11月4日 真实的权威
你们亲近神，神就必亲近你们。（雅四8）
我们必须让人有机会行神的真理，这责任是个人的，别人无法代行。他必须蓄意去行，但福音的资讯也该引导他的行动。不肯行动叫人瘫痪，使人依然故我；一有行动，就不同了。多少被神的灵感动的人，都因不肯行动而受阻挡。行动的那一刻，我就活了；其余的时候，我不过是存在的个体。以整个意志投入行动，就是我存在的个体。以整个意志投入行动，就是我真正活着的时候。
不要让神放在你心里的某一真理成为过去，无所行动。不单是肉身的行动，更是意志上的。不管用笔墨或用血，要把它记录下来。最柔弱的信徒若与耶稣基督相交，在他行动的那一刻，就得着释放，神的大能就属他了。我们明白神的真理，承认自己的错，又重蹈覆辙；以后又再达到真理，但不久又故态复萌；这情况要到我们学会不应回头才停止下来。对救主的话要全无保留地接纳，与他来一次交易。他说“来”，就是交易的意思。“到我这里来。”我们往往非到最后也不肯“来”。其实过来人就知道，一“来”，神超然的生命就立刻进到他里面。世界、肉体、魔鬼对他的控制就立刻瘫痪，不是因为你的行动，而是因你的行动把你连接到神救赎的大能去。
祈祷◆主啊，我只有一件事情 – 就是有声和无声的需要你。“灵性贫乏”这词，正描述了我对自己的一点认识。我来到你面前，全然地需要你。
November 4 The Authority Of Reality
“Draw nigh to God, and He
will draw nigh to you.” James 4:8
It is essential to give people a chance of
acting on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the
individual, you cannot act for him, it must be his own deliberate act, but the
evangelical message ought always to lead a man to act. The paralysis of
refusing to act leaves a man exactly where he was before; when once he acts, he
is never the same. It is the foolishness of it that stands in the way of
hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Immediately I
precipitate myself over into an act, that second I live; all the rest is
existence. The moments when I truly live are the moments when I act with my
whole will.
Never allow a truth of God that is brought
home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but
in will. Record it, with ink or with blood. The feeblest saint who transacts
business with Jesus Christ is emancipated the second he acts; all the almighty
power of God is on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, we confess we
are wrong, but go back again; then we come up to it again, and go back; until
we learn that we have no business to go back. We have to go clean over on some
word of our redeeming Lord and transact business with Him. His word “come”
means “transact.” “Come unto Me.” The last thing we do is to come; but everyone
who does come knows that that second the supernatural rush of the life of God
invades him instantly. The dominating power of the world, the flesh and the
devil is paralysed, not by your act, but because your act has linked you on to
God and His redemptive power.
