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June 28
"A door opened in heaven." (Rev. 4:1.)
YOU must remember that John was in the Isle of Patmos, a lone, rocky, inhospitable prison, for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. And yet to him, under such circumstances, separated from all the loved ones of Ephesus; debarred from the worship of the Church; condemned to the companionship of uncongenial fellowcaptives, were vouchsafed these visions. For him, also a door was opened.
We are reminded of Jacob, exiled from his father's house, who laid himself down in a desert place to sleep, and in his dreams beheld a ladder which united Heaven with earth, and at the top stood God.
Not to these only, but to many more, doors have been opened into Heaven, when, so far as the world was concerned, it seemed as though their circumstances were altogether unlikely for such revelations.
To prisoners and captives; to constant sufferers, bound by iron chains of pain to sick couches; to lonely pilgrims and wanderers; to women detained from the Lord's house by the demands of home, how often has the door been opended to Heaven.
But there are conditions. You must know what it is to be in the Spirit; you must be pure in heart and obedient in faith; you must be willing to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ; then when God is all in all to us, when we live, move and have our being in His favor, to us also will the door be opended.─Daily Devotional Commentary.
"God hath His mountains bleak and bare,
where He doth bid us rest awhile;
Crags where we breathe a purer air,
Lone peaks that catch the day's first smile.
"God hath His deserts broad and brown─
A solitude─a sea of sand,
Where He doth let heaven's curtain down,
Unknit by His Almighty hand."
「有智慧的,必能得人。」箴言十一章30節
「來跟從我,我要叫你們得人如得魚一樣。」馬太福音四章19節
「不要怕,從今以後你要得人了。」路加福音五章10節
當主耶穌基督教導彼得有關愛的偉大真理(約廿一15─17)時,祂賜給彼得餵養羊群的權柄和能力,這纔成全主一開始呼召彼得所說的話:「來跟從我,我要叫你得人如得魚一樣。」
我們的主希望每位將祂的愛接受到心裏的人,能使用那愛來引人歸向基督。神的話清楚教導我們,每位信徒有責任去得人;當我們的心是合乎神的旨意時,基督徒實在已經有自由了,藉著有信心的禱告,可以期待神賜福我們個人的工作。
對於每位基督徒,原則是如此簡單,不分老幼、貧富,都有份參與;它也是重要的,以致於健全的教會屬天靈命必須建立在每個肢體都蒙保守、各盡功用的基礎上。當每位基督徒都各盡其責,所產生的結果使得這個原則的價值成為可見的。各地都有需要幫助的人,許多愛主盡忠的傳道和傳福音的人,都同意這不單單是傳道,而是一切得人的工作。
個人佈道表示更愛主,並且更樂意去事奉祂;這個工作不單指與人個別談道,而是把人的靈魂藉著禱告帶到神面前。得人是偉大的事工,而且天使都覺得羨慕;神差遣祂的獨生子降世,為了祂的國度去得人,如果你想持有神的愛,降服在祂永遠的愛裏,你就得藉著這愛去領人歸向神。一個奉獻的人,藉著神的愛去「得人」,那就會滿足基督的心,榮耀歸祂的名了。
「或者可以得著基督耶穌所以得著我的。」腓立比書三章12節
工人的職位不是自己所可揀選的;但是當神選召你的時候,知道你偏左偏右,逃而避之,那便有禍了。這裡的工作並不是我們替神作的,其所以我們選取了這種工作,正是因為神抓住了我們。絕不可存這種思想──「啊,我不宜於作這事」。你所宣傳的,當取決於神,不當取決於你天性之所傾向。保守你的心靈與神發生健全的關係,謹記你蒙選召,不但要作見證,而且也要宣傳福音。見證是個個基督徒所當作的,但蒙召傳福音是特殊的使命,在你蒙召傳福音的時候,神的手必掌住你而不放鬆,把你的生命握在掌握中,叫你為福音的傳播而生存。我們中有多少人是這樣被握住呢?
切不可把神的話語看作順流而下的水,當宣講時當以嚴肅的態度出之。對神的話語,當表敬畏之忱;但當你與弟兄個人談話的時候,要明白你在人群中的地位──不是天上特造的東西,也是因著恩典而得救的罪人。
「我不是以為自己已經得著了,我只有一件事……」(腓三13)
「那靠著良人……的……」雅歌八章5節
在最後晚餐時,約翰將自己全身的重量倚靠在耶穌胸前。我們也能像約翰那樣地靠近主嗎?其實這正是神要我們向祂證明愛的方法。曾有一位慕道的女子對一位女傳教士說:「如果你愛我,就緊緊地靠著我。」她之所以這麼說,乃因當傳教士羞怯地將自己疲乏的身體靠著她強壯的身體時,她會感覺到對方對她有完全的信心。
耶穌曾說:「你們要將一切的憂慮卸給神,因為祂顧念你們。」(彼前五7)神要我們藉著毫無保留的信任祂,來證明我們對祂的愛。祂的確能顧念我們一切的憂慮、顧及我們所有的利益、滿足我們全部的需要。
讓我們藉著完全倚靠祂,以祂為靈糧而繼續前進。因為約翰不僅緊靠著主,且以祂為靈糧。這也是以祂為靈糧的秘訣,也亦即要在祂的懷中休息。心靈激動的人需要以主為糧,所以讓我們向祂說:「我心所愛的啊,求您告訴我,您在何處牧羊?晌午在何處使羊歇臥?」(歌一7)