11月19日 神在你里面动工
11月19日，周三
神在你里面动工
就当恐惧战兢做成你们得救的工夫。因为你们立志行事都是神在你们心里运行，为要成就祂的美意。（腓立比书2:12-13，和合本）
你有没有意识到，神正在你里面动工？保罗说：你们“就当恐惧战兢做成你们得救的工夫。因为你们立志行事都是神在你们心里运行。”这是奇妙而令人惊叹的真理。这也是一个人是否真的拥有圣灵的重大记号。 它的意思是什么呢？就是：你开始意识到，是神在对付你、在引导你，不是你自己凭意志决定去做一些属灵的事。 你看，道德主义者或宗教从众者，他们所做的一切都是靠自己，所以他们为此感到骄傲。主日早上，他们按时起床、不赖床、去聚会。他们这样做，不是因为圣灵催逼他们，而是因为他们自己决定这样做。整个过程都在他们自己的掌控之下。最后他们还为自己的“高尚”“坚持”和“属灵表现”感到十分满意和自豪。
但圣经不是这样说的。“因为你们立志行事都是神在你们心里运行。”意思是：你觉察到神的大能在里面推动你、搅动你、催逼你、改变你，你因此感到惊讶且谦卑。你不会说：“我真厉害。”而会说：“这不是我。这不是我天然的样子。这是神在做；是基督在我里面；是圣灵在我心里运行。我被带到了超越我自己的境界，我只能感谢神。” 因此问题是：神是否正在你里面动工？你是否觉察到一个奇妙的能力在你里面运行，感动你、扰动你、引导你、劝服你、不断把你往前带？如果是这样，那就是因为你从神领受了圣灵。
默想主题：
你觉察到神的大能在里面推动你、搅动你、催逼你、改变你，你因此感到惊讶且谦卑。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：代上13-14章，雅1章
个人灵修：摩8章，路3章
November 19, Wednesday
GOD WORKING IN YOU
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (PHILIPPIANS 2:12-13)
Are you aware of the fact that God is working in you? “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” says Paul, “for it is God which worketh in you.” This is a marvelous, wonderful thing. It is one of the great tests of the possession of the Holy Spirit. It means something like this: We are aware of the fact that we are being dealt with; it is not that we decide to do things. You see, moralists and religious conformists are doing it all themselves, and that is why they are so proud of themselves. They get up on Sunday morning instead of spending the morning in bed, and they go to church. They do it because they have decided to do it, not because they have been moved. They are in control the whole time; and having done it, they preen themselves with their wonderful, ennobling ideals. How marvelous they are!
But that is not what the Bible talks about. “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do.” In other words, you are aware of the power of God dealing with you, surging and rising within you, and you are amazed and astonished. Far from being proud you say, “It is not I. This is not the sort of person I am. It is God doing something; it is Christ dwelling within me; it is the Holy Spirit who is in me. I am taken up beyond myself, and I thank God for it.” Is God working in you? Are you aware of a wonder-working power active in you, moving, disturbing, leading, persuading, drawing you ever onward? If you are, it is because you have received from God the gift of the Holy Spirit.
A Thought to Ponder: You are aware of the power of God dealing with you, surging and rising within you, and you are amazed and astonished.