慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
君尊的祭司
經文: 「你們是被揀選的族類，是有君尊的祭司。」（彼得前書二：9）
天國的觀念是舊約的中心思想，而祭司的地位卻是新約強調的重點。
教會荒涼、信徒靈命冷淡的主要原因之一，就是信徒誤認為上帝救贖的目的，就是要基督徒得永生而已，這實在是大錯特錯。上帝恩典的目的，應該是更神聖、更長遠，祂拯救我們為的是要我們再去拯救別人，每個信徒都應該有還債的心態，要把白白得來的恩典，與他人分享，告訴別人如何得著新生命。
蒙恩得救的基督徒，背著一個神聖的呼召，就是要做上帝恩典流通的管道，讓別人能藉我蒙福。得救不是意謂著拿到天國的護照，就等著死後上天堂。教會應該教導這真理：「得救乃是要服事上帝，帶領更多人認識主，因為你們是君尊的祭司。」
君尊的祭司！這是怎樣一個慈悲為懷的心腸，滿腔奔騰的熱血，為要帶領更多人搭上福音列車，贏得更多人進入天國。我們傳福音有兩個動機：一是為了愛耶穌，所以我領人歸主，來取悅祂，尊榮祂。二是為了愛別人靈魂，不忍心看到他們到地獄受苦，所以我願犧牲一切，為要讓他們知道天堂的美好，與死後靈魂的去處。
祭司的心是怎樣的呢？他一想到尚未得救的人，就心如火燒，迫使他常常來到上帝寶座前，為這些未得救的靈魂，流淚禱告，切切代求。在祭司的心中，有大祭司耶穌的生命在裡面，所以他有不斷為人代禱祈求的熱誠，也有結出福音果子的能力。
「喔！上帝的靈哪！求您賜給我那樣火熱的心，且以慈愛的手，刻下那永不磨滅的囑咐在我心版上：『君尊的祭司。』奉主耶穌聖名，阿們！」
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
Scripture: "Ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood."—1 PET. ii. 9.
In the Old Testament the thought of the kingdom took the first place; in the New Testament prominence is given to that of Priesthood.
One of the chief reasons for the feeble life in the Church is the mistaken idea that man's happiness is the main object of God's grace. A fatal error! God's aim is far holier and far higher. He saves men on purpose that they in turn shall carry out His purpose in saving their fellow-men. Each believer is appointed to be the means of imparting to others the new life he has received.
Those who are saved have the holy calling of being channels of God's grace to others. The feeble state of the Church is largely due to the fact that most Christians imagine that their chief concern is to desire and receive sufficient grace to reach heaven after death. The Church must so proclaim the Gospel that each saved soul shall apprehend its message, "Saved to serve," "saved to save others." "Ye are a royal priesthood."
A royal priesthood! The priestly heart is above all things a sympathetic heart, in which the love of Christ constrains us to win souls for Him. And that by virtue of two compelling motives : love to Christ, whom I shall please and honor in winning others to love Him; and love for souls, which will constrain me to sacrifice everything that others may share this heavenly life.
A priestly heart! A heart that has access to God in prayer and intercession for those who are yet unconverted. A priestly heart that, having pleaded in prayer for souls, has courage to speak to them of Christ. A priestly heart—in which the life of Jesus, the Great High Priest who ever liveth to make intercession, is continued, and His power to save to the uttermost is manifested. O Spirit of God, write upon my hea'rt, with indelible letters, "A royal priesthood."
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