0626 汲取神的恩典——现在
我们与神同工的也劝你们，不可徒受他的恩典。《哥林多后书 6:1》
你昨天所拥有的恩典对今天来说是不够的。恩典是神满溢的恩惠，在需要时随时可取用。 「…在许多的忍耐、患难、穷乏、困苦」——这就是我们忍耐被考验的所在（哥林多后书 6:4）。在其中，你是否未能依靠神的恩典？你是否对自己说：「哦，好吧，这次我不就不算在内吧？」这不是一个祷告并求神帮助你的问题——而是现在就接受神的恩典。我们倾向于把祷告当作我们事奉的准备，但在圣经里缺从来不是这样的。祷告是操练汲取神的恩典。不要说：「我会忍受这一切，直到我能逃离并祷告。」现在就祷告——在你需要的时候汲取神的恩典。祷告是最正常和最有用的事，这不仅仅是你委身于神的反射动作而已。我们很慢才学会通过祷告来汲取神的恩典。
「…在鞭打、监禁、扰乱、勤劳」（哥林多后书 6:5）—在所有这些事上，在你的生活中展现出汲取神的恩典，这将向你自己和他人证明你是神的一个奇迹。现在就汲取祂的恩典，而不是以后。属灵词汇中首要词汇是现在。让环境带你去任何它们想去的地方，但无论你发现自己处于何种境况，都要继续汲取神的恩典。你正在汲取神恩典的最大证据之一是：你可以在别人面前全然被羞辱，但除了彰显祂的恩典之外，你甚至没有表现出任何别的痕迹。
「…似乎一无所有…」切勿保留任何东西。要倾尽你自己，奉献你所拥有最好的东西，并且始终保持贫穷。对所神赐予你的宝藏，永远不要精打细算或谨慎。「…却是样样都有的。」——这就是贫穷的胜利（哥林多书 6:10）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
亚伯拉罕的一生是两件事的例证：毫无保留地降服于神，以及神为了祂自己至高目的而完全拥有祂的孩子。《不知往何处去》
0626 Drawing on the Grace of God— Now
We…plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. —2 Corinthians 6:1
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed. “…in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses”— that is where our patience is tested (2 Corinthians 6:4). Are you failing to rely on the grace of God there? Are you saying to yourself, “Oh well, I won’t count this time”? It is not a question of praying and asking God to help you— it is taking the grace of God now. We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that in the Bible. Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don’t say, “I will endure this until I can get away and pray.” Pray now — draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God’s grace through prayer.
“…in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors…” (2 Corinthians 6:5)— in all these things, display in your life a drawing on the grace of God, which will show evidence to yourself and to others that you are a miracle of His. Draw on His grace now, not later. The primary word in the spiritual vocabulary is now. Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself. One of the greatest proofs that you are drawing on the grace of God is that you can be totally humiliated before others without displaying even the slightest trace of anything but His grace.
“…having nothing….” Never hold anything in reserve. Pour yourself out, giving the best that you have, and always be poor. Never be diplomatic and careful with the treasure God gives you. “…and yet possessing all things”— this is poverty triumphant (2 Corinthians 6:10).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The life of Abraham is an illustration of two things: of unreserved surrender to God, and of God’s complete possession of a child of His for His own highest end. –Not Knowing Whither, 901 R