6月12日 神恨恶假冒为善
神恨恶假冒为善
纯全是所有恩典的生命，它也为我们一切的属灵本分注入生命。
正如诚实无伪（纯全）能遮盖许多的缺欠，假冒为善却会揭开灵魂的遮羞布，使其在神面前赤露敞开，即便它披戴着其他美德最华丽的外衣也无济于事。这块毒疮甚至会长在最甜美纯全的品格之上，在神眼中，它使人面目全非的程度，甚至比大麻风毁容了一张最娇美的面庞更为严重。
查考圣经如何描绘亚撒和亚玛谢截然不同的品格，是发人深省的。论到亚撒，经上说：“只是邱坛还没有废去。亚撒一生却向耶和华存诚实的心。”（王上15:14）诚实无伪犹如真金，即便掺有少许杂质，仍不失其本色。圣经提及亚撒的软弱，并非作为掩盖其尊荣的瑕疵，而是如同画师笔下的美人痣，反倒为了衬托他整体面容的美。因此，记录下他的失败，是为了更加彰显他纯全的动人之处；这份纯全，即便在他的软弱中，依然从神自己的口中赢得了美好的见证。
然而论到亚玛谢，经上却说：“亚玛谢行耶和华眼中看为正的事，只是心不专诚。”（代下25:2）他的行为虽然正确，但他的心态却是错谬的，这使得他的“对”变成了“错”。由此我们看见，亚撒的正直如何在众多的软弱中托住了他；而假冒为善又是如何在亚玛谢行义时，仍受到神的责备。
纯全是所有恩典的生命，它也为我们一切的属灵本分注入生命，正如生命使身体保持温暖与美好。从纯全之心里发出的祷告，是天堂所喜悦的馨香之气。若失去了纯全，对于这些祷告，神必要像亚伯拉罕面对生前挚爱的撒拉时所说的那样：“我好埋葬我的死人，使她不在我眼前。”（参创23:4）
“你们不要再献虚浮的供物。香品是我所憎恶的……你们的月朔和节期，我心里恨恶，我都以为麻烦；我担当，便不耐烦。”（赛1:13-14）让神如此厌恶，甚至用这般严厉的言辞来抨击祂自己所设立的律例的，正是假冒为善。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：申17章，诗104章，
个人灵修：赛43章，启14章
JUNE 12, FRIDAY
GOD HATES HYPOCRISY
Sincerity is the life of all graces and puts life into all our duties.
Just as sincerity covers all defects, hypocrisy uncovers the soul and strips it naked before God despite the richest embroidery of other qualities. This scab grows on even the sweetest perfection and changes the persons’ complexion in God’s eye more drastically than leprosy destroys the fairest face.
It is interesting to see how Scripture portrays the different characters of Asa and Amaziah. The writer says of Asa: “The high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days” (1 Kings 15:14). Like true gold, sincerity allows grains for lightness. Asa’s infirmities were not mentioned as flaws to dim his honor but as a wart or mole which an artist might use to accent the beauty of his other features. Thus failures were recorded to give a greater attractiveness to his sincerity, which—in spite of his sins—won a good testimony from God’s own mouth.
Yet it is said of Amaziah, “He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart” (2 Chronicles 25:2). His actions were good but his attitude was faulty—and this turned his right into wrong. Thus we see how Asa’s uprightness supported him in the midst of many shortcomings, but hypocrisy condemned Amaziah as he did what was right.
Sincerity is the life of all graces and puts life into all our duties, as life keeps the body warm and beautiful. And prayer breathed from a sincere heart is heaven’s delight. If sincerity is gone, God must say of prayers what Abraham said of Sarah, whom he had loved dearly while she was alive: “Bury my dead out of my sight” (Genesis 23:4).
“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;… your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them” (Isaiah 1:13–14). The thing God loathed which made Him speak so coarsely against His own ordinances was hypocrisy.