0909 自己要做（2）
…将人所有的心意夺回，使它都顺服基督。《哥林多后书 10:5》
决心操练其他事情。这是圣徒艰苦本质的另一个困难面。根据莫法特（Moffatt）对这节经文的翻译，保罗说：「…我使每一个项目都成为俘虏，使之顺服基督。」今天有那么多基督教事工从来没有被纪律规范，只是一时冲动产生的！在我们主的生活中，每一个项目都受天父旨意的纪律规范，从来没有丝毫的倾向去跟随祂自己意志的冲动而与天父的意志明显不同——「子凭着自己不能做什么…」（约翰福音5:19）。那么，对比我们所做的——我们接收临到我们的「每个思想/所有的心意」或项目之后，便冲动地迅速采取行动，而不是将自己俘虏和训练自己以顺服基督。
今天，基督徒的实务工作被过分强调，那些「将人所有的心意[和项目]夺回」的圣徒，是被批评并被告知他们是没有决心，缺乏对神的热情或对人灵魂的热情。但真正的决心和热心是在顺服神之中发现的，而不是在我们自己不受纪律规范的人性中产生侍奉神的倾向中发现的。这虽然不可思议，但却是事实：圣徒并不是「将所有的心意[和项目]夺回」，而只是为神做工，那工是由他们自己人性所发起，也还没有通过坚定的纪律训练而变得属灵。
我们很容易忘记，一个人不仅为了救恩而委身于耶稣基督，也要对耶稣基关于神、世界、罪恶和魔鬼的观点委身，负责，并交账。这意味着每个人都必须认识到的责任是要「… [他的]心意更新而变化…」（罗马书 12:2）
来自章伯斯的智慧
圣经是事实的联系，其中的真实性必须经过考验。生活可能会一帆风顺一段时间，突然间却发生丧亲之痛，或某个危机；单恋或新恋，灾难，生意倒闭，或令人震惊的罪，而我们再次打开圣经，神的话就直接触动我们心灵，我们会说：「哎呀，我以前在那里怎么从未见过呢！」《神手之荫》
0909 Do It Yourself (2)
…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ… —2 Corinthians 10:5
Determinedly Discipline Other Things. This is another difficult aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul said, according to the Moffatt translation of this verse, “…I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ….” So much Christian work today has never been disciplined, but has simply come into being by impulse! In our Lord’s life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was never the slightest tendency to follow the impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father’s will— “the Son can do nothing of Himself…” (John 5:19). Then compare this with what we do— we take “every thought” or project that comes to us by impulse and jump into action immediately, instead of imprisoning and disciplining ourselves to obey Christ.
Practical work for Christians is greatly overemphasized today, and the saints who are “bringing every thought [and project] into captivity” are criticized and told that they are not determined, and that they lack zeal for God or zeal for the souls of others. But true determination and zeal are found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that arises from our own undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not “bringing every thought [and project] into captivity,” but are simply doing work for God that has been instigated by their own human nature, and has not been made spiritual through determined discipline.
We have a tendency to forget that a person is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation, but is also committed, responsible, and accountable to Jesus Christ’s view of God, the world, and of sin and the devil. This means that each person must recognize the responsibility to “be transformed by the renewing of [his] mind….” (Romans 12:2).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible is a relation of facts, the truth of which must be tested. Life may go on all right for a while, when suddenly a bereavement comes, or some crisis; unrequited love or a new love, a disaster, a business collapse, or a shocking sin, and we turn up our Bibles again and God’s word comes straight home, and we say, “Why, I never saw that there before.” –Shade of His Hand, 1223 L