7月8日 立志忠心
“……今日就可以选择所要事奉的。”（约书亚记二十四15）
意志是全人的活动。我不能放弃我的意志，我必须要训练我的意志。我必须要立志顺服，立志接受上帝的灵。当上帝给了我们真理的异像时，他要做什么不是一个问题，问题是我们要做什么。主已经把一些大的任务摆在我们面前，最好要做的事是回想从前被上帝感动的时候你做了什么？就是在你得救的时候，或者第一次看到耶稣，或者认识到一些真理。那时候对上帝顺服忠心是容易的。当上帝的灵把一些新的任务带到你面前时，现在就回想从前的那些时候吧。
“今日就可以选择所要事奉的。”这是经过深思熟虑的计算，不是你可以容易进入的事情；其他一切都被暂时搁置，直到你做出决定。这任务是在你与上帝之间的，不要和属血气的商量这事。对于每一个新的任务，其他人会越来越远离它，这正是压力来的地方。上帝允许他的圣徒的意见影响到你，但你被带领到越来越远，别人无法确实理解你所走的路。你不用去发现上帝把你带到哪里，上帝唯一要向你解释的事就是他自己。
向他宣告：“我要忠心。”一旦你选择了向耶稣基督忠心，你就不再是你自己的见证。不要咨询别的基督徒，只要在他面前宣告——我要服侍你。立志忠心——并且也为别人的忠心而赞许他们。
July
8 The Will To Loyalty
“Choose you this day whom ye
will serve.” Joshua 24:15
Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my
will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s
Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a question of what He will
do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big
propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you
were touched by God before – the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus,
or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall
those moments now as the Spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” It is a deliberate calculation,
not something into which you drift easily; and everything else is in abeyance
until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with
flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition other people get more and
more “out of it,” that is where the strain comes. God allows the opinion of His
saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the
certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You have no business
to find out where God is leading, the only thing God will explain to you is
Himself.
Profess to Him – ‘I will be loyal.’ Immediately you
choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don’t
consult other Christians, but profess before Him – I will serve Thee. Will to
be loyal – and give other people credit for being loyal too.
