0326 個人純潔而來的屬靈看見
清心的人有福了，因為他們必得見神。 《馬太福音 5:8》
純潔並不是無辜/無邪——它的含義遠不止於此。純潔是與神持續靈里和諧的結果。我們必須在純潔中成長。我們與神的生命可能是正確的，我們內在純潔也可能沒有瑕疵，但偶爾我們外在生活可能會有污漬和玷污。神有意不保護我們免遭這種可能性，因為這是我們認識到通過個人純潔來維持屬靈看見必要性的方式。如果我們與神的屬靈生活外在層面受到了絲毫的損害，我們就必須把其他一切都放在一邊，直到把它糾正過來。要記住屬靈的看見取決於我們的品格——是「清心的人」才能「看見神」。
神通過藉著祂至高無上的恩典使我們純潔，但我們仍然有一些事情必須小心觀看。通過我們的肉身生命與他人和其他觀點的接觸，我們往往會變得黯淡無光。不僅我們的「內在聖所」必須與神保持正確的關係，而且「外院」也必須與神通過祂恩典賜給我們的純潔完全和諧。當我們的「外院」被玷污時，我們屬靈視野和悟性立即變得模糊。如果我們想與主耶穌基督保持個人的親密關係，那就意味着拒絕去做甚至去思考某些事情；有些事是別人可以接受的，對我們來說那卻變得不可接受。
在與他人的關係中保持個人純潔不受玷污的一個實際幫助，是開始看他們如神看他們那樣。對自己說：「那個男的或那個女的在基督耶穌里是完全的！那個朋友或那個親戚在基督耶穌里是完全的！」
來自章伯斯的智慧
我沒有權利說我相信神，除非我把我的生活安排在祂全知的眼下。《真的門徒》
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