6月20日 神医治假冒为善
神医治假冒为善
惟有干渴的灵魂才能得饱足，但我们必须确保我们的渴慕是纯正且深切的。
把你的假冒为善带到基督面前吧！这位大医生的大能与信实，足能使你痊愈。如果你必死无疑，那就死在祂的门前吧。但为了使你得安慰，你要记住：从来没有一个人从祂医治的手中失落；也从来没有一种病症对祂来说是难以根治的。祂曾责备那些假冒为善者，因他们宁愿相信任何一个没有神所赐的权柄、凭自己名义行事的江湖骗子，却不肯承认那位奉父的名而来的救主。既然主因假冒为善者不肯来到祂面前而责备他们，那么对于愿意来到祂面前的你，祂绝不会发怒。因为呼召罪人，本就是祂的工作和使命。
基督降世，正是要作有病之灵魂的医生。法利赛人在自以为义的傲慢中固步自封，因此救主反而把时间花在那些承认自己需要帮助的人身上。如果你发现自己除了在假冒为善的重担下呻吟之外什么也做不了，并且只能在祷告中将这些叹息呈递给神，那么你的医治者很快就会来到你身边。自升天以来，耶稣从未放下过祂的职分，祂如今仍在行医，一如既往信实地赐下赦罪的恩典。
例如，基督曾劝导老底嘉教会如何摆脱假冒为善这致命的疾病：“我劝你向我买火炼的金子，叫你富足；又买白衣穿上，叫你赤身的羞耻不露出来。”（启3:18）主实际上是在警告他们：“老底嘉啊，你正在用虚表代替实质，用假冒的恩典代替真实的恩典，以此自欺欺人。你的金子含有杂质，你的衣袍不过是污秽的破烂布条；它们不仅不能遮盖你的羞耻，反而将其暴露无遗。如果你想得着真正的财宝，就到我这里来。”虽然基督提到“买”，但祂真正所强调的并不是人的功劳，而是一颗渴慕的心。祂所说的是一种买主的心态，就是如此看重基督和祂的恩典，以至于若这些恩典真能用代价换取，人甘愿倾尽自己所有的一切，甚至舍去生命来得着；然而即使如此，当他得着基督以后，仍会觉得自己占了莫大的便宜，因为所得到的远远超过所付出的。惟有真正干渴的灵魂才能得着满足；但我们必须省察自己的渴慕，看看它是否真实，是否深切，是否单单指向基督。因为主应许说：“饥渴慕义的人有福了！因为他们必得饱足。”（太5:6）
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：申25章，诗116章，
个人灵修：赛52章，启22章
JUNE 20, SATURDAY
GOD HEALS HYPOCRISY
It is the thirsty soul who will be satisfied, but we must be sure our thirst is right and deep.
Take hypocrisy to Christ, the physician whose skill and faithfulness can make you whole. If you must die, die at His door. But for your comfort, remember that no one has ever fallen out of His healing hand; and no case has ever been too hard for Him to handle. He blamed the hypocrites who were ready to trust any charlatan ministering in his own name without God’s authority but who would not confess the One who had come in the Father’s name. And He who blamed hypocrites for not coming cannot be angry with you if you come. It is His calling.
Christ came to be a physician to sick souls. Pharisees were so settled in their own conceit that the Savior spent His time with those who admitted they needed help. If you cannot do anything but groan under your weight of hypocrisy, and send those groans in prayer to God, your healer will soon come to you. Since His ascension into heaven Jesus has never once laid down His calling, but still practices, granting forgiveness as faithfully as ever.
For example, Christ counseled Laodicea how to be loosed from her deadly disease of hypocrisy: “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed” (Revelation 3:18). He warned, “Laodicea, you are deceiving yourself and others with appearances instead of realities, with counterfeit graces for true ones; your gold is impure and your robes are rotten rags. They do not cover your shame but expose it. Come to Me if you want real treasure.” Although Christ mentioned buying, what he meant was a buyer’s spirit, valuing Christ and His grace so highly that, if they could be bought, a person would be willing to spend all the money in his account and even the blood in his veins for it, yet still go home saying it was a bargain. It is the thirsty soul who will be satisfied, but we must be sure our thirst is right and deep.