3月24日 為道日損，合乎主旨

他必興旺，我必衰微。（約三30）

你若成為別人心中重要的人，你就偏離了神。作為主的工人，最大的職分是做新郎的朋友。當你發現有人靠近主耶穌，被主得著，就知道你在他身上所產生的影響是對的。你不必伸手去阻止他的痛苦，反而要求神使那痛苦加增十倍，以致世界或地球的任何勢力，都不足以叫他與耶穌基督分離。我們若一而再、再而三地濫竽充數，以神明自居，打岔神說：“這個那個不該發生。”我們不但不是新郎忠實的朋友，反而把個人的同情心拿出來。結果，有一天那人會說：“他是個賊，偷去我對耶穌的愛情，如今我連他的形象也看不見了。”

當心，不要錯用你與人同樂的心，要在正當的事上與他同樂。“新郎的朋友站著聽見新郎的聲音就甚喜樂……他必興旺，我必衰微。”這話是歡喜快樂地說的，不是愁苦地說的，因別人終於看見新郎了！約翰說這就是他的喜樂。主的工人功成身退，不再被人思念。

你要為人盡所有的去警醒守望，直到你在那人身上聽見新郎的聲音。不管生活如何顛沛困苦，健康如何破敗損傷，只要聽見他的聲音，就當喜從天降，滿懷高興。你可以經常看見耶穌基督先拆毀一個人，然後再建立。（太十34）

祈禱◆噢，我的神，願我在你的火焰中焚燒和煉淨——今天我的渣滓似乎太多；太少流露你那甜蜜而親切的恩典。主啊，赦免我。

March 24 Decreasing Into His Purpose

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30

If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God’s order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that your influence has been in the right direction, and instead of putting out a hand to prevent the throes, pray that they grow ten times stronger until there is no power on earth or in hell that can hold that soul away from Jesus Christ. Over and over again, we become amateur providences, we come in and prevent God; and say – “This and that must not be.” Instead of proving friends of the Bridegroom, we put our sympathy in the way, and the soul will one day say – “That one was a thief, he stole my affections from Jesus, and I lost my vision of Him.”

Beware of rejoicing with a soul in the wrong thing, but see that you do rejoice in the right thing. “The friend of the Bridegroom . . . rejoiceth greatly because of the Bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.” This is spoken with joy and not with sadness – at last they are to see the Bridegroom! And John says this is his joy. It is the absolute effacement of the worker, he is never thought of again.

Watch for all you are worth until you hear the Bridegroom’s voice in the life of another. Never mind what havoc it brings, what upsets, what crumblings of health, rejoice with divine hilarity when once His voice is heard. You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. （Cf. Matt. 10:34.）