0819 自我意識
…到我這裡來…《馬太福音 11:28》
神希望我們在基督耶穌里過一種全面的生活，但有時這種生活會受到外界的攻擊。然後我們容易退回到自我反省，一種我們以為已經消失了的習慣。自我意識是第一個會破壞我們在神裡面生命的完整性，而自我意識不斷地在我們的生活中產生一種掙扎和混亂的感覺。自我意識不是罪，它可以由緊張的情緒，或突然陷入一個全新的環境中而產生。然而，神的旨意是讓我們在祂裡面有絕對完全；任何干擾我們在祂裡面的安息的事，都必須立即糾正，不是通過忽視來糾正，而是只有通過來到耶穌基督面前。如果我們來到祂面前，請求祂在我們裡面產生基督的意識，祂總會這樣做，直到我們完全學會住在祂裡面。
永遠不要允許任何分裂或破壞你與基督合一生命的事物留在你的生命中，而不去面對它。小心不要允許你的朋友們或環境的影響分裂你的生活。這隻會削弱你的力量，並緩慢你靈命的成長。當心任何可能分裂你與祂合一的事，使你認為自己是與祂分離的。沒有什麼比保持靈性正確更重要的了；唯一的解決辦法是很簡單的——「到我這裡來」。作為一個人，我們的現實的智慧、道德和靈性的深度，都是被這些話來測試和衡量的。然而，在我們生活的每一個細節中，當我們被發現自己不真實時，我們寧願爭論這些發現，也不願來信靠耶穌。
來自章伯斯的智慧
沒有任何生活狀態是我們不能住在耶穌里的。無論我們被安置何處，我們都必須學會住在祂裡面。《我們輝煌的遺產》
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