基督的工人必须学习在众多毫不高贵的事物中，作神高贵的人。切勿这样求：“但愿我处身于别的环境中！”
神所有工人都是平凡的人，他们之所以不平凡，是因着神放进他们里面的东西。所以，除非我们脑中存正确的思想，心中存正确的感情，否则我们对神便毫无用处。
我们不是拣选去作神的工人。不少人自告奋勇作神的工人，但我们里面却没有全能的恩典，以及神大能的话语。
保罗的整个心智灵魂，都被主耶稣降世的伟大使命占据，他对这件事从不忘怀。我们也要面对这中心事实——耶稣基督和祂钉十字架。
“我拣选了你。”在你的信条中，要持定这伟大的一句。不是你得着了神，乃是神得着了你。在这学院里，神在作工，祂改变人、打碎人、模造人，照祂的心意行事。
我们虽然不晓得为什么，祂只有一个目的——就是能够说：“看，这是我的人。”要在神的手中，祂就能把人建在磐石上，正如祂建造我们一样。
切勿自己拣选作工人，但当神的呼召临到，你若左推右搪，就有祸了。祂对你的方法，会与未呼召你时不同，也与对别人的不同。让祂自由行事吧。
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祈祷
主啊，求祢今天在我的祷告、敬拜和工作中，以祢的灵重新膏抹我，以致在一切事情上，祢都可以得居优越的位置。
THE ETERNAL CRUSH OF THINGS
"I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." 1 Corinthians 9:22
A Christian worker has to learn how to be God's noble man or woman amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea - If only I were somewhere else! Al God's men are ordinary men made extraordinary by the matter He has given them. Unless we have the right matter in our minds intellectually and in our hearts affectionately, we wil be hustled out of usefulness to God. We are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no matter in them of God's almighty grace, no matter of His mighty word. Paul's whole heart and mind and soul were taken up with the great matter of what Jesus Christ came to do, he never lost sight of that one thing. We have to face ourselves with the one central fact - Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
"I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. Here, in this College, God is at work, bending, breaking, moulding, doing just as He chooses. Why He is doing it, we do not know; He is doing it for one purpose only - that He may be able to say, This is My man, My woman. We have to be in God's hand so that He can plant men on the Rock as He has planted us.
Never choose to be a worker, but when God has put His call on you, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. He wil do with you what He never did with you before the call came He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.
