5月15日 把握机会，面对现实

使你们知道他的恩召有何等指望。（弗一18）

要记得你蒙拯救的目的是什么－－是叫神儿子的生命在你必朽的肉身上彰显出来。要殚精竭虑，去体会成为神儿女的恩召；要每次正面面对所遭遇的。

你虽然没有办法救自己，却必须有所事事，以表彰所得的救恩。你要把神做在你身上的表扬出来。你有没有用舌头、脑筋、精神去努力表扬？你若仍然是昔日可怜的老样子，孤行己意，那么你说神已拯救你，并叫你成圣，这不过是谎话。

神是大工程师，他容许困难临到你身上，要看你能否越过－－“我靠着神跳过墙垣”。神不会放松对他儿女的要求。彼得说：“有火炼的试验临到你们，不要以为奇怪。”把握机会，面对现实，付诸行动！不管痛苦多大，只要神有机会藉着你彰显他自己就好了。

但愿神不再看见我们里面的怨叹，却看见我们充满属灵的果敢与奋勇，准备面对任何从神而来的事物。我们必须操练自己，叫神儿子可以在我们必朽的肉身上彰显出来。生命唯一的目标，就是彰显神的儿子，并且不再向神发号施令。我们的主从来没有指挥他的父，我们在此也不得指挥神；我们在世上是要顺服他的旨意，使他能在我们身上成就他所要成就的。我们若明白这点，神就会使我们成为擘开的饼、倾出来的酒，去喂养与滋润别人。

祈祷◆主啊，你已经启示了很多真理，还有不少事情要告诉我们，可是，我感到自己的生活太少按着你所指示的去行。主啊，加力给我，让我彰显你的荣耀。

May 15 The Habit Of Rising To The Occasion

“That ye may know what is the hope of His calling...” Ephesians 1:18

Remember what you are saved for – that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh. Bend the whole energy of your powers to realize your election as a child of God; rise to the occasion every time.

You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in. Are you working it out with your tongue, and your brain and your nerves? If you are still the same miserable crosspatch, set on your own way, then it is a lie to say that God has saved and sanctified you.

God is the Master Engineer, He allows the difficulties to come in order to see if you can vault over them properly – “By my God have I leaped over a wall.” God will never shield you from any of the requirements of a son or daughter of His. Peter says – “Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you.” Rise to the occasion; do the thing. It does not matter how it hurts as long as it gives God the chance to manifest Him self in your mortal flesh.

May God not find the whine in us any more, but may He find us full of spiritual pluck and athleticism, ready to face anything He brings. We have to exercise ourselves in order that the Son of God may be manifested in our mortal flesh. God never has museums. The only aim of the life is that the Son of God may be manifested, and all dictation to God vanishes. Our Lord never dictated to His Father, and we are not here to dictate to God; we are here to submit to His will so that He may work through us what He wants. When we realize this, He will make us broken bread and poured out wine to feed and nourish others.