Daily Devotion - Apr 7 - ?}|w?w‾P‥C?eAF-× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 上帝的意念 經文: 「天怎樣高過地，照樣，我的道路高過你們的道路；我的意念高過你們的意念。」（以賽亞書五十五：9） 上帝一方面應許要在我們心裡面做工，一方面也提醒我們，祂的道路高過我們的道路，祂的意念高過我們的意念，這實在超過我們理解的能力範圍。 上帝說人要按著祂的形像所造，藉著祂的恩典，我們也能重新恢復到祂原來的樣式；祂又說若我們敞著臉仰望祂的榮耀，我們就要改變成祂的形狀——這也是無法理解的。 當上帝告訴亞伯拉罕，他的後裔要多如繁星，世上的萬族也要因他得福——這實在超過人的意念，也不是人所能做到的。當上帝要人全心全意地愛祂，這實在不是出於人的想法。上帝這樣呼召人過一個終日以祂名為樂的生活，並行走在祂的面光之中，祂也要給人一樣禮物，就是祂心中深處的至極大愛。 在我們親近等候上帝時，一方面操練我們的敬虔、謙卑與耐性，一方面上帝也藉這機會，將屬天的亮光照進我們的心，讓我們習慣「時刻與上帝同在」的想法。若我們真要將這樣「時刻與上帝同在」的想法深植我心，我們必須每天撥時間親近上帝，使我們的靈命與祂緊緊相連。除此之外，我們更要堅心相信，上帝不僅樂意將「與上帝同在」的榮美生活，向我們啟示明白，祂更樂意在我們裡面動工，使這寶貴的應許，成為生活的實際，叫我們過一個蒙福的基督徒生活。 想想保羅引用以賽亞先知的話：「上帝為愛祂的人預備的，是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。」（林前二：9）上帝藉著聖靈，將這樣的奧祕向我們內心顯現。當耶穌向門徒們應許，有一位聖靈保惠師，從寶座下來，要住在門徒心中，祂要尊崇、榮耀耶穌，且要將屬天的生命與亮光，充滿在我們心中。這樣一種「內在的生活」，正是上帝的心意。喔，我的心哪！要尋求明白一個真理，就是聖靈要以其屬天的榮耀與能力，將耶穌活化在我心，助我們過一個聖潔喜樂的生活。 THE THOUGHTS OF GOD Scripture: "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My thought, higher than your thoughts."—ISA. Iv. 9. In giving us His promises of what He will work in us, God reminds us that, as high as the heavens are above the earth so high His thoughts are above ours—altogether beyond our power of spiritual living apprehension. When He tells us that we are made in the image of God, that by grace we are actually renewed again into that image, and a: we gaze upon God's glory in Christ, we are changed into the same image as by the Spirit of the Lord: this is indeed a thought higher than the heavens. When He tells Abraham of all the mighty work He was to do in him, and in his seed, and through him in all the nations of the earth, that again is a thought higher than the heavens—man's mind could not take it in. When God calls us to love Him with all our heart, and promises to renew our hearts so that they shall love Him with all our strength, that again is a thought out of the very heights of heaven. And when the Father calls us to a life here on earth in the light of His face and rejoicing in His Name all the day, we have a gift out of the very depths of God's heart of love. What deep reverence and humility and patience become us in waiting upon God by His Holy Spirit, to impart to our hearts the life and the light that can make us feel at home with these thoughts dwelling in us. What need of daily, tender, abiding fellowship with God, if we are in 'very deed to enter into His mind, and to have His thoughts make their home in us. And what a faith especially is needed to believe that God will not only reveal the beauty and the glory of these thoughts, but will actually so mightily work in us that their Divine reality and blessing shall indeed fill our inmost being. Just think of what Isaiah says, as quoted by Paul (1 Cor. ii. 9) : Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and which entered not into the heart of man, whatsoever things God prepared for them that love Him. But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit. When Christ promised His disciples that the Holy Spirit from the throne in heaven should dwell with them, He said that the Spirit would glorify Him, would fill us with the light and life of the heavenly world. It was that that would make Him and the purposes of God, higher than the heavens above the earth, their abiding experience. O my soul, seek to realize that every day the Holy Spirit will fill thy heart with the thoughts of God in all their heavenly power and glory. www.glorypress.com