第三十四周 顺服
“当负我的轭。”（太11:29）
诗：万福轭里有安息，只要顺服祂意旨；
从中学习祂道路，并祂口出的言词，
哦！这可爱的忍耐何希奇！
民所有的能力，和真实有效的事奉，是从完全顺服而产生的。
除非我们里面，有什么与神相反的事，不然环境就不能加客于我们，完全顺服，环境对他就只像风一样，一吹即逝。
我们的意志，在神的威严前，若不完全被破碎，我们在神面前的光景，就不算是对的。
没有一件事，象我们在基督里与父相交所得的喜乐那样，参建立我们的心，和打破我们里头的意志。
什么时候我任意行事，什么时候我就得罪了神因基督宝血所当受尊重的主权。
意志一经破碎，就大开悟性之门。
什么时候我们的意志与忧患混合，什么时候这忧患必产生伤痛，而感到没有基督同在那种的痛苦。
“你的美意本是如此。”是得主安慰的关键。
自由的意志，不过是摩鬼的奴隶。
我们的心必须规正，我们的意志必须破碎，如果我们注目在客西马尼园中的基督，我们还敢固执，而贯彻自己的意志吗？
一个意志破碎并降服了的人，和另一个存心作好，却随己意而行的人，二者之间，有惊人的差别。
一个人若是与神同行，他的心灵就不是刚硬，而是柔顺，除了顺服的灵，再没有别的灵那么柔软，那么容易呼应神的每一个感觉，这样的灵把情感里的己意抽出，而又不毁掉情感。这是一件很宝贵的事！
神是充满怜悯，能体贴我们和我们的软弱，祂的作为总是满了温柔和慈怜；但我们总偏行己意，祂知道如何将它破碎……那最可怕的管教，就是祂让我们任意偏行己路。
主耶稣也曾尝过人生的忧患，就如疲乏、饥饿，当进行爱心的事奉时，祂的心就从未疲乏过。能看见这一点，和看见祂事奉的毫无己意，是甘甜而有福的。有人告诉祂说：“你所爱的人病了。”我们必定想，祂马上就要动身了。但是没有，祂还在原处住了两天，因祂还没有父的命令，我们看出，那是要表明祂的神性。祂作一个仆人，祂安静，在没有奉到命令之先，就停留不前，这样的作法，似乎是很难的，因祂在地上时，若说有家的话，就是伯大尼那一个，你从不会看见，祂曾有一次越过祂作仆人的地位，而祂所表彰的，乃是完全的爱。
THIRTY-FOURTH WEEK SUBMISSION
“Take my yoke upon you.” Matthew 11:29
There is rest in the blessed yoke
That knows no will but His;
That learns from His path, and
the words He spoke,
What that loving patience is!
All power and real effective service will be found to spring from entire submission.
Circumstances would not trouble if they did not find something in us contrary to God; they would rustle by as the wind.
Until the will has been crushed in the presence of the majesty of God, there cannot be a right state before God.
There is nothing that forms the heart, breaking down the will in us, like the delight that we have in Christ in fellowship with the Father.
Whenever I act in my own will in anything, I am wronging God of His own title through the blood of Christ.
The breaking of the will is a great means of opening the understanding.
It is only when the will mixes itself up with the sorrow that there is any bitterness in it, or a pain in which Christ is not.
“So it seemed good in thy sight” was the hinge of the Lord’s comfort.
Liberty of will is just slavery to the devil.
We want our hearts to get right; we want our wills broken down; if we go to look at Christ as … presented to us in Gethsemane, can we seek to satisfy the will now?
There is a wonderful difference between a soul … whose will has been broken and made subject, and one which, while seeking to do right, does it according to its own will.
If the soul walks with God, it is not hard, but it is submissive; and there is no softer spirit, nor one which is more susceptible of every feeling than submission; but then it takes the will out of the affections without destroying them, and that is very precious.
God is full of mercy and has compassion on us and on our weakness. He is tender and pitiful in His ways; but if we are determined to follow our own will, He knows how to break it. … The worst of all chastening is that He should leave us to follow our own ways.
He (the Lord Jesus Christ) takes the sorrows of human nature—weariness, hunger; but with a heart that never was weary when a service of love was to be performed. … It is most sweet and blessed to see it, and to see He had no will of His own in it. When they tell Him, “He whom thou lovest is sick,” we should have thought He would have started off at once. No, He abode two days still where He was, He had no commandment from His Father. We see it was to shew His Godhead. Still, as a servant, He had no word, and He did not stir. It seemed very hard. His home, if He had one on earth, was that house at Bethany. You never find Him going out of the place of a servant, and He never was anything but the perfection of love in it.