“我深信那在你们心里动了善工的，必成全这工，直到耶稣基督的日子。 我为你们众人有这样的意念，原是应当的；因你们常在我心里，无论我是在捆锁之中，是辩明证实福音的时候，你们都与我一同得恩。 我体会基督耶稣的心肠，切切地想念你们众人；这是 神可以给我作见证的。”(腓立比书 1:6-8 )
“我深信”。保罗在这里提到他的信心，不是对自己的信心，而是对那“在你们心里动了善工”的那一位的信心——当一个人初信的时候，这位伟大的工程师就已经在他生命中开始动这善工了。保罗的信心就是看见神在初信者生命中开始的工作。你可以看见神在你生命中所动的工吗？我们这些人，在被主得着之前，行事为人大多自私自利、自我中心、总为不好的行为找借口、常行不义。当基督找回我们的时候，他开始动工，就是推翻罪在我们里面累积起来的邪恶工程。保罗相信，那位开始这善工的，必定会完成这工作。那时，我们将在基督里成为完全；那时，我们不再是罪的器皿，而是可以为神所用成就他旨意的器皿。
你对你的创造者有这样的信心吗？或者，在这里，也可以称他为我们的重造者。我们愿意让他为我们的生命掌舵，好让他重新陶造我们吗？我鼓励你对他说“yes”，不要阻拦他在我们生命中或生活环境里的作为。让他重新陶造我们，好让我们行事为人不再是罪的奴仆的样式。今天，让我们允许他开始这陶造工作的第一步。你最害怕耶稣在哪一个方面开始动工呢？如果你感觉不能去爱，仍然自我中心，仍被某一种罪捆绑，今天可以告诉主，“请你开始改变我，从第一步开始。我弃绝生命中不讨你喜悦的这一部分，我允许你开始改变我的生命，使我圣洁像你。这是我的选择，因为我对你有信心，我知道你可以改变我”。--J
Philippians 1:6-8 I am confident. Paul talks about the confidence he has, not in himself, but the confidence in the master architect who has begun a good work in those who have been with Christ from the beginning. His confidence is in seeing the good work begun in these new believers by God. Can you see God's good work in yourself? Some of us must have been selfish before Christ found us, self-centred, making excuses for bad behaviour, unrighteous in our actions. When Christ found us, there was a work that he started to overthrow this evil work that sin had laid. Paul is confident that he who began will complete this work until we are perfect in Christ. Formed not as an instrument for sin, but made for his purpose. Do you possess this confidence in your maker, or here in this case, our re-maker？ Are we willing to let him take the reins of our life so that he can remake us. To start to say 'yes' to him rather than hinder his work in our lives or those around us. remake us so that we are no longer slaves to sin. Today let us allow him to take us to that first step of a new work. What are you most afraid of Jesus to start a work in you. If you have been unloving, or selfish, or have a weakness for a certain sin, today is the day to say Jesus I take that first step for change. I reject that part of my life, I allow you to change that area of my life and remake it in your image. This is my choice because I am confident in you that you can change me.
