11月26日 屬靈能力的集中
只誇我們主耶穌基督的十字架。（加六14）
若你要在必死的肉身上體驗、認識神的能力（就是耶穌復活的生命），就必須專注於他的悲劇。不要在屬靈的徵兆裡追尋個人的利益，只要單單注視神的悲劇，那麼神的能力就必立即在你裡面。“仰望我”，注意那客觀的源頭，然後那主觀的能力就必出現。我們若不集中在正確的事上，就會失掉能力。十字架的果效，就是救恩、成聖、醫治等；可是我們並不是傳這些，乃是傳耶穌基督和他釘十字架。宣揚耶穌，果效就自然產生。把你傳講資訊的焦點放在神的中心上，那麼即或會眾似乎並不在意，也必然會有改變。若我傳講的是自己的事，那麼所講的對你便毫無意義，正如你講你的，與我不相干一樣。可是，若我傳講的是神的真理，你必被他抓住，而我也同樣被抓住。我們必須集中靈力的中心，就是十字架，接駁在能力的源頭上，能力就釋放出來。在聖潔運動及追求屬靈經歷的聚會中，我們很容易把注意力放在十字架的果效上，而忽略基督的十字架。
今日教會被指為軟弱無能，這批評實在是有道理的。教會軟弱的原因之一，是沒有集中屬靈的能力，沒有浸透在加略山上的悲劇，也沒有多點想救贖的真義。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，我的神，你是何等奇妙和大有能力地讓我知道，過去所發生的救贖，是一項充滿啟示的偉大事情。
November 26 The Concentration Of Spiritual Energy
“. . . save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14
If you want to know the energy of God
(i.e., the resurrection life of Jesus) in your mortal flesh, you must brood on
the tragedy of God. Cut yourself off from prying personal interest in your own
spiritual symptoms and consider bare-spirited the tragedy of God, and instantly
the energy of God will be in you. “Look unto Me,” pay attention to the
objective Source and the subjective energy will be there. We lose power if we
do not concentrate on the right thing. The effect of the Cross is salvation,
sanctification, healing, etc., but we are not to preach any of these, we are to
preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The proclaiming of Jesus will do its own
work. Concentrate on God’s centre in your preaching, and though your crowd may
apparently pay no attention, they can never be the same again. If I talk my own
talk, it is of no more importance to you than your talk is to me; but if I talk
the truth of God, you will meet it again and so will I. We have to concentrate
on the great point of spiritual energy – the Cross, to keep in contact with
that centre where all the power lies, and the energy will be let loose. In
holiness movements and spiritual experience meetings the concentration is apt
to be put not on the Cross of Christ, but on the effects of the Cross.
The feebleness of the churches is being
criticized to-day, and the criticism is justified. One reason for the
feebleness is that there has not been this concentration of spiritual energy;
we have not brooded enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of
Redemption.
