最棒的基督徒生命 21

追求主

在這幾週我分享到自己的故事，雖然並不是好的範例，但我卻從中學習良多。此每週一話的主題是『最棒的基督徒生命』，目的是為了追求 神在基督耶穌裡的崇高呼召，正如使徒保羅所描述的。此呼召是給所有愛主超過今生一切事物的人，他們看重行祂的旨意勝過為自己所求的任何事物。 

在保羅生命盡頭所寫的腓立比書中，他不以為自己已經得著了此冠冕，而是『我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力面前的，向著標竿直跑，要得神在基督耶穌裡從上面召我來得的獎賞』（腓立比書3:13-14）。這是保羅生命的焦點；正如我所分享的，我曾經有一段時間遠離此焦點，許多人也可能如此。但最棒的基督徒生命將會追求此呼召，倘若您已經遠離此焦點，現在再次被主吸引進入此最偉大賽程的人，不要猶豫。 

驕傲和迷惑是那些向著此崇高呼召直跑的人會遇到的二大陷阱。倘若我們開始看自己比別人好，只因為我們為主做得更多，或認為自己已經得著一切所蒙召的，驕傲和迷惑便會絆倒我們。 

倘若連使徒保羅在他生命顛峰的終了，都不認為自己已經得著此崇高呼召，我們很可能無法知道自己是否可以在此生得著。凡得著的人將在基督裡沒有自己到一個地步，他們不再聚焦在自己身上，或聚焦在他們可能得著什麼。我們越深追求主，我們將越多忘記自己所得著的，更多致力於看見主收到祂所犧牲的獎賞。這正是加拉太書二章20節的真實生命，『所以現在活著的不再是我，而是基督在我裡面活著。』

倘若我們每一天的主要追求不是我們能得到什麼，而是我們能為主做什麼，我們的日子將會如何？  

(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week21, 2015)
 

 
In Pursuit of Him- The Greatest Christian Life, Part 21
Week 21, 2015
Rick Joyner

I have been sharing some of my own story in this study, not as an example of a great Christian life, but from what I have learned being in pursuit of it. What we are addressing as “The Greatest Christian Life” is the life in pursuit of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus as the Apostle Paul described it. This is available to all who love the Lord more than anything else in this life and who esteem doing His will above anything they could possibly acquire for themselves. 

As Paul wrote to the Philippians near the end of his life, he did not think he had yet attained this crown, but “this one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind, I press on toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14). This was the focus of his life. As I have shared, I have at times been distracted from this focus, as many others likely have. But the greatest Christian life will be found in pursuit of this calling. If you have been distracted from it and are now drawn again into the greatest race of all, do not hesitate.

Two of the biggest traps for those who run the race for the high calling are pride and delusion. These will trip us up if we start to esteem ourselves better than others because we are doing more for the Lord, or if we begin to think we have attained to all we have been called to.

If the Apostle Paul, near the end of such an extraordinary and monumental life, did not consider that he had yet attained to this high calling, it is likely we cannot know if we have attained in this life. Those who do attain will be so lost in Christ that they are no longer focused on themselves and what they may be attaining. The higher we go in the pursuit of Him, the more we will forget about what we get and be devoted to seeing the Lord receive the reward of His sacrifice. This is the true Galatians 2:20 life, when, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.”

How would we live if every day our main pursuit was not what we could get out of it, but what could we do for Him?