4月14日
章伯斯原著 | 听见录制 | 主播:胡正军
你们当负我的轭,学我的样式。(太11:29) “主所爱的祂必管教。”我们为何常发怨言!主带我们到一个地步,叫我们与祂相交,我们却唏嘘悲叹地说:“主啊,让我像别人一样吧!” 耶稣要我们担着轭的一头——“我的轭是容易的,来我这边,我们一起挑吧。”你对主耶稣是否认同?若然,你会为祂所加给你的压力而感激神。 “软弱的,祂加力量。”神一来,就把我们从感情的枷锁中释放出来,使我们的怨声化为颂赞。而唯一能认识神能力的,就是负主的轭,学祂的样式。 “因靠耶和华而得的喜乐是你们的力量。”圣徒的喜乐从何而来? 我们若不认识某些圣徒,我们会以为:“哈,他(她)什么重担也没有。”若把面纱揭开,神的平安、喜乐赫然在他身上,就足以证明担子也在那里。 神所加给的担子,会把葡萄压榨成酒;但人多半只看见所榨出来的酒。天上地下没有任何权势,足以征服住在人心灵里的圣灵。因那是内心的得胜者。 你里面若有怨叹,要不留情地把它踢走。在神的能力上软弱,简直是一种罪行。 ▼
祈祷
噢,主啊,在祢面前,我就像一个具有人形、内里却是丑陋而不毛的旷野;然而,赞美祢的名,因祢能够使“旷野和干旱之地必然欢喜;……又像玫瑰花开。”
图片来源:网络 Inner Invincibility “Whom the Lord loves He chastens…” (Hebrews 12:6). How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us to the point where we can have fellowship with Him, only to hear us moan and groan, saying, “Oh Lord, just let me be like other people!” Jesus is asking us to get beside Him and take one end of the yoke, so that we can pull together. That’s why Jesus says to us, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). Are you closely identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God when you feel the pressure of His hand upon you. “…to those who have no might He increases strength” (Isaiah 40:29). God comes and takes us out of our emotionalism, and then our complaining turns into a hymn of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and to learn from Him. “…the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). Where do the saints get their joy? If we did not know some Christians well, we might think from just observing them that they have no burdens at all to bear. But we must lift the veil from our eyes. The fact that the peace, light, and joy of God is in them is proof that a burden is there as well. The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility. If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God’s strength.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me… —Matthew 11:29