經文: 「耶和華上帝用地上的塵土造人，將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡，他就成了有靈的活人，名叫亞當。」— (聖經·創世記 2章7節)
人起初被創造時，上帝神聖的活靈，一定是在亞當的裡面，因為三一真神將一口靈氣，吹進亞當的鼻孔裡，使他成為有上帝形像的活人。未墮落前的亞當，上帝的靈在他裡面自由運行，亞當也如上帝的後裔，能與上帝自由溝通。
顯而易見，上帝救贖人類的計劃，是要人心完全歸向上帝，上帝的靈能自由運行在人心中，有如起初被造未墮落前的亞當那樣，與上帝之間毫無隔閡。這是上帝的心意，也是聖靈直接的工作，為要恢復人類起初滿有真理仁愛和上帝樣式的狀態。
一旦人願意開口認罪，接受耶穌做他個人的救主，就已進入救恩之門，但更重要的是持續保守聖靈的同在；因為生命的現象，本來就是要不斷的成長、茁壯，若是停頓在得救的階段，就會枯萎夭折，惟有保守自己在聖靈的大能運行中，生命才會不斷地更新變化；因為離了耶穌，我們什麼也不能做，所以我們必須相信內住的聖靈，樂意事事引導我們，我們也巴望著、等待著祂的帶領，並完全倚靠聖靈大能的幫助。
讓我們停下來自我反省檢討，是不是自己也像大多數基督徒那樣，缺乏對聖靈感動的認識與經驗，也不願意相信並接受這真理？但願我們讀了這篇訊息後，認真地當一回事，做為我們靈程進步的指標，切切地為此禱告，求上帝讓我們真正明白聖靈帶領是怎麼一回事，也願意每天都經歷到聖靈的同在與帶領。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 8月9日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 The Spirit of GOD in Adam 』
Scripture: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” — (Genesis 2:7)
“Divine inspiration was essential to man’s first created state. The Spirit of the Triune God, breathed into him, was that alone which made him a holy creature in the image and likeness of God. Had he not been thus at the first, God in him, and he in God, a true offspring of the Holy Spirit, no dispensation of God to fallen man would have directed him to the Holy Spirit, or ever made mention of His inspiration in man.
“Hence it plainly appears, that the Gospel state could not be God’s last dispensation, or the finishing of man’s redemption, unless its whole work was a work of the Spirit of God in man, so as to bring the thing itself, or the substance of all former types and shadows, into real enjoyment. Now the thing itself, and for the sake of which all God’s dispensations have been, is that first life of God, which was essentially born in the soul of the first man, Adam, and to which he died. This makes it plain that the work of this dispensation must be solely and immediately the work of the Holy Spirit. Therefore immediate inspiration is as necessary to make fallen man alive again unto God, as it was to make man at first a living soul after the image of God.
“And continual inspiration is as necessary as man’s continuance in his redeemed state. That alone which begins, or gives life, must of all necessity be the only continuance or preservation of life. No life can continue in the goodness of its first created or redeemed state, but by its continuing under the influence of and working with that powerful Root or Spirit which at first created or redeemed it. Because without Christ we can do nothing, therefore we ought to believe, expect, wait for, and depend upon His continual immediate operation in everything that we do, through His Spirit dwelling in us.”
Let us pause to consider how little this immediate continual inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the heart of God’s child is believed or accepted. And let us, from the very beginning of our readings, make this the one object of our desire and prayer — the full experience of what the Holy Spirit is meant to be to us.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 9 August 」
