10月25日 永远的破碎

“向什么样的人，我就作什么样的人。无论如何总要救些人。”林前 9：22

一个基督徒工人要学会如何在卑贱的事中成为属神的高尚之人。千万不要用这个藉口－－如果我在其他地方就好了！所有属神的人都是平凡人，只是因神所给予他们的内容而成为特别。除非我们在心智和情感上都有了正确的内容，否则我们会对神毫无用处。我们不是选择作神的工人。许多人刻意地选择作神的工人，但在他们里面没有神全能的恩典，也没有他大能的话语。保罗的整个心、思想和灵魂都被耶稣基督降世的伟大使命所吸引，他从没有忘记这件事。我们也要自己面对这个中心的事实－－耶稣基督并他钉十字架。

“我已经拣选了你。”要在你的信条里牢记这伟大的话语。不是你得到了神，而是他得到了你。在这所学校里，神在做工，他改变人，他打碎人，他模造人，按照他所拣选的去做。我们不知道他为什么做这个，他只是为了一个唯一的目的－－就是他可以说，这是属于我的男人，这是属于我的女人。我们要在神的手里，好让他把人栽种在磐石上，就像栽种我们一样。

不要自己选择去做一个工人，但是当神呼召你时，如果你左推右搪，就有祸了。他会在你身上做些事情，是呼召你以前所未做过的；他会对付你，不像对其他人那样。让他按他的方式做吧。

October 25 The Eternal Crush Of Things

“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” 1 Corinthians 9:22

A Christian worker has to learn how to be God's noble man or woman amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea – If only I were somewhere else! All God's men are ordinary men made extraordinary by the matter He has given them. Unless we have the right matter in our minds intellectually and in our hearts affectionately, we will be hustled out of usefulness to God. We are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no matter in them of God's almighty grace, no matter of His mighty word. Paul's whole heart and mind and soul were taken up with the great matter of what Jesus Christ came to do, he never lost sight of that one thing. We have to face ourselves with the one central fact – Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

“I have chosen you.” Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. Here, in this College, God is at work, bending, breaking, moulding, doing just as He chooses. Why He is doing it, we do not know; He is doing it for one purpose only – that He may be able to say, This is My man, My woman. We have to be in God's hand so that He can plant men on the Rock as He has planted us.

Never choose to be a worker, but when God has put His call on you, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. He will do with you what He never did with you before the call came; He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.