三一阁 - 信靠

11月6日信心历程

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你信这话吗？（约十一26）

马大相信耶稣有能力行事；她相信他若在场，就可以医治她的弟弟。她也相信耶稣与神有特别的关系，他求神什么，神都成就。可是，她需要与耶稣有更亲密的个人关系。马大的信心是在未来才实现的；耶稣领她体验，直至信心成为她个人的财富，然后形成一个特有的产业 – “主啊，是的，我信你是基督……”

主对你是否也一样？主是否教导你，使你进入与他个人亲密的关系里？让神的问题追逼你 – “你信这话吗？”你怀疑的是什么？你所遭遇的，有否像马大的一样，把你带到一处，叫你的信仰快要变成个人的信仰？这个地步，非透过难处而产生个人问题，不能达致。

相信就是完全委身。在心智上委身，就是把一切与这委身无关的事摈弃；在信仰上委身，在道德上就绝不与其他信仰妥协；在特殊信仰上委身，就把灵交给耶稣基督，决志只让主居首位。当我面对主耶稣，他对我说：“你信这话吗？”我会发现信心像呼吸一样自然，而诧异以往为何愚昧地不信靠。

祈祷◆主啊，并非基于任何不配的感觉，或自觉不足，或是任何关乎自己的思想；我来，只因你是你。

November 6 Programme Of Belief

“Believest thou this?” John 11:26

Martha believed in the power at the disposal of Jesus Christ, she believed that if He had been present He could have healed her brother; she also believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with God and that whatever He asked of God, God would do; but she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha's programme of belief had its fulfilment in the future; Jesus led her on until her belief became a personal possession, and then slowly emerged into a particular inheritance – “Yea, Lord, I believe that Thou art the Christ. . . ”

Is there something like that in the Lord's dealings with you? Is Jesus educating you into a personal intimacy with Himself? Let Him press home His question to you – “Believest thou this?” What is your ordeal of doubt? Have you come, like Martha, to some overwhelming passage in your circumstances where your programme of belief is about to emerge into a personal belief? This can never be until a personal need arises out of a personal problem.

To believe is to commit. In the programme of mental belief I commit myself, and abandon all that is not related to that commitment. In personal belief I commit myself morally to this way of confidence and refuse to compromise with any other; and in particular belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ, and determine in that thing to be dominated by the Lord alone.

When I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me – “Believest thou this?” I find that faith is as natural as breathing, and I am staggered that I was so stupid as not to trust Him before.

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《与神同在》(劳伦斯)

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5月30日 “好的－－但！”

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主，我要跟从你，但……（路九61）

假如神叫你做一件与常理大相径庭的事，你会怎样呢？退缩？在肉身上养成的习惯，须以坚定的决心去改变，否则就会一直做下去。在属灵上，也是如此。你屡次遵主的话起来，但到了某一关头，就会裹足不前，甚至毅然放弃。“好的，但－－假定我在这事上顺服神，……又怎样？”“好了，我心顺服神，只要他让我用自己的智慧，不踏足在黑暗中。”耶稣基督要求倚靠他的人，有天然的那种冒险精神。若有人要做一件有价值的事，他有时必须孤注一掷。属灵的领域里，主也要求你用理智所坚持的一切撇下，投入他的话语里去。你这样做，就会发现他所说的合符理智。在常理下，耶稣基督的话似乎是疯狂的；可是，在信心跟前，你就会惊讶地发现这正是神的话。要全心信靠神，当他领你去探险，要立刻接受。我们在危机之中，往往表现得像不信的人。所以千万人中也许只有一个，肯将信心寄放在神身上。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，靠着你的恩典，我的思想能够明白那么多，所说的话也能那么多－－求你使我的心灵和行为不单与思想踏着同一步伐，更能够超越它。

May 30 “Yes – But . . . !”

“Lord, I will follow Thee; but . . .” Luke 9:61

Supposing God tells you to do something which is an enormous test to your common sense, what are you going to do? Hang back? If you get into the habit of doing a thing in the physical domain, you will do it every time until you break the habit determinedly; and the same is true spiritually. Again and again you will get up to what Jesus Christ wants, and every time you will turn back when it comes to the point, until you abandon resolutely. “Yes, but – supposing I do obey God in this matter, what about . . . ?” “Yes, I will obey God if He will let me use my common sense, but don't ask me to take a step in the dark.” Jesus Christ demands of the man who trusts Him the same reckless sporting spirit that the natural man exhibits. If a man is going to do anything worth while, there are times when he has to risk everything on his leap, and in the spiritual domain Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense and leap into what He says, and immediately you do, you find that what He says fits on as solidly as common sense. At the bar of common sense Jesus Christ's statements may seem mad; but bring them to the bar of faith, and you begin to find with awestruck spirit that they are the words of God. Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis, only one out of a crowd is daring enough to bank his faith in the character of God.

