經文: 「這聖靈是我們得基業的憑據，直等到上帝之民被贖，使祂的榮耀得著稱讚。」— [聖經·以弗所書 1章14節]
一個真實的信仰，就是信徒的靈與造物主不斷的溝通連結，上帝在他的裡面，他的靈也在上帝裡面，分享同一個生命，同一個光源，同一個愛。在本質上，聖潔靈命的自然流露，是真實信仰的直接告白。
天然人所思所想、所做所為，與聖潔上帝的性情無份，他們是以「自我」為中心，只想到自己的需要，自己的好處，若非超自然的靈內住其心，他們的層次無法超越這個地步。這個超自然的靈，聖經叫做「上帝的話」，或「上帝的靈」或「聖靈」，只有出自於聖靈，我們才會思想到上帝的好，盼望有份於上帝的內化。
沒有人能以屬人的愛來接近上帝，除非他心中有了屬天的愛，他才能和上帝連合。雖為萬物之靈的人類，在他天然人裡面，仍然無法激起絲毫主動愛上帝的念頭或能力，除非上帝的靈住進他心中。
惟有心中有上帝的生命，才會被上帝的愛吸引，並讚美祂；惟有生命裡有上帝的內化和同在，才可能持續地愛上帝。
讓我們默想並禱告直至我們的心深刻領悟這真理-我內心毫無良善可言，惟有直接並持續連接於上帝的靈，我們才能活出上帝的旨意。聖靈渴望每天時時刻刻，用上帝的愛來充滿我們的心，希望每個基督徒都能明白及領受這令人振奮的真理！
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 8月8日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 Continual Inspiration 』
Scripture: “Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” —[Ephesians 1:14]
“All true religion is, or brings forth, an essential union and communion of the spirit of the creature with the Spirit of the Creator; God in it, and it in God, one Life, one Light, one Love. Divine, immediate inspiration and Divine religion are inseparable in the nature of the thing.
“All that the natural or uninspired man does or can do, has no more of the truth or power of Divine worship in it, than that which he does in the field or shop. Self love, self-esteem, self-seeking, and living wholly to self, are the whole of all that can be in the natural man. Nor can any creature be in a better or higher state than this, till something supernatural is found in it; and this supernatural something, called in Scripture THE WORD, or SPIRIT, or INSPIRATION OF GOD, is that alone from which man can have the first good thought about God, or the least power of having heavenly desires in his spirit.
“No man can reach God with his love, or have union with Him by it, but he who is inspired with that one same Spirit of Love with which God Himself loved from all eternity. Infinite hosts of new – created heavenly beings can begin no new kind of love to God, nor have the least power of beginning to love Him at all, but so far as His own Holy Spirit of Love is brought to life in them.
“This love can be the only love in creatures that can draw them to God; they have no power of cleaving to Him or adoring Him, but by partaking of that Eternal Spirit of Love. Therefore the continual inspiration or operation of the Holy Spirit, is the one only possible ground of our continually loving God.”
Let us meditate, and pray, until this blessed truth begins to get possession of our heart – the immediate, continual inspiration of God, as actually our only power of goodness, is our birthright, and must be our experience, if we are to live out God’s will. To an extent which we have very little realized, the Holy Spirit waits in very deed to fill our life all the day with the love of God.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 8 August 」
