0910 服事者的武器（1）
…你在无花果树底下，我就看见你了。《约翰福音 1:48》
在日常场合的敬拜。我们假设如果面临重大危机，我们会做好争战的准备，但并不是危机在我们内心构建了什么——它只是揭示了我们已经构建了什么。你是否发现自己在说：「如果神呼召我去争战，我必然会迎刃而上」？然而，你不会迎刃而上，除非你在神的训练场上做到了。如果你现在不做神在你生命中所安排最近的任务，那么当危机来临时，你将被显明是不适合争战的。危机总是能揭示一个人真实的品格。
私人敬拜神的关系是灵性健康最重要的要素。正如拿但业在这段经文中所经历的那样，时候到了，私下的「无花果树」生活将不再可能。一切都会暴露在光天化日之下，如果你在自己家里日常场合中一向没有敬拜神，你会发现自己是毫无价值。如果与神的个人关系中你的敬拜是正确的，那么当祂使你得自由时，你才准备好了。在只有神看见的未受注意的生命中，你是变得完全适合。当危机的压力来临时，你是可以被神信赖的。
你是否在说：「但在我目前处境中，不能期待我过成圣的生活；我现在没有时间祷告或读经；此外，我的争战机会还没有到来，但当它来临时，我当然会做好准备」？不，你不会的。如果你没有在日常场合中敬拜神，当你参与神的工作时，你自己不仅是毫无用处，同时还会成为你周围人的障碍。
神的训练场，找到服事者的武器所在，就是圣徒隐私、个人的敬拜生活。
来自章伯斯的智慧
随着年龄的增长，我是否变得更高尚、更好、更有帮助、更谦卑呢？我是否展现出让人认识到与耶稣同在的生命？或者我是否变得更加自我主张，更加有意地坚持自己的方式？对自己说真话是一件很伟大的事情。《帮助之地》
0910 Missionary Weapons (1)
When you were under the fig tree, I saw you. —John 1:48
Worshiping in Everyday Occasions. We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us— it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, “If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion”? Yet you won’t rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s training ground. If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crises always reveal a person’s true character.
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. The time will come, as Nathanael experienced in this passage, that a private “fig-tree” life will no longer be possible. Everything will be out in the open, and you will find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be ready. It is in the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have become perfectly fit. And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can be relied upon by God.
Are you saying, “But I can’t be expected to live a sanctified life in my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study right now; besides, my opportunity for battle hasn’t come yet, but when it does, of course I will be ready”? No, you will not. If you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God’s work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to those around you.
God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.– The Place of Help