8月19日 自觉

可以到我这里来。（太十一28）

神的心意是要我们过一个完全以基督为中心的生活，但有时外界的攻击来了，我们就掉进向内观察的圈中，还以为这些东西早已对付了。自觉是破坏我们在神里面完整生命的第一个敌人，并且会不断带来摔跤。自觉不是罪，神经质的个性，或突然碰到新环境，都会产生自觉。神的心意是要我们在他里面绝对完全。任何搅扰我们在他里面安息的东西，都必须接受治疗，置之不理并非治方，而治疗的方法是来到主耶稣面前。我们若来就他，求他叫我们有基督的意识，他一定会作工，直到我们住在他里面。

绝不可让在主里的生命分割而置之不理。当心滴漏，就是因朋友或环境的影响，而造成生命的分割。当心任何破坏你与主合一、叫你单独看自己的事。保持属灵状态的正常，是至重要的。解决的办法很简单－－“到我这里来。”这句话就是我们有多少实质，我们的心志、道德、灵性有多少深度的考验。若有任何虚假的成分，那我们宁愿争辩，也不愿到耶稣那里。

祈祷◆主啊，为着今早我内心的平安感觉，我赞美你。为着救赎的深刻启示，我何其称颂你！愿你的光辉从无云的青空上，照耀我们！

August 19 Self-Consciousness

“Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28

God means us to live a fully-orbed life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside, and we tumble into a way of introspection which we thought had gone. Self-consciousness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of the life in God, and self-consciousness continually produces wrestling. Self-consciousness is not sin; it may be produced by a nervous temperament or by a sudden dumping down into new circumstances. It is never God's will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs rest in Him must be cured at once, and it is not cured by being ignored, but by coming to Jesus Christ. If we come to Him and ask Him to produce Christ-consciousness, He will always do it until we learn to abide in Him.

Never allow the dividing up of your life in Christ to remain without facing it. Beware of leakage, of the dividing up of your life by the influence of friends or of circumstances; beware of anything that is going to split up your oneness with Him and make you see yourself separately. Nothing is so important as to keep right spiritually. The great solution is the simple one – “Come unto Me.” The depth of our reality, intellectually, morally and spiritually, is tested by these words. In every degree in which we are not real, we will dispute rather than come.