0515 随机应变的习惯
…使你们知道他的恩召有何等指望。《以弗所书1:18》
记住你已经得救，以便于耶稣的生命可以在你的身上显明出来（见哥林多后书 4:10）。把你全部的力量导向这个目标，以至于你能够获得你蒙拣选为作为神的孩子所提供的一切；无论可能出现的场合为何，每次你都要面对迎接。
你没有做任何事情来获得你的救赎，但你必须做一些事情来展示它。你必须「作成你得救的工夫」，那是神已经在你心里做成的（腓立比书 2:12）。你的言语、你的思想和你的情感是否证明你正在「做出」呢？如果你还是同样悲惨的、脾气暴躁的人，一意孤行，那么，说神拯救了你并使你成圣，那就是谎言。
神是最伟大的设计者，祂允许逆境进入你的生活，看你是否能正确地跨越它们——「我借着你冲入敌军，借着我的神跳过墙垣。」（诗篇18:29）。神永远不会保护你不受作为祂儿女的要求。彼得前书4:12说：「亲爱的弟兄啊，有火的试验临到你们，不要以为奇怪，似乎是遭遇非常的事…」起来面对情况——按照试炼的要求去做。只要能给神机会在你身上彰显耶稣的生命，无论有多痛苦都没关系。
愿神在我们身上不再找到怨言，而是属灵的活力——准备好面对祂带给我们的一切。生命唯一正确的目标就是彰显神的儿子；当这种情况发生时，我们对神的所有强求都消失了。我们的主从来没有向祂的父强制要求，我们也不能向神提出强制要求。我们在这里是要顺服祂的旨意，以便祂可以透过我们做祂想要的事。一旦我们认识到这一点，祂就会使我们成为擘开的饼和倾倒的酒去喂养和滋润别人。
来自章伯斯的智慧
敬畏是一个人的心灵认识到神是谁以及祂为他个人所做的事情的状态。我们的主强调孩子的态度；没有什么态度能像孩子那样表达如此庄严的敬畏和亲密。《不知往何处去》
0515 The Habit of Rising to the Occasion
…that you may know what is the hope of His calling… —Ephesians 1:18
Remember that you have been saved so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in your body (see 2 Corinthians 4:10). Direct the total energy of your powers so that you may achieve everything your election as a child of God provides; rise every time to whatever occasion may come your way.
You did not do anything to achieve your salvation, but you must do something to exhibit it. You must “work out your own salvation” which God has worked in you already (Philippians 2:12). Are your speech, your thinking, and your emotions evidence that you are working it “out”? If you are still the same miserable, grouchy person, set on having your own way, then it is a lie to say that God has saved and sanctified you.
God is the Master Designer, and He allows adversities into your life to see if you can jump over them properly— “By my God I can leap over a wall” (Psalm 18:29). God will never shield you from the requirements of being His son or daughter. First Peter 4:12 says, “Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you….” Rise to the occasion— do what the trial demands of you. It does not matter how much it hurts as long as it gives God the opportunity to manifest the life of Jesus in your body.
May God not find complaints in us anymore, but spiritual vitality— a readiness to face anything He brings our way. The only proper goal of life is that we manifest the Son of God; and when this occurs, all of our dictating of our demands to God disappears. Our Lord never dictated demands to His Father, and neither are we to make demands on God. We are here to submit to His will so that He may work through us what He wants. Once we realize this, He will make us broken bread and poured-out wine with which to feed and nourish others.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Awe is the condition of a man’s spirit realizing Who God is and what He has done for him personally. Our Lord emphasizes the attitude of a child; no attitude can express such solemn awe and familiarity as that of a child. Not Knowing Whither, 882 L