告青年书-第9章
第07章 效能的标准
告青年书-第9章
Chapter 7—Standards of Efficiency
告青年书-第9章
青年人负有严肃的责任。生活在这个亮光和知识均已增长之时代的青年,上帝对他们抱有很大的希望。祂希望他们去传播亮光与知识。祂要使用他们来驱散笼罩着许多人心头的错谬和迷信。他们应当收集每一点知识与经验,藉以造就自己。上帝要他们对赐给他们的机会和特权负责。他们面前的工作需要他们付出殷勤的努力,使这项工作能按照时代的要求逐步推进。{MYP 41.1}[1]
告青年书-第9章
Grave responsibilities rest upon the youth. God expects much from the young men who live in this generation of increased light and knowledge. He expects them to impart this light and knowledge. He desires to use them in dispelling the error and superstition that cloud the minds of many. They are to discipline themselves by gathering up every jot and tittle of knowledge and experience. God holds them responsible for the opportunities and privileges given them. The work before them is waiting for their earnest effort, that it may be carried forward from point to point, as the time demands.{MYP 41.1}[1]
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青年人如果愿意献上心智为上帝服务,就会在效能和用途上达到很高的水准。这是上帝希望青年人所达到的标准,否则他们就是没有善用上帝所赐的机会,对上帝不忠诚,没有在造福人类的工作上尽职。{MYP 41.2}[2]
告青年书-第9章
If the youth will consecrate their minds and hearts to God’s service, they will reach a high standard of efficiency and usefulness. This is the standard that the Lord expects the youth to attain. To do less than this is to refuse to make the most of God-given opportunities. This will be looked upon as treason against God, a failure to work for the good of humanity.{MYP 41.2}[2]
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【服务的资格】
凡争取成为上帝的工人,殷勤追求真理以分给别人的人,必不断获得上帝所赐的亮光,使自己成为交流的通道。青年人如果能像但以理那样,在自己的习惯,食欲和情欲方面完全符合上帝的要求,就获得了承担更高工作的资格。他们必须从心中除去一切低劣轻浮的念头,放弃愚妄和爱享乐的习性,因为这与因信上帝的儿子而活,吃祂肉、喝祂血之人的生活和经验是格格不入的。{MYP 41.3}[3]
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【Qualifying for Service】
Those who strive to become laborers for God, who seek earnestly to acquire in order to impart, will constantly receive light from God that they may be channels of communication. If, like Daniel, young men and young women will bring all their habits, appetites, and passions into conformity to the requirements of God, they will qualify?themselves for higher work. They should put from their minds all that is cheap and frivolous. Nonsense and amusement-loving propensities should be discarded, as out of place in the life and experience of those who are living by faith in the Son of God, eating His flesh and drinking His blood.{MYP 41.3}[3]
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他们应当认识到,虽然他们有一切学习的机会,但还没有获得适于主葡萄园工作的教育。他们如果没有内心敬虔的资格,就不能从事上帝的圣工。他们将那原应被高尚的宗旨所激发的心智浪费在享乐之中,就是滥用了上帝所赐的能力,在祂面前是有罪了,因为他们没有善用和增进他们的才干。{MYP 42.1}[4]
告青年书-第9章
They should realize that though all the advantages of learning may be within their reach, they may yet fail of obtaining that education which will fit them for work in some part of the Lord’s vineyard. They cannot engage in God’s service without the requisite qualifications of intelligent piety. If they give to pleasure and amusement the precious mind that should be strengthened by high and noble purposes, they degrade the powers that God has given them, and are guilty before Him, because they fail to improve their talents by wise use.{MYP 42.1}[4]
告青年书-第9章
他们属灵生活的退化得罪了上帝。他们玷污和败坏了与他们交往之人的心。他们的言行助长了对于神圣事物的轻慢。他们不仅危害了自己的心灵,他们的榜样还危害了一切与他们接近的人。他们完全不能表显基督。他们是罪的奴仆,粗心、鲁莽、愚昧,远离基督。{MYP 42.2}[5]
告青年书-第9章
Their dwarfed spirituality is an offense to God. They taint and corrupt the minds of those with whom they associate. By their words and actions they encourage a careless inattention to sacred things. Not only do they imperil their own souls, but their example is detrimental to all with whom they come in contact. They are utterly incompetent to represent Christ. Servants of sin, careless, reckless, and foolish, they scatter away from Him.{MYP 42.2}[5]
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凡满足于低标准的人,不配作上帝的同工。那些放松警惕,心魂不定的人,让撒但乘虚而入把他们培养成为他的爪牙,再去引诱别人。他们可以在口头上承认信仰,也可以有虔诚的外表,但他们却是爱宴乐过于爱上帝的。{MYP 42.3}[6]
告青年书-第9章
