0813 不要消灭圣灵的感动
不要消灭圣灵的感动。《帖撒罗尼迦前书 5:19》
神的灵的声音就像夏日微风般温柔——如此温柔，除非你活在与神完全相交和合一中，否则你将听不到它。圣灵以最令人惊奇的温柔方式给我们警告和约束感，如果你不够敏锐去察觉到祂的声音，你就会消灭它，你的灵命就会受亏损。这种约束感总是以「微小的声音」出现（列王纪上 19:12），微弱到除了神的圣徒之外没有人会注意到。
要注意，如果在分享你个人的见证时，你必须不断回顾过去说：「曾经，多年前，我得救了。」如果你已经将你的「手扶着犁」并在光明中行，就不会「回头看」——过去的事已融合在现今与神相交和合一的奇妙之中（路加福音 9:62；另见约翰一书1:6-7）。如果你不在这光中，你就会成为一个感情用事的基督徒，只靠你的记忆而活，你的见证就会带有坚硬的金属响声。要注意，不要试图以回忆你过去「在光明中行」的经历，来掩盖你目前拒绝「在光明中行」（约翰一书 1:7）。无论何时圣灵给你那种约束感，要立即停下来，并把事情导正，否则你会继续消灭祂，让祂伤心，而自己却浑然不觉。
假使神把你带入一个危机中，而你几乎忍受了它，但未完全忍受；祂将再次策划危机，但这一次的强度会减弱。你会因为不顺服而洞察力减少和更多的羞辱。如果你继续让祂的灵担忧，那么有一天，那个危机将无法重复，因为你已经完全消灭了圣灵。但如果你能继续渡过危机，你的生命将成为对神的赞美诗歌。永远不要成为依恋任何持续伤害神的事物。为了让你从它得自由，必须让神伤害那些事物。
来自章伯斯的智慧
眼见从不等于相信；我们根据我们所信的来解释我们所见的。信心是在你看见神出现之前对神的信任；因此，信心的本质是它必须被考验。《他必荣耀我》
0813 Do Not Quench the Spirit
Do not quench the Spirit. —1 Thessalonians 5:19
The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it.
Beware if in sharing your personal testimony you continually have to look back, saying, “Once, a number of years ago, I was saved.” If you have put your “hand to the plow” and are walking in the light, there is no “looking back”— the past is instilled into the present wonder of fellowship and oneness with God (Luke 9:62 ; also see 1 John 1:6-7). If you get out of the light, you become a sentimental Christian, and live only on your memories, and your testimony will have a hard metallic ring to it. Beware of trying to cover up your present refusal to “walk in the light” by recalling your past experiences when you did “walk in the light” (1 John 1:7). When-ever the Spirit gives you that sense of restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed. If you continue to grieve His Spirit, there will come a time when that crisis cannot be repeated, because you have totally quenched Him. But if you will go on through the crisis, your life will become a hymn of praise to God. Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging; therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.— He Shall Glorify Me, 494 R