0615 行动起来！（2）
有了信心，又要加上德行。《彼得后书 1:5》
关于苦差事的问题上。彼得在这段经文中说，我们已经「与神的性情有份」，现在就应该「分外的殷勤」，专心养成敬虔的习惯（彼得后书 1:4-5）。我们要把德行的含义「加添」到我们的生活中。没有人是自然地或超自然地生来就有德行，德行必须被培养起来。我们也不是余生具有习惯——我们必须在神已安置在我们里面新生命的基础上养成敬虔的习惯。我们不是要被视为神完美、光辉灿烂的榜样，而是要被视为日常生活的本质，展示着神恩典的奇迹。苦差事是对真正德行的考验。我们灵命最大的障碍，就是我们只会寻找大事去做。然而，「耶稣…拿了一条毛巾…开始洗门徒的脚…」（约翰福音13:3-5）。
我们都有那种生活无闪光灯也无明显兴奋的时候，没有什么经历，除了每天的惯例和普遍事务之外。日常生活的惯例实际上是神在我们从祂而来伟大灵感之时拯救我们的方式。不要总是期望神会给你惊心动魄的时刻，而是学会靠着神的大能，生活在那些平凡的苦差事中。
我们很难做到彼得这里所说的「加上」。我们说我们不期望神让我们躺卧在安逸的花床上直达天堂，然而我们表现得好像我们如此期望！我必须意识到即使在生活最小细节的顺服上，背后都有神恩典的全能力量。如果我会履行我的职责，不是为了职责之故，而是因为我相信神正在策划我的处境，那么在我顺服的那一刻，通过基督十字架的荣耀赎罪，神所有宏伟壮丽的恩典都是我的了。
来自章伯斯的智慧
信仰的捍卫者倾向于愤愤不平，直到他们学会在主的光中行走。当你学会在主的光中行走时，愤愤不平和纷争是不可能的。《圣经心理学》
0615 Get Moving! (2)
Also…add to your faith… —2 Peter 1:5
In the matter of drudgery. Peter said in this passage that we have become “partakers of the divine nature” and that we should now be “giving all diligence,” concentrating on forming godly habits (2 Peter 1:4-5). We are to “add” to our lives all that character means. No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed. Nor are we born with habits— we have to form godly habits on the basis of the new life God has placed within us. We are not meant to be seen as God’s perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. Drudgery is the test of genuine character. The greatest hindrance in our spiritual life is that we will only look for big things to do. Yet, “Jesus…took a towel and…began to wash the disciples’ feet…” (John 13:3-5).
We all have those times when there are no flashes of light and no apparent thrill to life, where we experience nothing but the daily routine with its common everyday tasks. The routine of life is actually God’s way of saving us between our times of great inspiration which come from Him. Don’t always expect God to give you His thrilling moments, but learn to live in those common times of the drudgery of life by the power of God.
It is difficult for us to do the “adding” that Peter mentioned here. We say we do not expect God to take us to heaven on flowery beds of ease, and yet we act as if we do! I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty’s sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Defenders of the faith are inclined to be bitter until they learn to walk in the light of the Lord. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. Biblical Psychology, 199 R