双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：6月13日 最高使命

6月13日

最高使命

“这样，你们无论什么人，若不撇下一切所有的，就不能作我的门徒。」”

路加福音14:33

如果我早晨离开房间之前，没有安静祷告，我这一天就不对劲，我的事工也会受到影响。我没有与基督亲密同行，没有亲密的交通。

我们需要花时间祷告、读经，最重要的是训练我们的心智。圣经说，“坚心倚赖你的，你必保守他十分平安”（赛26:3）我们应当习惯于把我们的心思意念专注在基督的身上。

让祂管住你的舌头，把它钉在十字架上。圣经说，我们的舌头很危险。“舌头就是火，在我们百体中，舌头是个罪恶的世界，能污秽全身，也能把生命的轮子点起来，并且是从地狱里点着的。”（雅各书3:6）管好你嘴里的这个小东西，把它钉在十字架上。

还要管好自己的眼睛，就像约伯所说：“我与眼睛立约，怎能恋恋瞻望处女呢？”（约伯记31:1）列出一个单子，有关你生活的方方面面，对神说：主啊，靠着你的恩典，我的老我已在罪中死去，我把这些都钉在十字架上。我与祢一同钉在十字架上。这就是圣经所说的，“若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行，必要活着。”（罗马书8:13）

你知道列宁怎么说共产主义者吗？他说，共产主义者奋斗不息，将生命置之度外。这正是我们基督徒所应该做到的。我们应该过律己的生活，跟随耶稣，常被圣灵充满。圣灵充满的生命才能结出圣灵的果子。当你的心被基督的宝血洁净了，你把自己完全降服在主的面前，你才可以因着信说你被圣灵充满了。

当美标石油公司在远东地区招聘一名代表时，他们找到一名传教士，提出一万美金的薪酬。传教士拒绝了。他们提高薪酬到两万五，又被拒绝。他们提高到五万美金，还是被拒绝。他们问：“有什么问题吗？”传教士说：“你们的价格没有问题，只是你们的工作微不足道。”神已经呼召他做传教士。这是最崇高的使命。

今日祷告：

天父，我为祢献上自己。帮助我们都愿为祢献上自己，在我们所做的一切事上荣耀祢的名；奉耶稣的名，阿们。

June 13

THE HIGHEST CALLING

So likewise,whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath,he cannot be my disciple.Luke 14:33

If I leave my room in the morning without my quiet time,my day is all wrong,my ministry curtailed.I have no close walk,no intimate fellowship with Christ.

We need to have our time of prayer,our time of Bible reading,and above all discipline our minds.The Bible says much about the mind.“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.”We should make it a habit to center our minds on the Person of Christ.

Let Him take your tongue and nail it to the Cross.The Scripture says that we smite with the tongue.“And the tongue is a fire,a world of iniquity:so is the tongue among our members,that it defileth the whole body,and setteth on fire the course of nature;and it is set on fire of hell”(James 3:6).Take this little muscle of yours in your mouth and nail it to the Cross.

Take those eyes of yours and say with Job,“I’ve made a covenant with my eyes.”Make a list of every area of your life and say,“O Lord,by Thy grace,I reckon myself dead indeed unto sin,I nail these things to the Cross,I identify myself with Thee at the Cross.”That is what the Scripture means when it says,“But if they Spirit you put to death decisively the deeds of the body,ye shall live”(Romans 8:13).

Do you know what Lenin said about a Communist?He said,“A Communist is a dead man on furlough.”That’s exactly what we ought to be for Jesus Christ-men and women who are living disciplined lives,men and women who are following Christ in a Spirit-filled life.The Spirit-filled life produces the fruit of the Spirit.Having had your heart cleansed by the blood of Christ,having submitted and yielded every area of your life to Him,you can claim by faith to be filled with the Spirit.

When the Standard Oil Company was looking for a representative in the Far East,they approached a missionary and offered him$10,000.He turned down the offer.They raised it to$25,000,and he turned it down again.They raised it to$50,000 and he rejected it once more.

“What’s wrong?”they asked.

He replied,“Your price is all right,but your job is too small.”God had called him to be a missionary,and that was the highest calling.

Pray for the Day:

Father,I lay down my life for You.Help us to lay down our lives for You and to glorify Your Name in all that we do;in Jesus’Name.