Those who are satisfied with low attainments fail of being workers together with God. To those who let the mind drift where it will drift if not guarded, Satan makes suggestions which so fill the mind that they are trained in his army to decoy other souls. They may make a profession of religion,they may have a form of godliness; but they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.{MYP 42.3}[6]
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【聪明不等于敬虔】
一些青年的确聪颖过人,受到同伴的赏识和称赞,但他们的才能未曾洁净,也没有因所领受的恩典和人生的试炼而得到加强和巩固,故不能被上帝用来造福人类和荣耀祂的名。在敬虔的外貌下,他们的才能被用来树立虚伪的标准,于是未曾悔改的人就以他们作为自己犯罪的藉口。撒但引诱他们用花言巧语来哗众取宠。他们所作的,尽都低俗;因为试探者控制了他们,支配和塑造他们的性格,让他们为他效劳。{MYP 43.1}[7]
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【Cleverness not Piety】
There are youth who have a certain kind of cleverness, which is acknowledged and admired by their associates, but their ability is not sanctified. It is not strengthened and solidified by the graces and trials of experience, and God cannot use it to benefit humanity and glorify His name. Under the guise of godliness, their powers are being used to erect false standards, and the unconverted look to them as an excuse for their wrong course of action. Satan leads them to amuse their associates by their nonsense and so-called wit. Everything that they undertake is cheapening; for they are under the control of the tempter, who directs and fashions their characters, that they may do his work.{MYP 43.1}[7]
告青年书-第9章
他们有能力,但没有经过陶冶,有才干,但没有善用。虽然有才能赐给了他们,却被他们愚蠢地滥用和败坏了,并且还把别人也拉到了他们低俗的水准。基督为了偿付他们的赎价而克己、牺牲、降卑,忍受的羞耻和辱骂。祂这样作是为了拯救他们挣脱罪恶的捆绑,不再受撒但的奴役。撒但关照他们,只是为了利用他们去毁灭别人的灵魂。他们救赎主的大爱无法在他们身上发挥功效,因此祂忧伤地望着他们的所作所为。{MYP 43.2}[8]
告青年书-第9章
They have ability, but it is untrained; they have capacity, but it is unimproved. Talents have been given them; but they misuse and degrade them by folly, and drag others down to their own low level. Christ paid the ransom for their souls by self-denial, self-sacrifice, humiliation, by the shame and reproach He endured. This He did that He might rescue them from the bondage of sin, from the slavery of a master who cares for them only as he can use them to ruin souls. But they make the love of the Redeemer in their behalf of no avail to them, and He looks with sadness on their work.{MYP 43.2}[8]
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这种青年将蒙受永远的损失。有朝一日,当每一个按照自己所行的接受审判全地之主的报应时,他们的嬉戏和轻薄将会呈现出什么样子呢?他们用草木禾秸在根基上来建造。因此他们一生的工程都必摧毁。这是何等重大的损失啊!{MYP 43.3}[9]
告青年书-第9章
Such youth meet with eternal loss. How will their fun and frolic appear to them in the day when?every man shall receive from the Judge of all the earth according to the deeds done in the body? They have brought to the foundation wood, hay, and stubble, and all their life work will perish. What a loss!{MYP 43.3}[9]
告青年书-第9章
但这里另一班青年的状况是多么美好!他们为上帝服务,仰望耶稣的悦纳,每天在记录册上记下自己的错误,过失,忧伤,如何战胜试,以及在基督里的喜乐与平安。这样的青年在面对自己人生的记录时,不会羞愧惊慌。——《青年导报》一八九九年六月廿二日{MYP 44.1}[10]
告青年书-第9章
O, how much better is the condition of those who act their part in God’s service, looking to Jesus for His approval, writing daily in their account book their mistakes, their errors, their sorrow, the victories they have gained over temptation, their joy and peace in Christ! Such youth will not have to meet their life record with shame and dismay.—The Youth’s Instructor, June 22, 1899.{MYP 44.1}[10]
告青年书-第9章
【上帝所拣选的代表】
我们既承认祂的信实,就成了上天所拣选向世人彰显基督的代表。我们要承认祂藉着古圣先贤所时显示的恩典;但最有效的,还是我们自己经验的见证。当我们在自己身上表显上帝能力的运行时,我们就是在为祂作见证了。每一个人的生活都是不同的。他们的经验也是不同的。上帝希望我们以个人的特色,向祂献上赞美。——《服务真诠》第100页{MYP 44.2}[11]
告青年书-第9章
【The Chosen Agency】
Our confession of His faithfulness is Heaven’s chosen agency for revealing Christ to the world. We are to acknowledge His grace as made known through the holy men of old; but that which will be most effectual is the testimony of our own experience. We are witnesses for God as we reveal in ourselves the working of a power that is divine. Every individual has a life distinct from all others, and an experience differing essentially from theirs. God desires that our praise shall ascend to Him, marked with our own individuality.—The Ministry of Healing, 100.{MYP 44.2}[11]
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