5月21日 信心的神圣推论
你们要先求他的国和他的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。（太六33）
我们一听到耶稣这句话，会觉得是极度革命性的，是前所未闻的论调。耶稣说要“先求神的国”，我们的理论则刚好相反；就是最体贴圣灵的人也会说：“我要生活呀，我一定要赚这么多的钱；一定要有衣有食才行。”可见我们一生最关注的，不是神的国，而是怎样谋生过活。耶稣却把次序倒转过来；你当先与神建立良好的关系，当作人生当务之急，而千万别把注意力转移到其他事物之上。“不要为生命忧虑……”主指出我们为生活而挂虑，是完全没有理由的。他不是说什么都不思想的人是有福的，因这样的人是愚不可及。耶稣是教导门徒要把与神的关系视作生命的重心，而其他事则视作等闲。耶稣这里的意思是：别把吃什么喝什么作为你生命的决定因素，只要专注在神身上。有些人由于不注意饮食，而招致损害；有些人则不注意衣着，而不修边幅；他们都忽略地上的事，神却要他们自己承担。耶稣的意思是要把与神的关系，放在人生的首位，其他一切都属次要。
让圣灵把耶稣这番话的教训熔在我们里面，这是信徒生命中最严格的训练。
祈祷◆主啊，今天早上，求你使我与那些奇异的景象和声音隔绝；将我从那些联系著现今和最近的东西中解脱出来，以你的灵完完全全地充满这天。
May 21 Divine Reasonings Of Faith
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33
Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most
revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. “Seek ye first the kingdom
of God.” We argue in exactly the opposite way, even the most spiritually-minded
of us – “But I must live; I must make so much money; I must be clothed; I must
be fed.” The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God, but how we
are to fit ourselves to live. Jesus reverses the order: Get rightly related to
God first, maintain that as the great care of your life, and never put the
concern of your care on the other things.
“Take no thought for your life. . . .” Our Lord points out the utter
unreasonableness from His standpoint of being so anxious over the means of
living. Jesus is not saying that the man who takes thought for nothing is
blessed – that man is a fool. Jesus taught that a disciple has to make his
relationship to God the dominating concentration of his life, and to be
carefully careless about everything else in comparison to that. Jesus is saying
– “Don’t make the ruling factor of your life what you shall eat and what you
shall drink, but be concentrated absolutely on God.” Some people are careless
over what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about
what they wear, and they look as they have no business to look; they are
careless about their earthly affairs, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is
saying that the great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first,
and everything else second.
It is one of the severest disciplines of the Christian life to allow the
Holy Spirit to bring us into harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these
verses.
