5月7日 谨慎警醒
谨慎警醒
你若不穿戴神所赐的全副军装并常常持守，以胜过撒但的权势，撒但就要毁灭你。
撒但向你发动的绝非一场虚假的演习，而是一场关乎生死的殊死肉搏战。若你不信，请看看牠过去如何对待神的仆人。牠曾猛烈冲向过许多亲爱的圣徒，将他们的军装击打得残破不堪，以至于神的恩典在他们身上几乎难以辨认。这一切，往往发生在圣徒疏忽防备的一刻。
你还记得雅各吗？当他解开真理与诚实的腰带，用诡计骗取父亲的祝福时，他确实得了祝福，但也因此遭到了同样的报应——拉班用利亚将拉结调了包。若他当时坚守全副军装，本可以免去多少痛苦！
还有大卫，当他在乌利亚的事上卸下公义的护心镜时，他遭受了何等沉重的打击！那一箭直穿心脏，留下了惨痛的伤痕。再看约拿，当神差遣他往尼尼微去时，他却像没穿鞋一样，缺乏心志上的预备与顺服，没有第一时间回应呼召。还有可怜的希西家，他的救恩头盔被击歪，受损严重，以致他哀哼道：“我必不得见耶和华，就是在活人之地不见耶和华”（赛 38:11）甚至亚伯拉罕，在他属灵生命的某些“锈蚀之处”，也曾被不信与疑虑的寒气侵入。
这场争战是一场属灵的浩劫。你若不靠着穿戴神的全副军装并常常持守来胜过撒但，撒但就要毁灭你。历世历代的伟大圣徒，都曾在试探的烈火中受过试炼。事实证明，只要撒但在他们的盔甲中找到哪怕最小的一丝裂缝，他们就会被灼伤。因此，绝不可轻视历史一再证明的真理。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：民16章，诗51章，
个人灵修：赛5章，来12章
MAY 7, THURSDAY
BE ON YOUR GUARD
Either you destroy the power of Satan in your life by putting on the whole armor of God and keeping it on, or Satan will destroy you.
Satan is not challenging you to a mock battle; this war is a life-or-death struggle. If you do not believe me, look what he has done to God’s servants in times past. Charging full speed ahead at many a dear saint, he has battered their armor until the grace of God in them was almost unrecognizable. All this he does when he catches a saint off guard.
Do you remember what happened to Jacob when he unbuckled his girdle of truth and sincerity, and used a trick to get his father’s blessing? He got the blessing all right, but he also was repaid in kind when Laban switched Leah for Rachel. Think how much suffering he might have saved himself by keeping his whole armor in place!
What about David? Oh, the battering he took by removing his breastplate of righteousness in the matter of Uriah! He sustained a dreadful wound, being shot right through the heart. And Jonah, when God wanted to send him to Nineveh, got caught without his shoes on. By that I mean he lacked the preparation and readiness with which his mind should have been shod, to have gone at the first call. Then there was poor Hezekiah. He had his helmet of hope knocked askew and so badly dented that he cried, “I shall not see the Lord… in the land of the living” (Isaiah 38:11). Even Abraham had fits of unbelief and distrustful qualms that crept in at some rusty spots in his graces.
This war is a spiritual holocaust. Either you destroy the power of Satan in your life by putting on the whole armor of God and keeping it on, or Satan will destroy you. The great saints of every century have been tried in the fires of temptation. And to a man they have been singed whenever Satan found the smallest chink in their graces. Do not disregard what history has repeatedly shown to be true.