0626 汲取神的恩典——現在
我們與神同工的也勸你們，不可徒受他的恩典。《哥林多後書 6:1》
你昨天所擁有的恩典對今天來說是不夠的。恩典是神滿溢的恩惠，在需要時隨時可取用。 「…在許多的忍耐、患難、窮乏、困苦」——這就是我們忍耐被考驗的所在（哥林多後書 6:4）。在其中，你是否未能依靠神的恩典？你是否對自己說：「哦，好吧，這次我不就不算在內吧？」這不是一個禱告並求神幫助你的問題——而是現在就接受神的恩典。我們傾向於把禱告當作我們事奉的準備，但在聖經里缺從來不是這樣的。禱告是操練汲取神的恩典。不要說：「我會忍受這一切，直到我能逃離並禱告。」現在就禱告——在你需要的時候汲取神的恩典。禱告是最正常和最有用的事，這不僅僅是你委身於神的反射動作而已。我們很慢才學會通過禱告來汲取神的恩典。
「…在鞭打、監禁、擾亂、勤勞」（哥林多後書 6:5）—在所有這些事上，在你的生活中展現出汲取神的恩典，這將向你自己和他人證明你是神的一個奇蹟。現在就汲取祂的恩典，而不是以後。屬靈詞彙中首要詞彙是現在。讓環境帶你去任何它們想去的地方，但無論你發現自己處於何種境況，都要繼續汲取神的恩典。你正在汲取神恩典的最大證據之一是：你可以在別人面前全然被羞辱，但除了彰顯祂的恩典之外，你甚至沒有表現出任何別的痕迹。
「…似乎一無所有…」切勿保留任何東西。要傾盡你自己，奉獻你所擁有最好的東西，並且始終保持貧窮。對所神賜予你的寶藏，永遠不要精打細算或謹慎。「…卻是樣樣都有的。」——這就是貧窮的勝利（哥林多書 6:10）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
亞伯拉罕的一生是兩件事的例證：毫無保留地降服於神，以及神為了祂自己至高目的而完全擁有祂的孩子。《不知往何處去》
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