0512 没有习惯的习惯
你们若充充足足地有这几样，就必使你们在认识我们的主耶稣基督上不至于闲懒不结果子了。《彼得后书1:8》
当我们第一次开始要形成一个习惯时，我们会充分意识到它；我们会有意识到自己正变得有德行和敬虔的时候，但这种意识，当我们灵性成长时，是我们应该很快通过的一个阶段而已。如果我们停留在这个阶段，我们就会产生一种灵性上的骄傲。处理敬虔习惯的正确做法，是让它们融入主的生命中，直到它们成为我们生活的自然表达，以至于我们不再意识到它们。我们的属灵生命不断地使我们将注意力集中在内里，为了自我审视的坚定目的，因为我们每个人都有一些尚未加到我们生活中的品质。
你的神可能是你小小基督徒习惯——在一天中某些时刻祷告或读经的习惯。如果你开始崇拜自己的习惯而非习惯所象征的意义，看看你的天父将如何打乱你的日程安排。我们说：「我现在不能做那件事；这是我与神独处的时间。」不，这是你与你的习惯独处的时间；你里面还缺乏一种品质。辨明你的缺点，然后寻找机会努力将你生命中缺失的品质加上。
爱意味着没有可见的习惯——你的习惯是如此融入主里，以至于你在操作时根本没有意识到。如果你有意识地意识到自己的圣洁，你就会限制自己做某些事情，那些神根本没有限制你做的事情。这意味着你的生活中缺少某种需要添加的品质。唯一超自然的生命就是主耶稣所活出的生命，而祂无论在任何地方都与神同在。有没有一些地方你对神感到不自在呢？那么，让神透过不管什么可能的特殊环境来工作，直到你在祂里面增长：加上祂的品质。然后你的生命就会变成孩子般单纯的生命。
来自章伯斯的智慧
关于信神的伟大之处，就在于它使人在纷扰中不受干扰。《以赛亚书注释》
0512 The Habit of Having No Habits
If these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful… —2 Peter 1:8
When we first begin to form a habit, we are fully aware of it. There are times when we are aware of becoming virtuous and godly, but this awareness should only be a stage we quickly pass through as we grow spiritually. If we stop at this stage, we will develop a sense of spiritual pride. The right thing to do with godly habits is to immerse them in the life of the Lord until they become such a spontaneous expression of our lives that we are no longer aware of them. Our spiritual life continually causes us to focus our attention inwardly for the determined purpose of self-examination, because each of us has some qualities we have not yet added to our lives.
Your god may be your little Christian habit— the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, “I can’t do that right now; this is my time alone with God.” No, this is your time alone with your habit. There is a quality that is still lacking in you. Identify your shortcoming and then look for opportunities to work into your life that missing quality.
Love means that there are no visible habits— that your habits are so immersed in the Lord that you practice them without realizing it. If you are consciously aware of your own holiness, you place limitations on yourself from doing certain things— things God is not restricting you from at all. This means there is a missing quality that needs to be added to your life. The only supernatural life is the life the Lord Jesus lived, and He was at home with God anywhere. Is there someplace where you are not at home with God? Then allow God to work through whatever that particular circumstance may be until you increase in Him, adding His qualities. Your life will then become the simple life of a child.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. Notes on Isaiah, 1376 R