0327 個人品德而來的屬靈看見
你上到這裡來，我要將以後必成的事指示你。《啟示錄 4:1》
更高的心境和屬靈的視野只有通過更高的品德操練才能獲得。如果你生活的外在層面達到了你所知道的最高和最好的水平，神就會不斷地對你說：「朋友，向高處行。」試探中也有個持續的規則，它呼喚你向高處行；但當你這麼做時，你只會遇到其他的誘惑和品德特質。神和撒但都使用高升的策略，但撒但是在試探中使用之，效果完全不同。當魔鬼把你提升到某個地方時，牠會讓你的聖潔概念，鎖定在遠遠超出血肉之軀所能承受或達到的程度。你的生活變成了一場尖塔頂上的精神雜技表演。你緊緊抓住它，試圖保持平衡，不敢動彈。但當神藉著祂的恩典將你提升到天上的地方時，你會發現一個廣闊的高原，在那裡你可以輕鬆地走動。
將本周你的屬靈生命與去年同期作比較，看看神如何呼召你到更高的層次。我們都被帶到了更高的角度去看。永遠不要讓神向你顯示一個你沒有立即開始要實踐的真理，並應用到你的生活中。要一直操練，留在它的光中。
你在恩典中的成長不是以你沒有退後的事實來衡量的，而是以你對自己靈性狀態有了洞察力和理解來衡量。你是否聽到神說：「向高處行」，不是外在層面聽見，而是在你內心品德的最深處聽見的呢？
「我所要做的事豈可瞞着亞伯拉罕呢？」 （創世記 18:17）。因着我們個人品德的成長程度，神必須向我們隱藏祂的作為，直到我們達到了祂能夠揭示祂作為的水平。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們可能對神的觀念像把熔化的鉛倒入專門設計的模具中，那是極具危險性的，當它冷卻凝固後，我們就把它扔到不同意我們觀點的宗教人士的頭上。《真的門徒》
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