3月5日 祂真是主吗？

只要（“喜乐地”，英文译本）行完我的路程，成就我从主耶稣所领受的职事。（徒二十24）

喜乐的意思，是我能圆满地完成被造和重生的目的，而不是因为成功地完成一件事。我们主的喜乐，就是在于遵行父神的旨意，他说：“我父怎样差遣了我，我也照样差遣你们。”我有从主接受职事吗？若有，我必须忠于所托，将生命的价值完全放在达成那使命上面。想想当主对你说：“好，你这又良善又忠心的仆人。”你会何等的心满意足，因已完成主差你去做的事。我们必须寻找人生的岗位，在属灵上说，就是寻找主托付你的是什么。要达成所托，就必须与主同行；要更深认识他，不单是把他作为个人的救主。“我也要指示他，为我的名必须受许多的苦。”“你爱我吗？”然后，“你喂养我的羊。”事奉是不容你取舍的，只有绝对效忠于主；效忠于你最贴近神时所领受的。若你从耶稣接受了一项事奉，就会知道需要并不等于呼召，需要乃是机会，呼召则是忠于你与主相交时所领受的。这并不是说，从此有无数的事奉要划分出来给你，而是你要撇开其他方面事奉的需求。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，恳求你继续赐下力量和纯真的喜乐。让我的动机和心思都能够保持谦卑，不会自以为是优越的人。

March 5th. Is He Really Lord?

“. . . so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 20:24

Joy means the perfect fulfilment of that for which I was created and regenerated, not the successful doing of a thing. The joy Our Lord had lay in doing what the Father sent Him to do, and He says – “As My Father hath sent Me, even so am I sending you.” Have I received a ministry from the Lord? If so, I have to be loyal to it, to count my life precious only for the fulfilling of that ministry. Think of the satisfaction it will be to hear Jesus say – “Well done, good and faithful servant”; to know that you have done what He sent you to do. We have all to find our niche in life, and spiritually we find it when we receive our ministry from the Lord. In order to do this we must have companied with Jesus; we must know Him as more than a personal Saviour. “I will show him how great things he must suffer for My sake.”

“Lovest thou Me?” Then – “Feed My sheep.” There is no choice of service, only absolute loyalty to Our Lord's commission; loyalty to what you discern when you are in closest contact with God. If you have received a ministry from the Lord Jesus, you will know that the need is never the call: the need is the opportunity. The call is loyalty to the ministry you received when you were in real touch with Him. This does not imply that there is a campaign of service marked out for you, but it does mean that you will have to ignore the demands for service along other lines.