9月15日
标 题：肉心
经 节：我也要赐给你们一个新心，将新灵放在你们里面，又从你们的肉体中除掉石心，赐给你们肉心。（以西结书卅六章26节）
我们对神的回应是由心发出的。当我们远离圣灵洁净的工作时，我们的心会变得非常虚假及欺诈（箴言十七：9）。大卫祷告求神涂抹他的过犯，洁净他的心（诗篇五十一：10）。神最渴望的事，是要祂的百姓全心全意地爱祂（申命记六：5）。耶稣说，清心的人有福了（马太福音五：8）。
罪使人心变硬（马太福音十三：4、19）。当我们让愈多的罪沉淀在内心及生命中，就会愈来愈抗拒神的话语。不饶恕的罪使人心变硬。我们不可能一直抵挡圣灵的感动，同时又想维护不变硬的心。当暴露在邪恶及不敬虔的环境下，我们对神与祂的话会变得麻木不仁。过了一段时间之后，我们的心会硬得像石头，一点也没有办法接收神新鲜的话语。我们对罪变得麻痹而无知觉。
你对神的心是否愈来愈冷漠？你是否觉得没有任何东西可以使你的心变柔软？神有解决之道，祂会使你脱离那些毁灭你的影响力（以西结书卅六：24），祂要洁净你所有的肮脏不洁，除去你心中所有的偶像（以西结书卅六：25）。祂会除去你的石心，并且赐下肉心，能体贴祂及祂的话。如果你不够爱神，求祂更新你的心，恢复你对祂的热爱。
A Heart of Flesh
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a
heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)
From our hearts comes our response to God. Apart
from the cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, our hearts are extremely deceitful
(Jeremiah 17:9). David prayed that God would cleanse him from the ravages of
his sin and purify his heart (Ps. 51:10). God’s greatest desire is that His people
love Him with all their hearts (Deut. 6:5). Jesus said we are blessed if our
hearts are pure (Matt. 5:8).
Sin hardens the heart (Matt. 13:4, 19). The more
sin we allow to pass over our hearts and through our lives, the more resistant
we become to a word from God. The sin of unforgiveness stiffens our hearts. We
cannot continue to resist the prompting of the Holy Spirit without becoming
hardened against Him. Exposing ourselves to evil and ungodly influences
desensitizes us to God and His word. Over time, our hearts become like stone,
unreceptive to a fresh word from God. We become anesthetized to sin.
Has your heart grown hard toward God? Do you feel
as though nothing could soften it? God has a solution. He will separate you
from the influences that are destroying you (Ezek. 36:24). He will cleanse you
from all filthiness and remove everything that has taken His place in your
affections (Ezek. 36:25). He will remove your heart of stone and replace it
with a heart of flesh, tender toward Him and His word. If your love for God is
not what it should be, ask Him to renew your heart and restore your devotion to
Him.
