4月1日 对别人衷诚还是冷漠？

有基督耶稣……也替我们祈求……圣灵……替圣徒祈求。（罗八34、27）

我们还需要什么理论去支援自己做代求者的工作呢？基督活着为我们代求，圣灵又为圣徒祈求。我们与人的关系，有没有这种休戚相关的样式，以致我们真像受圣灵教导的儿女，忠于代求的事奉？当从日常的环境中开始——家庭、工作、国家，以及人人共受的境遇——这些事是否重压着我们？是否使我们离开神的面，没有时间敬拜？这样，让我们停住脚步，恢复与神活泼的关系；叫我们与人的关系也恢复代求的位置，使神行奇事。

当心不要因渴望遵行神的旨意而超越了神。我们在许多的事上都走在神的前头，结果被人事和困难的担子压倒，不再敬拜神，也不再代求。每逢重担与压力来到，而我们又没有一种敬拜的态度，这不但会造成对神硬心，更会给自己带来沮丧。神不断的把与我们毫不相干的人给我们，这时，除非我们有敬拜神的心，否则我们最自然的反应，就是冷漠无情地对待他们。给他们一段扎心的经文，或代表神作一番责备的劝导后，就一走了之。这样一个无情的信徒，实在令主痛心。

我们是否与主并圣灵站在同一阵线上，作代求的工作？

祈祷◆噢，主啊，求你探测我心灵最深藏的动机，让圣灵在那里为我们代求，说出我不能发出的祷告。

April 1 Heartiness V. Heartlessness Towards Others

“It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us.” “The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints.” Romans 8:34, 27

Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors – that Christ “ever liveth to make intercession;” that the Holy Spirit “maketh intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a vital relationship to our fellow men that we do the work of intercession as the Spirit-taught children of God? Begin with the circumstances we are in – our homes, our business, our country, the present crisis as it touches us and others – are these things crushing us? Are they badgering us out of the presence of God and leaving us no time for worship? Then let us call a halt, and get into such living relationship with God that our relationship to others may be maintained on the line of intercession whereby God works His marvels.

Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, consequently we get so burdened with persons and with difficulties that we do not worship God, we do not intercede. If once the burden and the pressure come upon us and we are not in the worshipping attitude, it will produce not only hardness toward God but despair in our own souls. God continually introduces us to people for whom we have no affinity, and unless we are worshipping God, the most natural thing to do is to treat them heartlessly, to give them a text like the jab of a spear, or leave them with a rapped-out counsel of God and go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to Our Lord.

Are we in the direct line of the intercession of our Lord and of the Holy Spirit?