1228 不断的回转皈信
…你们若不回转，变成小孩子的样式，断不得进天国。《马太福音18:3》
主的这些话指的是我们最初的回转归信，但我们应该像小孩一样继续转向神，在我们生命的每一天持续地归信。如果我们信赖自己的能力而非神的能力，我们就会产生神要我们负责的后果。当神通过祂的主权将我们带入新的处境时，我们应该立即确保我们天然生命顺服属灵生命，顺服神的灵的命令。仅仅因为我们过去正确地反应，并不保证我们会再次如此。天然生命对属灵生命的反应，应该是持续的回转，但这正是我们经常拒绝顺服之处。无论我们的境遇如何，神的灵依然不变，祂的救恩也不改变。但我们必须「穿上新人…」（以弗所书4:24）。每当我们拒绝自己回转时，神都要向我们问责，祂视我们的拒绝为故意的悖逆。我们天然生命不可做主——必须让神在我们里面掌管。
拒绝持续回转，就在我们灵命成长中放置绊脚石。我们生命中有些自我意志的领域，我们的骄傲蔑视神的宝座，说：「我才不要顺服。」我们将独立性和自我意志奉神化。神看为是顽梗的软弱，我们却称之为力量。我们生命中还有很多地方还没有降服，这只有通过持续回转才能达成。逐渐但必然地，我们能为神的灵收复整个领域。
来自章伯斯的智慧
读书永远不可能读得太多，但要始终记住你为什么读。要记住，最重要的是「必需接受、认识和依靠圣灵。」《蒙神悦纳》
1228 Continuous Conversion
…unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. —Matthew 18:3
These words of our Lord refer to our initial conversion, but we should continue to turn to God as children, being continuously converted every day of our lives. If we trust in our own abilities, instead of God’s, we produce consequences for which God will hold us responsible. When God through His sovereignty brings us into new situations, we should immediately make sure that our natural life submits to the spiritual, obeying the orders of the Spirit of God. Just because we have responded properly in the past is no guarantee that we will do so again. The response of the natural to the spiritual should be continuous conversion, but this is where we so often refuse to be obedient. No matter what our situation is, the Spirit of God remains unchanged and His salvation unaltered. But we must “put on the new man…” (Ephesians 4:24). God holds us accountable every time we refuse to convert ourselves, and He sees our refusal as willful disobedience. Our natural life must not rule— God must rule in us.
To refuse to be continuously converted puts a stumbling block in the growth of our spiritual life. There are areas of self-will in our lives where our pride pours contempt on the throne of God and says, “I won’t submit.” We deify our independence and self-will and call them by the wrong name. What God sees as stubborn weakness, we call strength. There are whole areas of our lives that have not yet been brought into submission, and this can only be done by this continuous conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is impossible to read too much, but always keep before you why you read. Remember that “the need to receive, recognize, and rely on the Holy Spirit” is before all else. —Approved Unto God, 11 L