7月9日 不要在真理之光中犯罪
不要在真理之光中犯罪
当神看见人藐视祂的真理，将真理囚禁，不容真理在他们生命中掌权时，这般光景便会点燃祂忿怒的烈火，成为吞灭一切的烈焰。
如果你是魔鬼的奴仆，那么无论锁链是拴在你的头上还是脚上，都没有分别。牠借着你的行为（如同拴住你的脚）牢牢将你辖制，正像牠借着你的亵渎（如同拴住你的头）辖制你一样。
基督徒啊，你的邪恶更为深重，因为你是在真理的光照下犯罪。许多人是因判断的错谬而误入不洁；但你的判断力却为你照亮了另一条正路，除非你打算将自己的不洁归咎于真理本身，从而为自己堆积更多的罪。
罪人是在黑暗中迷失了通往天堂的路，或是被错谬的判断所误导；若他们的判断得以纠正，或许还能被带回圣洁的道路。但你却是在真理明亮的日光下犯罪，在正午时分胆大妄为地直奔地狱。这使你像魔鬼自己一样，因为牠比任何天使都清楚真理与谬误的区别，却拒绝受真理的管辖。
如果一位独唱者若用嗓音唱着甜美的旋律，手中却弹奏着另一首曲子，那不和谐的声音会比她原原本本唱出自己所弹的，更令听者刺耳。同样，我们在判断上高唱真理，却在心与手中弹奏邪恶，这比一个判断有误、生活也不圣洁的人所呈现的那种“协调”，更叫神厌恶。
试想，哈嫩若率领两万大军来攻打大卫，也不会像他那样卑劣地羞辱大卫的使臣，更能激怒大卫（撒下10章）。同样，罪人借着他们的生活公然表现出的敌意，也远不如他们对神真理所施加的这种卑劣羞辱那样惹动神的怒气，因为神差遣真理来，原是要使他们得自由。当神看见人藐视祂的真理，将真理囚禁，不容真理在他们生命中掌权时，这般光景便会点燃祂忿怒的烈火，成为吞灭一切的烈焰。违背神真理的光而行，是一个危险至极的选择。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：书11章，诗144章，
个人灵修：耶5章，太19章
JULY 9, THURSDAY
DO NOT SIN IN LIGHT OF TRUTH
When God sees men scorn His truth by imprisoning it from having any command over their lives, this sight kindles the fire of His wrath into a consuming flame.
If you are a slave to the devil it does not matter where the chain fastens you to him, the head or the foot. He holds you just as surely by the foot—in your actions—as he would by the head—in your blasphemy.
Christian, your wickedness is greater because it is committed in the face of truth. Many men are betrayed into unholiness by mistakes of faulty judgment; but your judgment lights another path for you, unless you intend to heap up more sin by fathering your unholiness on truth itself.
Sinners miss their way to heaven in the dark, or are misled by erroneous judgment, which, if corrected, might bring them back to the path of holiness. But you sin in the broad daylight of truth and boldly head for hell at high noon. This makes you favor the devil himself, who knows truth from error as well as any angel does—but he refuses to be ruled by it.
If a soloist sang to a sweet melody with her voice but with her hand played a different tune, the dissonant chords would offend the hearer more than if she had sung what she played. Thus, to sing to truth with our judgment but play wickedness with our hearts and hands is more abhorrent to God than the harmony of poor judgment and an unholy life.
Hanun, for example, would not have enraged David so much if he had charged him with twenty thousand men as he did by abusing his ambassadors in such a base way. The open hostility which sinners express by their lives does not provoke God so much as the vile dishonor they give to His truth, which He sent to make them free. When God sees men scorn His truth by imprisoning it from having any command over their lives, this sight kindles the fire of His wrath into a consuming flame. It is a dangerous choice to walk contrary to the light of God’s truth.