1月18日 是主！
多馬說：“我的主，我的神！”（約二十28）
“請你給我水喝。”我們許多人只期望耶穌解我們的渴，沒想到我們該叫他得著滿足！今天，我們早該倒空一切，竭盡所有服侍基督，而不再是要求主來滿足我們。“你們要作我的見證”，不玷污、不妥協、不打折扣的對主盡忠；不論主放我們在什麽崗位，都叫主的心滿足。
當心那些與我們忠于基督的心爭競的事物。忠于基督最大的敵人是事奉主的工作。因爲事奉主，比全然將生命傾倒給主容易。神呼召我們的唯一目的，是叫他心滿意足，而不是呼召人去爲他做點什麽。神不是差派我們去爲他打仗，而是在他的戰場上被他所用。我們獻身于事奉的熱誠，是否過于我們愛主的熱誠呢？
祈禱◆爲著你的話——“父親怎樣憐恤他的兒女，耶和華也怎樣憐恤敬畏他的人”——我贊美你。我何其認清我所領受的，絕不是你的嚴苛，卻全然是你的慈愛。噢，願你向我所施的慈愛、溫柔與忍耐，能夠透過我向其他人表達出來。
January 18 It Is The LORD!
“Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.” John 20:28
“Give Me to drink.” How many
of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be
satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not
drawing on Him to satisfy us. “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” – that means a
life of unsullied, uncompromising and unbribed devotion to the Lord Jesus, a
satisfaction to Him wherever He places us.
Beware of anything that
competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion to
Jesus is service for Him. It is easier to serve than to be drunk to the dregs.
The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do
something for Him. We are not sent to battle for God, but to be used by God in
His battlings. Are we being more devoted to service than to Jesus Christ?
