9月8日 自己做
將各樣的計謀，各樣阻攔人認識神的那些自高之事，一概攻破了。（林後十5）
從罪得釋放，並不等於從人性中得釋放。人性中有些東西（例如偏見），聖徒要不顧，才能毀滅；有些東西要靠強力，就是神屬天的能力來拆毀；而另外有些東西則不用爭戰，我們只管站住，靜靜觀看神的拯救。任何理論或觀念，若阻礙了對神的認識，就必須立志靠神的能力去拆毀，而不是靠肉體的努力或妥協（林後十4）。
惟有當我們的性情被神改造，進入成聖的經驗裡去，這一場爭戰才可開始。這場仗不是向罪打，我們永無法與罪對抗：耶穌基督的救贖已對付了罪。戰線是在於把天然生命轉為屬靈生命，這不是容易的，神也不想把這事變得容易。這事的作成，是要經過一連串的道德選擇，神使我們成聖，並不在品性上；乃是叫我們無罪，然後把這無罪透過一連串的道德選擇，轉變成為聖潔的品性。這些選擇往往不斷與我們天然生命的盤踞點，及那些阻攔我們認識神的堡壘對抗。我們一回頭，在神的國裡一事無成；或者，我們可以決意拆毀這些東西，讓耶穌多得一個兒子進到榮耀裡去。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，願這天成為一個完全屬乎你這位王的日子。感動我們，噢，主啊，讓我們在屬靈和物質上的一切生活，都可以配合你的計劃。只要是出於你的感動，一切都會變得美好。
September
8 Do It Yourself
“Casting down imaginations
and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.” 2
Corinthians 10:5
Deliverance from sin is not deliverance from human
nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, which the saint
has to destroy by neglect; and other things which have to be destroyed by
violence, i.e., by the Divine strength imparted by God’s Spirit. There are some
things over which we are not to fight, but to stand still in and see the
salvation of God; but every theory or conception which erects itself as a
rampart against the knowledge of God is to be determinedly demolished by
drawing on God’s power, not by fleshly endeavour or compromise (v. 4).
It is only when God has altered our disposition and
we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins.
The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin: Jesus Christ
deals with sin in Redemption. The conflict is along the line of turning our
natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God
intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices. God
does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense
of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a
series of moral choices. These choices are continually in antagonism to the
entrenchments of our natural life, the things which erect themselves as
ramparts against the knowledge of God. We can either go back and make ourselves
of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these
things and let Jesus bring another son to glory.
