562 中翻英 (262) God's will must be fulfilled. 上帝的旨意必須成全. 10/26/2023

562 中翻英 (262)        God's will must be fulfilled.    上帝的旨意必須成全.                10/26/2023

十月二十六日的晨曦甘露必須品嚐.     親愛的的訪友, 您遇見到這境遇嗎?   苦杯與上帝的旨意.  同時呈現在您面前,  您如何應付,   是求主耶穌基督拿開苦杯,   還是遵行主的旨意?     聖經的教導,   主的旨意最美善,   是上帝對你生命計劃的全部.   編輯者已活到93歲,   深深領悟主的旨意甘甜.   但要依據上帝的時間.     祂的時間最恰當.

「我父阿，倘若可行，求你叫這杯离開我。」（太   26:39 新國際版）

由于主耶穌來也要遵行神旨，所以我們對祂這個禱告可能會感希奇。然而，這個禱告給我們看見一個很重要的分別，主祈求父，叫那杯离開祂，這顯然是可能的。但祂絕對不是祈求要逃避父的旨意。那杯在神的旨意上，可以說是次要的。但神的旨意是要借著那杯表現出來，因在主耶穌身上，這杯乃是指著十字架的死。主耶穌所全心關注的，不是為苦難而去受苦難，而是通過苦難來成全神的旨意。主耶穌喝盡那杯，不是因著那是一個苦杯，乃是因著那個苦杯，乃是父神的旨意。

對于主耶穌，「那杯」是祂隨時可以放下的，但對于我們，「那杯」卻往往是我們企圖想抓牢的。我們屬靈上最大的危險，可能就是在神給我們定規的計划上，教條化的去緊握一些有關及此的事物。每一种的杯，無論怎樣被神使用，都不應該憑自己去抓牢它（應該很放松的交在神手里）。在我們身上的最高要求，不是那杯，乃是父神現在在我們身上的旨意。

October 26

"My Father, if it is possible, may this cup taken away from me." (Matthew 26:39 NIV)

Since the Lord Jesus came to obey God’s will also, we may be surprised by His prayer. However, this prayer shows us a very important difference. The Lord asked the Father to take  this cup away from Him. This is obviously possible. But He was definitely not praying to escape the Father's will.  He mentioned this cup might be the secondary after God’s will. But God’s will is to be expressed through the cup, because in the Lord Jesus, this cup refers to the death of the cross. What the Lord Jesus is all about is not suffering for the sake of suffering, but through suffering for fulfilling God’s will. The Lord Jesus drank the cup, not because it was a bitter cup, but because it was the will of God the Father.

As for the Lord Jesus, “the cup” is something He can put down at any time, but for us, “the cup” is often what we try to hold on to.  Perhaps our greatest spiritual danger is to hold on dogmatically to something concerning God's plan for us.  Every kind of cup, no matter how it is used by God, should not be grasped by oneself (it should be left in God's hands very easyly). The  God's highest requirement on us is not the cup, but the Father’s will for us now.