經文: 「我終身的事在祢手中。」— [聖經·詩篇 31章15a節]
終身的事意謂著一生的事，「是的，我每一天的時間，都屬乎祢，祢有權使喚我，我完全地將自己委身與祢，任憑主差遣。」若我們全心全意地將自己擺在祭壇上，讓這一生由主使用，那將成就何等大的事啊！
時間是一切事情的主宰，世界局勢及歷史的推展，就是最好的明證，上帝的手慢慢地又穩定地推動歷史的齒輪，朝祂預定的計劃滾動且絕不誤事。我們從歷史的軌跡到目前的現況，豈不見聖經預言都一樣一樣地應驗了；上帝的確是行動的上帝，是全地的主，人類歷史的掌權者。
就個人的成長過程而言，時間仍扮演重要的因素，想想看一個嬰孩如何長大，智慧與身量如何漸趨成熟，這都歸功於時間的推移；一切人為的努力與成就，也是需要付上時間的代價，因此時間是一切事情的基本要素。
在信仰的事上也是如此，要親近上帝向祂禱告，需要花時間。啊！與祂同在的時間何等甘甜！何等蒙福！與祂親近就如同敞著臉仰望太陽，逐漸被改變成祂的形象，因著與上帝連結，就得著足夠的能力來服事祂。這一切都在於一個條件，就是要分別一段時間給耶穌，讓我們整個浸沐在上帝的愛與光中，使我們有份於祂的生命與情感。總之，我們必須花時間來親近上帝、等候主。
然而有許多熱心服事主的僕人，坦誠他們靈性生活軟弱、工作沒什麼效果，實在是因為沒有每天來到主耶穌腳前，讀祂的話及向祂禱告。為什麼會有這樣情況？說穿了就是對上帝的信心不夠，不相信這段「分別為聖」的時間是有價值的，不相信上帝要祝福這段與祂在「密室獨處」的時間，藉著祂同在的力量，能使他們一整天都活在祂的愛與光中。
喔！親愛的弟兄姐妹，有人抱怨太多的服事，使得他們靈修時間不夠，以致工作的效果不彰；但我們是不是應該把每天的時間表呈在主耶穌面前，求祂親自來鑑察、親自來調整，使我們所行的合乎祂的心意，如此你將會有新的生活開展在你的面前，印證聖經的真理：「上帝哪！我終身的事在祢手中。」
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 7月24日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
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『 The Power of Time 』
Scripture: “My times are in Thy hand.” — [Psalms 31:15a]
The plural implies the singular: “My time is in Thy hand. It belongs to Thee; Thou alone hast a right to command it. I yield it wholly and gladly to Thy disposal.” What mighty power time can exert if wholly given up to God!
Time is lord of all things. What is all the history of the world but a proof of how, slowly but surely, time has made man what he is today? All around us we see the proofs. In the growth of the child of manhood, both physically and mentally, in the success in every pursuit, in all our labours and all our attainments, it is under the law of time and its inconceivable power that we spend our lives.
This is specially true in religion and the intercourse with God. Time here too is master. What fellowship with God! What holiness and blessedness! What likeness to His image, and what power in His service for blessing to men! – all on the one condition: that we have sufficient time with God for His holiness to shine on us with its light and its heat, and to make us partakers of His Spirit and His life. The very essence of religion lies in the thought: Time with God. And yet how many of God’s servants there are who, while giving their lives to His service, frankly confess that the feebleness of their spiritual life as missionaries, and the inadequate results of mission work as a whole, are due to the failure to make the leisure, and, when secured, rightly to use it, for daily communion with God,
What can be the cause at the back of this sad confession? Nothing but a lack of faith in the God-given assurance that time spent alone with God will indeed bring into the lives of His servants the power to enable them to use all their time in His fellowship that His abiding presence will be with them all the day.
Oh, my brother, who complainest that overwork, or too much zeal in doing the work, is hindering thy spiritual efficiency, do you not see that if you would but submit your time-table to the inspection of Christ and His Holy Spirit, you would find that a new life would be yours if you fully believed and put into daily practice the word: “My time is in Thy hand.”
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 24 July 」
