10月8日
唯獨基督
到我這裡來。（太十一28）
要我到耶穌那裡去，豈非卑躬屈膝？試想想有什麼事令我們不想到耶穌那裡去。若想知道自己的真面目，可以用“到我這裡來”這句話考一考自己。你若有任何不真誠，都會千方百計爭辯，不肯到主那裡去；你會逃避，不肯去；你寧可吃苦也不去；你寧可作任何事，也不願走這最後一程自認完全無知的路－－“依我本相到主跟前”。只要你仍有一丁點兒屬靈的自負，總會期望神叫你做大事，而他只叫你到他那裡去。
“到我這裡來。”聽見這句話時，便知道你未去他那裡以前，某些事情必然發生。聖靈會指示你所當作的，叫你從根本的問題上下斧，除掉那阻路的東西。你不去解決，就無法再前進。聖靈會指出死結所在，但他不能強行解開，他要你自己甘願去解開。
多少時候，你來到神面前祈求，覺得這一次總可以成就了，可是每次都空手而回。其實神一直張開手等待你，要得著你，也要你得著他。想想主耶穌那無法淹沒、無可抗拒、不厭其煩的忍耐－－“到我這裡來”。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，詩人的話對我何其真實－－“我的性命幾乎歸於塵土。”我的靈魂鋪滿了塵土，主啊，求你按照你的話語激發我。言語藉著你的靈而得著生機，它所帶來的生命將是何等完美！主啊，願你現在便發聲。
October
8 The Exclusiveness Of Christ
“Come
unto Me.” Matthew 11:28
Is it not
humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things we will
not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know how real you are, test
yourself by these words – “Come unto Me.” In every degree in which you are not
real, you will dispute rather than come, you will quibble rather than come, you
will go through sorrow rather than come, you will do anything rather than come
the last lap of unutterable foolishness – “Just as I am.” As long as you have the
tiniest bit of spiritual impertinence, it will always reveal itself in the fact
that you are expecting God to tell you to do a big thing, and all He is telling
you to do is to “come.”
“Come unto
Me.” When you hear those words you will know that something must happen in you
before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do,
anything at all that will put the axe at the root of the thing which is
preventing you from getting through. You will never get further until you are
willing to do that one thing. The Holy Spirit will locate the one impregnable
thing in you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let Him.
How often
have you come to God with your requests and gone away with the feeling – Oh,
well, I have done it this time! And yet you go away with nothing, whilst all
the time God has stood with outstretched hands not only to take you, but for
you to take Him. Think of the invincible, unconquerable, unwearying patience of
Jesus – “Come unto Me.”
