💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220612『跟隨主-Follow Jesus』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「耶穌看著他，就愛他，對他說：你還缺少一件；去變賣你所有的，分給窮人，就必有財寶在天上；你還要來跟從我。」— [聖經·馬可福音 10章21節]

當耶穌對少年官說了這些話，這少年人就憂憂愁愁地走了。耶穌說：「有錢財的人進上帝的國，是何等難哪！」(馬可福音 10章23節)，門徒們對耶穌所說的話極為訝異不解，當耶穌第二次重覆祂所說的話，門徒更狐疑訝異：「這樣誰能得救呢？」，耶穌說：「在人是不能，在上帝卻不然，因為上帝凡事都能。」(馬可福音 10章27節)。

從人的角度看，主耶穌提到背十字架；另外又藉著少年官的例子，耶穌從上帝的角度說明若要進天國，人要甘心樂意捨棄所有，才配得進天國。當門徒彼得率先承認耶穌是上帝的兒子時，耶穌對彼得說：「因為這不是屬血肉的指示你的，乃是我在天上的父指示的。」(馬太福音 16章17節)，由此耶穌向我們道出一個奧秘的真理：惟有靠著屬天的幫助，人才能背起自己的十字架，才願意恨惡老我的生命；並且為了耶穌的緣故，捨棄自己的生命。

眾人都想跟隨耶穌和順服祂的旨意，卻發現做不到；眾人也覺得當基督徒的標準太高了，又沒有決心完全捨棄倒空自己，對上帝無條件的降服，以致過著矛盾歉疚的生活，這絕非上帝所樂見的。

讓我們從本課的經文學得教導：明白走十字架的道路是意謂著什麼，同時相信惟有信靠永活的真神，並相信聖靈要作工在我們心中且加添我們力量，使我們肯捨棄一切，單單跟隨耶穌背十字架的佳美腳蹤而行。

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月12日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

『 Follow Jesus 』

Scripture: “Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him, and said: ‘One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.'” — [Mark 10:21]

When Christ spoke these words to the young ruler, he went away grieved. Jesus said: “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God!” The disciples were astonished at His words. When Christ repeated once again what He had said, they were astonished out of measure. “Who then can be saved?” “Jesus looking upon them said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”

Christ had spoken about bearing the cross from the human side, as the one condition of discipleship. Here with the rich young ruler He reveals from the side of God what is needed to give men the will and the power thus to sacrifice all, if they were to enter the Kingdom. He said to Peter, when he had confessed Him as Christ, the Son of God, that flesh and blood had not revealed it unto him, but his Father in heaven, to remind him and the other disciples that it was only by Divine teaching that he could make the confession. So here with the ruler, He unveils the great mystery that it is only by Divine power that a man can take up his cross, can lose his life, can deny himself and hate the life to which he is by nature so attached.

What multitudes have sought to follow Christ and obey His injunction, and have found that they have utterly failed! What multitudes have felt that Christ’s claims were beyond their reach and have sought to be Christians without any attempt at the wholehearted devotion and the entire self-denial which Christ asks for!

Let us in our study of what the fellowship of the cross means take to-day’s lesson to heart, and believe that it is only by putting our trust in the living God and the mighty power in which He is willing to work in the heart, that we can attempt to be disciples who forsake all and follow Christ in the fellowship of His cross.

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 12 June 」