慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
尊貴祭司
經文: 「你求告我，我就應允你，並將你所不知道，又大又難的事，指示你。」（耶利米書卅三：3）
當你向上帝求恩典、能力，請思想新約中的應許：
（1）上帝是樂意施恩的上帝，這原是上帝的本性，祂那兒有豐盛的恩典，等著人向祂求取，歷代聖徒活生生的見證，有如雲彩般清晰可見。
（2）為何上帝的祝福常會遲延？我們要從這個角度想，上帝給人自由意志，人可以選擇做他愛做的事，同時，祂也要人做祂的禱告同工，藉著禱告，上帝要施恩成就人所祈求的。反之，人若不求，則上帝的能力就英雄無用武之地。因為上帝要看我們禱告的心有多少，祈求的心有多強。
（3）我們常常不禱告，或是很少禱告，這多麼令人傷心！今日教會荒涼、人心冷淡、不渴慕真理，都源於缺乏禱告，若上帝的百姓能熱心祈禱，緊緊地依靠上帝，教會必能興旺，人心必得改變。
（4）上帝的祝福往往與我們的信心與企圖心成正比，從我們實際的情形來看，我們微弱小信的禱告，還蒙上帝憐憫垂聽，若我們積極火熱的祈禱，上帝豈不更要垂聽應允。
（5）我們真該好好向上帝懺悔，我們禱告不力，讀經不勤，以致讓上帝的國度受虧損，上帝慈愛的心不斷召喚世人歸向祂，祂隨時願將救恩賞賜給眾人，但我們這些蒙恩的基督徒卻常常沒有全心投入聖工，沒有盡力為福音的聖工費心！多慚愧！
親愛的弟兄姐妹們，上帝需要你舉起聖潔的手，為眾人禱告，參與祂的聖工，你願為這榮耀祭司的呼召擺上嗎？再沒有一條路比這更蒙福的，因為上帝應許：「你求告我，我就應允你，並將你所不知道，又大又難的事，指示你。」（耶卅三：3）
無論你的意願如何，無論你向上帝委身的心有多少，讀到這裡，願讀者都有一顆順服的心，將代禱視為每天不可少的課題，常常來到上帝的施恩寶座前求告。面對為我們捨命的主，這要求太多了嗎？我們還能為主有所保留嗎？
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
Scripture: "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."—JER. xxxiii. 3
As you plead for the great mercies of the new covenant to be bestowed, take with you these thoughts:—
(1) The infinite willingness of God to bless. His very nature is a pledge of it. He delights in mercy. He waits to be gracious. His promises and the experience of His saints assure us of it.
(2) Why then does the blessing so often tarry? In creating man with a free will, and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited Himself. He made Himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing.
(3) Think how God is hindered and disappointed when His children do not pray, or pray but little. The low, feeble life of the Church, the lack of the power of the Holy Spirit for conversion and holiness, is all owing to the lack of prayer. How different would be the state of the Church and of heathendom, if God's people were to take no rest in calling upon Him!
(4) And yet God has blessed, just up to the measure of the faith and the zeal of His people. It is not for them to be content with this as a sign of His approval; but rather to say, If He has thus blessed our feeble efforts and prayers, what will He not do if we yield ourselves wholly to a life of intercession?
(5) What a call to pentinence and confession that our lack of consecration has kept back God's blessing from the world1 He was ready to save men, but we were not willing for the sacrifice of a whole-hearted devotion to Christ and His service.
Children of God, God counts upon you to take your place before His throne as intercessors. Awake, I pray you, to the consciousness of your holy calling as a royal priesthood. Begin to live a new life in the assurance that intercession, in the likeness and the fellowship with the Lord Jesus in heaven interceding, is the highest privilege a man can desire. In this spirit take up the word with large expectations: "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
Let each one who has read thus far, say whether he is not willing, whether he does not long to give himself wholly to this blessed calling, and in the power of Jesus Christ to make intercession, supplication for God's Church and people, and for a dying world, the one chief object of his life? Is this asking too much? Is it too much to yield your life for this holy service of the royal priesthood, to that blessed Lord who gave Himself for us?
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