9月30日 呼召的使命

现在我为你们受苦，倒觉快乐，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。（西一24）

我们在自以为是的分别为圣上，自己制造出呼召来；但当我们与神的关系和谐无间，他就把一切挪开，把我们接驳到我们从未梦想过的东西。这过程痛苦得可怖，但就在金光闪耀的一瞬，却看出神的心意。就说：“我在这里，请差遣我。”

这呼召与个人成圣无关，乃是要我们成为破碎的饼、浇奠的酒。若拒绝神的挤压，酒永远不会成酒。但愿神用自己的指头，用特别的方法来使我成为擘开的饼、浇奠的酒就好了！但他往往用我们不喜欢的人，或用我们曾说死也不依顺的环境来做压器，于是，我们就抗拒了。我们千万不可自己挑选殉道的场景。若要成酒，就必须被压榨；葡萄是不能喝的，必须被挤压才能成酒。我不知道神用什么样的指头来挤压，而你就像弹子一般滚避开去。若神在你尚未成熟时压榨你，那酒就会苦涩得可怕。分别为圣的意思，就是天然生命的每一部分，被神破碎。在事奉中，有神自己的临在。我们若要在他手中成为擘开的饼，就要先与他配合。要与神有正确的关系，让他可以随意而行。这样你会发现，他要用你做出对其他儿女有益的饼和酒来。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你今天使我脱离慌张忙乱，让我保持平静和单纯属你。愿你使这个地方成为神的居所，以及人灵魂进入天堂的门槛。

September 30 The Commission Of The Call

“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake.” Colossians 1:24

We make calls out of our own spiritual consecration, but when we get right with God He brushes all these aside, and rivets us with a pain that is terrific to one thing we never dreamed of, and for one radiant flashing moment we see what He is after, and we say – “Here am I, send me.”

This call has nothing to do with personal sanctification, but with being made broken bread and poured-out wine. God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with. If God would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way! But when He uses someone whom we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, and makes those the crushers, we object. We must never choose the scene of our own martyrdom. If ever we are 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 kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped? You are not ripe yet, and if God had squeezed you, the wine would have been remarkably bitter. To be a sacramental personality means that the elements of the natural life are presenced by God as they are broken providentially in His service. We have to be adjusted into God before we can be broken bread in His hands. Keep right with God and let Him do what He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.