0813 不要消滅聖靈的感動
不要消滅聖靈的感動。《帖撒羅尼迦前書 5:19》
神的靈的聲音就像夏日微風般溫柔——如此溫柔，除非你活在與神完全相交和合一中，否則你將聽不到它。聖靈以最令人驚奇的溫柔方式給我們警告和約束感，如果你不夠敏銳去察覺到祂的聲音，你就會消滅它，你的靈命就會受虧損。這種約束感總是以「微小的聲音」出現（列王紀上 19:12），微弱到除了神的聖徒之外沒有人會注意到。
要注意，如果在分享你個人的見證時，你必須不斷回顧過去說：「曾經，多年前，我得救了。」如果你已經將你的「手扶着犁」並在光明中行，就不會「回頭看」——過去的事已融合在現今與神相交和合一的奇妙之中（路加福音 9:62；另見約翰一書1:6-7）。如果你不在這光中，你就會成為一個感情用事的基督徒，只靠你的記憶而活，你的見證就會帶有堅硬的金屬響聲。要注意，不要試圖以回憶你過去「在光明中行」的經歷，來掩蓋你目前拒絕「在光明中行」（約翰一書 1:7）。無論何時聖靈給你那種約束感，要立即停下來，並把事情導正，否則你會繼續消滅祂，讓祂傷心，而自己卻渾然不覺。
假使神把你帶入一個危機中，而你幾乎忍受了它，但未完全忍受；祂將再次策劃危機，但這一次的強度會減弱。你會因為不順服而洞察力減少和更多的羞辱。如果你繼續讓祂的靈擔憂，那麼有一天，那個危機將無法重複，因為你已經完全消滅了聖靈。但如果你能繼續渡過危機，你的生命將成為對神的讚美詩歌。永遠不要成為依戀任何持續傷害神的事物。為了讓你從它得自由，必須讓神傷害那些事物。
來自章伯斯的智慧
眼見從不等於相信；我們根據我們所信的來解釋我們所見的。信心是在你看見神出現之前對神的信任；因此，信心的本質是它必須被考驗。《他必榮耀我》
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