Streams in the Desert荒漠甘泉87. 背起 十字架

87. 背起 十字架Carry Your Cross.
背起 十字架

若有人 要跟從我
當捨己 背起十架 （可八34）

主吩咐的 十字架
形狀大小 由祂定

當有能力 做大事業時
要懷著 知足的心
在一個 粗陋狹窄的 工場裡 安心工作

或者 在一個
似乎 沒果子可結的田地裡
一年 過一年地 繼續 耕種下去

也許 我的十字架
要用 仁慈恩惠
去愛 一個曾經 虐待過我的仇人
－－ 用溫柔的態度 和他講話

站在 他那一邊
幫他 抵抗一切 反對他的人
同情 援助 抬舉他

也許 我的十字架
要我 在那些
不願聽見 上帝名字的人中間 承認基督

也許 我的十字架
要我 在心碎的時候
到人們面前 露一個早晨的 榮臉

十字架的 大小 種類
各有不同 但是 每一個 都是 痛且重
找不出一個 合乎理想的 十字架

但是 當我舉起 我的十字架
順服地 把它背在肩上

用忍耐 不撓的精神 去歡迎它時
乃是主 離我最近的時候

主常在 我最憂愁 最痛苦時
加添 我的智慧
加深 我的平安

加增 我的勇氣
加大 我的能力

用你的 十字架
來做為 幫助你 前進的拐杖

不要用 十字架
來做為 絆倒你的 絆腳石

Carry Your Cross.
"Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Mark 8:34).
The cross which my Lord bids me take up and carry may assume different shapes.
I may have to content myself with a lowly and narrow sphere, when I feel that I have capacities for much higher work.
I may have to go on cultivating year after year, a field which seems to yield me no harvests whatsoever.
I may be bidden to cherish kind and loving thoughts about someone who has wronged me--be bidden speak to him tenderly, and take his part against all who oppose him, and crown him with sympathy and succor.
I may have to confess my Master amongst those who do not wish to be reminded of Him and His claims.
I may be called to "move among my race, and show a glorious morning face," when my heart is breaking.
There are many crosses, and every one of them is sore and heavy.
None of them is likely to be sought out by me of my own accord.
But never is Jesus so near me as when I lift my cross, and lay it submissively on my shoulder, and give it the welcome of a patient and unmurmuring spirit.
He draws close, to ripen my wisdom, to deepen my peace, to increase my courage, to augment my power to be of use to others, through the very experience which is so grievous and distressing, and then--as I read on the seal of one of those Scottish Covenanters whom Claverhouse imprisoned on the lonely Bass, with the sea surging and sobbing round--I grow under the load.
"Use your cross as a crutch to help you on, and not as a stumblingblock to cast you down."

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