0613 到達那裡（3）
來跟從我。《路加福音 18:22》
在那裡，我們個人的慾望死去，而聖化的降服活着。來到耶穌面前最大的障礙之一，就是我們自己的個人性情的藉口。我們讓性情和天性慾望成為來到耶穌面前的障礙。然而，當我們真的來到耶穌面前時，我們首先意識到的是，祂根本不理會我們天然的慾望。我們有這樣的想法，認為可以把我們的天賦才幹奉獻給神。然而，你不能奉獻不屬於你的東西。實際上只有一件事你可以奉獻給神，那就是你對自己的權利你的主權（見羅馬書12:1）。如果你將你的自我主權交給神，祂就會在你身上進行一個神聖的實驗——而祂的實驗總是成功的。神的聖徒的真正標誌就是從完全降服於耶穌基督而產生的內在創造力。在聖徒的生命中，有一個奇異活泉，它是原始生命持續不斷的泉源。神的靈是永遠湧出新鮮之水的源泉。聖徒認識到是神策划了他的環境；因此，沒有抱怨，只有對耶穌的無限制地降服。永遠不要試圖把你的經驗作為別人的原則，而要允許神對待別人像祂對你一樣具有創造性和獨創性。
如果你把一切都捨棄交給耶穌，當祂說「來」時，你就來，那麼祂會繼續通過你說「來」。你將走向世界，複製基督「來」的回聲。這就是每個放棄一切來到耶穌面前的靈魂的結果。
我到祂那裡來了嗎？我現在會來嗎？
來自章伯斯的智慧
神設計環境要看我們如何行事。我們會成為天父的孩子？或會再次回到卑鄙、常識的態度？我們會冒一切風險並忠於祂嗎？「你要至死忠心，我就賜給你生命的冠冕。」生命的冠冕意味着我將看到我的主最終獲得了勝利，甚至在我身上也是。《至善—朝聖者的歌集》
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