3月16日 主的審判

因為我們眾人，必要在基督台前顯露出來。（林後五10）

保羅說，我不論是傳道人，還是平信徒，“必要在基督台前顯露出來”。你若隨時隨地活在基督聖潔的光中，審判將使你因神在你身上的工作而歡樂。使自己可以面對基督的審判台；盡力行在最聖潔的光中。不管你如何聖潔，若對別人存有一絲惡意，至終必帶進魔鬼的靈。只要你下一個屬血氣的論斷，你就嘗到地獄的苦味。要立即去到主的光中，對主說：“我的神啊，我在這事上有罪了。”要不然剛硬的心，就會充滿全人。罪的刑罰，就是罪的本身。神不但要刑罰罪，罪在人身上的結果，也已證實了。無論怎樣掙扎禱告，都不能停止做那些事；那罪的刑罰就是要你漸漸習慣，不再覺得這是罪，除了聖靈的能力，沒有其他辦法改變罪所帶來的後果。

“我們若在光明中行，如同神在光明中……”我們不少人認為行在光中，就是行在我對別人要求的標準中。今日最致命的法利賽主義，不是假冒為善，乃是與現實脫節而不自覺。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，為著你的恩典，並你在我的內心和動機上所作的工，我感謝你，可是，在我現實的生活中，我能否在世人面前表達你的平安呢？

March 16 The Master Assizes

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:10

Paul says that we must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light of Christ here and now, judgment finally will cause you to delight in the work of God in you. Keep yourself steadily faced by the judgment seat of Christ; walk now in the light of the holiest you know. A wrong temper of mind about another soul will end in the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment, and the end of it is hell in you. Drag it to the light at once and say – “My God, I have been guilty there.” If you don’t, hardness will come all through. The penalty of sin is confirmation in sin. It is not only God who punishes for sin; sin confirms itself in the sinner and gives back full pay. No struggling nor praying will enable you to stop doing some things, and the penalty of sin is that gradually you get used to it and do not know that it is sin. No power save the incoming of the Holy Ghost can alter the inherent consequences of sin.

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light.” Walking in the light means for many of us walking according to our standard for another person. The deadliest Pharisaism to-day is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.