2月27日限制了耶穌的工作

你從哪裏得活水呢？（約四11）

“井又深。”——比撒瑪利亞婦人所想的更深。想想人本性的深奧、生命的奧妙，和你“裏面的井”的深度。你是否限制了主耶穌的工作，以致他不能有所作爲？假設你心中有一個像無底深井的煩惱，耶穌會對你說: “你心裏不要憂愁。”你就聳聳肩說：“可是，主啊，井太深；我無法從其中汲取平靜與安慰的水。”其實，耶穌要從上頭帶下力量來，而不會從人的井裏打什麽上來。我們若只記得以往讓神爲我們做過的事，或說：“我當然不會奢望神這樣做。”那麽，我們就限制了以色列的聖者的工作。要全能才做得到的事，信徒該相信耶穌能够做到。我們若忘記他的全能，就局限了主的工作；那使主的工作顯得衰退的是我們，不是他。我們只接受耶穌作安慰者、同情者，而不接受他爲全能者。

我們中間有些人之所以成爲差勁的基督徒，是因爲心中沒有全能的基督。我們有基督徒的性情與經歷，却沒有委身于耶穌基督，向他降服。到有了難題，就說：“他實在無能爲力。”是我們限制了他的工作。我們掙扎到井底，想自己去打水；幷且在放弃時心安理得地說：“這事不可能。”你知道仰望耶穌就可以做成。你的缺欠深如井，惟有竭力抬頭仰望神。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，只要我能聽見你發出清晰的吩咐，我將産生何等全備的信心！主啊，願你今天吩咐我。

February 27 Impoverished Ministry Of JESUS

“From whence then hast Thou that living water?” John 4:11

“The well is deep” – and a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! Think of the depths of human nature, of human life, think of the depths of the “wells” in you. Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus so that He can not do anything? Suppose there is a well of fathomless trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says – “Let not your heart be troubled”; and you shrug your shoulders and say, “But, Lord, the well is deep; You cannot draw up quietness and comfort out of it.” No, He will bring them down from above. Jesus does not bring anything up from the wells of human nature. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and by saying, “Of course I cannot expect God to do this thing.” The thing that taxes almightiness is the very thing which we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish His ministry the moment we forget He is Almighty; the impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus as Comforter or as Sympathizer, but we will not come to Him as Almighty.

The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying – “Of course He cannot do any thing,” and we struggle down to the deeps and try to get the water for ourselves. Beware of the satisfaction of sinking back and saying – “It can't be done”; you know it can be done if you look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness is deep, but make the effort and look away to Him.