晨興聖言-打美好的仗...(W2-6)

第二週•週六

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晨興餧養

來十二 3『那忍受罪人這樣頂撞自己的，你們要考量比較，免得疲倦灰心。』

徒二十 24『我卻不以性命爲念，也不看爲寶貴，只要行完我的路程，成就我從主耶穌所領受的職事，鄭重見證神恩典的福音。』

馬可六章四十五節：『耶穌隨卽催門徒上船，先到對岸伯賽大去，等祂解散羣眾。』…這一節告訴我們，我們每一個都有祂的道路。這裏的『催』與林後五章十四節的『困迫』是一樣的字。主困迫門徒上船。…基督徒一生最要緊的事，就是尋找主所命定的道路，並忠心的行走在其中。…有的人就是找出來了，也不行走在其中；所以在生活上有這麼多屬靈的死沉和限制，在神的工作中有這麼多的衝突和爭執（倪柝聲文集第一輯第十册，七至八頁）。

信息選讀

我們每一個人最要緊的工作，就是安靜的、等候的、禱告的、奉獻的、順服的將自己交在神的手裏，專心尋求神的指示，願意順服祂，願意只遵行祂的旨意，求祂將祂爲我個人所定規的道路指示我知道；然後，出一切的代價，一心一意的行走在其中。

『船在海中！』〔可六 47〕我們的路程還未達到終點。雖然，我們永生永死的問題是解決了，不會再發生問題了；然而，我們在世上的歷史，到底是忠心的，還是失敗的；是忠心到底的，還是半途變節的，是尚未定規的。船尚在海中，尚未入港。…我們不能過於自恃，以爲我們的結局是定規的了。我們在正當的程途中，固然可喜；然而，我們如何奔跑，並如何結局，仍是一個問題。

馬可六章四十八節有一件頂特別的事，就是主『想要走過他們去』。…好像主不是要到門徒那裏。
照今天看來，就並無難處，主旣命令祂的門徒到對岸伯賽大去，當然主下山了，主是到伯賽大那裏去。主豈肯到別的地方去等他們。主是按着祂所命令門徒走的道路來找他們。他們如果轉了彎，主來就碰不着他們了。他們就是走錯了，主並不往岔路上去等他們。這是很嚴肅的！我常想，如果主命令我在上海，我卻跑到南京去，當祂來的時候，我就不能被提。因爲被提是在主所命令的道中被提。不在此，就要錯過被提了。我們每一個都當負自己的責，到底是走在那裏。

我天天覺得全世界都是反對我們的。我們只有兩種態度，一是堅持，一是放鬆。世界還是歡迎你回去，撒但也歡迎你回去，但是，主命令你渡到對岸伯賽大去。如果我們現在不忠心，就永不會忠心了，許多神兒女爲主的緣故受苦，走孤單的道路。…摩西對迦得子孫和流便子孫說，『難道你們的弟兄去打仗，你們竟坐在這裏麼？』〔民三二 6〕…別人忠心受苦，我們豈能安坐不動呢？苦是不錯，但總比飄流的好。我們每一個都當忠心事奉主，走主所命令我們的道路，直到那邊（倪柝聲文集第一輯第十册，八至九、十四、十七頁）。

參讀：倪柝聲文集第一輯第十册，末了一段的道路。

WEEK 2 — DAY 6

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Morning Nourishment

Heb. 12:3 For compare Him who has endured such contradiction by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Acts 20:24 But I consider my life of no account as if precious to myself, in order that I may finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus to solemnly testify of the gospel of the grace of God.

Mark 6:45 says, “And immediately He compelled His disciples to step into the boat and go before to the other side, toward Bethsaida, while He sent the crowd away”…This verse tells us that every one of us has a journey ordained by Him. The word compelled here is the same as the word constrains used in 2 Corinthians 5:14. The Lord constrained the disciples to step into the boat… The most important thing in the Christian life is to seek out the journey which the Lord has ordained and faithfully walk on it…Some, even though they have found it, do not walk on it. This is the reason that their living is filled with so much spiritual death, gloom, and restriction, and this is the reason that there are so many conflicts and arguments in God’s work. (CWWN, vol. 10, p. 424)

Today’s Reading

The most important task for each of us is to put ourselves into God’s hand in a quiet, patient, prayerful, consecrated, and obedient way and wholeheartedly seek after His leading. We should be willing to obey Him and act only in accordance with His will. We should pray that He reveal to us the journey He has designated for us. After this, we should pay any price to wholeheartedly walk on it.

“The boat was in the midst of the sea” [Mark 6:47]. We still have not reached the destination of our journey. Although the matter of eternal life is resolved for us and we have no more problem with that, whether or not our history on the earth will be one of faithfulness or failure (of faithfulness to the end or desertion halfway), is yet to be determined. The boat is still in the midst of the sea and has not arrived in port…We should not be overly self-assured and should not presume that our ending is already determined. Of course, we are delighted to be on the right course, but how we run and end it is still a question.

There is something special in verse 48: the Lord “intended to pass by them.”… It seems as if the Lord had no intention to go to the disciples. But if we consider what the Lord is doing today, we will not have any problem understanding this. Since the Lord had commanded His disciples to go to the other side to Bethsaida, He descended the mountain and went forward to Bethsaida. Could the Lord go to another place to wait for them? The Lord was looking for the disciples along the same path which He had commanded them to take. If they had turned at a corner, the Lord would not have met them when He came. If they had gone on a wrong course, the Lord would not have gone on a wrong pathway to wait for them. This is very sobering! I have always considered that if the Lord commanded me to go to Shanghai and I went instead to Nanking, I would miss the rapture when He comes. This is because the rapture takes place only along the pathway that the Lord has ordained. If you are not there, you will miss the rapture. Each one of us has to bear his own responsibility as to which way he should go.

The Lord has compelled us to go to the other side to Bethsaida. If, at this time, we are not faithful, we will never be faithful. Many of God’s children have suffered for the Lord and have taken the lonely journey…Moses said unto the sons of Gad and sons of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you stay here?” (Num. 32:6)…While others are faithful and suffering, can we sit still in peace? Surely there is hardship, but that is far better than drifting. Every one of us ought to faithfully serve the Lord, and every one ought to take the journey that He has ordained until we reach the other side. (CWWN, vol. 10, pp. 424-425, 429-430, 432-433)

Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 10, pp. 423-433