你們如果不回轉，變得像小孩子一樣，斷不得...
我們主的這些話適用於我們起初的悔改，
但在我們生命中所有的年日，
我們必須不斷地回轉，
持續地像孩子般轉向父神。
如果我們倚靠自己的聰明，而不是仰賴神，
神會要我們為著所造成的後果負責。
我們必須確保我們天然的生命，
順服於神聖靈的命令。
因過去曾經順服，
並不能證明我們會再一次順服。
天然與屬靈之間的關係
是一種持續的回轉，
但這事是我們常反對的。
神要我們為著
每一次的拒絕回轉來負責，
而我們拒絕的原因乃是任性固執。
我們天然的生命絕對不能主宰，
必須讓神在我們裡面來統治。
我們屬靈生命中的阻礙就是
不願意持續地回轉，
我們有一大堆的頑固，
而我們的驕傲就棲在其上，
向神的寶座吐唾沫，
並且說：我就是不願意。
我們把獨立自主和倔強神化了，
並叫錯了它們的名字。
因神看為頑梗的軟弱，
我們卻稱呼為力量。
我們生命中仍有大片地土
尚未被神所征服，
而這惟有藉著不斷的回轉
才能達成。雖然很緩慢，
但我們一定可以為神的靈，
來取得全部的領土。
Except ye be converted, and become as little children...
These words of Our Lord are true of
our initial conversion, but we have to be
continuously converted all the days of our lives,
continually to turn to God as children.
If we trust to our wits instead of to God,
we produce consequences for which
God will hold us responsible.
We have to see our natural life obeys
the dictates of the Spirit of God.
Because we have done it once
is no proof that we shall do it again.
The relation of the natural to the spiritual
is one of continuous conversion,
and it is the one thing we object to.
God holds us responsible every time
we refuse to convert ourselves,
our reason for refusing is wilful obstinacy.
Our natural life must not rule,
God must rule in us.
The hindrance in our spiritual life is that
we will not becontinually converted,
there are ‘wadges’ of obstinacy where
our pride spits at the throne of God
and says—‘I won’t.’ We deify independence
and wilfulness and call them by the wrong name.
What God looks on as obstinate weakness,
we call strength. There are whole tracts of our lives
which have not yetbeen brought into subjection,
and it can only be done by this continuous
conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim
the whole territory for the Spirit of God.
- 章伯斯 (Oswald Chambers, 1874-1917)
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