I have appeared to you for this purpose . . .—Acts 26:16
The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was not a passing emotional experience, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him. And Paul stated, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19). Our Lord said to Paul, in effect, “Your whole life is to be overpowered or subdued by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine.” And the Lord also says to us, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go . . .” (John 15:16).
When we are born again, if we are spiritual at all, we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be. It is important that I learn not to be “disobedient to the heavenly vision”—not to doubt that it can be attained. It is not enough to give mental assent to the fact that God has redeemed the world, nor even to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that Jesus did a reality in my life. I must have the foundation of a personal relationship with Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim. He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling “. . . to make you a minister and a witness . . . .” There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ’s. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else. “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).
全權在握的指揮
我特意向你顯現。 （徒二十六16）
保羅在大馬色路上所見的異象，絕非霎時的衝動，而是十分清楚肯定是從神而來的指示，因此他說：[故此我沒有違背那從天上來的異象。 ]主其實是對保羅說：[你的一生完全由我作主；除了我，你不能再有任何目標與計畫。 ]我揀選了他。我們重生了，必然都有異象。要是我們要靈命長進，便要行主要我們行的；而最要緊的就是學習不違背異象，不要說那是無法達致的（或作高不可及的）。
單單知道神救贖了世人，又知道聖靈叫耶穌所成就的一切，並實現在我身上，這還是不夠的；我必須與他有個人的關係，作為根基。保羅所得的不是一篇道理，一套教義，叫他去傳揚；他乃是與耶穌基督有一個親身的經歷，讓主完全佔有了他。第16節最令人觸目——[派你作執事作見證]。保羅是效忠於主，而不是一個使命。他是完完全全屬於耶穌基督的；此外，便別無所見，也不再為別的事物而活。 [我在你們中間不知道別的，只知道耶穌基督，並他釘十字架。 ]
祈禱◆噢，主啊，求你以愛慕的枷鎖將我與你結連；在你差派我時，以你的眷佑環繞我；加添我的能力，以致我愈來愈能夠被你使用。
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