4月22日
标 题： 属灵的持续力
经 节： 以利亚对亚哈说：“你现在可以上去吃喝，因为有多雨的响声了。”（列王纪上十八章41节）
当你寻求遵循神的旨意的时候，“成功”会转移你的注意力。以利亚主要的任务是预告旱荒的开始与退出（列王纪上十七：1）。神要以利亚向亚哈王宣告旱荒的原因，是百姓不敬拜真神，反而拜偶像。在以利亚运行任务期中，有一件场面壮观、戏剧化的事情发生。以利亚与巴力的先知们对决，吩咐火从天上降下来，并且杀了几百名巴力的先知。这是圣经记载有关神施展的大能中，最令人肃然起敬的事蹟之一。以利亚可以单单专注于这件事。火从天降要比下大雨来得神奇多了！
当一些神奇的事发生时，我们很容易被引入歧途。如果以利亚活在今日，他可能开始一个“火从天降”事工！戏剧化的事物远比平凡的事物，来得有吸引力。消灭几百位巴力先知，是任何先知最高的胜利。然而，以利亚继续持守他的任务，他宣告将来的大雨。这是他主要宣告的信息。
如果不注意，你可能会被胜利冲昏了头，没有完成神原来指定你的任务。你今日的成功，是否变成你明日的不顺服？
Spiritual Persistence
Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the
sound of abundance of rain.” (1 Kings 18:41)
Success can distract you as you seek to follow God’s will. Elijah’s
primary assignment was to announce when a drought would begin and end (1 Kings
17:1). God had told him to proclaim Ahab that the drought was an act of
judgment upon a people who worshiped idols rather than God. In the middle of
Elijah’s assignment, a spectacular thing happened. Elijah confronted the
prophets of Baal and called fire down from heaven, putting hundreds of priests
of Baal to death. This was one of the most awesome displays of God’s power
recorded in Scripture. Elijah could easily have focused strictly on that event.
Fire falling from heaven is much more spectacular than a rainstorm!
When something spectacular happens, we can easily be sidetracked. If
Elijah lived today, he might have begun a “Calling Down Fire from Heaven”
ministry! The dramatic is far more appealing to us than obedience to the
mundane. Destroying hundreds of Baal’s prophets would appear to be a climactic
victory for any prophet of God. Yet Elijah persisted in his assignment. He
announced the coming rain. This had been his primary message, and he delivered
it.
If you aren’t careful, you may become so distracted by the successes you
experience that you never complete what God originally assigned you to do. Will
your success today cause you to disobey tomorrow?
