3月9日 灵性的倒退

你们也要去吗？（约六67）

多刺透人心的问题。主最深入人心的话，往往是最简单的话。我们虽然知道耶稣是谁，但他仍然要问：“你们也要去吗？”对主我们必须时刻持着敢作敢为的态度。“从此他门徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。”他们转身不与耶稣同行，并不回去犯罪，只是回复原形，依然故我。今日不少人为主作工竭尽心力，可是并没有他同行。神要我们持守的，是要我们与耶稣基督合一。成圣之后，属灵生命的操练是循这方向走。神若在你心中清楚地启示他的心意，你不要用什么特别的方法去保持与神的关系，只要顺其自然地、完全靠赖耶稣基督而生活。与神同行的生活除了依循神的路径之外，万不能别开蹊径。这条路就是要绝对忠心爱他。我真知道自己无知——这就是与主同行的秘诀了。

彼得只看见耶稣是他的救主，是世人的救主。但主却要我们与他同负一轭。在第70节耶稣答复了彼得的问话，填补他想法上的漏洞。我们不可以代人作答。

祈祷◆主啊，对于住在我里面的基督，我所给予的滋养是何其短缺；噢，主啊，赦免我。求你让我深深地感受到你的宽恕，以致我不单为着你的救恩而喜乐，更让你的灵充满这里的工作。

March 9: The Time Of Relapse

“Will ye also go away?” John 6:67

A penetrating question. Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way. We know Who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says – “Will ye also go away?” We have to maintain a venturing attitude toward Him all the time.

“From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him.” They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed. Many to-day are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. The one thing God keeps us to steadily is that we may be one with Jesus Christ. After sanctification the discipline of our spiritual life is along this line. If God gives a clear and emphatic realization to your soul of what He wants, do not try to keep yourself in that relationship by any particular method, but live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him. The certainty that I do not know – that is the secret of going with Jesus.

Peter only saw in Jesus Someone to minister salvation to him and to the world. Our Lord wants us to be yoke-fellows with Him.

v. 70. Jesus answers the great lack in Peter. We cannot answer for others.