1月24日全權在握的指揮

我特意向你顯現。（徒二十六16）

保羅在大馬色路上所見的异象，絕非霎時的衝動，而是十分清楚肯定是從神而來的指示，因此他說：“故此我沒有違背那從天上來的异象。”主其實是對保羅說：“你的一生完全由我作主；除了我，你不能再有任何目標與計劃。”“我揀選了他。”

我們重生了，必然都有异象。要是我們要靈命長進，便要行主要我們行的；而最要緊的就是學習不違背异象，不要說那是無法達致的（或作高不可及的）。

單單知道神救贖了世人，又知道聖靈叫耶穌所成就的一切幷實現在我身上，這還是不够的；我必須與他有個人的關係，作爲根基。保羅所得的不是一篇道理、一套教義，叫他去傳揚；他乃是與耶穌基督有一個親身的經歷，讓主完全占有了他。第16節最令人觸目——“派你作執事作見證”。保羅是效忠于主，而不是一個使命。他是完完全全屬耶穌基督的；此外，便別無所見，也不再爲別的事物而活。“我在你們中間不知道別的，只知道耶穌基督幷他釘十字架。”

祈禱◆噢，主啊，求你以愛慕的枷鎖將我與你結連；在你差派我時，以你的眷佑環繞我；加添我的能力，以致我愈來愈能够被你使用。

January 24 The Overmastering Direction

“I have appeared unto thee for this purpose.” Acts 26:16

The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was no passing emotion, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him, and he says, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” Our Lord said, in effect, to Paul – Your whole life is to be overmastered by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine. “I have chosen him.”

When we are born again we all have visions, if we are spiritual at all, of what Jesus wants us to be, and the great thing is to learn not to be disobedient to the vision, not to say that it cannot be attained. It is not sufficient to know that God has redeemed the world, and to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that Jesus did effectual in me; I must have the basis of a personal relationship to Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim, he was brought into a vivid, personal, overmastering relationship to Jesus Christ. Verse 16 is immensely commanding – “to make thee a minister and a witness.” There is nothing there apart from the personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's, he saw nothing else, he lived for nothing else. “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”