0613 到达那里（3）
来跟从我。《路加福音 18:22》
在那里，我们个人的欲望死去，而圣化的降服活着。来到耶稣面前最大的障碍之一，就是我们自己的个人性情的借口。我们让性情和天性欲望成为来到耶稣面前的障碍。然而，当我们真的来到耶稣面前时，我们首先意识到的是，祂根本不理会我们天然的欲望。我们有这样的想法，认为可以把我们的天赋才干奉献给神。然而，你不能奉献不属于你的东西。实际上只有一件事你可以奉献给神，那就是你对自己的权利你的主权（见罗马书12:1）。如果你将你的自我主权交给神，祂就会在你身上进行一个神圣的实验——而祂的实验总是成功的。神的圣徒的真正标志就是从完全降服于耶稣基督而产生的内在创造力。在圣徒的生命中，有一个奇异活泉，它是原始生命持续不断的泉源。神的灵是永远涌出新鲜之水的源泉。圣徒认识到是神策划了他的环境；因此，没有抱怨，只有对耶稣的无限制地降服。永远不要试图把你的经验作为别人的原则，而要允许神对待别人像祂对你一样具有创造性和独创性。
如果你把一切都舍弃交给耶稣，当祂说「来」时，你就来，那么祂会继续通过你说「来」。你将走向世界，复制基督「来」的回声。这就是每个放弃一切来到耶稣面前的灵魂的结果。
我到祂那里来了吗？我现在会来吗？
来自章伯斯的智慧
神设计环境要看我们如何行事。我们会成为天父的孩子？或会再次回到卑鄙、常识的态度？我们会冒一切风险并忠于祂吗？「你要至死忠心，我就赐给你生命的冠冕。」生命的冠冕意味着我将看到我的主最终获得了胜利，甚至在我身上也是。《至善—朝圣者的歌集》
0613 Getting There (3)
…come, follow Me. —Luke 18:22
Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we realize when we do come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatsoever to our natural desires. We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you— and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life. The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.
If you abandon everything to Jesus, and come when He says, “Come,” then He will continue to say, “Come,” through you. You will go out into the world reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.” That is the result in every soul who has abandoned all and come to Jesus.
Have I come to Him? Will I come now?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
God engineers circumstances to see what we will do. Will we be the children of our Father in heaven, or will we go back again to the meaner, common-sense attitude? Will we stake all and stand true to Him? “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” The crown of life means I shall see that my Lord has got the victory after all, even in me. The Highest Good—The Pilgrim’s Song Book, 530 L