6月26日 给怀疑自身纯全者的安慰
给怀疑自身纯全者的安慰
许多灵魂里藏着纯全的宝藏，只是他们打开行囊、认识到自己真正财富的时候还未到。
你可能确实是纯全的，但疑惑却试图让你相信相反的结论。对于你，我有几句劝勉的话，我相信神会赐福这其中的每一句。
不要因为你现在看不见自己纯全的证据，就断定自己是假冒为善的人。旧约的列祖把银子包在行囊里，一路走到客店，却不知道自己带着什么，直到打开口袋才发现。许多灵魂里藏着纯全的宝藏，只是他们打开行囊、认识到自己真正财富的时候还未到。成千上万的圣徒，在他们人生的航程中一直被“神的恩典是否真实在他们里面”的恐惧所笼罩，但他们最终都安全越过深渊，抵达了天庭。无伪的信心将信徒安置在与基督同在的方舟里，并且关上了门；但这并不能保证他在航行中不会晕船。
基督的工作会以一种我们能够看见并确认的方式显明出来，然而我们里面恩典的真实性，却未必总是如此清晰地显露。神已将圣灵赐下，印证这恩典的真实性，为要引导灵魂进入光中，并向祂的儿女显明这真理。唯有祂是那位伟大的使者，能够“指示人所当行的事”（伯33:23）。
然而，正如眼睛在完全黑暗中虽然什么也看不见，但在有光的地方，它仍然是一只能看见的眼睛；照样，即使人暂时没有感受到恩典真实性的同在，他里面仍可能拥有真实的恩典。因此，一个人可能会为了得着他早已拥有的纯全，而满怀热情地从一个聚会赶往另一个聚会；这就如同一个人在屋子里惊慌失措地找帽子，却不知道帽子其实一直戴在自己的头上。
请把这句话视为确切的真理记下来：“即使我不能清晰地看见，我仍可能是正直的。”虽然这个洞见不能带给你完全的安慰，但它能支撑你，直到确据来临。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：申31章，诗119:97-120，
个人灵修：赛58章，太6章
JUNE 26, FRIDAY
COMFORT FOR THE SINCERE ONE WHO DOUBTS
There is a treasure of sincerity hidden in many souls, but the time has not come for them to open the sack and know their true riches.
You may be genuinely sincere but doubt persuades you otherwise. To you I have a few words of counsel, and I trust God to give His blessings to each one.
Do not conclude you are a hypocrite because you cannot now see evidence of your sincerity. The patriarchs had money bundled up in their sacks and traveled all the way to the inn, not knowing what they had until they opened them. There is a treasure of sincerity hidden in many souls, but the time has not come for them to open the sack and know their true riches. Thousands of saints whose voyages were marked by fears about whether or not God’s grace was truly in them have crossed the gulf and safely landed in heaven. Faith unfeigned puts a believer into the ark with Christ and shuts the door; but it does not necessarily keep him from getting seasick in the ship.
It is the work of Christ which demonstrates itself in such a way that we can see and own it, whereas the truth of our grace may not so clearly show itself. God has put the Holy Spirit beside the truth of grace to lead the soul into the light and show His children that truth. He alone is the great messenger who is able “to show unto man his uprightness” (Job 33:23).
But even as the eye, which cannot see anything in complete darkness, is still a seeing eye where there is light, so there may be truth of grace where there is not a sense of that truth present. So the person may hunt passionately from one church service to another to get the sincerity he already has, as one who looks frantically throughout the house to find his hat, when all the time it has been on his head.
Mark this down as real truth: “I may be upright even if I am not able to see it clearly.” Although this insight will not furnish full comfort, it can be support until assurance comes.