Do you also want to go away? —John 6:67
What a penetrating question! Our Lord’s words often hit home for us when He speaks in the simplest way. In spite of the fact that we know who Jesus is, He asks, “Do you also want to go away?” We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
“From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more” (John 6:66). They turned back from walking with Jesus; not into sin, but away from Him. Many people today are pouring their lives out and working for Jesus Christ, but are not really walking with Him. One thing God constantly requires of us is a oneness with Jesus Christ. After being set apart through sanctification, we should discipline our lives spiritually to maintain this intimate oneness. When God gives you a clear determination of His will for you, all your striving to maintain that relationship by some particular method is completely unnecessary. All that is required is to live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. Never try to live your life with God in any other way than His way. And His way means absolute devotion to Him. Showing no concern for the uncertainties that lie ahead is the secret of walking with Jesus.
Peter saw in Jesus only someone who could minister salvation to him and to the world. But our Lord wants us to be fellow laborers with Him.
In John 6:70 Jesus lovingly reminded Peter that he was chosen to go with Him. And each of us must answer this question for ourselves and no one else: “Do you also want to go away?”
靈性的倒退
你們也要去麼？ （約六67）
多刺透人心的問題。主最深入人心的話，往往是最簡單的話。我們雖然知道耶穌是誰？但他仍然要問：[你們也要去麼？ ]對主我們必須時刻持著敢作敢為的態度。 [從此他門徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。 ]他們轉身不與耶穌同行，並不回去犯罪，只是回復原形，依然故我。今日不少人為主作工竭盡心力，可是並沒有他同行。神要我們持守的，是要我們與耶穌基督合一。成聖之後，屬靈生命的操練是循這方向走。神若在你心中清楚地啟示他的心意，你不要用什麼特別的方法去保持與神的關係，只要順其自然地，完全靠賴耶穌基督而生活。與神同行的生活除了依循神的路徑之外，萬不能別開蹊徑。這條路就是要絕對忠心愛他。我真知道自己無知——這就是與主同行的秘訣了。
彼得只看見耶穌是他的救主，是世人的救主。但主卻要我們與他同負一軛。在第70節耶穌答覆了彼得的問話，填補他想法上的漏洞。我們不可以代人作答。
祈禱◆主啊，對於住在我裡面的基督，我所給予的滋養是何其短缺；噢，主啊，赦免我。求你讓我深深地感受到你的寬恕，以致我不單為著你的救恩而喜樂，更讓你的靈充滿這裡的工作。
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