11月15日 神就住在我们里面
11月15日，周六
神就住在我们里面
从来没有人见过神，我们若彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，祂的爱也在我们里面得到成全了。（约翰壹书4:12）
神就住在我们里面。这是我的确据与把握的根基之一。“从来没有人见过神。”那么我们是否因此就落在疑惑中、甚至接近绝望，以为神是否真实存在是不得而知的呢？绝不是！约翰说：“我们若彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，祂的爱也在我们里面得到成全了。”
当我思想这样的主题时，我心中常带着敬畏与战兢。请思想约翰福音14章中有关信徒与父与子的亲密联合的伟大宣告--祂们是住在我们里面、与我们同住；我们熟悉约翰福音14、15、16、17章的内容，而这里我们又看见了同样的真理：“神就住在我们里面，祂的爱也在我们里面得到成全了。”因此，约翰在约翰壹书4:13进一步说：“神将祂的灵赐给我们，从此就知道我们是住在祂里面，祂也住在我们里面。”（4:13）；并且他还在15节说，“凡认耶稣为神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。”（4:15）。
面对这一真理，我们就如同摩西一样，当脱下鞋来！因为我们所谈论的是极其荣耀、极其威严的真理，所以我们必须带着极高的谨慎来对待。这里的陈述是：如果我们彼此相爱，那位就是爱的神、全能的神、永恒的神，就住在我们里面。此时最重要的提醒是：我们绝不可把这个观念物质化；我们不能用物质性的标准来衡量神。因为神是灵。正是那位是灵的神，住在我们里面。
默想主题：
正是那位是灵的神，住在我们里面。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：代上5-6章，来10章
个人灵修：摩4章，诗148-150篇
November 15, Saturday
GOD DWELLS IN US
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 JOHN 4:12)
God dwells in us. That is one of the grounds of my assurance, my certainty. “No man hath seen God at any time.” Very well, then, do we go on in doubt and almost in despair wondering whether there is a God? No! says John; “if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”
Now, I confess very readily that I approach a theme like this with fear and with a sense of awe. Consider the great statement in John 14 of this intimate union between the believer and God the Father and God the Son, of Their abiding in us and dwelling in us. We are familiar with chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17 of John’s Gospel, and here we have the same thing again. “God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” And John goes on to say in 1 John 4:13, “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit,” and in verse 15, “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”
At this point, like Moses, we take off our shoes! We are concerned with something that is glorious and magnificent, and so we have to be very careful as we handle it. The statement is that if we love one another, God—God who is love, God the Almighty, God the eternal—dwells in us. I think that the great thing at this point is to realize that we must not materialize that conception. We must not think of God in material terms; God is spirit. It is God, who is spirit, who dwells in us.
A Thought to Ponder: It is God, who is spirit, who dwells in us.