253 中翻英 (四) What is God's will? 什麼是上帝的旨意? 1/1/2023
恭賀您們新年喜樂平安。
今編輯者奉上新年筵席，敬請享用。
2023年，1月，1日
耶穌便拿著這五個餅，兩條魚，望著天祝福，擘開餅遞給門徒，擺在眾人面前，也把那兩條魚分給眾人。」（馬可福音 6:41）
在我們事奉神的生活中，有一個最基本的需要，那就是神的祝福。除此以外，再沒有更急切的需要了。到底什么是神的祝福呢？神的祝福就是在無可得福的條件下，神仍然例外的運行做工。例如：一分錢只可買价值一分錢的東西，但如果你沒有付出那一分錢，而神卻例外的給你价值一万倍的東西，這就是神無條件的賜福給你，是出乎你本人估計之外的。當五餅二魚供應五千人吃飽，并剩下十二籃子的零碎時，這就是說出我們事奉的效果，遠遠超過我們的條件和恩賜，這就是神的祝福。或說得更透徹一些，因著我們的失敗和軟弱，我們本不該，也不能從我們的工作上得著什么果子，然而，出乎意料之外，神仍給我們有所收獲，這就是神的祝福。祝福乃是与我們本人所是的和所有的毫無關聯，而另外獲得的果子。這并不是因著我們工作上直接的影響所招致而來的效果。當父神為著祂自己榮耀的圣名，完全在我們料想之外而運行工作時，祝福便緊隨著臨到了！
Looking up to
heaven, Jesus blessed and broke the loaves, and He gave them to the disciples, to
set before them (Mark 6:41).
Surely the one fundamental
need in our life of serving God is the blessing of God upon it. No other need exits. What do we mean by blessing?
Blessing is the working of God where is
nothing to account for His working. For
example, you
calculate that a penny should buy a pennyworth. But if you have not paid your penny, and
God has given you ten thousand pennyworth, then you have no basis for your
calculations. When five loaves provide
food for five
thousand and leave twelve baskets of fragments, it means that the fruit of our
service is out of all proportion to the gifts we possess. This is God’s blessing. Or, to be rather extreme,
when taking of our failure and weakness,
there should be no fruit at all from our labors, and still there is fruit. This is God's blessing. God's blessing is fruit out of all relation to
what we are and what we have. This is not an effect incurred by the direct
influence of our work. Blessings comes when God the Father works wholly beyond
our reckoning, for His glorious name’s sake.
編輯者補註 :
什麼是上帝的旨意? 是我們信主耶穌的人，所擁有的不多，但願順服主的旨意，將自己僅有微小的五餅二魚奉獻給祂使用。
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