0602 你被什么着迷住了吗？
谁敬畏耶和华，耶和华必指示他当选择的道路。《诗篇25:12》
你被某事所迷恋吗？你可能会说，「不，没有被什么所着迷了。」但我们所有人都被某些东西所迷住了——通常是被我们自己，或者，如果我们是基督徒，就是被我们自己基督徒生活的经历所迷住了。但诗篇作者说我们是要被神所迷恋。基督徒生活的持续意识应该是神自己，而不仅仅是对祂的想法。。我们生命的整体存在，从里到外，都要完全被神的同在绝对吸引。一个孩子的意识如此被他的母亲所吸引，以至于尽管他没有意识地想着她，但当问题出现时，持续的关系就是与母亲的关系。以同样的方式，我们要「生活、动作、存留」，都在祂里面。（使徒行传17:28），把每件事都与祂联系起来，因为我们对祂的持续意识不断地将那个意识本身推到我们生活的最前线。
如果我们被神所迷恋，就没有什么能进入我们的生活——没有担心、没有艰辛，也没有忧虑。现在我们明白为什么我们的主如此强调忧虑的罪了。当神完全环绕着我们之时，我们怎敢如此绝对地不信呢？被神所迷恋，就是对仇敌一切的攻击有个有效的屏障。
「他必安然居住…」（诗篇 25:13）。如果我们的「生命与基督一同藏在神里面。」（歌罗西书 3:3），即使在患难、误解和毁谤之中，神就会使我们「安居乐业」，让我们放松自在。我们丧失了自己与神持续相伴关系的奇妙、启示的真理。 「神是我们的避难所」（诗篇 46:1），没有什么能突破祂的庇护所。
来自章伯斯的智慧
如果你没有过信仰生活，要谨防对信仰生活做出任何裁决。《不知往何处去》
0602 Are You Obsessed by Something?
Who is the man that fears the Lord? —Psalm 25:12
Are you obsessed by something? You will probably say, “No, by nothing,” but all of us are obsessed by something— usually by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our own experience of the Christian life. But the psalmist says that we are to be obsessed by God. The abiding awareness of the Christian life is to be God Himself, not just thoughts about Him. The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God. A child’s awareness is so absorbed in his mother that although he is not consciously thinking of her, when a problem arises, the abiding relationship is that with the mother. In that same way, we are to “live and move and have our being” in God (Acts 17:28), looking at everything in relation to Him, because our abiding awareness of Him continually pushes itself to the forefront of our lives.
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives— not concerns, nor tribulation, nor worries. And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
“He himself shall dwell in prosperity…” (Psalm 25:13). God will cause us to “dwell in prosperity,” keeping us at ease, even in the midst of tribulation, misunderstanding, and slander, if our “life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). We rob ourselves of the miraculous, revealed truth of this abiding companionship with God. “God is our refuge…” (Psalm 46:1). Nothing can break through His shelter of protection.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Beware of pronouncing any verdict on the life of faith if you are not living it. –Not Knowing Whither, 900 R