0927 弃绝的「去」
…有一人对耶稣说：「你无论往哪里去，我要跟从你。」 《路加福音 9:57》
我们的主对这个人的态度是极其令人沮丧，「因他知道人心里所存的。」（约翰福音 2:25）。我们可能会说：「我无法想象祂为什么失去赢得那人的机会！想象一下对他如此冷淡，并拒绝他，令他如此沮丧！」永远不要为你的主辩解。主的话会伤害和冒犯人，直到没有什么可被伤害或冒犯的了；耶稣基督对任何最终会毁掉一个人服事神的事物毫不温柔。我们的主的回答不是基于一时的心血来潮或冲动的想法，而是基于对「人心里所存」的认识。如果神的灵让你心里想起主刺伤你的话，你可以肯定在你里面有一些东西，是祂想要戳伤，直到它死亡的地步。
路加福音 9:58。这句话摧毁了服事耶稣基督而感到愉快的论点。祂对我的拒绝要求之严格，不允许我的生命还有什么，除了我的主、我自己，和一种绝望的盼望感。祂说我必须让其他人来来去去，而我必须完全被我与祂的关系所引导，而祂说「…人子没有枕头的地方。」
路加福音 9:59。这个人不想让耶稣失望，也不想对他父亲表现出不尊重。我们把对亲友的忠诚放在对耶稣基督的忠诚之前，迫使祂处于末位。当你的忠诚发生冲突时，无论代价是什么，总要顺服耶稣基督。
路加福音 9:61 ，说「主啊，我要跟从你，但…」的人，是一个强烈准备好要去，但却从不会去的人。这个人对去有所保留。耶稣严格的呼召是没有告别的余地；我们经常使用的「再见/告别」是外邦人的说法，而不是基督徒的，因为它们会使我们的呼召分心。一旦神的呼召临到你，就开始去，永不停止。
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》
0927 The “Go” of Renunciation
…someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” —Luke 9:57
Our Lord’s attitude toward this man was one of severe discouragement, “for He knew what was in man” (John 2:25). We would have said, “I can’t imagine why He lost the opportunity of winning that man! Imagine being so cold to him and turning him away so discouraged!” Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to be hurt or offended. Jesus Christ had no tenderness whatsoever toward anything that was ultimately going to ruin a person in his service to God. Our Lord’s answers were not based on some whim or impulsive thought, but on the knowledge of “what was in man.” If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you can be sure that there is something in you that He wants to hurt to the point of its death.
Luke 9:58. These words destroy the argument of serving Jesus Christ because it is a pleasant thing to do. And the strictness of the rejection that He demands of me allows for nothing to remain in my life but my Lord, myself, and a sense of desperate hope. He says that I must let everyone else come or go, and that I must be guided solely by my relationship to Him. And He says, “…the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Luke 9:59. This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor did he want to show a lack of respect for his father. We put our sense of loyalty to our relatives ahead of our loyalty to Jesus Christ, forcing Him to take last place. When your loyalties conflict, always obey Jesus Christ whatever the cost.
Luke 9:61. The person who says, “Lord, I will follow You, but…,” is the person who is intensely ready to go, but never goes. This man had reservations about going. The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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, 1330 L