2月7日 认识你的强弱
认识你的强弱
要查验你的心。越熟悉自己的内心，你就越能看清撒但针对你的诡计。
天上或阴间运作的一切，都掌握在基督的手中。子知道父所知道的一切，并且祂随时准备将圣徒在今生所需知道的事告诉他们（约15:15）。我们生活在一个政治阴谋深重的时代，只有少数立于权力高层的人才明白国家机密，其余的人不过是从报纸上读到一点风声。撒但暗中编织、用来猎取人灵魂的诡计也是如此：只有少数人能洞察撒但在他们身上的企图；这少数人就是圣徒——圣灵不仅将神在天上为他们预备的荣耀启示给他们，也将撒但在地上致命阴谋的来龙去脉显明给他们。
要查验你的心。越熟悉自己的内心，你就越能看清撒但针对你的诡计。 因为撒但试探的方式，总是基于牠在你里面发现的犯罪倾向。正如一位将军先绕城巡视，看清城池各处的虚实，然后才针对最薄弱之处发起攻击；撒但在试探之前，也会从各方面观察并权衡基督徒的软弱。
要留心查考神的话。圣经记载了基督大能的精兵与仇敌撒但之间许多重大的战役；你可以读到撒但如何使他们受挫，也可以读到他们如何收复失地。圣经把你可能陷入的每一种私欲都已暴露在光中；神的话为你可能遇见的每一种试探都装备了抵挡的兵器。据说曾有人计划毒害马丁·路德，但路德预先得到了一位忠心朋友的警告，那朋友还送来了行凶者的画像。基督徒啊，圣经也正是这样把那些私欲的“面目”呈现在你面前——撒但正是雇用这些私欲来毁灭你宝贵的灵魂。“况且你的仆人因此受警戒。”（诗19:11）。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：创40章，可10章，
个人灵修：伯6章，罗10章
FEBRUARY 7, SATURDAY
KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Know your heart. Be intimately acquainted with yourself, and you will better know Satan’s design against you.
Everything transacted in heaven or hell passes through Christ’s hands. The Son knows all the Father knows, and He is ready to reveal to His saints all they need to know in this life (John 15:15). We live in days of high political intrigue. Only the few who stand on the upper end of the world understand the mysteries of state; the rest of us know little more than what we read in the newspaper. It is the same with regard to the plots which Satan is furtively weaving against the souls of men. Only a few have an inkling as to the purpose of Satan’s designs against them. These are the saints, to whom God’s Spirit reveals not only what He has prepared for them in heaven but also the warp and woof of Satan’s deadly schemes here on earth.
Know your heart. Be intimately acquainted with yourself, and you will better know Satan’s design against you. He takes his method of tempting from the inclination he finds there. As a general walks about the city and views it well, then directs his assault where he has the greatest advantage, so Satan surrounds and considers the Christian in every part before he tempts.
Read God’s Word attentively. It gives a history of the most remarkable battles between the great soldiers of Christ and their adversary Satan. You can read how Satan has foiled them, and how they recovered lost ground. There is not a lust of which you are in danger, but you have it disclosed; there is not a temptation which the Word of God does not arm you against. It is reported that a certain man planned to poison Martin Luther, but Luther was forewarned by a faithful friend who sent him a picture of the would-be murderer. The Bible shows you, Christian, the faces of those lusts which Satan hires to destroy your precious soul. “By them is thy servant warned” (Psalm 19:11).