0327 个人品德而来的属灵看见
你上到这里来，我要将以后必成的事指示你。《启示录 4:1》
更高的心境和属灵的视野只有通过更高的品德操练才能获得。如果你生活的外在层面达到了你所知道的最高和最好的水平，神就会不断地对你说：「朋友，向高处行。」试探中也有个持续的规则，它呼唤你向高处行；但当你这么做时，你只会遇到其他的诱惑和品德特质。神和撒但都使用高升的策略，但撒但是在试探中使用之，效果完全不同。当魔鬼把你提升到某个地方时，牠会让你的圣洁概念，锁定在远远超出血肉之躯所能承受或达到的程度。你的生活变成了一场尖塔顶上的精神杂技表演。你紧紧抓住它，试图保持平衡，不敢动弹。但当神借着祂的恩典将你提升到天上的地方时，你会发现一个广阔的高原，在那里你可以轻松地走动。
将本周你的属灵生命与去年同期作比较，看看神如何呼召你到更高的层次。我们都被带到了更高的角度去看。永远不要让神向你显示一个你没有立即开始要实践的真理，并应用到你的生活中。要一直操练，留在它的光中。
你在恩典中的成长不是以你没有退后的事实来衡量的，而是以你对自己灵性状态有了洞察力和理解来衡量。你是否听到神说：「向高处行」，不是外在层面听见，而是在你内心品德的最深处听见的呢？
「我所要做的事岂可瞒着亚伯拉罕呢？」 （创世记 18:17）。因着我们个人品德的成长程度，神必须向我们隐藏祂的作为，直到我们达到了祂能够揭示祂作为的水平。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们可能对神的观念像把熔化的铅倒入专门设计的模具中，那是极具危险性的，当它冷却凝固后，我们就把它扔到不同意我们观点的宗教人士的头上。《真的门徒》
0327 Spiritual Vision Through Personal Character
Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place… —Revelation 4:1
A higher state of mind and spiritual vision can only be achieved through the higher practice of personal character. If you live up to the highest and best that you know in the outer level of your life, God will continually say to you, “Friend, come up even higher.” There is also a continuing rule in temptation which calls you to go higher; but when you do, you only encounter other temptations and character traits. Both God and Satan use the strategy of elevation, but Satan uses it in temptation, and the effect is quite different. When the devil elevates you to a certain place, he causes you to fasten your idea of what holiness is far beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear or achieve. Your life becomes a spiritual acrobatic performance high atop a steeple. You cling to it, trying to maintain your balance and daring not to move. But when God elevates you by His grace into heavenly places, you find a vast plateau where you can move about with ease.
Compare this week in your spiritual life with the same week last year to see how God has called you to a higher level. We have all been brought to see from a higher viewpoint. Never allow God to show you a truth which you do not instantly begin to live up to, applying it to your life. Always work through it, staying in its light.
Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you haven’t turned back, but that you have an insight and understanding into where you are spiritually. Have you heard God say, “Come up higher,” not audibly on the outer level, but to the innermost part of your character?
“Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing…?” (Genesis 18:17). God has to hide from us what He does, until, due to the growth of our personal character, we get to the level where He is then able to reveal it.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us. –Disciples Indeed, 388 R