“我所禱告的篙顺,就是要你們的愛心在知識和各樣見識上多而又多面褐,使你們能分辨是非(或作“喜愛那美好的事”)拌禾,作誠實(shí)無過的人,直到基督的日子展哭,并靠著耶穌基督結(jié)滿了仁義的果子蹋砚,叫榮耀稱贊歸與神∩阍樱” 腓立比書1:9-11
要能夠放心把自己放在那位“完成善工者”的手中坝咐,我們得允許他開工。因?yàn)槲覀兪撬墓ぷ鳌?-11節(jié)是保羅的禱告析恢,關(guān)于如何求神在人的生命中動工墨坚。他求神將屬神的愛澆灌在我們里面,多多益善映挂,直到豐盈泽篮。這不是我們在電影里看到的那種情緒上的愛,這愛是因著知識和見識來的(第9節(jié))柑船,特別是指對神和對神的愛的認(rèn)識帽撑。認(rèn)識神(神就是愛),明白他的觀點(diǎn)和真理鞍时,屬神的愛就會在我們里面增長亏拉。于是,我們能夠分辨并喜愛那些美善的事逆巍,行事為人無可指責(zé)(第10節(jié))及塘,并結(jié)出仁義的果子(第11節(jié))。
也許神就是借著這個方法來成全他在我們里面所開始的工作锐极,借著這個方法將我們陶造成耶穌的樣式笙僚。他先向我們顯明他自己,他喜愛什么灵再,喜悅誰肋层,以及愛的緣由亿笤。當(dāng)我們越來越認(rèn)識他,我們就會越來越愛他栋猖,越來越想成為他的樣式净薛,這是圣潔生活的開始。你愿意這樣為自己禱告嗎掂铐?這樣禱告罕拂,表明我們想要更多認(rèn)識耶穌并明白他的心意揍异,想要更新對他的愛并開始為他而活全陨。你愿意嗎?
--J
Philippians 1:9-11.
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.”
To be confident in the hands of the master craftsman, we need to allow him to do his work. For we are his work. Verses 9-11 gives the prayer of Paul for how to ask God to work in people. He asks God to allow the work (us) to be filled more and more with the love that comes from God such that it flows to abundance. This is not an emotional experience of love that we see in movies, but comes learning about the God of love: verse 9 says knowledge and discernment. Knowing the God of love: his perspective and his reasoning, we will be abundant in God’s love. As a result, we are able to distinguish excellence from folly; we could start to live a pure and blameless life(v10), and bear fruits of righteousness (v11).
Perhaps this is how God is perfecting the starting work in us and shaping us to be like Jesus. He is first showing us himself, what he loves, and who he loves and the reasons for love, and by knowing him, we start to fall in love with him more and more such that we want to become like him and therefore start live a godly life.? Is this a prayer that you want to pray for yourself? It is to desire to know Jesus intimately and to find out his heart, and by doing so, fall in love with him anew and start to live for him. Ready?