Daily Devotion - Mar 4 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

上帝是個靈

經文: 「上帝是個靈，所以拜祂的，必須用心靈和誠實拜祂。」（約翰福音四：24）

當上帝造亞當時，祂就在人鼻孔�吹一口氣，使他成爲有靈的活人。人的心位居上帝的靈與己的肉身之間，人可決定把心歸給上帝，或選擇向肉身屈服，放任於血氣慾望。人類始祖亞當拒絕聽從上帝的靈，這就是墮落的開始，因而人類成爲肉體的奴隸，人心中屬上帝的靈完全暗淡下去。�

重生的意義就是心中的眼睛被打開，心中屬上帝的靈再次被甦醒，從此這新生命逐漸長大，願意學習用意志選擇順從上帝的心意行事。這靈是人心最深邃的部份，誠如詩篇五十一篇6節所說：「您所喜愛的，是內裡誠實。您在我隱密處，必使我得智慧。」又如耶利米書卅一章33節所說：「我要將我的律法放在他們裡面，寫在他們心上。」先知以賽亞曾說：「夜間我心中羡慕您。我�面的靈切切尋求您。」我們的魂必須安靜沈澱到靈的深處，我們的心才能活絡起來尋求上帝。�

上帝是個聖潔榮耀的靈，人的靈因著罪活在黑暗中。惟有安靜來到上帝面前，讓上帝的靈在你心深處做工，做潔淨修理的工作，才能恢復上帝與人之間的溝通，祂也要教導你如何用心靈與誠實來敬拜祂。�

上帝找尋這樣的人來敬拜祂，若我們願意親近祂，來到祂面前靜默等候祂，全心全意仰望祂，相信祂賞賜那尋求祂的人，祂就要親自降臨，教導我們在靈裡呼求：�

「我的心哪，我在您面前安靜無聲。」�

「夜間我心中羡慕您。我�面的靈切切尋求您！」�

「喔，上帝哪，我等候您！」


GOD IS A SPIRIT

Scripture: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."—JOHN iv. 24.

When God created man, and breathed into him of His own spirit, man became a living soul. The soul stood midway between the spirit and the body, and had either to yield to the spirit to be lifted up to God, or to the flesh and its lusts. In the Fall, man refused to listen to the spirit, and became the slave of the body. The spirit in man became utterly darkened.
In regeneration it is this spirit that is quickened and born again from above. In the regenerate life and in the fellowship with God it is the spirit of man that has ever to yield itself to the Spirit of God. The spirit is the deepest, inward part of the human being. As we read in Ps. li.: "Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom"; or in Jer. xxxi.: "I will put My law in their inward parts." It is of this also that Isaiah says: "With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek Thee early." The soul must sink down into the depths of the hidden spirit, and call upon that to stir itself to seek God.
God is a Spirit, most holy and most glorious. He gave us a spirit with the one object of holding fellowship with Himself. Through sin that power has been darkened and well-nigh quenched. There is no way for its restoration but by presenting the soul in stillness before God for the working of His Holy Spirit in our spirit. Deeper than our thoughts and feelings, God will in our inward part, in our spirits within us, teach us to worship Him in spirit and in truth.
"The Father seeketh such to worship Him." He Himself by the Holy Spirit will teach us this if we wait upon Him. In this quiet hour, be still before God, and yield yourself with the whole heart to believe in and to receive the gentle working of His Spirit. And breathe out such words as these:
"My soul, be thou silent unto God."
"With my soul have I desired Thee in the night, yea, with my spirit within me I seek Thee early."
"On Thee, O God, do I wait."


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