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每日箴言(中英)|提防成本收益式的灵命



每日箴言

神恩典的隐秘大能



“你摆设午饭,或晚饭...倒要请那贫穷的,残废的,瘸腿的,瞎眼的,你就有福了...到义人复活的时候,你要得着报答。” - 路 14:12-14

 灵修

也许你知道什么是成本收益分析,它是人们计算做某事的成本和收益的一种方法。如果成本太高,他们就不会浪费时间和精力在这件事上。


成本收益分析对于请耶稣吃饭的家主来说是适用的。那个邀请耶稣的法利赛人希望利用晚饭作为一个讨好客人的机会,但是这场晚宴没有如他计划的进行。耶稣使用这个机会治好了一个人——而且是在安息日!这顿饭原本是祂那些聪明的宗教伙伴们试探耶稣,想要杀祂威风的一个机会,但是却成了一次施行奇妙医治的机会。当这些有学问的人看着耶稣在安息日治好这个人的疾病的时候,耶稣其实给他们开了一个有关安息日的博士班研讨会。


耶稣还发现,这些参加宴会的人选择了尊贵的座位,这等有权势的人并不按神的方式做事。


当我们只为了个人所得而事奉,我们就像那个为他的投资算计回报的家主。成本收益的考量可能会使我们成为更好的会计师,但是它不会使我们成为耶稣精明的门徒。


 祷告

主啊,我也常犯这样的错,就是企图从服事中得到特权,或者要在别人面前好看。求祢改变我的心,愿我像你一样服事他人,哪怕他们不能给我任何回报。奉祢的名祷告,阿们。

普世佳音每日箴言

 Beware Of Cost-benefit Spirituality!

“When you give a luncheon or dinner... invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,  and you will be blessed.... You will be repaid at the resurrection. . . .” - Luke 14:12-14


 Devotion


Maybe you know what cost-benefit analysis is. It is a process by which people calculate the costs versus the benefits of doing something. If the costs are too high, they will not waste their time and effort.


Cost-benefit analysis was at work with the host of the dinner party for Jesus. The Pharisee who invited him hoped to use the dinner as an opportunity to impress his guests. But the party did not turn out the way he had planned. Jesus used the opportunity to heal a man—on the Sabbath! Instead of this dinner being a setting where his smart religious pals could test Jesus and put him in his place, it became an opportunity for a miraculous healing. While learned men watched Jesus free a man from disease on the Sabbath, he gave them a doctoral seminar on the purpose of the Sabbath.


Jesus also noticed that the people attending the party chose places of honor for themselves. He saw a display of powerful people who were not doing things God’s way.


When we serve only for personal gain, we are acting more like that host who was counting on a return from his investment. Cost-benefit dynamics may make us better accountants, but it will not make us effective disciples of Jesus.


 Prayer

Lord, when I am guilty of assessing my service to gain an advantage or to look good before others, change my heart. Like, you, may I serve others even if they can do nothing for me. Amen.


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