1月15日
标 题：乐意事奉
经 节：当你掌权的日子，你的民要以圣洁的妆饰为衣，甘心牺牲自己；你的民多如清晨的甘露。（诗篇一一○篇3节）
当神的权能临及祂的百姓时，神的百姓乐意奉献生命，这是复兴的其中一个标记。许多教会缺乏人手愿意传达神的救赎大工，许多宣教工厂需要基督徒，将福音介绍给那些从未听过基督的人们。一再恳求人们志愿参加事奉作义工，不是我们的需要。我们真正的需要是神倾泻而出的大能。当神的大能临及祂的百姓时，神的工作从来不缺人手或者是资源不足。
现代基督徒最关心的事，是自己属灵生活的成长，宣教根本上不了他们所关心事物的排行榜。这是因为我们已忘了神当初对我们的呼召。我们由罪中得释放，并非单为了自己够格上天堂。神拯救我们，是为了与我们创建关系，借着这个关系，祂能进一步拯救这迷失的世界。
只有神的大能可以把我们由自我中心的本性中释放出来，使我们再一次转向神的使命。我们不需要祷告求神的大能降临，祂的降临一定带着大能。我们需要持有一颗愿意回应的心，让祂能够在我们的生命彰显祂的大能。你的心是否充满对神的热爱？你是否愿意马上抓住机会，像以赛亚一样地说：“我在这里，请差遣我”？
Compelled to Serve
Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power. (Psalms 110:3)
One mark of revival, during which God comes to His people in power, is that God’s people are compelled to offer their lives for His service. Many churches lack people who are willing to get involved in carrying out God’s redemptive work. The mission fields are crying out for Christians to go and share the gospel with those who’ve never heard it. What we need is not more pleas for volunteers, but an outpouring of the power of God. When God comes among His people in power, there is never a shortage of volunteers or resources for His work!
When Christians today are asked what aspects of the Christian life are most important to them, missions is not usually ranked as a priority. This is because we have lost track of why God called us in the first place. We were not saved from our sin simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a lost world.
Only the power of God can free us from our natural self-centeredness and reorient us toward the mission of God. There is no need to pray that God would come in power. That is the only way He ever comes. We need hearts that are so responsive to Him that He will choose to demonstrate His power through us. Is your heart so filled with love for God that you are watching for the first opportunity to say with Isaiah, “Here am I. Send me!”?
