0407 为什么我们缺乏理解
下山的时候，耶稣囑咐他们说：「人子还没有从死里复活，你们不要将所看见的告诉人。」《马可福音 9:9》
正如门徒所受的命令一样，你也不应该说什么，直到人子在你里面复活为止——直到复活的基督的生命支配着你，以至于你真正明白祂在世上所教导的。当你内在成长并发展出正确的状态时，耶稣所说的话就会变得如此清晰，以至于你会惊讶于之前你没有理解它们。事实上，你以前无法理解它们，因为你还尚未发展出正确的灵性状态来处理它们。
我们的主并未向我们隐瞒这些事情，但直到我们的灵性生活处于正确状态，我们还没有准备好接受它们。耶稣说：「我还有好些事要告诉你们，但你们现在担当不了。」（约翰福音 16:12）。在我们准备好从祂那里接受任何特定的真理之前，我们必须与祂复活的生命合一。我们真的了解耶稣复活的生命的住在我们里面吗？我们确实了解的证据就是祂的话对我们而言变得越来越能理解了。如果我们没有神的灵，神就无法向我们启示任何事。而我们自己不顺服和固执己见将会有效地阻止神向我们启示任何事情。但一旦祂复活的生命在我们身上大行其道时，我们这种麻木思维将立即结束。
「不要告诉人…。」但很多人确实讲述了他们在变像山上所看到的——他们的顶峰体验。他们看到了异象并为之作证，但他们所说的和他们的生活方式，两者之间没有任何联系。他们的生活不成比例，因为人子尚未在他们里面复活。祂复活的生命还要多久才能在你我身上成形并显现出来呢？
来自章伯斯的智慧
真诚意味着外表和实际完全一致。《登山宝训研究》
0407 Why We Lack Understanding
He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead. —Mark 9:9
As the disciples were commanded, you should also say nothing until the Son of Man has risen in you— until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you truly understand what He taught while here on earth. When you grow and develop the right condition inwardly, the words Jesus spoke become so clear that you are amazed you did not grasp them before. In fact, you were not able to understand them before because you had not yet developed the proper spiritual condition to deal with them.
Our Lord doesn’t hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life. Jesus said, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (John 16:12). We must have a oneness with His risen life before we are prepared to bear any particular truth from Him. Do we really know anything about the indwelling of the risen life of Jesus? The evidence that we do is that His Word is becoming understandable to us. God cannot reveal anything to us if we don’t have His Spirit. And our own unyielding and headstrong opinions will effectively prevent God from revealing anything to us. But our insensible thinking will end immediately once His resurrection life has its way with us.
“…tell no one….” But so many people do tell what they saw on the Mount of Transfiguration— their mountaintop experience. They have seen a vision and they testify to it, but there is no connection between what they say and how they live. Their lives don’t add up because the Son of Man has not yet risen in them. How long will it be before His resurrection life is formed and evident in you and in me?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, 1449 L