5月21日 信心的神聖推論

你們要先求他的國和他的義，這些東西都要加給你們了。（太六33）

我們一聽到耶穌這句話，會覺得是極度革命性的，是前所未聞的論調。耶穌說要“先求神的國”，我們的理論則剛好相反；就是最體貼聖靈的人也會說：“我要生活呀，我一定要賺這麼多的錢；一定要有衣有食才行。”可見我們一生最關注的，不是神的國，而是怎樣謀生過活。耶穌卻把次序倒轉過來；你當先與神建立良好的關係，當作人生當務之急，而千萬別把注意力轉移到其他事物之上。“不要為生命憂慮……”主指出我們為生活而掛慮，是完全沒有理由的。他不是說什麼都不思想的人是有福的，因這樣的人是愚不可及。耶穌是教導門徒要把與神的關係視作生命的重心，而其他事則視作等閒。耶穌這裡的意思是：別把吃什麼喝什麼作為你生命的決定因素，只要專注在神身上。有些人由於不注意飲食，而招致損害；有些人則不注意衣著，而不修邊幅；他們都忽略地上的事，神卻要他們自己承擔。耶穌的意思是要把與神的關係，放在人生的首位，其他一切都屬次要。

讓聖靈把耶穌這番話的教訓熔在我們裡面，這是信徒生命中最嚴格的訓練。

祈禱◆主啊，今天早上，求你使我與那些奇異的景象和聲音隔絕；將我從那些聯繫著現今和最近的東西中解脫出來，以你的靈完完全全地充滿這天。

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.