0521 有神的「不合理」的信心
你们要先求他的国和他的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。 《马太福音6:33》
当我们看到耶稣的这些话时，我们立即发现那是人类耳朵曾经听过的最具革命性的话语。 「先求神的国」，即使是我们当中最有灵性的人也会提出完全相反的观点，争辩说：「但我必须生活、我必须挣到一定的钱、我必须穿衣服、我必须吃饭。」我们生活中最大关心的不是神的国，而是我们如何照顾自己的生活。藉着告诉我们首先要与神建立正确的关系，将其作为我们生活的首要关注点，而永远不是把我们的关注放在照顾生活中其他的事，耶稣颠倒了这个顺序。
「不要为生命忧虑…」（马太福音 6:25）。我们的主指出，从祂的观点来看，我们为生活忧虑，这样焦虑是绝对不合理的。耶稣并没有说生活中不考虑任何事的人是有福的——不，那个人是愚昧人。但耶稣确实教导说，祂的门徒必须把与神的关系作为他生活的主要焦点，且与此相比，要谨慎地不在意其他一切事情。本质上，耶稣是在说：「不要让吃喝成为你生活的控制因素，而要绝对专注于神。」有的人不注意吃喝什么，他们因此而受苦；他们对自己穿什么并不在乎，不修边幅；他们对地上的事情不在乎，而神却要追究他们的责任。耶稣是在说，生命中最大的关切就是把我们与神的关系放在第一位，其他的事都放在第二位。
让圣灵把我们带入与耶稣在这些经文中的教导绝对和谐，，是基督徒生活中最困难但也最关键的操练之一。
来自章伯斯的智慧
新约根本不容许那些声称他是靠着恩典得救却未生出恩典的好果子的人。耶稣基督以祂的救赎可以使我们的实际生活与我们的宗教信仰相符合。《登山宝训研究》
0521 Having God’s “Unreasonable” Faith
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. —Matthew 6:33
When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. “…seek first the kingdom of God….” Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; I must make a certain amount of money; I must be clothed; I must be fed.” The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God but how we are going to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.
“…do not worry about your life…” (Matthew 6:25). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed— no, that person is a fool. But Jesus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Don’t make food and drink the controlling factor of your life, but be focused absolutely on God.” Some people are careless about what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what they wear, having no business looking the way they do; they are careless with their earthly matters, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the greatest concern of life is to place our relationship with God first, and everything else second.
It is one of the most difficult, yet critical, disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into absolute harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is no allowance whatever in the New Testament for the man who says he is saved by grace but who does not produce the graceful goods. Jesus Christ by His Redemption can make our actual life in keeping with our religious profession. —Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, 1465 R