0904 祂的！
他们本是你的，你将他们赐给我…《约翰福音 17:6》
传教士是圣灵在其心中带来这种认识的人：「你们不是自己的人」（哥林多前书 6:19）。说「我不属于我自己」，就是在我的灵性高度上达到了一个高峰。那种生命在日常生活混乱中的真实本质，是体现在通过一个主权的决定，有意放下自己，交给另一位，而那一位就是耶稣基督。圣灵向我解释和阐明耶稣的本质，使我与我的主合一，不是让我只成为祂展示的奖杯。我们的主从来没有基于祂为门徒所做的事而差遣他们出去。直到耶稣复活后，当门徒通过圣灵的力量认识到祂到底是谁时认识到耶稣的真正身份时，祂才说：「去」（马太福音 28:19；另见路加福音 24:49 和使徒行传 1:8）
「人到我这里来，若不爱我胜过爱自己的父母、妻子、儿女、弟兄、姐妹，和自己的性命，就不能作我的门徒。」（路加福音 14:26）。祂并不是说这个人不能是善良和正直的，而是他不能成为耶稣可以在他们身上写上「我的」这个词的人。在这节经文里，我们的主提到的任何一种关系都可以与我们和祂的关系竞争。我可能更愿意属于我母亲、我妻子或我自己，但如果是这样的话，那么，耶稣说，「[你]不能是我的门徒。」这并不意味着我不会得救，而是意味着我不能完全属于祂。
我们的主使祂的门徒成为祂自己私有财产，并对这个人负责。「你们…作我的见证。」（使徒行传 1:8）。门徒的愿望不是为耶稣做任何事，而是成为祂的完满喜悦。传教士的秘诀在于真的能够说：「我是祂的我属于他，祂正在通过我完成祂的工作和目的。」
要完全属于祂！
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们不是要宣扬行善。善行不是被宣讲的，而是要被实践的。《故我差遣你》
0904 His!
They were Yours, You gave them to Me… —John 17:6
A missionary is someone in whom the Holy Spirit has brought about this realization: “You are not your own” (1 Corinthians 6:19). To say, “I am not my own,” is to have reached a high point in my spiritual stature. The true nature of that life in actual everyday confusion is evidenced by the deliberate giving up of myself to another Person through a sovereign decision, and that Person is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit interprets and explains the nature of Jesus to me to make me one with my Lord, not that I might simply become a trophy for His showcase. Our Lord never sent any of His disciples out on the basis of what He had done for them. It was not until after the resurrection, when the disciples had perceived through the power of the Holy Spirit who Jesus really was, that He said, “Go” (Matthew 28:19; also see Luke 24:49 and Acts 1:8).
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). He was not saying that this person cannot be good and upright, but that he cannot be someone over whom Jesus can write the word Mine. Any one of the relationships our Lord mentions in this verse can compete with our relationship with Him. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself, but if that is the case, then, Jesus said, “[You] cannot be My disciple.” This does not mean that I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be entirely His.
Our Lord makes His disciple His very own possession, becoming responsible for him. “…you shall be witnesses to Me…” (Acts 1:8). The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The missionary’s secret is truly being able to say, “I am His, and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me.”
Be entirely His!
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.–So Send I You