0820 基督意識
…我就使你們得安息。 《馬太福音 11:28》
每當有任何事物開始瓦解你與耶穌基督的生命時，要立即轉向祂，請求祂重建你的安息。永遠不要讓任何導致不安的事物留在你的生活中；將你生活中導致崩潰的每一個細節都視為需要抗爭的敵人，而不是你該允許存在的東西。求主將對祂的意識放在你裡面，你的自我意識就會消失。那麼祂將成為你一切的一切。小心不要讓你的自我意識繼續存在，因為它慢慢但肯定喚醒自憐，而自憐是撒旦的。不要讓自己說：「好吧，他們只是誤解了我，他們應該為此向我道歉；我確信我已經和他們解釋清楚了。」學會在這件事上不去管別人。只要祈求主賜給你基督的意識，祂就會穩住你，直到你在祂裡面的完整是絕對的。
完整的生命就是孩子的生命。當我完全意識到我對基督的意識時，就有問題了。只有生病的人才真正知道健康是什麼。神的孩子不會意識到神的旨意，因為他就是神的旨意。當我們稍微偏離神的旨意時，我們就開始問：「主啊，袮的旨意是什麼？」神的孩子從不祈求讓他意識到神應允禱告的事實，因為他是如此安然地確信神總是回應禱告。
如果我們試圖通過任何常識方法來克服我們的自我意識，我們只會大大的增強我們的自我意識。耶穌說：「到我這裡來…我就使你們得安息」，也就是說，基督意識將取代自我意識。無論耶穌來到哪裡，祂都會設立安息——在我們生命完成活動的安息，但那種安息從未意識到它本身的。
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》
0820 Christ-Awareness
…and I will give you rest. —Matthew 11:28
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as something to fight against, not as something you should allow to remain. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don’t allow yourself to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m sure I must have this cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave others alone regarding this. Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until your completeness in Him is absolute.
A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your will?” A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that God answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God always answers prayer.
If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me…and I will give you rest,” that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.
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.
from ” He Shall Glorify Me, 494 R”