0930 呼召的分配
现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐，并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。《歌罗西书 1:24》
我们把自己的属灵奉献并试图变成神的呼召，但当我们与神和好时，神把这一切都抛在一边。然后祂给我一个巨大的痛苦，将我们注意力系于某事，我们甚至从未梦想过那可能是祂对我们的呼召。在光芒闪现时刻，我们看到了祂的目的，我们说：「我在这里！请差遣我。」（以赛亚书 6:8）
这个呼召与个人成圣无关，而是与擘开的饼和浇奠的酒有关。然而，如果我们反对神选择用来压碎我们的指头，神就永远无法将我们变成酒。我们说：「如果神只用祂自己的手指，以特殊的方式使我成为擘开的饼，浇奠的酒，我就不会反对！」但当祂使用我们不喜欢的人，或我们曾说绝不会屈服的某些环境来压垮我们时，那时我们就会反对。然而，我们绝不可试图选择自己的殉难地点。如果我们要被酿成酒，我们就必须被压碎——你不能喝葡萄，葡萄只有在被压榨后才会变成酒。
我想知道神用什么手指头来挤压你？你是否像大理石那样坚硬并逃离？如果你还没有成熟，如果神还是挤压你，所出产的酒会非常的苦。成为一个圣洁的人，意味着我们天然生命的元素在服事神的过程中，被神护佑地破碎时，经历到神的临在。我们必须被放在神里面，与神一致，然后我们才能在神手里成为擘开的饼。要与神保持正确的关系，让祂做祂想做的事，你会发现祂正在生产让祂其他儿女得益处的饼和酒。
来自章伯斯的智慧
神设计环境要看我们如何行事。我们会成为天父的孩子？或会再次回到卑鄙、常识的态度？我们会冒一切风险并忠于祂吗？「你要至死忠心，我就赐给你生命的冠冕。」生命的冠冕意味着我将看到我的主最终获得了胜利，甚至在我身上也是。《至善—朝圣者歌集》
0930 The Assigning of the Call
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church… —Colossians 1:24
We take our own spiritual consecration and try to make it into a call of God, but when we get right with Him He brushes all this aside. Then He gives us a tremendous, riveting pain to fasten our attention on something that we never even dreamed could be His call for us. And for one radiant, flashing moment we see His purpose, and we say, “Here am I! Send me” (Isaiah 6:8).
This call has nothing to do with personal sanctification, but with being made broken bread and poured-out wine. Yet God can never make us into wine if we object to the fingers He chooses to use to crush us. We say, “If God would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way, then I wouldn’t object!” But when He uses someone we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, to crush us, then we object. Yet we must never try to choose the place of our own martyrdom. If we are ever going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed—you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.
I wonder what finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you? Have you been as hard as a marble and escaped? If you are not ripe yet, and if God had squeezed you anyway, the wine produced would have been remarkably bitter. To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
God engineers circumstances to see what we will do. Will we be the children of our Father in heaven, or will we go back again to the meaner, common-sense attitude? Will we stake all and stand true to Him? “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” The crown of life means I shall see that my Lord has got the victory after all, even in me. The Highest Good—The Pilgrim’s Song Book, 530 L