0521 有神的「不合理」的信心
你們要先求他的國和他的義，這些東西都要加給你們了。 《馬太福音6:33》
當我們看到耶穌的這些話時，我們立即發現那是人類耳朵曾經聽過的最具革命性的話語。 「先求神的國」，即使是我們當中最有靈性的人也會提出完全相反的觀點，爭辯說：「但我必須生活、我必須掙到一定的錢、我必須穿衣服、我必須吃飯。」我們生活中最大關心的不是神的國，而是我們如何照顧自己的生活。藉着告訴我們首先要與神建立正確的關係，將其作為我們生活的首要關注點，而永遠不是把我們的關注放在照顧生活中其他的事，耶穌顛倒了這個順序。
「不要為生命憂慮…」（馬太福音 6:25）。我們的主指出，從祂的觀點來看，我們為生活憂慮，這樣焦慮是絕對不合理的。耶穌並沒有說生活中不考慮任何事的人是有福的——不，那個人是愚昧人。但耶穌確實教導說，祂的門徒必須把與神的關係作為他生活的主要焦點，且與此相比，要謹慎地不在意其他一切事情。本質上，耶穌是在說：「不要讓吃喝成為你生活的控制因素，而要絕對專註於神。」有的人不注意吃喝什麼，他們因此而受苦；他們對自己穿什麼並不在乎，不修邊幅；他們對地上的事情不在乎，而神卻要追究他們的責任。耶穌是在說，生命中最大的關切就是把我們與神的關係放在第一位，其他的事都放在第二位。
讓聖靈把我們帶入與耶穌在這些經文中的教導絕對和諧，，是基督徒生活中最困難但也最關鍵的操練之一。
來自章伯斯的智慧
新約根本不容許那些聲稱他是靠着恩典得救卻未生出恩典的好果子的人。耶穌基督以祂的救贖可以使我們的實際生活與我們的宗教信仰相符合。《登山寶訓研究》
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