All or Nothing?

When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment . . . and plunged into the sea —John 21:7

Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally.

If you have heard Jesus Christ’s voice on the waves of the sea, you can let your convictions and your consistency take care of themselves by concentrating on maintaining your intimate relationship to Him.

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不顧一切

那時西門彼得赤著身子，一聽見是主，就束上一件外衣，跳在海裡。 （約二十一7）

曾否有一次經歷叫你立意不顧一切撇下所有呢？這是意志的一關。你可能在外面碰過許多事，但對你沒有絲毫改變。要真正撇下一切的，是在裡面的改變，而不是外面的。表面上的撇棄，可能正表示你裡面仍受捆綁。

你曾否破釜沉舟地順服耶穌基督？這是一項意志的抉擇，而非感情用事；感情只是整個抉擇的附屬品。你若把感情放在首位，就永遠辦不成這項交易。不要問神這交易的後果到底是怎樣，只要就眼前可見的事來作個決定，不管這是簡單還是困難的事。

你若在波濤洶湧中聽見主的呼聲，只管乘風破浪，憑著信念出去！只要保持你與主的關係，就不用怕一切的衝擊！

祈禱◆[你們要將一切的憂慮卸給神，因為他顧念你們。 ]噢，主啊，這句話是多麼的奇妙！不良的思想總是偶爾出現，需要你經常將它們驅走。我仰賴你更新我的思想。