2月22日
标 题： 神要差遣你去服事谁？
经 节： “……我带他到你门徒那里，他们却不能医治他。”耶稣说：“嗳！这又不信又悖谬的世代啊，我在你们这里要到几时呢？我忍耐你们要到几时呢？把他带到我这里来吧！”（马太福音十七章16～17节）
耶稣给予门徒赶鬼、行医治神迹的能力（马太福音十：8）。祂赐给他们服事人的权柄，然而，他们却变得自我中心，以致失去能力去行神的大工。一位父亲带着患癫痫病的孩子前来求医治，门徒们束手无策，他们不了解自己为何赶不出这一类的鬼。门徒们当时非常在乎自己的身分地位（马可福音九：32～35），以至于转移了注意力，忘却原本神所托付的目标。耶稣对祂门徒的反应是相当严厉的。耶稣很少说那么严峻的话，祂责备自己的门徒是“不信”又“悖谬”的，同时质问他们，自己得忍耐他们到几时！祂为什么说这种话呢？因为门徒照理说应该与祂同工，传达救恩给人，但此时他们却迷失了方向，没有定睛在耶稣的身上，因而失去属灵的能力，缺乏信心。在这种情况之下，他们无法在肉体与灵性上帮助那些神要他们服事的人。神应该能将需要帮助的人送到任一个祂儿女的身边，并且预期那些人可以得到帮助。我们也可能像那些门徒一样，一心想着自己的雄心抱负，被自己每天忙碌的时间表分散注意力。结果，我们对那些需要帮助者的服事，变得毫无果效。我们甚至可能太专注于宗教活动，而无法帮助他人。要定期检讨你的生活，看看自己是否是忠实的仆人，服事那些神送来、有需要帮助的人。
Whom
Is God Sending to You?
“So
I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.” Then Jesus
answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I
be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
(Matthew 17:16-17)
Jesus gave His disciples the power to cast
out demons and to perform miracles of healing (Matt. 10:8). He gave them His
authority to minister to people, yet they became so self-centered that they
lost the power to do the work of God. When God sent a father with his epileptic
son to them for healing, they failed miserably. They were so concerned with
position and status (Mark 9:32–35) that they lost their focus on what God
wanted to do through them.
Jesus’ response to His disciples included
some of the harshest words ever to come from His mouth. He called His own
disciples “unbelieving” and “perverse” and questioned how much longer He had to
endure them! Why? Because they were supposed to be on mission with Him to bring
salvation to others, but they had become so disoriented to Him that they were spiritually
powerless, lacking the faith to bring physical and spiritual comfort to those
God had sent to them.
God ought to be able to send a hurting
person to any child of His and expect that they will be helped. Like the
disciples, we can become so preoccupied with our own ambitions and distracted
by the busyness of our lives that we become ineffective in ministering to those
whom God sends to us. It is even possible to become so involved in religious
activity that we are of no help to anyone. Regularly take inventory of your
life to see if you are being a faithful steward of every life God sends to you.
