0919 你繼續與耶穌同行嗎？
我在磨鍊之中，常和我同在的就是你們。《路加福音 22:28》
確實，我們在試探中，耶穌基督是與我們同在，但我們是否在祂面臨試探時繼續與祂同行呢？當我們體驗到耶穌能做什麼的那一刻起，許多人就不再繼續跟隨祂了。當神改變你的處境，要留意看你是否仍舊與耶穌同行，還是站在世界、肉體和魔鬼的那一邊。我們背負祂的名，但我們是否與祂同行？「從此，他門徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。」（約翰福音 6:66）。
耶穌面臨的試探持續在祂地上的生命中，那些試探也將在我們裡面神兒子的生命中持續着。我們現在所過的生活，是繼續與耶穌同行嗎？
我們認為我們應該保護自己，避免神帶到我們身邊的一些事物。千萬不可！是神設計了我們的處境，無論處境如何，我們都必須留意：面對試探時繼續在祂的試探中與祂同在。那些是祂的試探，不是對我們的試探，而是對我們裡面神兒子的生命的試探。耶穌基督的尊榮在我們肉身生命中處於成敗關頭；在攻擊我們裡面神兒子生命的一切事上，我們是否依然保持對祂忠誠？
你繼續與耶穌同行嗎？這條路經過客西馬尼園，經過城門，一直到「營外」（希伯來書 13:13）；這路是孤獨的，並一直走下去，直到連一絲足跡都無可見——只有那聲音說：「來跟從我。」（馬太福音4:19）。
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》
0919 Are You Going on With Jesus?
You are those who have continued with Me in My trials. —Luke 22:28
It is true that Jesus Christ is with us through our temptations, but are we going on with Him through His temptations? Many of us turn back from going on with Jesus from the very moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God changes your circumstances to see whether you are going on with Jesus, or siding with the world, the flesh, and the devil. We wear His name, but are we going on with Him? “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more” (John 6:66).
The temptations of Jesus continued throughout His earthly life, and they will continue throughout the life of the Son of God in us. Are we going on with Jesus in the life we are living right now?
We have the idea that we ought to shield ourselves from some of the things God brings around us. May it never be! It is God who engineers our circumstances, and whatever they may be we must see that we face them while continually abiding with Him in His temptations. They are His temptations, not temptations to us, but temptations to the life of the Son of God in us. Jesus Christ’s honor is at stake in our bodily lives. Are we remaining faithful to the Son of God in everything that attacks His life in us?
Are you going on with Jesus? The way goes through Gethsemane, through the city gate, and on “outside the camp” (Hebrews 13:13). The way is lonely and goes on until there is no longer even a trace of a footprint to follow— but only the voice saying, “Follow Me” (Matthew 4:19).
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