10月22日 圣灵的见证

圣灵与我们的心同证……（罗八16）

我们常存交易的心到神面前。我们顺服神吩咐之前，先要求印证。“为什么神不向我显示他自己？”他不能。不是他不肯，而是不能，因为你若不完全降服于神，你就成为神向你显示的拦阻。你一降服，他就即时为自己作见证；他不能向你见证，乃是向他在你里面的本性见证。若你先得着见证，那不过是情感作用。在你不再理论争辩的那一刻，神便见证他的作为，你会因自己的悖逆而诧异，因为你竟让神苦等。若你仍为神是否能救人脱罪的问题争辩的话，最好是让他去做，或干脆对他说：“你无此能力”。不要引用这人或那人的话，试试马太福音十一章28节的话－－“到我这里来。”你若劳苦担重担，来吧；你若自知有罪，求吧（路十一13）。

我们天然常理的抉择，往往来得很简单，很容易误认作圣灵的见证；可是，圣灵只对他的本性和救赎的工作见证，而不能向我们的推理见证。若一味要圣灵向我们的理性见证，难怪我们总在黑暗疑云中。把这些一概抛开，信靠神，他自然给我们见证。

祈祷◆主啊，我无助地来到你面前，却盼望因着你的灵的内住，我可以被你的爱、你神性无私的属性、你慈怜的忍耐所充满，不再被个人的因素所伤害。

October 22 The Witness Of The Spirit

“The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit. . .” Romans 8:16 (R.V.)

We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have done what God tells us to do. “Why does not God reveal Himself to me?” He cannot, it is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the road as long as you won't abandon absolutely to Him. Immediately you do, God witnesses to Himself, He cannot witness to you, but He witnesses instantly to His own nature in you. If you had the witness before the reality, it would end in sentimental emotion. Immediately you transact on the Redemption, and stop the impertinence of debate, God gives on the witness. As soon as you abandon reasoning and argument, God witnesses to what He has done, and we are amazed at our impertinence in having kept Him waiting. If you are in debate as to whether God can deliver from sin, either let Him do it, or tell Him He cannot. Do not quote this and that person, try Matthew 11:28 – “Come unto Me.” Come, if you are weary and heavy laden; ask, if you know you are evil (Luke 11:13).

The Spirit of God witnesses to the Redemption of Our Lord, He does not witness to anything else; He cannot witness to our reason. The simplicity that comes from our natural common-sense decisions is apt to be mistaken 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 try to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder we are in darkness and perplexity. Fling it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give the witness.