0914 爭論還是順服
…在基督里純一清潔的心。 《哥林多後書 11:3》
純一是看清事物的秘訣。聖徒不能思考清楚，直到很長一段時間過後才想明白，但聖徒應該是毫無困難地看清楚事物的。你無法想通靈性困惑來使事情變得清晰，要使事物變得清晰，你必須順服。在理性方面的事上，你可以通過思考來理清，但在靈性問題上，你越想，只會讓自己越陷入更多的紛亂和困惑的思緒中。如果神在你的生活某事上施加了壓力，那麼，你要在那件事上順服祂。關於那事，要將你所有「計謀…所有的心意【思想】奪回，使它都順服基督。」對你來說，一切就會變得像白晝那樣清晰（哥林多後書10:5）。你的推理能力稍後會出現，但推理不是我們如何看清事物的方式。我們像小孩子一樣看事情，當我們試圖變得有智慧時，我們反而什麼也看不見（見馬太福音11:25）。
即使我們允許進入生命中不受聖靈掌控最微小的事，也完全足以造成靈性的困惑，即使花費我們所有的時間去思考它，也絕對無法使之清晰明朗。靈性的混亂只能通過順服來征服，一旦我們順服，我們就有分辨力。這是令人感到羞辱的，因為當我們困惑時，我們知道原因就在於我們的心態。但當我們將天然視力能力奉獻並順服於聖靈時，它就成為我們感知神旨意的力量，我們整個生命就保持在純清狀態中。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們沒有權利決定我們應該被安置在何處，也不能有關於神正在準備我們做什麼的預設觀念。神設計了一切；無論祂把我們安置在哪裡，我們唯一至高的目標應該是在這項特定的工作中，傾注我們的生命，全心委身於神。「凡你手所當做的事，要儘力去做。」《竭誠為主》 4 月 23 日
0914 Arguments or Obedience
…the simplicity that is in Christ. —2 Corinthians 11:3
Simplicity is the secret to seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly until a long time passes, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear; to make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God has put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter. Bring all your “arguments and…every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” regarding the matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight to you (2 Corinthians 10:5). Your reasoning capacity will come later, but reasoning is not how we see. We see like children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing (see Matthew 11:25).
Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion, and spending all of our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered through obedience. As soon as we obey, we have discernment. This is humiliating, because when we are confused we know that the reason lies in the state of our mind. But when our natural power of sight is devoted and submitted in obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very power by which we perceive God’s will, and our entire life is kept in simplicity.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” –My Utmost for His Highest, April 23, 773 L