3月10日 要有言教,更要有身教
務要傳道。(提後四2)
我們得救,並不單是做“導管”,乃是做神的兒女。我們不是變成屬靈的媒介,乃是屬靈的使者;所傳的資訊必須是我們本身一部分。神的兒子本身就是神的資訊,他的話就是靈和生命。我們作他門徒的,生命必須成為資訊的印證。人天然的心喜歡做許多的事奉,但是要心靈真正在罪的自責中破碎,被聖靈澆灌,被搓揉進神的旨意裡去,這時生命才成為資訊的印證。
作見證與講道原有分別。傳道人是有神的呼召,決志竭盡一切傳神的真理。神把我們從自己的觀念裡領出來,把我們陶冶塑造,加以使用,正如五旬節後的門徒一般。五旬節並沒有教導門徒什麼,神只是把門徒變成為他們所傳的資訊——“你們要作我的見證”。
你說話的時候,要讓神有絕對的自由。神的話釋放別人靈魂之先,必須先釋放你。然後將你所經歷的說出來,為主發光。
祈禱◆無所不知的主神,求你在今天將智慧賜給我,讓我的敬拜、正確的行為都討你的喜悅。主啊,求你在你的完全和美善中,不斷向我述說你自己。妙!
March 10 Have A Message And Be One
“Preach the word.” 2 Timothy 4:2
We are not saved
to be “channels only,” but to be sons and daughters of God. We are not turned
into spiritual mediums, but into spiritual messengers; the message must be part
of ourselves. The Son of God was His own message, His words were spirit and
life; and as His disciples our lives must be the sacrament of our message. The
natural heart will do any amount of serving, but it takes the heart broken by
conviction of sin, and baptized by the Holy Ghost, and crumpled into the
purpose of God before the life becomes the sacrament of its message.
There is a
difference between giving a testimony and preaching. A preacher is one who has
realized the call of God and is determined to use his every power to proclaim
God’s truth. God takes us out of our own ideas for our lives and we are
“batter’d to shape and use,” as the disciples were after Pentecost. Pentecost
did not teach the disciples anything; it made them the incarnation of what they
preached – “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.”
Let God have
perfect liberty when you speak. Before God’s message can liberate other souls,
the liberation must be real in you. Gather your material, and set it alight
when you speak.