0606 作出神作在你里面的
…作成你们得救的功夫，因为你们立志行事，都是神在你们心里运行…《腓立比书2:12-13》
你的意志与神一致，但在你的肉体有一种本性，使你无力去做你知道自己应该做的事。当主最初来接触到我们的良心时，我们的良心首先做的是唤醒我们的意志，而我们的意志总是与神一致。然而你说：「但我不知道我的意志是否与神一致。」仰望耶稣，你会发现你的意志和你的良心每次都与祂一致。导致你说「我不会顺服」的，是比你的意志更不深入、更不具渗透的东西；那是悖逆或固执，它们从来都不是与神一致。一个人里面最深的东西是他的意志，而不是罪。
意志是神创造人类的基本要素——罪是变态的本性，进入了人里面。在重生的人身上，意志的源头就是全能的神。「因为你们立志行事，都是神在你们心里运行，为要成就祂的美意。」你必须以全神贯注、极大谨慎来「作成」神在你身上「运行」的事【作出神作在你们里面】——不是作工来完成或赚得「你自己的救恩」，而是作出你自己的救恩，以至于你会展现出一种生活的证据，那生活是基于对主完成和完全的救赎的坚定决心和不可动摇的信心。当你这样做时，你不是带出与神的意志【旨意】对立的意志——神的意志就是你的意志。你自然的选择将符合神的旨意，而过这样的生活将会像呼吸一样自然。固执是一个愚蠢的障碍，拒绝启蒙并阻碍其流动。对付这顽固的障碍唯一之道就是用「炸药」【威力】将其炸毁，而这「炸药」就是顺服圣灵。
我相信全能的神是我意志的源头吗？神不仅期望我遵行祂的旨意，而且祂在我里面实行之。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们的危险在于淡化神的话来迎合自己。神从不调整祂的话来迎合我；祂调整我来符合祂。《不知往何处去》
0606 “Work Out” What God “Works in” You
…work out your own salvation…for it is God who works in you… —Philippians 2:12-13
Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a nature that renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When the Lord initially comes in contact with our conscience, the first thing our conscience does is awaken our will, and our will always agrees with God. Yet you say, “But I don’t know if my will is in agreement with God.” Look to Jesus and you will find that your will and your conscience are in agreement with Him every time. What causes you to say “I will not obey” is something less deep and penetrating than your will. It is perversity or stubbornness, and they are never in agreement with God. The most profound thing in a person is his will, not sin.
The will is the essential element in God’s creation of human beings— sin is a perverse nature which entered into people. In someone who has been born again, the source of the will is Almighty God. “…for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” With focused attention and great care, you have to “work out” what God “works in” you— not work to accomplish or earn “your own salvation,” but work it out so you will exhibit the evidence of a life based with determined, unshakable faith on the complete and perfect redemption of the Lord. As you do this, you do not bring an opposing will up against God’s will— God’s will is your will. Your natural choices will be in accordance with God’s will, and living this life will be as natural as breathing. Stubbornness is an unintelligent barrier, refusing enlightenment and blocking its flow. The only thing to do with this barrier of stubbornness is to blow it up with “dynamite,” and the “dynamite” is obedience to the Holy Spirit.
Do I believe that Almighty God is the Source of my will? God not only expects me to do His will, but He is in me to do it.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Our danger is to water down God’s word to suit ourselves. God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word. –Not Knowing Whither, 901 R