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"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day." (Gen. 32:24.)
GOD is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in human form pressing down and pressing out the old Jacob life; and ere the morning broke, God had prevailed and Jacob fell with his thigh dislocated. But as he fell, he fell into the arms of God, and there he clung and wrestled, too, until the blessing came; and the new life was born and he arose from the earthly to the heavenly, the human to the diving, the natural to the supernatural. And as he went forth that morning he was a weak and broken man, but God was there instead; and the heavenly voice proclaimed, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
Beloved, this must ever be a typical scene in every transformed life. There comes a crisis-hour to each of us, if God has called us to the highest and best, when all resources fail; when we face either ruin or something higher than we ever dreamed; when we must have infinite help from God and yet, ere ve can have it, we must let something go; we must surrender completely; we must cease from our own wisdom, strength, and righteousness, and become crucified with Christ and alive in Him. God knows how to lead us up to this crisis, and He knows how to lead us through.
Is He leading you thus? Is this the meaning of your deep trial, or your difficult surrounding, or that impossible situation, or that trying place through which you cannot go without Him, and yet you have not enough of Him to give you the victory?
Oh, turn to Jacob's God! Cast yourself helplessly at His feet. Die to your strength and wisdom in His loving arms and rise, like Jacob, into His strength and all-sufficiency. There is no way out of your hard and narrow place but at the top. You must get deliverance by rising higher and coming into a new experience with God. Oh, may it bring you into all that is meant by the revelation of the Mighty One of Jacob!
─But God.
"At Thy feet I fall,
Yield Thee up my All,
To SUFFER, LIVE, OR DIE
For my Lord crucified."
「律法既因肉體軟弱,有所不能行的,神就差遣自己的兒子成為罪身的形狀,做了贖罪祭,在肉體中定了罪案。」羅馬書八章3節
在羅馬書八章七節說道:「原來體貼肉體的,就是與神為仇,因為不服神的律法,也是不能服。」保羅指出罪深深紮根在肉體中,第七章他已說過在肉體內是乏善可陳;此處更深的告訴我們是與神為敵,恨神及其律法。為此之故,神在十字架上釘了肉體的罪案,償付罪及其居所肉體的工價。當基督徒明白這點以後,他就停止依靠肉體而來依靠聖靈,使兩個不協調敵對平息下來。
看這基督生命何等真實的根基(3、4節):「(神)在肉體釘了罪案,使律法的義成就在我們這不隨從肉體,只隨從聖靈的人身上。」所有律法上的要求成全了,不是因為那些努力奮鬥者的結果,這是完全不可能的,而是靠著聖靈行事,並且基督為我們在十字架上得勝,並且從祂復活得生命的大能。
神的兒女可從此得到雙重的功誤,在我個人、我肉體裏面,從亞當承受老舊生命的本性,沒有一件可滿足神眼目的良善,肉體是無法藉著修練、努力、或祈禱、使之更好!但神的兒子成了罪身的形狀——人的樣子——在十字架上釘了罪案,「如今那些在基督裏不隨從肉體,只隨從真理的人,就不再被定罪了。」
「我就使你們得安息。」馬太福音十一章28節
無論何時有甚麼事使你的生命與耶穌基督分裂,就趕快到祂那裡去,求祂使你安息。凡產生不安息的事,切不要讓它存留。對付分裂的方法不是掙扎,不是忍受。說──「主啊,求您叫我常常覺得您在我裡面。」不要過分的想到自己,要把祂看為我一切的一切。切勿容許主觀的自覺存在,因為主觀的自覺能喚起自憐,自憐是撒但的精神。「唉,人不瞭解我;這一件事他們應當陪罪;那一件事,我一定要講清楚」。不要問別人怎樣,只求主叫你除基督而外別無所覺,祂自會叫你達到完全地步。
完全生活是小孩的生活。常常想到自己是病態。只有病人常常注意健康的問題。神的兒女自自然然會遵照神的旨意,並不在心中常常意識到神的旨意,當我們稍一背離神的旨意,我們才問──神的旨意是甚麼?神的兒女從不感覺到神准許或不准許,他們只知道祈求,準知祂允許的。
如果我們想藉著理智來制服過分想到自己的病態,我們就反而把病態加重了起來。耶穌說:「可以到我這裡來,我就使你們得安息,」那就是意識基督的心佔領了我主觀的地位。凡耶穌所到的地方,必有安息隨之,這種安息是出於自然活動,不是故意造作的活動。
「你們多結果子,我父就因此得榮耀……」約翰福音十五章8節
真正能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓神藉著我們得到榮耀,讓神因著我們倒空的器皿發光,反映出祂豐富的恩典和力量。
當太陽從水晶般的窗戶照射過去,或是從光潔的鏡子以及平靜的海平面反射其光輝時,太陽就得到榮耀。
當一個軟弱無助的人藉著神的力量,經過各樣的辛苦及困難,勝過一些人力所不能及的事時,這可說是最能使神得著榮耀的事。當一個天生軟弱、猶豫不決、自私、罪惡的靈,變成甜美、純潔、有能力、在任何環境都能得勝的靈時,這也能榮耀神。當一個天生不聰明、不強壯的頭腦,在神的智慧引導之下,能實踐大而奇妙的計劃,為神為人成就驚人的結果,神也在其中得到榮耀。
父啊!願我們能天天榮耀您的名,在凡事上實踐您的教導。