圣灵与我们的心同证…《罗马书 8:16》
当我们到神面前，我们有与神讨价还价之心的危险，那就是我们想要圣灵的见证，在做我们遵行神吩咐我们去做的事之前。
神为什么不向你显现祂自己？祂不能。不是祂不愿，而是祂不能，因为你挡在路上——只要你还不舍弃自己，完全降服于神。然而，一旦你降服了，神就会立即对自己作见证——祂不能向你见证，但祂会立即在你里面见证祂自己的本性。若在现实来自顺服的真理之前，你先领受了圣灵的见证，那只会导致感情用事。但当你在救赎的基础上行动，停止与神争辩的不敬行为时，祂就会立即给出祂的见证。一旦你舍弃自己的推理和争辩，神就会见证祂所做的一切，你会惊讶于自己让祂苦等的全然不敬。如果你在争论神是否能救你脱离罪恶，那就让祂去做，要不然就告诉祂说祂没有能力。不要向祂引用这个或那个人的话。只要顺服马太福音11:28, 「凡劳苦担重担的人，可以到我这里来。」如果你疲倦了，就来吧；如果你知道自己是邪恶的，就求吧。（见路加福音11:9-13）。
神的灵见证我们主的救赎，不见证其他的。祂不能见证我们的理智。我们倾向于错把来自我们天然常识性决定的简单性，误为是圣灵的见证，但圣灵只见证祂自己的本性和救赎的工作，绝不见证我们的理智。如果我们试图让祂见证我们的理智，难怪我们在是黑暗和不确定中。抛开这一切，信靠祂，祂会赐你圣灵的见证。
来自章伯斯的智慧
如果我们要在人们中间熟练地运用神的话语，我们就必须与人保持联系，而不是与理论保持联系，并且永不脱离与人的接触。《神的工人》
1022 The Witness of the Spirit
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit… —Romans 8:16
We are in danger of getting into a bargaining spirit with God when we come to Him— we want the witness of the Spirit before we have done what God tells us to do.
Why doesn’t God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won’t abandon yourself to Him in total surrender. Yet once you do, immediately God witnesses to Himself— He cannot witness to you, but He instantly witnesses to His own nature in you. If you received the witness of the Spirit before the reality and truth that comes from obedience, it would simply result in sentimental emotion. But when you act on the basis of redemption, and stop the disrespectfulness of debating with God, He immediately gives His witness. As soon as you abandon your own reasoning and arguing, God witnesses to what He has done, and you are amazed at your total disrespect in having kept Him waiting. If you are debating as to whether or not God can deliver from sin, then either let Him do it or tell Him that He cannot. Do not quote this or that person to Him. Simply obey Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden….” Come, if you are weary, and ask, if you know you are evil (see Luke 11:9-13).
The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord, and to nothing else. He cannot witness to our reason. We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of redemption, never to our reason. If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them. Workmen of God, 1341 L