11月13日 骄傲
11月13日，周四
骄傲
“我这个人真是苦啊！谁能救我脱离这使我死亡的身体呢？”（罗马书7:24）
自给自足、自我中心——啊，我多么盼望能脱离这个“自我”！
“我这个人真是苦啊！谁能救我脱离这使我死亡的身体呢？”（罗马书7:24）。我怎么能从这可怜的、丑陋的、而我又不断在心里反复思想的“自我”当中挣脱出来呢？难道这不是每一个被圣灵光照、被罪所定罪的人内心最深的呼喊吗？而约翰壹书4:9-10所带来的功效，就是揭露这一切。我实在无法认真听那些自夸已经被神的爱光照得到了启示的人，除非他们先对付了自己的旧人。若一个人竭力要持守基督教信仰的教义，生命却从未被这些教义照亮，从来没有看见他自己在世界中的真实光景、也没有看见那个不断显形的“自我”，那他的这种努力就是毫无价值的。神的爱总是先让人明白：“爱就在此：不是我们爱神，乃是神爱我们。”神竟然会爱像我这样的人，这真是难以置信！这才是令人震惊的地方！约翰说：这才是爱。
因此，当你真心相信并明白了这一切时，你就会看见自己真正的光景。而当你这样看见自己的时候，会立刻发生什么呢？你会像约翰·班扬那样呼喊：
“谦卑的人不怕跌倒；卑微的人没有骄傲。”
班扬的意思是：当我按着真相认识我自己时，没有人还能羞辱我。那根本不可能，因为别人无论说我多坏，都还不够坏；他们怎么说，都比不上我实际上败坏得那样深。当我们在这荣耀福音的光中看见自己时，世上没有人能再真正伤害我们，也没有人能真正冒犯我们。
默想主题：
自给自足、自我中心——啊，我多么盼望能脱离这个“自我”！
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：代上1-2章，来8章
个人灵修：摩2章，诗145篇
November 13, Thursday
PRIDE
O wretched man that I am! (ROMANS 7:24)
Self-sufficiency, self-consciousness—oh, to get away from the self!
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24). How can I get away from this wretched, ugly self I am always thinking about? Isn’t that the cry of every man and woman convicted of sin by the Holy Ghost? Now the effect of 1 John 4:9-10 is to expose all that, and I really am not prepared to listen to people who tell me that they glory in the revelation of God’s love unless they have dealt with themselves. There is no value in any striving to keep the tenets of the Christian faith unless those tenets have made you see yourself in the world, unless they have flashed upon you in such a way as to make you see the manifestation of self; that is what the love of God always does. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.” It is incredible that God could love such a person as I have been describing. That is the amazing thing! That is love, says John.
Therefore, if you believe and know all that, it makes you see yourself as you are, and do you see what happens at once? The moment you see yourself like that, you cry with John Bunyan:
He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low in pride.
John Bunyan meant that when I see myself as I really am, nobody can insult me. It is impossible, because they can never say anything that is bad enough about me. Whatever the world may say about me, I am much worse than they think. When we see ourselves in the light of this glorious Gospel, no one can hurt us, no one can offend us.
A Thought to Ponder: Self-sufficiency, self-consciousness—oh, to get away from the self!