0725 我是如此有福吗？
有福了…《马太福音 5:3-11》
当我们首次读到耶稣的陈述，它们似乎异常简单且不起眼，悄然沉入我们的潜意识里面。例如，登山八福最初似乎只是给过于属灵和看似无用之人的安慰和美丽的准则，但在我们生活的世界里严格、快节奏的工作日中，几乎没有实际的用处。然而，我们很快发现登山八福含有圣灵的「炸药」。当我们的生活环境导致它们「爆炸」时，他们就被引爆了。当圣灵让我们想起八福的其中一条时，我们会说：「这是多么令人震惊的说辞啊！」然后我们必须决定是否接受这巨大的灵性动荡，如果我们顺服祂的话，这动荡就会在我们的环境中产生了；这就是神的灵做工的方式。我们不需要重生才能应用登山宝训字面上的话，登山宝训的字面解读就像儿童游戏一样简单。但是，当神的灵将我们主的话语应用到我们的环境中时，圣灵的解说是圣徒严格而困难的工作。
与我们天然看待事物的方式相比，耶稣的教导是不成比例的，而且它们最初带给我们的是令人惊讶的不舒服。当圣灵将它们应用到我们的环境中时，我们逐渐必须使我们的言行举止符合耶稣基督的准则。登山宝训不是一套规则和条例，而是一幅当圣灵在我们里面畅行无阻，我们生活的图画。
来自章伯斯的智慧
耶稣基督可以承受被误解；我们不能。我们的弱点在于总是想要为自己辩护。《帮助之地》
0725 Am I Blessed Like This?
Blessed are…–Matthew 5:3-11
When we first read the statements of Jesus, they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unnoticed into our subconscious minds. For instance, the Beatitudes initially seem to be merely soothing and beautiful precepts for overly spiritual and seemingly useless people, but of very little practical use in the rigid, fast-paced workdays of the world in which we live. We soon find, however, that the Beatitudes contain the “dynamite” of the Holy Spirit. And they “explode” when the circumstances of our lives cause them to do so. When the Holy Spirit brings to our remembrance one of the Beatitudes, we say, “What a startling statement that is!” Then we must decide whether or not we will accept the tremendous spiritual upheaval that will be produced in our circumstances if we obey His words. That is the way the Spirit of God works. We do not need to be born again to apply the Sermon on the Mount literally. The literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount is as easy as child’s play. But the interpretation by the Spirit of God as He applies our Lord’s statements to our circumstances is the strict and difficult work of a saint.
The teachings of Jesus are all out of proportion when compared to our natural way of looking at things, and they come to us initially with astonishing discomfort. We gradually have to conform our walk and conversation to the precepts of Jesus Christ as the Holy Spirit applies them to our circumstances. The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations— it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves. 《The Place of Help》