5月24日 去神呼召你去的地方
去神呼召你去的地方
当你身处任何一个神没有呼召你去的地方，或从事任何一项神没有呼召你做的工时，你可以确信，神并不在那个地方或那项事业中。
如果你渴慕与神同行，就必须安守在神所命定的位分和呼召中。任何偏离这一方向的脚步，都是在背离祂。与其身处华美的宫殿却失去神的同在，何不宁愿安居在卑微之处，从事低微的呼召，并在那里享受神甘甜的同在呢？事实上，当你身处任何一个神没有呼召你去的地方，或从事任何一项神没有呼召你做的工时，你可以确信，神并不在那个地方或那项事业中。停留在这样一个你无法指望祂同在、无法祈求祂帮助或保护的地方，是何等狂妄而危险的冒险！
当我们履行自身职分的本分时，我们有天上的应许作为保障；但若偏离本位，我们便会面临天上话语给出的警告。去做神没有呼召我们做的事，与忽略神托付我们的本职工作同样危险。正如大地不能容忍可拉一党僭越权柄（民16:30-33），大海也不能容纳约拿这位逃跑的先知。狂暴的海拒绝成为他逃避神命令的通途，最终使约拿被抛入深渊（拿1:14-15）。同样，当天使离开神所指定的本位和职分时，连天也不再容纳他们（犹6）。
许多灵魂的毁灭，正是从这扇“僭越”的大门闯入的。他们先是擅离位份，接着便陷入更深的试探。押沙龙最初只是在野心的驱使下，越过篱笆窥探：他想作王！这种不安于本位的游荡欲望，引爆了叛乱、淫乱和谋杀等流血的罪行，最终将他交在神公义审判的手中。使徒保罗将“秩序”与“坚定”紧密相连：“我身子虽与你们相离，心却与你们同在，见你们循规蹈矩，信基督的心也坚固，我就欢喜了。”（西2:5）。惟有这样的军队是不可战胜的：每一个士兵都谨守岗位，忠于职守，并以神所赐的工作为满足。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：民33章，诗78:1-39，
个人灵修：赛25章，约壹3章
MAY 24, SUNDAY
GO WHERE GOD CALLS YOU
When you are in any place or about any work to which you are not called, you may be sure God is not in that place or enterprise.
If you love to walk in God’s company, you must abide in your place and calling. Every step in a different direction is a departure from Him. How much more blessed to stay at home in a humble place and low calling and there enjoy God’s sweet presence, than to go to a sumptuous palace and live without Him. Truly, when you are in any place or about any work to which you are not called, you may be sure God is not in that place or enterprise. And what a bold adventure it is to stay where you cannot expect His presence to assist or protect!
In doing the duty of our place we have heaven’s word for our security; but if we wander, we have heaven’s word for our peril. It is just as dangerous to do what we are not called to do as to neglect or leave undone the duty of our place. As the earth could not bear the act of Korah and his company in usurping another’s authority (Numbers 16:30–33), so the sea could not harbor Jonah, the runaway prophet. Refusing to be his escape route from God’s command, the raging sea caused Jonah to be cast overboard (Jonah 1:14—15). Nor would heaven harbor the angels once they had left their God-appointed place and office (Jude 6).
The ruin of many souls rushes in upon them at this door. First they break rank, then they are led further into temptation. Absalom first looked over the hedge in his ambitious thoughts: He would be a king! This wandering desire to go beyond his place let in the bloody sins of rebellion, incest, and murder, and these at last delivered him into the hands of divine vengeance. The apostle joins order to steadfastness: “I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith” (Colossians 2:5). That army alone is invincible in which every soldier stands in close order, attending to his duty and content with his work.