你有多少東西可以分給出去？
你確定你所給出去的，是你所擁有的嗎？
主並非只是為了你自己的緣故，
而帶領你經過那個試煉、經過那個黑暗、
經過那個不尋常的經歷。主並不是這樣對待你，
為了要使你關閉於你自己，而獨享其結果。
祂做那事乃為了要把你構成一位管家。
如果你和我只要允許這個事實來支配我們，
那麼在困難和試煉的日子中，這將會幫助我們安然度過。
我們應該抓緊這個事實，試煉原是為了主子民的豐富，
以及管家職分其裝備和資歷的一個增加。
祈求主釋放你進入你的管家職分，在你的度量之中。
神的兒女可能在迫切的需要中，穿過你的路徑，
並且可能一直在尋找能幫助他們的人。
他們一直向主呼求來滿足這個需要，
並觀看主如何來回應。他們可能穿過你的路徑，
而你卻談及各種各樣普通平庸之事；
他們要繼續前進，而你卻已經在你的管家職分上失敗了。
他們並沒有得著他們一直所祈求的，而那位管家已經使主失望了，
也讓那些正在仰望主的人失望了。讓我們祈求主，
從我們被束縛的狀態中，賜下釋放，來成就這管家職分。
主的話乃是："所求於管家的，是要他有忠心。"
並不是有口才、有聰明、或是有很強的個性，
都不是這些。你心中關於管家的概念是什麼？
大有說話能力的人、講話毫無困難的人嗎？
不！"所求於管家的，是要他有忠心。"
How much have you to dispense?
Are you sure that you are dispensing what you have?
The Lord did not lead you through that trial,
through that darkness, through that strange experience,
just for your own sake. The Lord has not dealt with you
as He has, in order that you should be shut up to yourself,
to enjoy the result alone. He has done that to constitute
you a steward. If you and I will only allow that fact to
govern us in the days of difficulty and trial,
it will help us through. We should hold fast to the fact that
the trial is to mean enrichment for the Lord‵s people, and
an increase of equipment and qualification for stewardship.
Ask the Lord to release you into your stewardship within your measure.
Children of God may cross your path in dire need,
and may all the time be looking for the person
who can help them. They have been crying to the Lord
to meet the need, and have been watching to see
how the Lord would answer. They may cross your path,
and you talk upon all sorts of ordinary things;
they pass on their way, and you have failed in your stewardship.
They have not received that for which they have been asking,
and the steward has disappointed the Lord,
and those who were looking to the Lord.
Let us ask the Lord to give us release
from our tied-up state, to fulfill this stewardship.
The Lord‵s Word is: "...it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful," not eloquent,
intellectual, or with a strong personality,
none of those things. What is your mental conception
of a steward? One who has a great facility of speech,
who finds no difficulty in talking? No! "...it is required
in stewards, that a man be found faithful."
- 史百克 (T. Austin-Sparks, 1888-1971)
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