4月23日
章伯斯原著 | 听见录制 | 主播:胡正军
与神同工。(林前3:9) 当心,别让任何为神的工作,叫你离开对神的专注。许多主的工人敬拜自己的工作。 工人唯一应该关注的,是集中于神身上,其他生活的一切,如:精神、道德、灵性等等,都是自由的,正像赤子般的自由——一个敬拜神的孩子,不是悖逆的儿女。 神的工人若没有这种认真郑重对神专注的心,就很容易被工作打垮,以致身体、心思、精神,没有丝毫的自由;结果身体疲惫耗尽,心力交瘁,失去自由,生活也没有乐趣。精神、心思、心灵被重压到一个地步,以致神的祝福也无法临到。 另一方面,当你真的专注在神身上,生活的各方面都自由了,因都是在神的掌管。工作的责任不在你身上;你唯一的责任是保持与神有活泼不断的关系,不让任何事物阻碍你与祂的合作。 成圣后的自由,是儿女的自由,一切叫生命受制的东西都没有了。但要记住,你的自由是单单为了一件事——绝对忠于你的同工。 我们没有权去命令神该放我们在哪里,或自作主张地认为神会在哪方面操练我们。神安排一切;不论祂放我们在哪里,我们最大的目的是要在那工作上面倾尽我们的忠诚。 “凡你手所当作的事,要尽力去作。” ▼
祈祷
主啊,我何其像那没有为午夜到访的友人预备什么的人!许多人正急待拯救,将责任完全承担起来吧!愿祢恩慈的同在覆遍这地。
图片来源:网络 Do You Worship The Work? Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God. This will mean that all the other boundaries of life, whether they are mental, moral, or spiritual limits, are completely free with the freedom God gives His child; that is, a worshiping child, not a wayward one. A worker who lacks this serious controlling emphasis of concentration on God is apt to become overly burdened by his work. He is a slave to his own limits, having no freedom of his body, mind, or spirit. Consequently, he becomes burned out and defeated. There is no freedom and no delight in life at all. His nerves, mind, and heart are so overwhelmed that God’s blessing cannot rest on him. But the opposite case is equally true– once our concentration is on God, all the limits of our life are free and under the control and mastery of God alone. There is no longer any responsibility on you for the work. The only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone. But be careful to remember that you have been freed for only one thing– to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker. We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10).We are God’s fellow workers… —1 Corinthians 3:9