5月27日 在各方面警醒
在各方面警醒
凡事警醒乃是我们的本分，好叫神不致失去祂当得的赞美。没有任何一个举动会微不足道，以至于我们不能在其中服事神，或是服事魔鬼。
你若立志作基督真正的精兵，就要时刻警醒，不可懈怠。不要像慵懒的客旅那般躺卧在路旁；务要把休息的时刻留到你安然抵家、脱离一切危险之后。神直到最后一日的创造之工完成，才安息舒畅；照样，你也不当停止警醒与做工。你必须在各个方面全面警醒。
忠心的守望者会尽责地巡视，行遍全城。他绝不会将看守的范围局限于一两栋房屋。你也必须看守你的全人。你身上哪怕是一个毛孔，也足以成为疾病入侵的敞开的大门。同理，你灵魂的任何一种官能，或身体的任何一个肢体，都可能让仇敌乘虚而入，危及你的属灵福祉。令人扼腕的是，能在各个方面都保持警醒的人可谓寥寥无几。你或许在嘴唇的门口设立了守卫，不容污秽的言语出口；但你是否也在心门前警醒守望，确保它不致沾染私欲呢？（参 代下 23:6）也许你恪守己手未曾探入邻舍的钱袋，但你那嫉妒的心，是否暗自里眼红神所赐予他的福分呢？一个基督徒可能在某一项本分上非常谨慎，却在其他本分上陷入了虚假的安全感。
使徒既然吩咐我们“凡事谢恩”（帖前 5:18），那么凡事警醒乃是我们的本分，好叫神不致失去祂当得的赞美。没有任何一个举动会微不足道，以至于我们不能在其中服事神，或是服事魔鬼。在神所有的创造中，没有任何事物微小到不蒙祂护理的看顾，哪怕是一只麻雀或一根头发。同理，你的一言一行，也不当被视作细枝末节而疏于看守。耶稣曾说，凡人所说的闲话，当审判的日子，必要句句供出来（太12:36）。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：民36章，诗80章，
个人灵修：赛28章，约贰1章
MAY 27, WENDESDAY
BE VIGILANTIN ALL AREAS
It behooves us in everything to watch, so that God may not lose His praise. No action is so small but that in it we may do God or the devil some service.
If you want to be a true soldier for Christ, always remain watchful without slacking. Do not lie down by the wayside like a lazy traveler; reserve your resting time until you reach home and are out of all danger. God did not rest until the last day’s work in the creation was finished; neither should you cease to wake or work until you can say your salvation is complete. You must watch universally.
The honest watchman makes his rounds faithfully and compasses the whole town. He does not limit his care to only one or two houses. You also must watch over your entire being. A pore in your body is a door wide enough to let in a disease. Likewise, any one faculty of your soul or member of your body can let in an enemy that may endanger your spiritual welfare. It is said that so few are watchful in every area. You may set a watch at the door of your lips so that no impure communication comes out; but do you also keep watch at the door of your heart to see it is not defiled with lust (2 Chronicles 23:6)? Perhaps you keep your hand out of your neighbor’s purse, but does your envious heart begrudge him the blessings God has given him? The Christian who is truly scrupulous in one duty may be falsely secure in others.
If the apostle bids, “In everything give thanks” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), then it behooves us in everything to watch, so that God may not lose His praise. No action is so small but that in it we may do God or the devil some service. There is nothing in all God’s creation that is so insignificant His providence does not watch over it—even to a sparrow or a hair. By the same token, no word or work of yours should be thought too inconsequential to be watched over. Jesus said we would be judged by every idle word that we speak (Matthew 12:36).