1月31日 你看清你的呼召没有？

特派传神的福音（特派有分别出来之意）。（罗一1）

基本上来说，神呼召我们并不是叫我们做圣洁的人，乃是要我们宣扬他的福音。因为其中最要紧的，就是神的福音是永存的事实。人的良善、圣洁，固然不是那事实，而天堂、地狱也都不是，只有救赎才是。今日基督的工人最要了解的，就是这个。作为工人，我们必须熟悉这个启示，就是救赎是唯一的永存事实。个人的圣洁只是救赎的果，不是因。如果我们把信心寄托于人的良善上，以救恩为果，试炼一来，我们就站立不住了。

保罗并没有说他分别自己，他乃说：“神既喜悦将我分别出来……。”保罗对自己的性情，并没有过分的注意。我们的眼睛一天放在自己的成圣上，一天就不能进入救赎的实际里去。许多工人一败涂地，就是因为他们的愿望只为自己的圣洁，而不是为神。“由于人性是堕落与污秽的，请不要叫我面对救赎崎岖的现实吧！我要的，是神为我做点什么，叫我更欣赏自己。”说这样的话，表明神福音的实际尚未摸着我，我还未完全献身，向神降服。保罗能够忘我，毫无顾虑地撇弃一切，被神分别出来，为的只是一个目标——传扬神的福音（参罗九3）

祈祷◆噢，主啊，对于你的救赎和全备的救恩，我的欣赏是何其吝啬。主啊，驱使我产生更丰富的感恩；让我永远深爱主耶稣基督。

January 31 Do You See Your Calling?

. . . separated to the gospel of God. . . —Romans 1:1

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God. The one all-important thing is that the gospel of God should be recognized as the abiding reality. Reality is not human goodness, or holiness, or heaven, or hell— it is redemption. The need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers, we have to get used to the revelation that redemption is the only reality. Personal holiness is an effect of redemption, not the cause of it. If we place our faith in human goodness we will go under when testing comes.

Paul did not say that he separated himself, but “when it pleased God, who separated me . . .” (Galatians 1:15). Paul was not overly interested in his own character. And as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption. Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God. “Don't ask me to be confronted with the strong reality of redemption on behalf of the filth of human life surrounding me today; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes.” To talk that way is a sign that the reality of the gospel of God has not begun to touch me. There is no reckless abandon to God in that. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose— to proclaim the gospel of God (see Romans 9:3).