0602 你被什麼着迷住了嗎？
誰敬畏耶和華，耶和華必指示他當選擇的道路。《詩篇25:12》
你被某事所迷戀嗎？你可能會說，「不，沒有被什麼所着迷了。」但我們所有人都被某些東西所迷住了——通常是被我們自己，或者，如果我們是基督徒，就是被我們自己基督徒生活的經歷所迷住了。但詩篇作者說我們是要被神所迷戀。基督徒生活的持續意識應該是神自己，而不僅僅是對祂的想法。。我們生命的整體存在，從裡到外，都要完全被神的同在絕對吸引。一個孩子的意識如此被他的母親所吸引，以至於儘管他沒有意識地想着她，但當問題出現時，持續的關係就是與母親的關係。以同樣的方式，我們要「生活、動作、存留」，都在祂裡面。（使徒行傳17:28），把每件事都與祂聯繫起來，因為我們對祂的持續意識不斷地將那個意識本身推到我們生活的最前線。
如果我們被神所迷戀，就沒有什麼能進入我們的生活——沒有擔心、沒有艱辛，也沒有憂慮。現在我們明白為什麼我們的主如此強調憂慮的罪了。當神完全環繞着我們之時，我們怎敢如此絕對地不信呢？被神所迷戀，就是對仇敵一切的攻擊有個有效的屏障。
「他必安然居住…」（詩篇 25:13）。如果我們的「生命與基督一同藏在神裡面。」（歌羅西書 3:3），即使在患難、誤解和毀謗之中，神就會使我們「安居樂業」，讓我們放鬆自在。我們喪失了自己與神持續相伴關係的奇妙、啟示的真理。 「神是我們的避難所」（詩篇 46:1），沒有什麼能突破祂的庇護所。
來自章伯斯的智慧
如果你沒有過信仰生活，要謹防對信仰生活做出任何裁決。《不知往何處去》
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