0527 认识祂的生命
你们要在城里等候，直到你们领受从上头来的能力。《路加福音24:49》
门徒必须等候，留在耶路撒冷直到五旬节那天，不仅是为他们自己的预备，也是因为他们必须等主真正得荣耀。一旦祂得荣耀后，发生了什么？ 「他既被神的右手高举，又从父受了所应许的圣灵，就把你们所看见所听见的，浇灌下来。」（使徒行传2:33）。约翰福音 7: 39 中的陈述——「那时还没有赐下圣灵来，因为耶稣尚未得着荣耀。」并不适用于我们。圣灵已经赐下来了，主已得荣耀了。我们的等候并不取决于神的护理，而是取决于我们自己的属灵健康。
圣灵的影响力和能力在五旬节之前就已经在工作，但祂还没有降临。一旦我们的主在昇天中得着荣耀，圣灵就降临到这世界，从那时起祂就一直在这里。我们必须接受这个启示的真理：祂在这里。接受并欢迎圣灵进入我们生活中的态度，是信徒持续该有的态度。当我们接受圣灵时，我们就从昇天的主那里接受了复活的生命。
改变人的不是圣灵的洗礼，而是昇天基督的大能通过圣灵进入他们的生活。我们常常将新约从未分开的事物分开；圣灵的洗礼并不是一种在耶稣基督之外的经历，而是昇天的基督的证据。
圣灵的洗礼不会让你想到时间或永恒——它就是一个令人惊叹的荣耀的现在。「认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的基督耶稣，这就是永生。」（约翰福音 17:3）。现在就开始认识祂，且永远不可结束。
来自章伯斯的智慧
敬畏是一个人的心灵认识到神是谁以及祂为他个人所做的事情的状态。我们的主强调孩子的态度；没有什么态度能像孩子那样表达如此庄严的敬畏和亲密。《不知往何处去》
0527 The Life To Know Him
…tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. —Luke 24:49
The disciples had to tarry, staying in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost, not only for their own preparation but because they had to wait until the Lord was actually glorified. And as soon as He was glorified, what happened? “Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear” (Acts 2:33). The statement in John 7:39— “…for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified”— does not pertain to us. The Holy Spirit has been given; the Lord is glorified— our waiting is not dependent on the providence of God, but on our own spiritual fitness.
The Holy Spirit’s influence and power were at work before Pentecost, but He was not here. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the world, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that He is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.
It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. We all too often separate things that the New Testament never separates. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ— it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit does not make you think of time or eternity— it is one amazing glorious now. “This is eternal life, that they may know You…” (John 17:3). Begin to know Him now, and never finish.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Awe is the condition of a man’s spirit realizing Who God is and what He has done for him personally. Our Lord emphasizes the attitude of a child; no attitude can express such solemn awe and familiarity as that of a child. —Not Knowing Whither, 882 L