0731 变成完全属祂
但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全完备，毫无缺欠。《雅各书1:4》
我们中的许多人看起来总体上还不错，但在某些方面我们仍然是粗心和懒惰；这不是罪的问题，而是我们肉体生命的残余使我们变得粗心，而粗心是对圣灵的侮辱。我们无论是在敬拜神的方式上，或甚至是在饮食吃喝方面，都不应该掉以轻心。
不仅我们与神的关系必须是正确的，而且这种关系的外在表现也必须是正确的。至终，神不会允许任何事情逃脱；我们生活中每一个细节都在祂的审视之下。神会以无数的方式再三地把我们带回到同一个点；祂总是不厌其烦地把我们带回到这一点，直到我们学会教训，因为祂的目的是要生产出最后成品。这可能是一个源自我们冲动本性而生的问题，但再三地，神以最持久的耐心把我们带回到这特定的点上；或问题可能出自我们的懒散和飘荡的思维，或我们的独立本性和自我专注。通过这个过程，神试图让我们对我们生活中那个不完全正确之处感到印象深刻。
我们在学习神所启示的救赎真理上有一段美好的时光，我们的心是完全向着神。祂在我们身上的奇妙工作让我们知道，我们总体上与祂的关系是正确的。 「忍耐也当成功…」灵通过雅各说：「现在让你的忍耐成为成品。」小心不要对生活的小细节变得漫不经心，并说：「嗯，现在这样就可以了。」无论是什么，神都会坚持不懈地指出，直到我们完全成为祂的人。
来自章伯斯的智慧
对那些没有经历过痛苦的人，耶稣说：「我没有什么可以给你的；站稳自己的脚，挺起自己的肩膀（挺身而立）。我是为这样的人而来：知道自己所面对的远超出他能应付的，知道有他无法触碰的势力；若他放手让我来，我必为他做一切的事。只要让一个人承认他有需要，我必出手帮助他。」《痛苦的阴影》
0731 Becoming Entirely His
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. —James 1:4
Many of us appear to be all right in general, but there are still some areas in which we are careless and lazy; it is not a matter of sin, but the remnants of our carnal life that tend to make us careless. Carelessness is an insult to the Holy Spirit. We should have no carelessness about us either in the way we worship God, or even in the way we eat and drink.
Not only must our relationship to God be right, but the outward expression of that relationship must also be right. Ultimately, God will allow nothing to escape; every detail of our lives is under His scrutiny. God will bring us back in countless ways to the same point over and over again. And He never tires of bringing us back to that one point until we learn the lesson, because His purpose is to produce the finished product. It may be a problem arising from our impulsive nature, but again and again, with the most persistent patience, God has brought us back to that one particular point. Or the problem may be our idle and wandering thinking, or our independent nature and self-interest. Through this process, God is trying to impress upon us the one thing that is not entirely right in our lives.
We have been having a wonderful time in our studies over the revealed truth of God’s redemption, and our hearts are perfect toward Him. And His wonderful work in us makes us know that overall we are right with Him. “Let patience have its perfect work….” The Holy Spirit speaking through James said, “Now let your patience become a finished product.” Beware of becoming careless over the small details of life and saying, “Oh, that will have to do for now.” Whatever it may be, God will point it out with persistence until we become entirely His.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
To those who have had no agony Jesus says, “I have nothing for you; stand on your own feet, square your own shoulders. I have come for the man who knows he has a bigger handful than he can cope with, who knows there are forces he cannot touch; I will do everything for him if he will let Me. Only let a man grant he needs it, and I will do it for him.” The Shadow of an Agony, 1166 R