7月8日 我们对神的本分
我们对神的本分
“请你们为我们祷告，因我们自觉良心无亏，愿意凡事按正道而行”（来13:18）。
马利亚曾急切地说：“先生，若是你把祂移了去，请告诉我，你把t放在那里，我便去取祂”（约20:15）。这话透露出她想把耶稣的身体带走，甚至扛在自己肩上；只是这心愿，凭她的体力根本无法达成。她心中的爱慕，远比她的背更有力量。
圣徒里面圣洁的原则也是如此：它会使人竭力去举起一项自己几乎挪不动的本分；有时，他所能做的，不过是全心渴望这事得以成就。希伯来书作者描绘自己的品格，靠的不是工作上的完全，而是意志与努力上的纯全：“请你们为我们祷告，因我们自觉良心无亏，愿意凡事按正道而行”（来13:18）。他如此甘心乐意地跟从神走圣洁的道路，以致毫不迟疑地宣告自己有“无亏的良心”，尽管他并不能做成自己所渴望做的一切。
真正的圣洁，不会把神所联合的拆开：“神吩咐这一切的话”（出20:1）。在那里，神一口气赐下了四条关乎祂自己的诫命，又赐下六条关乎人的诫命。一颗真正成圣的心，不愿跳过或抹去神所写下的任何一句话，而是渴望遵行神全部的旨意。
“对神并对人”，先对神，后对人，这就是成圣生命该有的次序。保罗说，马其顿信徒是“先把自己献给主，又归附了我们”（林后8:5）。一个成圣的人，总是先顺服神，然后才因着顺服神的旨意，去服事自己的邻舍。
在基督信仰里，若没有准绳，或用错了准绳，就画不出一条正直的线。除了神的话以外，一切标准都是错误的准绳：“人当以训诲和法度为标准；他们所说的，若不与此相符，必不得见晨光”（赛8:20）。凡神的话所要求的，就是圣灵所使用的准则；那种可疑的、边缘的、外加的“伪经式圣洁”，根本算不得真正的圣洁。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：书10章，诗142-143章，
个人灵修：耶4章，太18章
JULY 8, WENDESDAY
OUR DUTY TO GOD
“Pray for us. for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly” (Hebrews 13:18).
Mary demanded, “Tell me where thou hast laid him” (John 20:15), implying she wanted to carry the body of Jesus with her, on her shoulders—a desire she was not physically able to perform. Her affections were much stronger than her back.
The principle of holiness in a saint, then, makes him try to lift a duty which he can barely move; he can do little more than desire with all his heart to see it done. Paul sketches his own character from the sincerity of his will and efforts, not from the perfection of his works: “Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly” (Hebrews 13:18). He was so willing to follow God into holiness that he did not hesitate to claim “a good conscience,” although he could not accomplish everything he wanted to do.
True holiness will not divide what God joins: “God spake all these words” (Exodus 20.1). There God gave together the four commandments concerning Himself and the six concerning man. And a truly sanctified heart does not want to skip over or blot out one word God has written but desires to be a doer of the whole will of God.
“To God and man”—first to God and then to man; this is the sequence of a sanctified life. Paul said the Macedonians first gave “their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God” (2 Corinthians 8:5). A sanctified person first obeys God and then, out of obedience to His will, serves his fellow man.
In Christianity we cannot write a right line without a rule, or with a false one. And every standard except the Word is a false rule—“to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20). Whatever the Word of God requires is the rule of God’s Spirit; apocryphal holiness—doubtful, marginal, or extraneous—is not true holiness at all.