0326 个人纯洁而来的属灵看见
清心的人有福了，因为他们必得见神。 《马太福音 5:8》
纯洁并不是无辜/无邪——它的含义远不止于此。纯洁是与神持续灵里和谐的结果。我们必须在纯洁中成长。我们与神的生命可能是正确的，我们内在纯洁也可能没有瑕疵，但偶尔我们外在生活可能会有污渍和玷污。神有意不保护我们免遭这种可能性，因为这是我们认识到通过个人纯洁来维持属灵看见必要性的方式。如果我们与神的属灵生活外在层面受到了丝毫的损害，我们就必须把其他一切都放在一边，直到把它纠正过来。要记住属灵的看见取决于我们的品格——是「清心的人」才能「看见神」。
神通过借着祂至高无上的恩典使我们纯洁，但我们仍然有一些事情必须小心观看。通过我们的肉身生命与他人和其他观点的接触，我们往往会变得黯淡无光。不仅我们的「内在圣所」必须与神保持正确的关系，而且「外院」也必须与神通过祂恩典赐给我们的纯洁完全和谐。当我们的「外院」被玷污时，我们属灵视野和悟性立即变得模糊。如果我们想与主耶稣基督保持个人的亲密关系，那就意味着拒绝去做甚至去思考某些事情；有些事是别人可以接受的，对我们来说那却变得不可接受。
在与他人的关系中保持个人纯洁不受玷污的一个实际帮助，是开始看他们如神看他们那样。对自己说：「那个男的或那个女的在基督耶稣里是完全的！那个朋友或那个亲戚在基督耶稣里是完全的！」
来自章伯斯的智慧
我没有权利说我相信神，除非我把我的生活安排在祂全知的眼下。《真的门徒》
0326 Spiritual Vision Through Personal Purity
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. —Matthew 5:8
Purity is not innocence— it is much more than that. Purity is the result of continued spiritual harmony with God. We have to grow in purity. Our life with God may be right and our inner purity unblemished, yet occasionally our outer life may become spotted and stained. God intentionally does not protect us from this possibility, because this is the way we recognize the necessity of maintaining our spiritual vision through personal purity. If the outer level of our spiritual life with God is impaired to the slightest degree, we must put everything else aside until we make it right. Remember that spiritual vision depends on our character— it is “the pure in heart” who “see God.”
God makes us pure by an act of His sovereign grace, but we still have something that we must carefully watch. It is through our bodily life coming in contact with other people and other points of view that we tend to become tarnished. Not only must our “inner sanctuary” be kept right with God, but also the “outer courts” must be brought into perfect harmony with the purity God gives us through His grace. Our spiritual vision and understanding is immediately blurred when our “outer court” is stained. If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean refusing to do or even think certain things. And some things that are acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us.
A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye. –Disciples Indeed, 385 L