333 中翻英 (73) "If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." 有人強逼你走一里路，你就同他走二里。 3/23/2023

 333  中翻英 (73)            "If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles."                                                                                有人強逼你走一里路，你就同他走二里。                3/23/2023

三月二十二日 曠野筵席出登山寶訓主耶穌的教導，懇求主內訪友親自默思。

「有人強逼你走一里路，你就同他走二里。」（太5:41）

在中國南部有一位弟兄，他有一塊在半山的稻田。當干旱的日子，他利用腳踏的抽水車，將灌溉的水抽上他的田里。他的鄰居也有兩塊稻田，在他那塊田的下面。某夜，那鄰居將他的田堤開了一個破口，把他田里的水全部流到自己的稻田中。翌日，那位弟兄發現了這事，就把田堤的破口修好，然后抽進更多的水到田里，但他的鄰居又再重施故技，如此行了三、四次。因此，那位弟兄就請教弟兄們，他說：「我已經盡量忍耐了，也沒有實行報复。」又說：「不過，我這樣做，對嗎？」當他們為這事同心合意禱告之后，其中一位弟兄說：「如果我們只盡力去做「對的」事，那我們真是一些非常可怜的基督徒，我們應做一些比「對更進一步的事」。」那位吃了虧的弟兄大受感動，第二天早上，他把鄰居的兩塊田先抽滿了水，到了下午，才為他自己的田抽水。從此以后，他的田就一直有水了。他的鄰居對他的行為甚感惊奇，并開始查詢原委。后來他也得著基督了。

「對」或「不對」是外邦人和稅吏生活的原則（太5:46-47），我們卻不是這樣。「模成基督」才是管理我們生活的原則。

March 22

"If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." (Matthew 5:41)

There was a brother who had a rice field in the middle of the mountain in southern China . On dry days, he used a pedal pump to pump water to irrigate his fields. His neighbor also has two paddy fields below his. One night, the neighbor opened a breach in his field embankment, and all the water in his field flowed into the neighbor's field. The next day, when the christian brother found out his field without water, he repaired the breach in the embankment and pumped more water into the rice field, but his neighbor repeated the same trick three or four times. So the brother asked his christian brothers for advice, and he explained, "I have endured as much as I could, and not to retaliate." Then he asked, "Am I doing it right?"  One of the brothers said, "If we only try to do the 'right' thing, then we are some very poor Christians, and we should do something more than 'right' ". The brother who had suffered was greatly moved. The next morning, he pumped water to the neighbor's two fields first, and pump water to his own field only in the afternoon. Since then, his fields have always the water.  His neighbor moved by his behavior, then to began into investigating.  He became a Christian also later.

"True" or "wrong" is the principle of life for Gentiles and tax collectors (Matthew 5:46-47), but not for us --- Christians. "Conformity to Christ" is the principle that our Christians lives follow it.