0703 个人的罪之专注
祸哉，我灭亡了，因为我是嘴唇不洁的人…《以赛亚书 6:5》
当我来到神的极致面前，我并不意识到自己是个模糊意义上的罪人，而是突然意识到并且我注意力的专注，被引向我生命中某个特定领域的罪。一个人很容易说：「哦，是的，我知道我是个罪人。」但是当他来到神的面前时，他无法以如此广泛和模糊不清的陈述而轻易逃脱。我们的确信聚焦在我们特定的罪上，并且正如以赛亚那样认识到我们的真正所是。这总是一个人在神面前的标志，从来不是任何关于罪的模糊意识，而是聚焦在生命中某个特定的个人领域的罪的关注。神首先让我们对祂的灵引导我们关注之事的判定确信无疑，如果我们愿意降服，顺服于祂对特定罪的判定，祂就会带领我们到祂可以揭示罪的巨大潜在本质之处。当我们意识到神的存在时，神总是这样对待我们。
我们的注意力导向对个人的罪的专注，这种经历在每个人的生命中，从最伟大的圣徒到糟糕的罪人，都是真实的。当一个人初步踏上经验之梯时，他可能会说：「我不知道我哪里错了。」但是神的灵会向他指出某些明确而具体的事情。以赛亚看到主的圣洁的异象，结果就是他的注意力被引向他自己是「嘴唇不洁的人」这个事实。「他[撒拉弗] 将炭沾我的口，说：『看哪，这炭沾了你的嘴，你的罪孽便除掉，你的罪恶就赦免了。』」（以赛亚书 6:7）。净化之火必须用在罪被关注之处。
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0703 The Concentration of Personal Sin
Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips… —Isaiah 6:5
When I come into the very presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular area of my life. A person will easily say, “Oh yes, I know I am a sinner,” but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, as Isaiah did, what we really are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God. There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting us of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed our mind’s attention. If we will surrender, submitting to His conviction of that particular sin, He will lead us down to where He can reveal the vast underlying nature of sin. That is the way God always deals with us when we are consciously aware of His presence.
This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.
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