9月27日 “去”的放棄
你無論往那裡去，我要跟從你。（路九57）
主叫這人極度的洩氣，他用這個態度是因為他知道人心。我們會說：“多可惜，失去了得著那個人的機會！”“竟用北風把他凍結，叫他沮喪而回。”不必為你的主抱歉。主的話往往頂撞刺傷，知道無可再頂撞刺傷。主耶穌對那些至終摧毀人事奉神的東西，絕不憐惜呵護。主的回答不是順口而出，乃是根據他對人內心的認識而說。若神的靈叫你想起主一句刺傷你的話，那麼一定有什麼東西，是主想戳傷至死地的。
第58節 這幾句話，對那為悅己心而事奉主的人是當頭棒喝。棄絕的要求是嚴峻的，最後只剩下我的主，我，和一個孤絕的盼望。“讓那一百倍去或留，你的目標必須是我與你的關係，而我沒有枕頭的地方。”
第59節 這人不想令耶穌失望，也不想傷父親的心。我們會把對家人敏感的忠誠，替代了對主耶穌的忠誠，主耶穌竟排在末位。在效忠的矛盾裡，必須不惜代價順服主。
第61節 有人說：“主，我要跟從你，但……”這人準備齊全了，卻從不出發。他還有一兩項保留。主耶穌肯定的呼召是沒有話別的餘地，因為話別往往出於不信者，而非信徒。神的呼召一來，就要出發，不可止步。
祈禱◆我們感謝你，因為在你裡面沒有永別。我們向你祈求，願你的冠冕和印記臨到我們每個人，直至我們能面對面地見你。
September
27 The “Go” Of Renunciation
“Lord, I will follow Thee
whithersoever Thou goest.” Luke 9:57
Our Lord’s attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement
because He knew what was in man. We would have said – “Fancy losing the
opportunity of winning that man!” Fancy bringing about him a north wind that
froze him and “turned him away discouraged!” Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend
until there is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness
whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service
of God. Our Lord’s answers are based not on caprice, but on a knowledge of what
is in man. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that
hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.
V. 58. These words knock the heart out of serving
Jesus Christ because it is pleasing to me. The rigour of rejection leaves
nothing but my Lord, and myself, and a forlorn hope. “Let the hundredfold come
or go, your lodestar must be your relationship to Me, and I have nowhere to lay
My head.”
v. 59. This man did not want to disappoint Jesus,
nor to hurt his father. We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of
loyalty to Jesus Christ and Jesus has to take the last place. In a conflict of
loyalty, obey Jesus Christ at all costs.
V. 61. The one who says – “Yes, Lord, but . . .” is
the one who is fiercely ready, but never goes. This man had one or two
reservations. The exacting call of Jesus Christ has no margin of good-byes,
because good-bye, as it is often used, is pagan, not Christian. When once the
call of God comes, begin to go and never stop going.
