💜《神的心意》20210806『惟一不可少的事-The ONE thing Needful』— 慕安德烈

經文: 「所以我告訴你們，被上帝的靈感動的，沒有說『耶穌是可咒詛』的；若不是被聖靈感動的，也沒有能說『耶穌是主』的。」— (聖經·哥林多前書 12章3節)

一位忠心虔誠、充滿愛的老僕人羅威廉，臨終前對教會的勸勉：「我盼望你們將心思擺在惟一重要的一件事，不但有助於我們脫離敗壞肉體的律，並恢復我們起初被造時的樣式，是上帝聖潔的後裔，且有上帝的性情。」這究竟是怎樣的一件事呢？那就是上帝使亞當成為有靈的活人那口氣，能再度吹進我們的心裡面。

「其他的東西，無論外表多麼神聖榮耀，像是教會的奮興改革，對人心都沒多大的效用，惟有上帝的靈真正進駐人心，才會發生效用。這目的已在聖經明載，就是呼召我們離開撒但、肉體、和世界，完完全全的信靠順服上帝的靈。充滿慈愛的上帝，渴望得著我們的心，樂意將祂的能力賞賜給我們；因為人的愛與喜好，都出自於墮落的亞當私慾，並不能帶出實質的益處，惟有出自於上帝的靈，才能帶出屬天的愛與幫助。」

經上說：「若不是被聖靈感動的，也沒有能說『耶穌是主』的。」(哥林多前書 十二3b) 同樣的，「若不是聖靈管理引導，基督徒就不可能有基督的樣式與性情，也帶不出屬天的能力。」這是顛撲不破的真理。

我們光是「頭腦知道」這真理，並沒有多大用處，重要的是我們有否將這真理「銘記在心」，並堅信惟有「恢復」亞當墮落前與上帝的關係，專心完全地仰賴上帝的靈，這不但是基督徒信仰的核心，也是個人與教會的福氣，更是滿足上帝的心，因祂樂意住在人們的心中。

—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 8月6日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

『 The ONE thing Needful 』

Scripture: “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” — (1 Corinthians 12:3)

An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy,” was the dying legacy of William Law to the Church. He had corrected the proofs of the greater part when he was taken away. He invites the clergy to its perusal with the assurance that he desires “not to call their attention to any thing but the one thing needful, the one thing essential, and alone available to our rising out of our fallen state, and becoming as we were at our creation, an holy offspring of God, and real partakers of the Divine nature.”

“If it be asked, What this one thing is; It is the sprit of God brought again to His first power of life in us.”

“Everything else, however glorious and divine in outward appearance, everything that churches or reformations can do for us, is dead and helpless, but so far as it is the immediate work of the Spirit of God breathing and living in it. The end and design of all that is written in Scripture is only to call us back from the spirit of Satan, the flesh, and the world, to be again under the full Dependence upon and Obedience to the Spirit of God, Who out of free love and thirst after our souls, seeks to have His first power of life in us. All love and delight in Scripture, which is merely human, is but the self-love of fallen Adam, and can have no better a nature till it proceeds from the inspiration of God, quickening His own life and nature within us, which alone can bring forth a godly love. For if it be an immutable truth, that ‘no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.’ it must be a truth equally immutable, that no one can have any Christlike temper, or power of goodness, but so far as he is immediately led and governed by the Holy Spirit.”

Let us remember that it is of little profit to know the meaning of what we read; the great question is, whether we have taken the instruction to heart. Do we indeed believe that this is the one thing needful for the Church and ourselves, the deep conviction that God’s one desire is that the Holy Spirit should have the place in us that He had in Adam before the Fall, so that the only thing that gives value to our religion is that it is the immediate work of the Spirit of God.

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 6 August 」