Aug 11, 2009

Do You Have Your Own Jesus?

Posted on 4:35 PM by Jeng-Bang

by Jeng-Bang

以下是從 “Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal” (by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns with Tim Luke)這本書所節錄出來的一段話:


Recently, I've been learning some hard lessons. First, I can't forge spiritual transformation or growth. I'm not the Holy Spirit. I can teach biblical truths and try to reach people through song, but I can't make someone listen or even care — let alone change. My responsibility is to tell the truth in love as God grants the opportunity.

Second, many of us believers, even longtime members of the body of Christ, have genuine faith but parasitic practices. Sometimes our only experiences with God have trickled down secondhand from the lives of more mature believers. What we know of an authentic walk with God actually belongs to someone else — it isn't grounded in our own experience of God.

Is your walk with Jesus Christ characterized by personal faith, personal prayer, personal study, and personal disciplines? Or do you get by with the overflow from more mature Christians? Do you have your own Jesus?

© 2009 ZONDERVAN



當我在細讀其中的文字的時候,我感到聖靈在提醒我當初為什麼在我自Princeton博士班畢業時要帶我們離開前往一個“舉目無親”的新環境。此外,聖靈似乎也啟示這正是神要透過愛家所成就的工作之一,誠如耶利米書31:34所說,“他們各人不再教導自己的鄰舍和自己的弟兄說:你該認識耶和華,因為他們從最小的到至大的都必認識我。我要赦免他們的罪孽,不再記念他們的罪惡。這是耶和華說的。”神希望我們每一個人和祂有第一手的關係與認識,不再需要透過“比較屬靈”的弟兄姐妹、輔導、傳道、或牧師,因為耶穌基督自己已是我們的中保(提摩太前書2:5, “因為只有一位神,在神和人中間,只有一位中保,乃是降世為人的基督耶穌”),凡來到祂面前的人祂都不撇棄,並且樂意向他們顯現。神有時候將我們帶領到完全陌生的環境,甚至我們會覺得祂“故意”與我們作難,這一切都是要我們重新調整眼目,恢復單純依靠祂的態度。

此刻正是我們踏出自己的comfort zone的時候,正如彼得回應耶穌的吩咐行走在水面上,我們也將會接到來自祂的呼召。不論呼召的內容是否超出自己理智或能力所及,一顆順服的心與立即跟隨的行動必能帶領我們進入神為我們所預備的新的領域。

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