0909 自己要做（2）
…將人所有的心意奪回，使它都順服基督。《哥林多後書 10:5》
決心操練其他事情。這是聖徒艱苦本質的另一個困難面。根據莫法特（Moffatt）對這節經文的翻譯，保羅說：「…我使每一個項目都成為俘虜，使之順服基督。」今天有那麼多基督教事工從來沒有被紀律規範，只是一時衝動產生的！在我們主的生活中，每一個項目都受天父旨意的紀律規範，從來沒有絲毫的傾向去跟隨祂自己意志的衝動而與天父的意志明顯不同——「子憑着自己不能做什麼…」（約翰福音5:19）。那麼，對比我們所做的——我們接收臨到我們的「每個思想/所有的心意」或項目之後，便衝動地迅速採取行動，而不是將自己俘虜和訓練自己以順服基督。
今天，基督徒的實務工作被過分強調，那些「將人所有的心意[和項目]奪回」的聖徒，是被批評並被告知他們是沒有決心，缺乏對神的熱情或對人靈魂的熱情。但真正的決心和熱心是在順服神之中發現的，而不是在我們自己不受紀律規範的人性中產生侍奉神的傾向中發現的。這雖然不可思議，但卻是事實：聖徒並不是「將所有的心意[和項目]奪回」，而只是為神做工，那工是由他們自己人性所發起，也還沒有通過堅定的紀律訓練而變得屬靈。
我們很容易忘記，一個人不僅為了救恩而委身於耶穌基督，也要對耶穌基關於神、世界、罪惡和魔鬼的觀點委身，負責，並交賬。這意味着每個人都必須認識到的責任是要「… [他的]心意更新而變化…」（羅馬書 12:2）
來自章伯斯的智慧
聖經是事實的聯繫，其中的真實性必須經過考驗。生活可能會一帆風順一段時間，突然間卻發生喪親之痛，或某個危機；單戀或新戀，災難，生意倒閉，或令人震驚的罪，而我們再次打開聖經，神的話就直接觸動我們心靈，我們會說：「哎呀，我以前在那裡怎麼從未見過呢！」《神手之蔭》
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