6月7日 切勿松懈

你们奉我的名，无论求什么，我必成就。（约十四13）

我有没有从事这内在的事奉？代祷没有网罗、没有沉迷或骄傲的危险，是一种隐藏的事奉，它所结出的果子可以荣耀父神。我是让属灵生命消磨虚耗，还是把一切集于一点－－我主的代赎？耶稣基督在我生命里头，是否愈来愈占据掌管？如果我生命中唯一的重心、最大的原动力是主的代赎，这样我生活的每一方面都必为他结果子了。

我必须花工夫去体察哪里是能力的枢纽。我有没有花上片刻的时间去注意这件事？“你们若常在我里面”－－要从这中心不断地去实行、去思想、去工作－－“你们无论求什么，我必成就。”

我是住在他里面吗？我有花时间去住在他里面吗？我生命中最大的能力源头是什么？是工作、事奉、为人牺牲，还是尽力为神工作？在我生命中产生最大能力的，应该是主的救赎。影响我们最厉害的，并非花时间最多的事物，而是那些在我们心里产生最大的能力。我们必须限制以及集中自己的心力。

“你们奉我的名，无论求什么，我必成就。”住在耶稣里的门徒，就是神的心意；他表面上自由的选择，乃是神预定的旨意。很神秘吗？逻辑上矛盾荒谬吗？不错，但对圣徒却是荣耀的真理。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，为着那恩典的宝座，让我在耶稣基督里可以坦然无惧地领受怜悯，并得着今天的恩典去荣耀你，我赞美你。

June 7 Don't Slack Off

“Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do.” John 14:13

Am I fulfilling this ministry of the interior? There is no snare or any danger of infatuation or pride in intercession, it is a hidden ministry that brings forth fruit whereby the Father is glorified. Am I allowing my spiritual life to be frittered away, or am I bringing it all to one centre – the Atonement of my Lord? Is Jesus Christ more and more dominating every interest in my life? If the one central point, the great exerting influence in my life is the Atonement of the Lord, then every phase of my life will bear fruit for Him.

I must take time to realize what is the central point of power. Do I give one minute out of sixty to concentrate upon it? “If ye abide in Me” – continue to act and think and work from that centre – “ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Am I abiding? Am I taking time to abide? What is the greatest factor of power in my life? Is it work, service, sacrifice for others, or trying to work for God? The thing that ought to exert the greatest power in my life is the Atonement of the Lord. It is not the thing we spend the most time on that moulds us most; the greatest element is the thing that exerts most power. We must determine to be limited and concentrate our affinities.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do.” The disciple who abides in Jesus is the will of God, and his apparently free choices are God's fore-ordained decrees. Mysterious? Logically contradictory and absurd? Yes, but a glorious truth to a saint.