1月8日 神为供应所定的安排
神为供应所定的安排
基督徒应当倚靠神的大能，因为神所定的安排是为了彰显神自己的荣耀。（参弗1:4、12）。
如果属灵的供应被交在我们自己手中，我们很快就会变成破产的商人。神深知我们的软弱，我们就像有裂缝的瓦罐，即便一时装满，但若即便是静置不动，里面的水也会很快漏光。因此，祂将我们安置在祂大能的泉源之下，不断地重新充满我们。这正是祂在旷野中为以色列人所作的供应：祂通过击打磐石不仅在当下解了以色列人的干渴，更将那水化作江河追随他们的脚步，以至于此后你再也听不到他们抱怨缺水。那磐石就是基督。每一位信徒身后都有基督的同行，在各样的境遇与试炼中，祂随时为祂的信徒预备充足的力量。
基督徒应当倚靠神的大能，因为神所定的安排是为了彰显神自己的荣耀。（弗1:4、12）。如果神在起初就赐下一笔终身够用的恩典，让你自行管理这笔属灵资产，你固然会觉得祂极其慷慨。但如今，祂为你开了一个随取随用的“活期账户”，这更使祂的名被尊为大。因为你不得不承认：你的力量是从神而来的，不仅是在起初，也是在你的整个信仰人生中，每一次的得力、每一次的站立、每一次的忍耐，你都在不断地向祂支取恩典、不断地欠着祂的债。这样一来，人就再没有任何空间可以自夸，只能承认一切都是出于神。
当孩子与父母一同出门旅行时，所有的花费都由父母承担，而不是孩子自己。同样地，没有一个圣徒在进入天上时会说：“这是天，是我靠自己的能力建造的。”不，“天上的耶路撒冷”乃是一座“有根基的城”，“是神所经营所建造的”（来11:10）。一切恩典，都是那座城中的一块块石头；最终的顶石，也要在荣耀中安放。有一天，圣徒将清清楚楚地看见：神不仅是这一切工作的创始者，也是完成这一切的供应者。这工作的荣耀，绝不会被切割分配，一部分归给神，一部分归给受造物；而是完全、全然地归于神。 “使祂荣耀的恩典得着称赞”（弗1:12）。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：创8章，太8章，
个人灵修：拉8章，徒8章
JANUARY 8, THURSDAY
GOD’S PLAN FOR PROVISION
“The Christian ought to rely on divine strength because this plan results in the greatest advancement
of God’s own glory” (see Ephesians 1:4, 12).
If the provisions were left in our own hands, we would soon be bankrupt merchants. God knows we are weak, like cracked pitchers—if filled to the brim and set aside, the contents would soon leak out. So He puts us under a flowing fountain of His strength and constantly refills us. This was the provision He made for Israel in the wilderness: He split the rock, and not only was their thirst quenched at that moment, but the water ran in a stream after them, so that you hear no more complaints for water. This rock was Christ. Every believer has Christ at his back, following him as he goes, with strength for every condition and trial.
The Christian ought to rely on divine strength because this plan results in the greatest advancement of God’s own glory (Ephesians 1:4, 12). If God had given you a lifetime supply of His grace to begin with and left you to handle your own account, you would have thought Him generous indeed. But He is magnified even more by the open account He sets up in your name. Now you must acknowledge not only that your strength comes from God in the first place, but that you are continually in debt for every withdrawal of strength you make throughout your Christian course.
When a child travels with his parents, all his expenses are covered by his father—not by himself. Likewise, no saint shall say of heaven when he arrives there, “This is heaven, which I have built by the power of my own might.” No, the heavenly Jerusalem is a city “whose builder and maker is God” (Hebrews 11:10). Every grace is a stone in that building, the topstone of which is laid in glory. Some day the saints shall plainly see how God was not only the founder to begin, but benefactor also to finish the same. The glory of the work will not be crumbled out piecemeal, some to God and some to the creature All will be entirely credited to God.