11月4日 真實的權威

你們親近神，神就必親近你們。（雅四8）

我們必須讓人有機會行神的真理，這責任是個人的，別人無法代行。他必須蓄意去行，但福音的資訊也該引導他的行動。不肯行動叫人癱瘓，使人依然故我；一有行動，就不同了。多少被神的靈感動的人，都因不肯行動而受阻擋。行動的那一刻，我就活了；其餘的時候，我不過是存在的個體。以整個意志投入行動，就是我存在的個體。以整個意志投入行動，就是我真正活著的時候。

不要讓神放在你心裡的某一真理成為過去，無所行動。不單是肉身的行動，更是意志上的。不管用筆墨或用血，要把它記錄下來。最柔弱的信徒若與耶穌基督相交，在他行動的那一刻，就得著釋放，神的大能就屬他了。我們明白神的真理，承認自己的錯，又重蹈覆轍；以後又再達到真理，但不久又故態復萌；這情況要到我們學會不應回頭才停止下來。對救主的話要全無保留地接納，與他來一次交易。他說“來”，就是交易的意思。“到我這裡來。”我們往往非到最後也不肯“來”。其實過來人就知道，一“來”，神超然的生命就立刻進到他裡面。世界、肉體、魔鬼對他的控制就立刻癱瘓，不是因為你的行動，而是因你的行動把你連接到神救贖的大能去。

祈禱◆主啊，我只有一件事情 – 就是有聲和無聲的需要你。“靈性貧乏”這詞，正描述了我對自己的一點認識。我來到你面前，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.