第五週 • 週六
晨興餧養
出四13~14 摩西說，主阿，你願意差遣誰，就差遣誰罷。耶和華向摩西發怒，說，不是有你的哥哥利未人亞倫麼？我知道他是能言的…。
25 西坡拉就拿一塊火石，割下他兒子的陽皮，丟在摩西腳前，說，你真是我的血郎了。
在這一切之後，摩西還需要男幫手和女幫手。男幫手是配合。這種幫助平衡我們、限制我們並使我們謙卑。…摩西藉着他哥哥的配合，學習讓別人作他所能作的。不要以為亞倫比摩西有口纔。亞倫所作的，摩西也能作，但他受約束不作。在召會生活中，主常常興起環境，迫使我們讓別人作我們所能作的。這該是我們在召會中盡功用的原則。一位弟兄若能作某件事，即使你能作得更好，仍要讓他作。這會使你謙卑（出埃及記生命讀經，一四○至一四一頁）。
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神主宰地安排一種景況，允許亞倫作摩西所能作的。在召會生活中，我們不該包辦一切。反之，我們該讓別人作我們所能作的。但這意思不是說，我們應該懶惰。相反的，這意思是說，我們在配合的關係中受約束、平衡，並使我們謙卑。…這種約束是防衛和保護。…我們越和別人配搭，就越受到保護。
在出埃及四章二十四至二十六節，我們看見西坡拉被神用來使摩西成為『血郎』。…在聖經中，男人代表客觀的真理，女人代表主觀的經歷。因此，亞倫的配合是外面且客觀的，但西坡拉的切割是裏面且主觀的。…我們若要在主的恢復裏為主所用，就必須帶着被切割的記號。這意思不是說，我們應當談論我們所經歷的切割。相反的，這意思是說，我們該默默的帶着這記號。…在出埃及四章，西坡拉說摩西是『血郎』，而不是摩西自己說。
在召會生活和婚姻生活中，我們都必須是這樣的『血郎』。一位弟兄若真是神所呼召的人，就需要主觀地被切割。藉着切割我們學習許多。有時，我的妻子以限制我喫來切割我。這種切割使我保持健康，並使我不放縱自己。因着她有益的切割，我在喫的事上就不被容許放縱肉體。因此，切割使我們不照着天然的生命而活。…只有那些甘心被切割的，對神纔有用。…我們必須天天，甚至時時經歷天然的生命受割禮。僅僅看見我們有罪還不彀，我們天然的生命也必須受割禮，或是藉着我們的家人，或是藉着召會中的弟兄姊妹。…這個切割是神呼召的末了一面。只有在被切割以後，我們纔能執行神的託付。
我們將出埃及三至四章神呼召的各方面，與新約中的記載相比較，就看見摩西所經歷的，保羅也經歷。不僅如此，今天這一切必須是我們的經歷。我們需要看見燒着之荊棘的異象：三一神在祂所救贖的人裏面和身上焚燒。這是聖經中神聖啟示的中心點。然後我們必須認識神是誰以及神的所是。再者，我們必須認識那惡者、肉體和世界。接着，我們需要配合與切割。我們若願意主觀地經歷天然的生命受割禮，就會憑復活的生命而活，我們在主手中就會成為有用的，使祂永遠的定旨得以完成，並且會豫備好，以執行神的託付。願神呼召的每一方面，今天在主的恢復中，都成為我們的經歷（出埃及記生命讀經，一四一至一四三頁）。
參讀：出埃及記生命讀經，第九至十篇。
WEEK 5--DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Exo. 4:13-14 "...Please, Lord, send word by sending someone else. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and He said, Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak..."
25 "Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and cast it at Moses’ feet, and she said, You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!"
Moses still needed the male help and the female help. The male help is that of matching. This kind of help balances us, restricts us, and humbles us. Through his brother’s matching Moses learned to let others do what he was able to do. Do not think that Aaron was more eloquent than Moses. Whatever Aaron did, Moses was able to do also, but he was restricted from doing so. In the church life the Lord will often raise up an environment that forces us to allow others to do what we can do. This should be a principle of our functioning in the church. If a brother is able to do a certain thing, let him do it, even if you can do it better. This will humble you. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 118)
Today's Reading
God sovereignly arranged a situation that allowed Aaron to do what Moses was able to do. In the church life we should not do everything ourselves. Instead, we should let others do what we can do. This does not mean, however, that we should be idle. On the contrary, it means that in a matching relationship we are restricted, balanced, and humbled. This restriction is a safeguard and protection....The more we are matched with others, the more we are protected.
In Exodus 4:24-26 we see that Zipporah was used by God to cause Moses to be a “bridegroom of blood.”...In the Bible the male represents objective truth, whereas the female represents subjective experience. Thus, Aaron’s matching was outward and objective, but Zipporah’s cutting was inward and subjective. If we would be used of the Lord in His recovery, we must bear a sign of having been cut. This does not mean that we should talk about the cutting we have experienced. On the contrary, it means that we should silently bear this sign....In Exodus 4 it was Zipporah, not Moses, who said that he was a “bridegroom of blood.”
Both in the church life and in married life we need to be such a “bridegroom of blood.” If a brother is to be truly God’s called one, he needs to be cut in a subjective way. We learn a great deal through the cutting. Sometimes my wife cuts me by restricting my eating. This cutting keeps me healthy and prevents me from indulging myself. Because of her helpful cutting, I am not permitted to give in to fleshly indulgence in eating. Thus, the cutting keeps us from living according to the natural life....Only those who are willing to be cut can be useful to God....Daily and even hourly we need to experience the circumcision of the natural life. It is not sufficient merely to see that we are sinful. Our natural life must also be circumcised, either by those in our family or by the brothers and sisters in the church....This cutting is the last aspect of God’s calling. Only after we have been cut can we carry out God’s commission.
When we compare the aspects of God’s calling in Exodus 3 and 4 to the record in the New Testament, we see that whatever Moses experienced, Paul experienced also. Furthermore, all this must be our experience today. We need to see the vision of the burning thornbush: the Triune God burning within and upon His redeemed ones. This is the focal point of the divine revelation in the Scriptures. Then we need to know who God is and what God is. Furthermore, we must know the devil, the flesh, and the world. Following this, we need the matching and the cutting. If we are willing for the subjective experience of the circumcision of our natural life, then we shall live by the resurrection life, we shall become useful in the hand of the Lord for the fulfillment of His eternal purpose, and we shall be prepared to carry out God’s commission. May every aspect of God’s calling be our experience in the Lord’s recovery today. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 118-120)
Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msgs. 9-10
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WEEK 5-Hymns #910
1 The overflow of life is work,
The work should be our living!
What we experience e’er should be
The message we are giving.
When living and the work are one,
The work will be effectual;
When message and the life are one,
The word will be successful.
2 The work must be the fruit of life,
Born thru the Spirit’s flowing;
As branches of the Lord, the vine,
Fruit bearing, life bestowing.
’Tis Christ Himself thru us to work,
Himself as life expressing,
And all the riches of His life
To others manifesting.
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3 Tis not a movement borne of man,
But by His power moving;
’Tis not the deeds done outwardly,
But inward action proving.
’Tis not the work of enterprise,
But ’tis His life confessing;
’Tis not to toil for our success,
But ’tis Himself expressing.
4 Our plans, our aims, our energy
We must abandon wholly,
That He may work His plan thru us,
His aim and object solely.
Ourselves, with all we are and have,
To death we must surrender,
That Christ may live Himself thru us
With riches and with splendor.
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