接受分等級的責任Accepting Graduated Responsibility
[每日靈修] 11/28/2018, 駱鴻銘編譯
新約中教導了一種經常被忽視的原則。我稱之為「分級責任」的原則。耶穌在路加福音十二章48節中教導了這個原則：「多給誰，就向誰多取；多托誰，就向誰多要」。
這句話是忠心管家的比喻的一部分。它強調了比喻中的主人對其僕人的判斷條件。所受的懲罰與每位僕人先前的知識成正比：
「僕人知道主人的意思，卻不預備，又不順他的意思行，那僕人必多受責打； 惟有那不知道的，做了當受責打的事，必少受責打」（47～48節）
在這裏，我們看到判斷和懲罰是根據知識和行動來施行的。知識越多，責任越大。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
你是忠心的管家，忠心地管理上帝託付給你的一切嗎？
進一步研讀：
路十二47～48 僕人知道主人的意思，卻不預備，又不順他的意思行，那僕人必多受責打； 惟有那不知道的，做了當受責打的事，必少受責打；因為多給誰，就向誰多取；多托誰，就向誰多要。
(1Co
4:2) 所求於管家的，是要他有忠心。
Accepting Graduated
Responsibility
There
is an oft-neglected principle taught in the New Testament. I call it the
principle of “graduated responsibility.” This principle is taught by Jesus in
Luke 12:48: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded”
(NIV).
This
saying is part of the parable of the faithful steward. It underscores the terms
of the judgment the lord in the parable renders to his servants. The punishment
meted out is given in direct proportion to the prior knowledge each servant
had:
“That
servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what
his master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know
and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.” (vv.
47-48, NIV)
Here
we see that judgment and punishment are rendered according to knowledge as well
as action. The greater the knowledge, the greater the accountability.
Coram
Deo
Are
you a faithful steward over all that God has entrusted to you?
Passages
for Further Study
Luke
12:47–48
1
Corinthians 4:2