8月31日 圣灵在灵魂中的工作
圣灵在灵魂中的工作
当圣灵亲自降临时，一切争论都必止息。撒但不能在祂面前摆弄资历，也无法用牠虚假的逻辑胜过祂。
这位蒙福的圣灵具备保惠师的一切完美特征。祂极其纯洁圣洁，绝不欺哄人；祂被称为“真理的圣灵”（约14:17）。若祂宣告你的罪已得赦免，你大可完全信靠祂，因祂绝不谄媚人。若事实并非如此，祂必定会坦言相告，因为祂既能安慰，也能责备；祂能叫人“为罪、为义，自己责备自己”。同样，神的灵极其充满智慧，绝不会受欺骗；祂从不会敲错门，也绝不会把信息传错人，祂完全知晓神心中对世上每个人的确切旨意。“因为圣灵参透万事，就是神深奥的事也参透了。”（林前2:10）
使徒所说的这些“神深奥的事”，就是深藏于神心底那爱的旨意，直到圣灵将其汲取出来，并向世人显明。祂也完全熟知人心的构造。若制造橱柜的木匠竟不知道柜中的每一个暗格，那才叫人奇怪呢。尽管世人和魔鬼进行了长久的钻研，但他们对人灵魂这个小宇宙、微观世界的认识，仍远远谈不上全面。然而，正如在其他一切事物上一样，神对这领域了如指掌，绝不会受任何欺瞒。
总而言之，神的灵是如此不可抗拒，以至于无人能抵挡祂所赐平安的大能。例如，拿单带给大卫的赦罪信息，并没有完全达到大卫所期盼的果效；因此，大卫恳求保惠师来抚慰他的痛苦。他屈膝恳切祷告，求神恢复他所失去的救恩之乐，并求神赐下乐意的灵来坚固他那破碎痛悔的心。你或许能使人束手无策，甚至借着沉溺于自身的忧郁，去逃避基督徒所带来的安慰真理；但当圣灵亲自降临时，一切争辩都必止息。撒但不能在祂面前摆弄资历，也无法用牠虚伪的逻辑胜过祂。混乱必将消散，我们的惧怕也必随之无影无踪，正如黑暗在烈日之前退去一般。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：撒上24章，林前5章，
个人灵修：结3章，约4章
AUGUST 31, MONDAY
THE SPIRIT’S WORK IN THE SOUL
When the Holy Spirit Himself comes, all disputes will end. Satan cannot pull rank or his false logic on Him.
This blessed Holy Spirit has all the characteristics of a comforter. He is so pure and holy that He cannot deceive; He is called “the Spirit of truth” (John 14:17). If He says your sins are forgiven, you can believe Him; He will not flatter. If it were not so He would have told you, for He can chide as well as comfort—He can convince of sin as well as of righteousness. And the Spirit of God is so wise that He cannot be deceived; He never knocks at the wrong door nor delivers messages to the wrong person, but knows the exact purpose which the heart of God holds for each person on earth. “The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10).
These “deep things of God” which the apostle mentions are God’s counsels of love which lie deep in His heart until the Spirit draws them out and shows them to men and women. And He also knows perfectly the frame of man’s heart. It would be strange if the cabinet maker did not know every secret compartment in the cabinet. Despite their long study, neither man nor the devil have anything even approaching a full knowledge of that little world, the microcosm of man’s soul. But as in everything else, God knows this field perfectly and cannot be deceived.
In a word, God’s Spirit is so irresistible that no one can stand against the power of His peace. For example, the pardon Nathan took to David was not all that he had hoped for; so David begged the Comforter to ease his pain. He went on his knees and prayed hard to have his lost joy restored and his softened heart established by the free Spirit of God. You might baffle man, and through your own melancholy manipulation, even evade the truths which Christians bring for comfort; but when the Holy Spirit Himself comes, all disputes will end. Satan cannot pull rank or his false logic on Him. Confusion vanishes and our fears with it, as darkness disappears before the sun.