5月14日 逆来顺受的习惯

使耶稣的生，也显明在我们身上。（林后四10）

要养成述说神在我们身上所成就的恩典的习惯。这不是从地狱里得拯救的问题，而是我们得救之后，在肉身上如何彰显神儿子的生命问题。在不愉快的事上，正显示我们有没有彰显神的生命。我是流露神儿子的温良，还是表现离开神后自我的怒气？唯一令我欣然接受不愉快的事情的，就是神儿子的生命在我身上彰显的热切期望。不管事情多么不如意，只要说：“主，我乐意在这事上遵从你。”神儿子即时就会出现，在我的生命中彰显祂的荣耀。

千万不可迟疑，一旦你顺服那光，神的儿子就从那里透射出来。要是你心里争辩，就必叫圣灵担忧。你必须保持内在情况良好，让神儿子的生命彰显出来。若给自怜留地步，你就不健康了。我们生活的环境，是表彰神儿子何等完全、何等圣洁的机会。什么事情叫你心慌意乱，就是表彰神又一新的机会。自己选择不愉快的事与因神的安排而有不愉快的事，是截然不同的。若神放在你那里，祂是绰有裕余地供应你。

保持心灵健壮，好彰显神儿子的生命。不可沉湎在记忆里，让神的话活泼有力地活在你里面吧！

祈祷◆噢，主啊，求祢今天向我们彰显祢的生命。让这里的每一个人，开始呼吸到自由的空气，并归向祢，在敬虔和恩典中得以坚固。

May 14 The Habit Of Enjoying The Disagreeable

“That life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” 2 Corinthians 4:10

We have to form habits to express what God's grace has done in us. It is not a question of being saved from hell, but of being saved in order to manifest the life of the Son of God in our mortal flesh, and it is the disagreeable things which make us exhibit whether or not we are manifesting His life. Do I manifest the essential sweetness of the Son of God, or the essential irritation of “myself” apart from Him? The only thing that will enable me to enjoy the disagreeable is the keen enthusiasm of letting the life of the Son of God manifest itself in me. No matter how disagreeable a thing may be, say – “Lord, I am delighted to obey Thee in this matter,” and instantly the Son of God will press to the front, and there will be manifested in my human life that which glorifies Jesus.

There must be no debate. The moment you obey the light, the Son of God presses through you in that particular; but if you debate you grieve the Spirit of God. You must keep yourself fit to let the life of the Son of God be manifested, and you cannot keep yourself fit if you give way to self-pity. Our circumstances are the means of manifesting how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure the Son of God is. The thing that ought to make the heart beat is a new way of manifesting the Son of God. It is one thing to choose the disagreeable, and another thing to go into the disagreeable by God's engineering. If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.

Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.