0128 怎么会有人如此逼迫耶稣！
扫罗！扫罗！为什么逼迫我？《使徒行传 26:14》
你是否决心要按照自己的方式为神而活？直到我们经历「圣灵与火」的洗礼（马太福音3:11），我们是永远无法摆脱这个陷阱。固执和任性总是会刺痛耶稣基督，它也許没有伤害到别人，但却刺伤祂的灵。每当我们固执、任性、追求自己的野心时，我们就是在伤害耶稣。每当我们坚持自己的权利，并坚持这是我们的打算时，我们就是在逼迫祂。每当我们依赖自尊时，我们就是系统性地扰乱和伤害祂的灵。当我们最终明白长久以来我们一直在迫害的是耶稣，那是最压倒性的启示。
当我将神的道传给你时，它在我里面有巨大洞察力和敏锐性吗？还是我的生活背叛了我宣讲教导的事情？我可能教导成圣，却展现了撒但的灵，正是迫害耶稣基督的灵。耶稣的灵只意识到一件事 —— 与父完美的合一。祂告诉我们，「我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式，这样，你们心里就必得享安息。」（马太福音11:29）。我所做的一切应该建立在与祂完美合一上，而不是基于任性想要敬虔的决心。这意味着别人可能会利用我，绕过我，或完全忽视我，但如果我为了祂的缘故而定意顺服，我就能阻止耶稣基督受逼迫了。
来自章伯斯的智慧
耶稣对那些没有经历过痛苦的人说：「我没有什么可以给你们的；以自己的脚站稳，挺起你自己的肩膀（挺身而立）。我为这样的人而来，就是知道他手里有一堆自己无法应付的事情，知道有自己无法触及的力量的人；如果他愿意让我来，我将会为他做一切的事。只要有一个人承认他需要，我就会为他而行。」《痛苦的阴影》
0128 How Could Someone So Persecute Jesus!
Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? —Acts 26:14
Are you determined to have your own way in living for God? We will never be free from this trap until we are brought into the experience of the baptism of “the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11). Stubbornness and self-will will always stab Jesus Christ. It may hurt no one else, but it wounds His Spirit. Whenever we are obstinate and self-willed and set on our own ambitions, we are hurting Jesus. Every time we stand on our own rights and insist that this is what we intend to do, we are persecuting Him. Whenever we rely on self-respect, we systematically disturb and grieve His Spirit. And when we finally understand that it is Jesus, we have been persecuting all this time, it is the most crushing revelation ever.
Is the Word of God tremendously penetrating and sharp in me as I hand it on to you, or does my life betray the things I profess to teach? I may teach sanctification and yet exhibit the spirit of Satan, the very spirit that persecutes Jesus Christ. The Spirit of Jesus is conscious of only one thing— a perfect oneness with the Father. And He tells us, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11:29). All I do should be based on a perfect oneness with Him, not on a self-willed determination to be godly. This will mean that others may use me, go around me, or completely ignore me, but if I will submit to it for His sake, I will prevent Jesus Christ from being persecuted.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
To those who have had no agony Jesus says, “I have nothing for you; stand on your own feet, square your own shoulders. I have come for the man who knows he has a bigger handful than he can cope with, who knows there are forces he cannot touch; I will do everything for him if he will let Me. Only let a man grant he needs it, and I will do it for him.” –The Shadow of an Agony