3月5日 祂真是主嗎？

只要（“喜樂地”，英文譯本）行完我的路程，成就我從主耶穌所領受的職事。（徒二十24）

喜樂的意思，是我能圓滿地完成被造和重生的目的，而不是因為成功地完成一件事。我們主的喜樂，就是在於遵行父神的旨意，他說：“我父怎樣差遣了我，我也照樣差遣你們。”我有從主接受職事嗎？若有，我必須忠於所托，將生命的價值完全放在達成那使命上面。想想當主對你說：“好，你這又良善又忠心的僕人。”你會何等的心滿意足，因已完成主差你去做的事。我們必須尋找人生的崗位，在屬靈上說，就是尋找主託付你的是什麼。要達成所托，就必須與主同行；要更深認識他，不單是把他作為個人的救主。“我也要指示他，為我的名必須受許多的苦。”“你愛我嗎？”然後，“你餵養我的羊。”事奉是不容你取捨的，只有絕對效忠於主；效忠于你最貼近神時所領受的。若你從耶穌接受了一項事奉，就會知道需要並不等於呼召，需要乃是機會，呼召則是忠於你與主相交時所領受的。這並不是說，從此有無數的事奉要劃分出來給你，而是你要撇開其他方面事奉的需求。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，懇求你繼續賜下力量和純真的喜樂。讓我的動機和心思都能夠保持謙卑，不會自以為是優越的人。

March 5 Is He Really Lord?

“. . . so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 20:24

Joy means the perfect fulfilment of that for which I was created and regenerated, not the successful doing of a thing. The joy Our Lord had lay in doing what the Father sent Him to do, and He says – “As My Father hath sent Me, even so am I sending you.” Have I received a ministry from the Lord? If so, I have to be loyal to it, to count my life precious only for the fulfilling of that ministry. Think of the satisfaction it will be to hear Jesus say – “Well done, good and faithful servant”; to know that you have done what He sent you to do. We have all to find our niche in life, and spiritually we find it when we receive our ministry from the Lord. In order to do this we must have companied with Jesus; we must know Him as more than a personal Saviour. “I will show him how great things he must suffer for My sake.”

“Lovest thou Me?” Then – “Feed My sheep.” There is no choice of service, only absolute loyalty to Our Lord's commission; loyalty to what you discern when you are in closest contact with God. If you have received a ministry from the Lord Jesus, you will know that the need is never the call: the need is the opportunity. The call is loyalty to the ministry you received when you were in real touch with Him. This does not imply that there is a campaign of service marked out for you, but it does mean that you will have to ignore the demands for service along other lines.