你们亲近神,神就必亲近你们。(雅四8)
我们必须让人有机会行神的真理,这责任是个人的,别人无法代行。这必须是他自己刻意的行动。但福音的信息也总是应该带领这人的行动。不肯行动叫人瘫痪,使人原地不动;一旦行动,就永远不再一样了。成百上千被神的灵感动的人,都因不肯行动的这种愚蠢而被拦阻。当我行动的那一刻,我就活了;剩下的,就是继续活着。我真正活着的时刻是我全心全意行动的时刻。
永远不要让上帝的真理进入你的灵魂而不去采取行动,这不一定是身体上的,而是意志上的。不管用笔墨或用血,把它记录下来。即使是最柔弱的信徒,只要与耶稣基督相交,在他行动的那一刻,就得着释放,神一切的大能都会为他所用。我们来到上帝的真理面前,承认我们错了,却又回头;然后我们再次来到真理面前,又回头;直到我们认识到我们没有必要回头。我们必须彻底理解救赎主的一些话语,并与他做交易。他的话“来”就是“交易”的意思。“到我这里来。”我们往往非到最后也不肯“来”。其实过来人就知道,你“来”的那一秒,神的生命就立刻超自然地进到他里面。世界、肉体、魔鬼对他的控制就立刻瘫痪,不是因为你的行动,而是因你的行动把你连接到神救赎的大能去。
祈祷◆主啊,我只有一件事情 – 就是有声和无声的需要你。“灵性贫乏”这词,正描述了我对自己的一点认识。我来到你面前,全然地需要你。
November 4: The Authority Of Reality
“Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you.” James 4:8
It is essential to give people a chance of acting on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual, you cannot act for him, it must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message ought always to lead a man to act. The paralysis of refusing to act leaves a man exactly where he was before; when once he acts, he is never the same. It is the foolishness of it that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Immediately I precipitate myself over into an act, that second I live; all the rest is existence. The moments when I truly live are the moments when I act with my whole will.
Never allow a truth of God that is brought home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but in will. Record it, with ink or with blood. The feeblest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is emancipated the second he acts; all the almighty power of God is on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, we confess we are wrong, but go back again; then we come up to it again, and go back; until we learn that we have no business to go back. We have to go clean over on some word of our redeeming Lord and transact business with Him. His word “come” means “transact.” “Come unto Me.” The last thing we do is to come; but everyone who does come knows that that second the supernatural rush of the life of God invades him instantly. The dominating power of the world, the flesh and the devil is paralysed, not by your act, but because your act has linked you on to God and His redemptive power.