宣教士是主耶稣所差的，正如他被父神所差一样。最重要的不是人的需要，乃在主的命令。
我们为神作工的原动力是在背后，不是在前面。但今日的趋势却把动力放在前面，把所有东西摆在前面，且按我们对成功的观念一概应用。
在新约中，动力在我们后面，就是主耶稣自己。人最高的理想就是忠于祂，成就祂的事工。个人对主耶稣及祂的观点的忠贞，是万万不容忽视的。
宣教工作一大危机，就是让人的需要盖过神的呼召，以致人的同情心完全淹没了被主差派的真义。需要是那么大，情况是那么复杂，人的心力终会有软弱失败。
我们忘记了宣教工作最大的理由，不是要把人提升，不是教育人，也不是满足他们的需要；最首要的，乃是主耶稣的命令——“所以你们要去，使万民作我的门徒……”
试看看神所用的人的生平，我们很容易会这样说：“他们多有智慧！他们多明白神的旨意！”其实他们智慧的背后，是神的智慧，而不是人的智慧。我们往往归功于人的智慧，其实该赞美的是神的引导。
祂是透过这些人施行引导；祂带领的，是那些肯变成愚拙，像小孩般一味信靠祂智慧及超然装备的人。
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祈祷
噢，主啊，我完全认识到“我是幼童，不知道应当怎样出入”；因此请祢在今天赐我“智慧的心”，让我更多地认识祢。
WHAT IS A MISSIONARY? "
As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you." John 20:21
A missionary is one sent by Jesus Christ as He was sent by God. The great dominant note is not the needs of men, but the command of Jesus. The source of our inspiration in work for God is behind, not before. The tendency today is to put the inspiration ahead, to sweep everything in front of us and bring it all out to our conception of success. In the New Testament the inspiration is put behind us, the Lord Jesus. The ideal is to be true to Him, to carry out His enterprises.
Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and His point of view is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary enterprise the great danger is that God's call is effaced by the needs of the people until human sympathy absolutely overwhelms the meaning of being sent by Jesus. The needs are so enormous, the conditions so perplexing, that every power of mind falters and fails. We forget that the one great reason underneath all missionary enterprise is not first the elevation of the people, nor the education of the people, nor their needs; but first and foremost the command of Jesus Christ -
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations."
When looking back on the lives of men and women of God the tendency is to say - What wonderfully astute wisdom they had! How perfectly they understood all God wanted! The astute mind behind is the Mind of God, not human wisdom at all . We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the Divine guidance of God through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God's wisdom and the supernatural equipment of God
