11月25日

標 題：消滅聖靈感動

經 節：不要消滅聖靈的感動。（帖撒羅尼迦前書五章19節）

我們不能阻止神完成在我們周圍所行的工，但是，我們可能會在生活中消滅聖靈的感動。神給我們自由，能反抗聖靈在我們生命的作為。當我們忽略、不順服、或拒絕聖靈的感動，也就消滅了神在我們身上的作為。先知以賽亞形容這結果是：「你們聽是要聽見，卻不明白；看是要看見，卻不曉得；因為這百姓油蒙了心，耳朵發沉，眼睛閉著，恐怕眼睛看見，耳朵聽見，心裡明白，回轉過來，我就醫治他們。」（以賽亞書六：9-10；馬太福音十三：14-15）

一旦犯了罪，聖靈會讓我們知道自己需要悔改。如果常常忽略祂的警告，不肯悔改，你的心會對神的話語愈來愈冷漠。如果聖靈向你啟示神的旨意，而你拒絕有所行動，總有一天，聖靈的聲音會在你的生活中銷聲匿跡。如果一再拒絕聖靈的感動，你不再能聽見神的話語。如果一再扼殺神給你的話語，你無法再敏銳察覺祂的聲音，祂將不再賜下祂新鮮的話語。要留心提防自己抵擋聖靈的感動。聖靈的話語可能不總是讓你覺得很自在，但祂的話語將領你到豐盛之地。

Quenching the Spirit

Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)

We cannot prevent God from accomplishing His work in the world around us, but we can quench His Spirit in our lives. God has given us the freedom to withstand the Holy Spirit’s activity in our lives. When we ignore, disobey, or reject what the Spirit is telling us, we quench His activity in us. The prophet Isaiah described the result: “Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them” (Isa. 6:9; Matt. 13:14–15).

When you sin, the Holy Spirit will convict you of your need for repentance. If you habitually ignore Him and do not repent, your heart will grow hardened to God’s Word. If the Spirit speaks to you about God’s will for you, and if you refuse to take action, a time will come when the Spirit’s voice will be muted in your life. If you continually reject the Spirit’s promptings, a day will come when you no longer hear a word from God. If you repeatedly stifle God’s word to you so that you are no longer sensitive to His voice, He will not give you a fresh word. Be wary of resisting the voice of the Spirit in your life. You may not always be comfortable with what the Spirit is saying to you, but His words will guide you to abundant life.