Daily Devotion - Feb 23 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

不住的禱告

經文: 「不住的禱告。」（帖撒羅尼迦前書五：17）

關於愛上帝、服事上帝的標準，一般基督徒的想法與聖經的要求，有頗大的出入。我們以為只要罪得赦免，生活喜樂平安就可以了，殊不知上帝要我們絕對順服，主權轉移，將我們的時間、金錢與才能，都獻在這位榮耀救主的腳前，而我們如此向救主委身愛慕時，正是天堂的開始。

當我們還在救恩門口徘徊觀望，不願全然委身時，我們尚未嚐到主恩甘甜的滋味，也不明白「不住禱告」的真義，覺得那是過高的要求，無法做到。但對基督徒而言，與主相近傾心吐意的禱告，不但是人間至樂，也能為周圍的人帶來福份，可謂一舉兩得。

「不住禱告」，讓我們以更大的信心，接受這應許。知道上帝大能的膀臂必要做工，祂要創造我們，成為上議兒子的形像。也求上帝給我們清楚的異象，守住天國來的呼召，藉著我們不斷的祈禱代求，周圍的人要藉我們得福。

當我們想到耶穌曾說：「我在祂裡面，祂也在我裡面。」我們就要感恩，相信天父在耶穌裡面，耶穌也要在我們裡面做工，引導我們常在聖靈裡禱告，使我們有份於祭司的聖職，常為眾人代求代禱，這樣的特權是何等榮幸，因著我們願意學習活出耶穌的形像，就應驗聖經所說的話：「這新人是照著祂的形像造的，有真理的仁義和聖潔。」（弗四：24）


UNCEASING INTERCESSION

Scripture: "Pray without ceasing."—1 THESS. v. 17.

How different is the standard of the average Christian, with regard to a life in the service of God, from that which Scripture gives us. In the former the chief thought is, personal safety—grace to pardon our sin and to live such a life as may secure our entrance into heaven. How high above this is the Bible standard—a Christian surrendering himself with all his powers, with his time and thought and love wholly yielded to the glorious God who has redeemed him, and Whom he now delights in serving, in Whose fellowship is heaven begun.
To the former the command, "Pray without ceasing," is simply a needless and impossible life of perfection. Who can do it? We can get to heaven without it. To the true believer, on the contrary, it holds out the promise of the highest happiness, of a life crowned by all the blessings that can be brought down on souls around through his intercession. And as he perseveres it becomes increasingly his highest aim upon earth, his highest joy, his highest experience of the wonderful fellowship with the holy God.
"Pray without ceasing," Let us take that word in a large faith, as a promise of what God's Spirit will work in us, of how close and intimate our union to the Lord Jesus can be, and our likeness to Him, in His ever blessed intercession at the right hand of God. Let it become to us one of the chief elements of our heavenly calling, to be consciously the stewards and administrators of God's grace to the world around us. As we think of how Christ said, "I in them, and Thou in Me," let us believe that just as the Father worked in Him, so Christ the interceding High Priest will work and pray in us. As the faith of our high calling nils our hearts, we shall begin literally to feel that there is nothing on earth for one moment to be compared with the privilege of being God's priests, walking without intermission in His holy presence, bringing the burden of the souls around us to the footstool of His throne, and receiving at His hands the power and blessing to dispense to our fellow-men.
This is indeed the fulfilment of the word of old, "Man created in the likeness and the image of God."


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