10月26日 宣教士是什么？

“父怎样差遣了我，我也照样差遣你们。”约 20：21

宣教士是被耶稣所差遣的人，正如耶稣被神差遣一样。最重要的不是人的需要，而是耶稣的命令。激励我们为神工作的根源是在后面，而不是在前面。今日的趋势是将激励放在前面，把每一件事带到我们面前，使其达到我们对胜利的看法。在新约里面，激励是放在我们后头，就是主耶稣。目标是向他真诚，实现他的事业。

一定不可以忽视个人对主耶稣和他的观点的忠诚。在宣教事业中，很大的危险是神的呼召被人的需要逐渐削弱，以致人的同情心绝对地压倒了被耶稣差遣的意义。需要是如此巨大，环境是如此令人困惑，以致我们心思里的所有力量都动摇和失败。我们忘记了在所有宣教事业背后最大的原因首先不是人的高尚，不是人的教育，也不是满足他们的需要；居首位的和最重要的是耶稣基督的命令－－“所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒。”（太28：19）

当回过头来看属神的男女的生平，趋向说－－“他们有何等奇妙机敏的智慧！他们如此完全地明白神的旨意！”其实这机敏的心思乃是神的心思，根本不是人的智慧。我们本当信任神的属天指引的时候，我们却信任人的智慧；神藉着小孩子一样的人来引导我们，他们是“愚拙”而完全信靠神的智慧和他超自然才能的人。

祈祷◆主啊，求你今天在我的祷告、敬拜和工作中，以你的灵重新膏抹我，以致在一切事情上，你都可以得居优越的位置。

October 26 What Is A Missionary?

“As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.” John 20:21

A missionary is one sent by Jesus Christ as He was sent by God. The great dominant note is not the needs of men, but the command of Jesus. The source of our inspiration in work for God is behind, not before. The tendency to-day is to put the inspiration ahead, to sweep everything in front of us and bring it all out to our conception of success. In the New Testament the inspiration is put behind us, the Lord Jesus. The ideal is to be true to Him, to carry out His enterprises.

Personal attachment to the Lord Jesus and His point of view is the one thing that must not be overlooked. In missionary enterprise the great danger is that God's call is effaced by the needs of the people until human sympathy absolutely overwhelms the meaning of being sent by Jesus. The needs are so enormous, the conditions so perplexing, that every power of mind falters and fails. We forget that the one great reason underneath all missionary enterprise is not first the elevation of the people, nor the education of the people, nor their needs; but first and foremost the command of Jesus Christ – “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.”

When looking back on the lives of men and women of God the tendency is to say – What wonderfully astute wisdom they had! How perfectly they understood all God wanted! The astute mind behind is the Mind of God, not human wisdom at all. We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the Divine guidance of God through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God's wisdom and the supernatural equipment of God.