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5月23日忧虑与不信

admin — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:53:54 +0000

不要为生命忧虑吃什么、喝什么，为身体忧虑穿什么。（太六25）

耶稣把信徒合乎理智的忧虑，当作不信。我们若受了圣灵，他一定会追问我们说：“在朋友当中，这一天安排妥当的假期，这些新书中，神的位置在哪里？”他总要追问我们，直到我们以神为首。什么时候我们把别的东西摆在首位，就会产生混乱。

“不要忧虑。”不要把未来临的事压在自己肩上。忧虑不但是错，而且是不信；因为忧虑就是不信神能解决我们生活上实际的细节问题，而我们的忧虑往往是这些问题。你有没有留意主耶稣说什么会挤住神的道？魔鬼吗？不是！乃是今生的思虑，这些总是琐琐碎碎的忧虑。我看不见，就信不过，这就是不信的起头。唯一能救治不信的，乃是顺服圣灵。耶稣对门徒所说的一句重要的话，就是撇下。

祈祷◆无所不能的主神，我的灵是何等欣喜地知道，你看顾麻雀，亦数算我们的头发！主啊，向我吹气，直至我的身体和思想都敬拜你。

May 23 Careful Infidelity

“Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on.” Matthew 6:25

Jesus sums up common-sense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will press through and say – Now where does God come in in this relationship, in this mapped out holiday, in these new books? He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

“Take no thought . . .” don't take the pressure of forethought upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is infidelity, because worrying means that we do not think that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never any thing else that worries us. Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the word He puts in? The devil? No, the cares of this world. It is the little worries always. I will not trust where I cannot see, that is where infidelity begins. The only cure for infidelity is obedience to the Spirit.

The great word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.

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4月29日未有确据而安之若素之恩典

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将来如何，还未显明。（约壹三2）

我们本性喜欢一五一十地计算得清清楚楚，于是视未确定的事为坏事。我们总爱假设一个可达的目标；其实，属灵生命的本质不是这样的。属灵生命的本质是在未确定的时候，便心里坚定；因此，我们不必到处筑巢，安身立命。理智会说：“唔，假如我在那情况之下……”但我们根本不能置身于自己尚未经历过的情况。

安稳是属世生活的表记，而在不稳定中靠主恩安详，是属灵生命的标志。相信神，就意味着我们对生活各方面的事情不肯定，因为我们不晓得一天将会发生什么事。这句话一般都是存着愁叹来说；其实，这应该是一句满有希望的说话才对。我们虽不知下一步如何，但我们相信神。

那只要将自己一切交给神，并尽上本份，神就会使我们每时每刻充满惊喜。可是，我们若只高举一些教条，死就进来了；我们不是相信神，而是相信他的信念。耶稣说：“你们若不……变成小孩子的样式……。”属灵生命是赤子的生命。我们对神并非不肯定，乃是不肯定他下一步怎样做。若我们只对信仰肯定，就是把自己抬高，变得严厉自尊，只对自己的见解下结论；但我们若与神有正常的关系，生命就充满自然的、欢乐的期望，因为对未来的事并没有把握。

耶稣说：“你们也当信我。”他不是说：“你们要信某些关于我的事。”完全交托他吧！虽然不知道他何时临到，但他必然会临到。持守对他的忠贞吧。

祈祷◆主啊，为着过去的那段时间，我敬拜你。你让我看见那许多的人，荣耀地与你进入正常的关系！它是那么奇妙，使我难有足够的言词去赞美你。

April 29 The Graciousness Of Uncertainty

"It doth not yet appear what we shall be." 1 John 3:2

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the nature of spiritual life. The nature of spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty, consequently we do not make our nests anywhere. Common sense says – “Well, supposing I were in that condition . . .” We cannot suppose ourselves in any condition we have never been in. Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness, it should be rather an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, He packs our life with surprises all the time. When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him. Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children.” Spiritual life is the life of a child. We are not uncertain of God, but uncertain of what He is going to do next. If we are only certain in our beliefs, we get dignified and severe and have the ban of finality about our views; but when we are rightly related to God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.

"Believe also in Me," said Jesus, not – "Believe certain things about Me." Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come. Remain loyal to Him.

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三一阁 - 信靠

11月6日 信心历程

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5月30日 “好的－－但！”

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5月23日 忧虑与不信

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4月29日 未有确据而安之若素之恩典

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11月6日信心历程

5月23日忧虑与不信

4月29日未有确据而安之若素之恩典