這是你的一天
雷克-喬納
2023年3月14日
更多地愛神和更親近祂應該是我們生活的首要任務。其他任何成為首要任務的東西都是偶像。偶像可以是我們把感情和信任放在神之上的任何人或事物。我們最重要的決議應該是在我們的生活中保持祂第一。這是一場持久戰。做到這一點的最有效方法是什麼？
擬定新年目標可能會有幫助，但更有幫助的是制定日常決定。聖經中有一些例子說明我們每天可以做的事，以加強我們每天的決心，使之成為我們生活中的"主要事情"。在新約中，我們都被呼召為祭司，在舊約下，祭司的第一個職責是一個很好的例子，說明我們如何保持每天對上帝的奉獻。
祭司每天早上做的第一件事就是在銅製的洗濯盆裡洗濯。這個洗濯盆是由鏡子製成的，它反映了祭司的形象，所以他們會知道自己身體的哪些地方需要清洗。正如以弗所書5:26所指示的，我們要用祂話語的淨水洗淨。這告訴我們，作為祭司，我們應該如何在祂的話語中度過每一天的開始，將自己從當天必須做的其他任務中清洗出來。
接下來，祭司在香壇上獻上香。正如我們在聖經中看到的，香說的是禱告和敬拜。祭司被指示也要這樣做，作為每晚的最後一項職責，所以在主面前會有"世世代代常燒的香"（見出埃及記30:7-8）。這再次告訴我們，作為祭司，點燃禱告和敬拜之火是我們每天早上做的第一件事，也是我們每晚做的最後一件事之一。這將有助於我們在主面前保持持續的禱告和敬拜的狀態。
主沒有對祂的門徒提出任何祂沒有給我們智慧和指示的要求。但是，我們必須尋找它們，這是一個門徒的基本修養。我們的這種尋找使我們在祂的真理中得到鞏固，而找到真理的興奮感使我們珍惜它。神不是向我們隱藏事物，而是為我們隱藏（見箴言25:2）。
如果我們願意待在一個不斷禱告和與主相交的地方，祂就能在一天中對我們說話。祂是創造者，祂以最有創意和最有趣的方式說話，使我們與祂的關係保持新鮮和刺激。最近，祂通過電影《賽道狂人：福特對法拉利》向我說話。在這部電影中，福特公司的著名賽車手並沒有試圖跑出完美的比賽，只是想跑出完美的一圈。然而，由於他每一圈都這樣做，他打破了最快圈速的記錄，帶領福特車隊取得了歷史性的勝利。
受此啟發，我花了一個月時間尋求確定對我來說，完美的一天會是什麼樣子。然後，我決心每天都要追求完美的一天，而不是僅僅尋求執行主對我生命的旨意。我仍然沒有過我認為的"完美的一天"，但這立即影響了我生命中的每一天--幾乎就像重生一樣。
在我認為構成我的完美一天的那些要素中，我已經在做這些事了，但都是零星的、隨意的、膚淺的。然而，當我開始每天關注它們時，這在我的生活中產生了巨大的變化。我立即意識到，我的生命中可能剩下的相對較少的幾年，可能比我已經活了73年的時間更有成效。
有時我們的個人目標太不明確，沒有定義。希伯來書4:7宣稱："所以過了多年，就在大衛的書上，又限定一日，如以上所引的說：你們今日若聽他的話，就不可硬著心。"。在這裡，主沒有針對一個星期、一個月或一年，而是針對一個日子，"今天"來處理我們的心。當我們為一整年做出決議時，很容易推遲，但當我們的決心變成每天，我們更有可能去做。這句話是真的，"今天是你餘生的第一天"。每一天也是如此；讓我們充分地過好每一天。
This is Your Day
Rick Joyner
Loving God more and getting closer to Him should be the top priority of our lives. Anything else that becomes a top priority is an idol. An idol can be anyone or anything we place our affection and trust in above God. Our most important resolution should be to keep Him first in our lives. This is a constant battle. What is the most effective way to do this?
Making New Year’s resolutions can be helpful, but even more helpful is making daily resolutions. There are biblical examples of things we can do every day to fortify our daily resolve to keep this the “main thing” in our lives. In the New Testament, we are all called to be priests, and the first duties of priests, under the Old Covenant, is a great example of how we can keep our daily devotion to God.
The first thing a priest did each morning was to wash in the brazen laver. This laver was made of mirrors, which reflected the priests’ images, so they would know the areas of their bodies needing to be cleansed. As we are instructed in Ephesians 5:26, we are to be washed by the pure water of His Word. This tells us as priests how we should spend the beginning of each day in His Word and cleanse ourselves from the other tasks we must do that day.
Next, the priest lit the incense on the altar of incense. As we see in the Scriptures, incense speaks of prayer and worship. The priest was instructed to also do this as his last duty each night, so there would be a “perpetual incense” before the Lord (see Exodus 30:7-8). Again, this tells us as priests to light the fire of prayer and worship as one of the first things we do each morning, and one of the last things we do each night. This will help us remain in a continual place of prayer and worship before the Lord.
The Lord has not made any demands on His disciples for which He has not given us wisdom and instructions. Still, we must search them out, which is a basic discipline of a disciple. Such searching on our part fortifies us in His truth, and the thrill of finding it makes us treasure it. . God does not hide things from us, but for us (see Proverbs 25:2).
If we will stay in a place of continual prayer and fellowship with the Lord, He can speak to us throughout the day. He is the Creator, and He speaks in the most creative and interesting ways that keep our relationship with Him fresh and exciting. Recently, He spoke to me through the movie Ford v Ferrari. In the movie, the famous race driver for Ford was not trying to run the perfect race, just the perfect lap. However, because he did this every lap, he broke the record for the fastest lap and led the Ford team to a historic victory.
Inspired by this, I spent a month seeking to identify what a perfect day for me would look like. Then, instead of just seeking to do the Lord’s will for my life, I resolved to pursue the perfect day every day. I still haven’t had what I would consider the “perfect day,” but this immediately impacted each day of my life—almost like being born again, again!
Among those elements I considered to make up a perfect day for me, I was already doing them all, but sporadically, casually, and superficially. However, when I began focusing on them each day, the difference this made in my life was substantial. Immediately, I perceived the relatively few years I probably had left in my life could be far more fruitful than the seventy-three years I had already lived.
Sometimes our personal goals are too unclear and undefined. Hebrews 4:7 declares, “He again fixes a certain day, ‘Today,’ saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, ‘today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’” Here the Lord did not address a week, a month, or a year, but a day, “today,” for dealing with our hearts. When we make resolutions for an entire year, it is easy to defer them, but when our resolve becomes daily, we are much more likely to do them. The saying is true, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” So is every day; let’s live every day to the fullest.