6月30日 清洁的心
清洁的心
纯全之人也会像旅行者一样跌倒，但他会重新站起，比以往更谨慎、更迅速地继续前行。
纯全并不保证我们永不跌倒，但当我们跌倒时，它会扶我们重新站起。然而，假冒为善者跌倒在哪里，就瘫倒在哪里，直至死亡。正如经上所言，恶人必“被祸患倾倒”（箴24:16）。纯全之人也会像旅行者一样跌倒，但他会重新站起，比以往更谨慎、更迅速地继续前行。但假冒为善者却如从桅杆顶端坠落的人，被怒海吞噬，再无生还的指望。
我们在扫罗王的一生中便能看见这个原则。当他虚假的心彻底暴露时，他便如滚下山坡一般无法止步，而是从一样罪跌入另一样罪。短短数年间，他已从最初离弃神之处，急速坠入了万丈深渊。他曾显得如此迫切地想要敬拜神，甚至等不及先知撒母耳的到来；但后来，他竟远离神到了去求问交鬼妇人的地步。在这出令人毛骨悚然的血腥悲剧的最后一幕中，扫罗在绝望中自尽，将自己的性命投进了魔鬼的口中。
扫罗的罪之所以将他压伤至死，是因为他的心在神面前从一开始就不端正。当撒母耳告诉扫罗：“耶和华已经寻着一个合他心意的人”（撒上13:14）时，便暗示了这一真理。诚然，大卫自己后来陷入的罪，比当初导致神弃绝这位首任君王（扫罗）的恶行还要严重得多；但两者的分别在于：在大卫的生命中，纯全始终是其“根基所在”（参伯19:28）。
纯全之所以具有使人恢复的力量，有两个原因。其一源于纯全本身的性质，其二则源于神的应许，这应许牢牢扎根于纯全基督徒的灵魂之中。
纯全本身使人复苏的性质，能重新点燃灵魂。纯全之于灵魂，犹如灵魂之于身体；它是神的灵在人心中点燃的一点神圣生命之火。它是神的种子，常存在圣徒里面。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：书2章，诗123-125章，
个人灵修：赛62章，太10章
JUNE 30, TUESDAY
A PURE HEART
The sincere man stumbles as any traveler might do, but he gets up and resumes his journey with more caution and speed than before.
Sincerity does not guarantee we will not ever fall but it helps us up again when we do. The hypocrite, however, lies where he falls until he dies. Thus he is said to “fall into mischief” (Proverbs 24:16). The sincere man stumbles as any traveler might do, but he gets up and resumes his journey with more caution and speed than before. But the hypocrite plunges as a man from the top of a mast who is engulfed past any hope of recovery in the devouring sea.
We see this principle in King Saul’s life. When his false heart discovered itself, he tumbled down the hill and did not stop, but went from one sin to another. In just a few years he had plummeted far from the place where he first left God. Once he had been so ready to worship God that he could not wait for the prophet Samuel to arrive—but later he was so far from seeking God that he went to a witch for counsel. And in the last act of his bloody tragedy, Saul desperately threw his life into the devil’s mouth by self-murder.
The reason Saul’s sin crushed him to death was that his heart was never right with God in the first place. Samuel hinted at this truth when he told Saul: “The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14). Of course David himself fell into a sin far worse than Saul’s wickedness—for which God rejected that first king—but the difference was that in Davids life sincerity was “the root of the matter” (Job 19:28).
There is a double reason for the recovering strength of sincerity. One stems from the nature of sincerity itself and the other proceeds from God’s promise which settles into the sincere Christian’s soul.
The restoring nature of sincerity itself kindles the soul. Sincerity is to the soul as the soul is to the body, a spark of divine life kindled in man’s heart by the Spirit of God. It is the seed of God remaining in the saint.