晨興聖言--認識、經歷、並活包羅萬有的基督...(W6-4)

第六週■週四

晨興餧養

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詩一一九54『在我寄居的住所,你的律例成了我的詩歌。』

              15『我要默想你的訓辭,看重你的道路。』

我們感謝主恢復禱讀主話。現今我們必須往前到唱讀神的話。…我們若真渴望被活的話浸透,使我們活基督,就需要跟隨保羅在歌羅西三章十六節所提倡的實行。這就是說,我們必須讓基督的話豐豐富富的住在我們裏面,不是單單憑着來自心思的知識,乃是憑着來自我們靈的各樣智慧,包括歌唱和頌詠。…頌詠神的話包括默想這話,並享受這話。我們頌詠神的話時,就思想這話,默想這話,並享受這話,因此給這話更多的機會浸透我們。

我們若只讀神的話,我們所讀的那段話就不太有機會深入我們裏面,並浸透我們這人。但我們若歌唱神的話,特別是頌詠這話,就將我們全人更完全的向話敞開,並給這話機會深入我們,並浸透我們。…在歌唱並頌詠神的話時,讓我們運用我們的聲音、我們的心思、我們的心和我們的靈。…我們若花一點時間歌唱主的話,就會覺得我們裏面被這話充滿並浸透。那麼我們自然而然就會活基督(腓立比書生命讀經,四二五至四二六、四二九頁)。

信息選讀

我們的光景若正常,每逢來到神的話面前,都該得着幫助,並且大得祝福。…聖經都是神的呼出(提後三16);因此,聖經的話就是神的氣。再者,主耶穌是神的具體化身(西二9),祂自己就稱爲話(約一1、14,啓十九13)。因此,來到話面前就該等於來到神面前。…神的話包含神的一切所是。這就是神的話這樣豐富、實際、活潑、光照人的原因。…倘若我們裏面沒有造成攔阻的難處,每當我們來到神的話面前,就該得着祝福。

你讀神的話時,也許呼求主,切望從主有所得着。然而,在你裏面也許有攔阻或阻撓。可能有一種罪纏累、擄掠並據有你。一面,你愛神的話。另一面,某種罪隱藏在你心裏,而你不願意主去對付它;這隱藏的罪會使你不能從神的話領受祝福。

我們若要從神的話得着祝福,首先必須對付我們的心,絕對且全心的歸向主。…我們若對付我們的心,並對付我們與主之間消極的事物,我們的光景纔可能正常。這樣,我們就很可能從神的話得着幫助。

聖經要求於我們的,比其他的書更多。聖經要求我們謙卑自己,並且將我們的自信、自恃撇在一旁。我們來到神的話面前,需要禱告求主憐憫我們。…我們要學習禱告說,『主,憐憫我。我不要被任何事物遮蔽,我不要在你我之間有任何事物。主,求你使我們之間沒有間隔。』這不僅該是我們的禱告,也該是我們向着主的態度。

我們來到主話面前,不該有任何自信。我們不該確信我們與主之間沒有問題了。…雖然我們沒有察覺,但我們與主之間仍然有許多問題。所以,我們需要在主面前謙卑自己。聖經說,『神敵擋狂傲的人,賜恩給謙卑的人。』(雅四6)我們來到主的話面前若不謙卑自己,我們從主的話得幫助就要大受攔阻(出埃及記生命讀經,八○三、八○五至八○八頁)。

參讀:腓立比書生命讀經,第四十至四十一篇。

WEEK 6 — DAY 4

Morning Nourishment

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Psa. 119:54 Your statutes have become my songs of praise in the house of my pilgrimage.

15 I will muse upon Your precepts and regard Your ways.

We are thankful for the recovery of pray-reading the Word. Now we must go on to sing-read the Word of God. If we sincerely desire to be saturated with the living Word so that we may live Christ, we need to follow the practice advocated by Paul in Colossians 3:16. This means that we must let the word of Christ inhabit us in a rich way, not by mere knowledge from the mind, but by every kind of wisdom from our spirit, including singing and psalming…Psalming the Word includes musing upon it and enjoying it. As we psalm the Word, we dwell upon it, muse on it, and enjoy it, thereby giving more opportunity for the Word to saturate us.

If we only read the Word, there is little opportunity for the portion we read to sink into us and saturate our being. But if we sing the Word, and especially if we psalm it, we open our being more fully to the Word and give it the opportunity to sink into us and saturate us…In singing and psalming the Word of God, let us exercise our voice, our mind, our heart, and our spirit. If we take even a little time to sing the Word, we shall sense that we are inwardly filled and saturated with it. Then spontaneously we shall live Christ. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 356-357, 359)

Today’s Reading

If our condition is normal, we should be helped and very much blessed whenever we come to the Word of God…All Scripture is God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16); therefore, the words of the Bible are God’s breath. Furthermore, as the embodiment of God (Col. 2:9), the Lord Jesus is Himself called the Word (John 1:1, 14; Rev. 19:13). Thus, coming to the Word should be the equivalent of coming to God…The Word of God contains all that God is. This is the reason the Word of God is so rich, substantial, living, and enlightening…Provided we have no problems within us which cause a hindrance, we should receive blessing whenever we come to the Word of God.

In reading the Word of God, you may cry out to the Lord and be desperate to receive something from the Lord. However, there may be hindrances or frustrations
within you. There may be a certain sin that besets, captures, and possesses you. On the one hand, you love the Word of God. On the other hand, a certain sin may lie hidden in your heart, and you may not be willing for the Lord to deal with it. Such a hidden sin will prevent you from receiving blessing from the Word.

If we want to receive blessing from the Word of God, we must first deal with our heart and turn to the Lord absolutely and with our whole heart… If we deal with our heart and with the negative things between us and the Lord, our condition is likely to be normal. Then it is very possible that we shall receive help from the Word.

The Bible requires more of us than any other book. The Bible demands that we humble ourselves and put aside our self-confidence and selfassurance. In coming to the Word, we need to pray that the Lord will have mercy on us…Let us learn to pray, “Lord, have mercy on me. I don’t want to be covered by anything, and I don’t want to have anything between You and me. Lord, grant that there will be nothing between us.” This should be not only our prayer, but also our attitude toward the Lord.

In coming to the Word, we should not have any self-confidence. We should not presume to have the assurance that there are no problems between us and the Lord…Although we may not realize it, there may be still a number of problems between us and Him. Therefore, we need to humble ourselves before the Lord. The Bible says, “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). If we do not humble ourselves in coming to the Word, we shall be greatly hindered in receiving help from the Word. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 690, 692-694)

Further Reading: Life-study of Philippians, msgs. 40-41

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