1008 到我这里来
…到我这里来。《马太福音11:28》
被告知必须到耶稣那里，岂不是很难堪吗？想想那些我们不愿意来到耶稣基督面前的事情。如果你想知道自己有多真实，就用这句话来测试你自己——「到我这里来」。在你不真实的每一个层面，你会争论或全然回避这个议题，而不是来；你会经历悲伤而不是来；你会做任何事情，而非在看似无法言喻的愚蠢比赛最后一圈说「照我本相，我来」那样来。只要你有一点点灵里的轻蔑，它总是会显露自己在这个事实上：你期待神告诉你去做某件非常大的事，然而祂告诉你去做的，却只是「来…」
「到我这里来」当你听到那些话时，你会知道在你能来之前，你里面必须发生一些事情。圣灵会指示你所当做的，那会涉及连根拔除任何阻碍你到达耶稣那里的事物；除非你愿意连根拔除，否则你永远无法有任何进展。圣灵会搜寻到你里面那个不可动摇的营垒，但除非你愿意让祂那么做，否则祂无法改变它。
有多少次你带着祈求来到神面前，离开时心里想：「这次我真的得到了我想要的！」然而，你空手而回，而神一直在那里张开双手，不仅要得到你，也要你得到祂。只要想想耶稣无敌、不可征服和坚持不懈的耐心，慈爱地说：「到我这里来」
来自章伯斯的智慧
根据神在你环境中的护理次序来读圣经，此乃读经唯一之道，即，在个人生活的热血与情感中读经。
1008 Come to Me
Come to Me… —Matthew 11:28
Isn’t it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things about which we will not come to Jesus Christ. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words— “Come to Me….” In every dimension in which you are not real, you will argue or evade the issue altogether rather than come; you will go through sorrow rather than come; and you will do anything rather than come the last lap of the race of seemingly unspeakable foolishness and say, “Just as I am, I come.” As long as you have even the least bit of spiritual disrespect, it will always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you to do something very big, and yet all He is telling you to do is to “Come….”
“Come to Me….” When you hear those words, you will know that something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do, and it will involve anything that will uproot whatever is preventing you from getting through to Jesus. And you will never get any further until you are willing to do that very thing. The Holy Spirit will search out that one immovable stronghold within you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let Him do so.
How often have you come to God with your requests and gone away thinking, “I’ve really received what I wanted this time!” And yet you go away with nothing, while all the time God has stood with His hands outstretched not only to take you but also for you to take Him. Just think of the invincible, unconquerable, and untiring patience of Jesus, who lovingly says, “Come to Me….”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
To read the Bible according to God’s providential order in your circumstances is the only way to read it, viz., in the blood and passion of personal life. Disciples Indeed, 387 R