使我认识祂-第299章
10月25日 困难的挑战
使我认识祂-第299章
The Challenge of the Difficult, October 25
使我认识祂-第299章
“你们要努力进窄门。我告诉你们:将来有许多人要想进去,却是不能”(路13:24)。{TMK304.1}[1]
使我认识祂-第299章
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.Luke 13:24.{TMK 304.1}[1]
使我认识祂-第299章
窄门的意思是难以进去的门。基督用这个比喻说明人很难撇弃世界及其诱惑,由衷喜爱顺从上帝的诫命。宽的门容易进去。进入这门不需要令人痛苦的限制。在大路上看不见克己和自我牺牲。有足够的余地留给败坏的食欲和自然的倾向。那里可能看见自我放纵、骄傲、嫉妒、恶意的猜测、贪爱钱财和自高自大。(《文稿》1899年第165号){TMK304.2}[2]
使我认识祂-第299章
A strait gate means a gate difficult to enter. By this illustration Christ showed how hard it is for men and women to leave the world and the attractions it holds, and heartily and lovingly obey the commandments of God. The wide gate is easy to enter. Entrance through it does not call for the restrictions which are painful to the human heart. Self-denial and self-sacrifice are not seen in the broad way. There depraved appetite and natural inclinations find abundant room. There may be seen self-indulgence, pride, envy, evil surmisings, love of money, self-exaltation.32{TMK 304.2}[2]
使我认识祂-第299章
基督说:“要努力”——要苦苦挣扎——“进窄门”。我们必须感到自己对上帝的不断依赖,以及我们自己智慧、判断和能力的大劣势,然后完全倚赖那位已经替我们战胜了仇敌的主,因为祂怜悯我们软弱,知道祂若不来帮助我们,我们就会失败灭亡。……不要以为轻而易举或者作出一般的努力就能赢得永远的赏赐。有一个狡猾的仇敌在追踪你们。“得胜的,我要赐他在我宝座上与我同坐,就如我得了胜,在我父的宝座上与祂同坐一般”(启3:21)。这是要打的胜仗,正如基督打了胜仗一样。祂历经试探、患难、辛劳和奋斗的人生,摆在我们眼前要我们效法。我们可以靠自己的力量去努力,但不会成功。然而当我们将所有的无助、苦难与贫乏全都卸在磐石基督身上,由衷地感悟到我们的胜利全依仗祂的功劳,而自己所作的一切努力,若没有那位伟大的胜利者特别帮助就全都无效时,基督就差遣荣耀里的每一位天使来拯救我们脱离仇敌的权势,不让我们跌倒。(《信函》1873年第1号B){TMK304.3}[3]
使我认识祂-第299章
Said Christ, “Strive”—agonize—“to enter in....” We must feel our continual dependence upon God and the great weakness of our own wisdom and our own judgment and strength, and then depend wholly upon Him who has conquered the foe in our behalf, because He pitied our weakness and knew we should be overcome and perish if He did not come to our help.... Think not that by any easy or common effort you can win the eternal reward. You have a wily foe upon your track. “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Revelation 3:21). Here is the battle to overcome as Christ has overcome. His life of temptation, of trial, of toil and conflict, is before us for us to imitate. We may make efforts in our own strength, but not succeed. But when we fall all helpless and suffering and needy upon the Rock of Christ, feeling in our inmost soul that our victory depends upon His merits, that all our efforts of themselves without the special help of the great Conqueror will be without avail, then Christ would send every angel out of glory to rescue us from the power of the enemy rather than that we should fall.33{TMK 304.3}[3]
使我认识祂-第299章
我们需要看明那条路是小的,门是窄的。然而我们经过了窄门之后,前途却是宽广无边的。(《信函》1897年第138号){TMK304.4}[4]
使我认识祂-第299章
We need to see that the way is narrow, and the gate strait. But as we pass through the strait gate, the wideness is without limit.34{TMK 304.4}[4]
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