每日讀經靈修: 热诚的事奉 (2013年 6月19日) Daily Devotional: The Service of Passionate Devotion (Wednesday, June 19, 2013) 你爱我么？……你牧羊我的羊。（约二十一16） . . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep —John 21:16 耶稣并没有叫人追随祂的思想，而是要你看顾祂的羊，使他们因认识祂而得着滋养。我们把事奉的工作，视作事奉主；但耶稣基督却视我们与祂的关系为事奉，而不是我们为祂所做的工作。做门徒，是基于对耶稣基督的忠诚，而不是由于服赝一套信徒规条。[人到我这里来，若不爱我胜过……，就不能作我的门徒。]没有争议，也没有强逼，只直截了当地－－[你若做我的门徒，必须专心归我]。一个人被圣灵摸着了，就说：[我如今认识了耶稣是谁。]这就是专心归依的根源。 时至今日，我们已把信条代替了个人的信仰，所以致力于事工的人多，而一心归服耶稣基督的人却少。人不要归服耶稣，只想致力于他所创立的事工。他们只认耶稣为同志。主首先顺服的，是祂父的旨意，而不是人群的需要。他之所以救人，是顺服父神的必然结果。我若只致力于人群的事工，不久就会精疲力竭，落到爱心冷淡的地步；但若我爱耶稣基督，就是认把我当作地席，我仍要服侍他们。门徒生活的秘诀就是全心归依基督。那生命的特征是隐藏不露，就如一粒麦子落在地里死了，不久就萌芽生长，改变整个田园的景象（约十二24）。 Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate . . . , he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). In this verse, there is no argument and no pressure from Jesus to follow Him; He is simply saying, in effect, “If you want to be My disciple, you must be devoted solely to Me.” A person touched by the Spirit of God suddenly says, “Now I see who Jesus is!”— that is the source of devotion. Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is deeply offensive to the educated minds of today, to those who only want Him to be their Friend, and who are unwilling to accept Him in any other way. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of people— the saving of people was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble. But if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity, even though people may treat me like a “doormat.” The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of that life is its seeming insignificance and its meekness. Yet it is like a grain of wheat that “falls into the ground and dies”— it will spring up and change the entire landscape (John 12:24). 完整文章 Full Article - 中文版: wellsofgrace/devotion/archives/721 Eng Version: utmost.org/my-utmost-for-his-highest/
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