0630 現在就做！
你同告你的對頭還在路上，就趕緊與他和息… 《馬太福音 5:25》
在這節經文中，耶穌基督定了一個非常重要的原則，祂說：「立刻去做你知道你必須做的事——現在就去做；趕快去做。如果你不這樣做，一個不可避免的過程就會開始運作，直到你用痛苦、煩惱和苦難還清最後一分錢。」（見馬太福音 5:26）。神的律法是不可改變的，沒有人可以逃避它們。耶穌的教導總是直擊我們內心。
想要確保我的對手給予我所有權利是很自然的事情。但耶穌說，我要向我的對手償還我欠他的，是一件無法逃避且永恆重要的事情。從我們主的角度來看，我是否被騙並不重要，重要的是我不欺騙別人。我是堅持有自己的權利？還是從耶穌基督的觀點去償還我所欠的？
趕快去做——現在就審判你自己。在道德和屬靈的事上，你必須立即採取行動。如果你不這樣做，不可避免的、無情的過程就會開始運作。神決心要祂的孩子像雪一樣純潔、乾淨、潔白無瑕，只要在祂的教導上有任何的不順服，祂就會允許祂的靈使用任何可能的過程來使我們順服。我們堅持證明我們是對的，這一事實幾乎總是清楚地表明我們有某點不順服。難怪神的靈如此強烈地催促我們堅定地留在光明中！（見約翰福音 3:19-21）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
沒有人能比耶穌在人際關係中有更敏銳的愛。然而祂說，我們對父母的愛，有時候比較起對祂的愛，我們應該要更愛祂。《故我差遣你》
0630 Do It Now!
Agree with your adversary quickly… —Matthew 5:25
In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, “Do what you know you must do— now. Do it quickly. If you don’t, an inevitable process will begin to work ‘till you have paid the last penny’ (Matthew 5:26) in pain, agony, and distress.” God’s laws are unchangeable and there is no escape from them. The teachings of Jesus always penetrate right to the heart of our being.
Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord’s standpoint it doesn’t matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don’t cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ’s standpoint?
Do it quickly— bring yourself to judgment now. In moral and spiritual matters, you must act immediately. If you don’t, the inevitable, relentless process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure, clean, and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit of God so strongly urges us to stay steadfastly in the light! (see John 3:19-21).
“Agree with your adversary quickly….” Have you suddenly reached a certain place in your relationship with someone, only to find that you have anger in your heart? Confess it quickly— make it right before God. Be reconciled to that person— do it now!
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
No one could have had a more sensitive love in human relationship than Jesus; and yet He says there are times when love to father and mother must be hatred in comparison to our love for Him. — So Send I You, 1301 L