0819 自我意识
…到我这里来…《马太福音 11:28》
神希望我们在基督耶稣里过一种全面的生活，但有时这种生活会受到外界的攻击。然后我们容易退回到自我反省，一种我们以为已经消失了的习惯。自我意识是第一个会破坏我们在神里面生命的完整性，而自我意识不断地在我们的生活中产生一种挣扎和混乱的感觉。自我意识不是罪，它可以由紧张的情绪，或突然陷入一个全新的环境中而产生。然而，神的旨意是让我们在祂里面有绝对完全；任何干扰我们在祂里面的安息的事，都必须立即纠正，不是通过忽视来纠正，而是只有通过来到耶稣基督面前。如果我们来到祂面前，请求祂在我们里面产生基督的意识，祂总会这样做，直到我们完全学会住在祂里面。
永远不要允许任何分裂或破坏你与基督合一生命的事物留在你的生命中，而不去面对它。小心不要允许你的朋友们或环境的影响分裂你的生活。这只会削弱你的力量，并缓慢你灵命的成长。当心任何可能分裂你与祂合一的事，使你认为自己是与祂分离的。没有什么比保持灵性正确更重要的了；唯一的解决办法是很简单的——「到我这里来」。作为一个人，我们的现实的智慧、道德和灵性的深度，都是被这些话来测试和衡量的。然而，在我们生活的每一个细节中，当我们被发现自己不真实时，我们宁愿争论这些发现，也不愿来信靠耶稣。
来自章伯斯的智慧
没有任何生活状态是我们不能住在耶稣里的。无论我们被安置何处，我们都必须学会住在祂里面。《我们辉煌的遗产》
0819 Self-Awareness
Come to Me… —Matthew 11:28
God intends for us to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we thought was gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of our life in God, and self-awareness continually produces a sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not sin, and it can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a totally new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs our rest in Him must be rectified at once, and it is not rectified by being ignored but only by coming to Jesus Christ. If we will come to Him, asking Him to produce Christ-awareness in us, He will always do it, until we fully learn to abide in Him.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it. Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him, causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very simple one— “Come to Me….” The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words. Yet in every detail of our lives where we are found not to be real, we would rather dispute the findings than come to Jesus.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. —Our Brilliant Heritage