3月27日 藉著個人品格而得的異象

你上到這裡來，我要……指示你。（啟四1）

一個人的品格要習于居高，不趨於卑下，才會產生崇高的情操。要是你外在的生活，真與你最崇高的標準相稱，神就會對你說：“朋友，再高攀一點吧。”試探的金律是：“攀高一點。”當你升高了，就會碰見其他的試探，這在性質上與從前的不同。撒旦懂得用向上走的策略來試探人，神也是如此，不過效果卻有不同。當魔鬼把你放在高位，是叫你對聖潔觀念的標準，固定在人血肉之軀無法忍受的地位上。這就變成屬靈的雜技表演，你只得立穩，卻不敢移動。但當神用恩典把你提升到屬天的境地，他不是找一個頂峰給你攀住，而是讓你有更廣闊的高原，可以任意驅馳。

試以這個禮拜的靈程與去年同一個禮拜作個比較，看看神怎樣領你往高處行。我們都站過高處瞭望，但千萬別讓神給你一種你不能立即活出來的真理。得了真理，總要努力去實現，而且保持在神的光中。在恩典中的長進，不是拿你有沒有後退來衡量，而是對自己現今的屬靈光景有一認知——即站在哪裡。你聽見神對你說：“上來吧，登高一點！”這不是對你個人說，叫你得到更高的位置，乃是對你的品德說的，叫你在悟性上大大有長進。

“我要做的事豈可瞞著亞伯拉罕嗎？”神往往要把他所做的向我們隱瞞，直到我們在性情品德上達到一個地步，然後他才向我們顯明。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，賜我在你裡面滿有喜樂。求你為我清除所有的困惑、迷亂和煩擾，讓我在今天以清楚的目光看見你的道路。

March 27 Vision By Personal Character

“Come up hither, and I will shew thee things.” Revelation 4:1

An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say – “Friend, go up higher.” The golden rule in temptation is – Go higher. When you get higher up, you face other temptations and characteristics. Satan uses the strategy of elevation in temptation, and God does the same, but the effect is different. When the devil puts you into an elevated place, he makes you screw your idea of holiness beyond what flesh and blood could ever hear, it is a spiritual acrobatic performance, you are just poised and dare not move; but when God elevates you by His grace into the heavenly places, instead of finding a pinnacle to cling to, you find a great table-land where it is easy to move.

Compare this week in your spiritual history with the same week last year and see how God has called you up higher. We have all been brought to see from a higher standpoint. Never let God give you one point of truth which you do not instantly live up to. Always work it out, keep in the light of it.

Growth in grace is measured not by the fact that you have not gone back, but that you have an insight into where you are spiritually; you have heard God say “Come up higher,” not to you personally, but to the insight of your character.

“Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” God has to hide from us what He does until by personal character we get to the place where He can reveal it.