0518 生活简单，然而专注
你们看天上的飞鸟…你想野地的百合花怎么长起来…《马太福音6:26, 28》
「你想野地里的百合花，怎么长起来：它也不劳苦，也不纺线。」它们就是存在！想想海洋、空气、太阳、星星和月亮，所有这些也只是存在着，但它们代表我们提供了多么伟大的事工和服务啊！我们常常因为自己有意识地努力保持一致和有用，因而损害了神设计的影响力，祂希望通过我们展示这种影响力。耶稣说，灵性上的发展和成长只有一种方法，那就是聚焦和专注于神。本质上，耶稣是在说：「不要担心对别人有用；只要相信我。」换句话说，要留意源头，从你里面「要流出活水的江河来」（约翰福音7:38）。我们无法通过常识和推理来发现我们天然生命的源头，而耶稣在这里教导我们，我们属灵生命的成长不是来自于直接关注于它，而是来自专注于我们在天上的父。我们的天父知道我们的处境，如果我们继续专注于祂，而非我们的处境，我们就会在灵性上成长——就像「野地的百合花」一样生长。
对我们影响最大的人，不是那些以他们不停谈话耽搁我们的人，而是那些像天上的星星和「野地的百合花」一样，简单而不受影响的人，是那些生命影响和塑造我们。
如果你想为神所用，你要透过专注于耶稣基督来与祂保持合宜正确的关系，祂就会在你生活的每一分钟都使用你——然而，在你生命的意识层面上，你不会意识到，你正在被祂使用。
来自章伯斯的智慧
耶稣基督可以承受被误解；我们不能。我们的弱点在于总是想要为自己辩护。《帮助之地》
0518 Living Simply— Yet Focused
Look at the birds of the air….Consider the lilies of the field… —Matthew 6:26, 28
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin”— they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon— all of these simply are as well— yet what a ministry and service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God’s designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Do not worry about being of use to others; simply believe on Me.” In other words, pay attention to the Source, and out of you “will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). We cannot discover the source of our natural life through common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, but from concentrating on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if we will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we will grow spiritually— just as “the lilies of the field.”
The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and “the lilies of the field”— simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.
If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every minute you live— yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves. The Place of Help, 1051 L