祂的轭下，单单在祂的轭下；始终要小心，永远不要把不属于耶稣基督的轭加在别人身上。神花了很长时间才让我们停止这种认为：除非每个人都像我们一样看待事物，否则他们一定是错的。那从来不是神的观点。只有一种真正的自由，耶稣的自由在我们的良心中发挥作用，使我们能够做正确的事。
不要对别人失去耐心，记住神是如何对待你的——以耐心和温柔；但绝不能淡化神的真理，让它自然而行，永远不要为此道歉。耶稣说：「所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒…」（马太福音 28:19），而不是「使人皈依你们自己的想法和观点。」
来自章伯斯的智慧
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。」《竭诚为主》， 4 月 23 日
0506 Liberty and the Standards of Jesus
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free… —Galatians 5:1
A spiritually-minded person will never come to you with the demand— “Believe this and that”; a spiritually-minded person will demand that you align your life with the standards of Jesus. We are not asked to believe the Bible, but to believe the One whom the Bible reveals (see John 5:39-40). We are called to present liberty for the conscience of others, not to bring them liberty for their thoughts and opinions. And if we ourselves are free with the liberty of Christ, others will be brought into that same liberty— the liberty that comes from realizing the absolute control and authority of Jesus Christ.
Always measure your life solely by the standards of Jesus. Submit yourself to His yoke, and His alone; and always be careful never to place a yoke on others that is not of Jesus Christ. It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God’s view. There is only one true liberty— the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right.
Don’t get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you— with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, “Go…and make disciples…” (Matthew 28:19), not, “Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” –My Utmost for His Highest, April 23, 773 L