「看見門徒,因風不順,搖櫓甚苦。」-馬可福音6:48掙扎使勁、奮力不懈,並無法完成神託給人的使命。
神所差派的工作,除了祂自己以外,無人能作,並且祂做起來總是得心應手、行有餘力。
若我們歇下勞苦,簡單信靠祂的手,祂就將事情辦得有條不紊。而讓祂工作的方式,就是憑信接受基督,讓祂充滿我們生命的每一角落。
有一個已學會此秘訣的弟兄分享:
「我就是單純來到耶穌面前,喝祂湧出的活水,我就永遠不再覺得乾渴。
我的秘訣只有八個字,『不需勞累,只要滿溢。』然而這短短八個字,就改變了我的一生。」滿溢無需費力,它會自動自發的湧流。
今天基督邀請我們來享受這種平平常常,卻滿有能力、奔流不歇的生命。
-主日學報
"And he saw them toiling in rowing" (Mark 6:48).Straining, driving effort does not accomplish the work God gives man to do. Only God Himself, who always works without strain, and who never overworks, can do the work that He assigns to His children. When they restfully trust Him to do it, it will be well done and completely done. The way to let Him do His work through us is to partake of Christ so fully, by faith, that He more than fills our life.
A man who had learned this secret once said: "I came to Jesus and I drank, and I do not think that I shall ever be thirsty again. I have taken for my motto, 'Not overwork, but overflow'; and already it has made all the difference in my life."
There is no effort in overflow. It is quietly irresistible. It is the normal life of omnipotent and ceaseless accomplishment into which Christ invites us today and always.--Sunday School Times