永不失色的印記 (卓爾君牧師)
在高速公路上有很多交通號誌及指示牌,在晚上它們在車燈的照射下也會反射讓我們看得清楚,顯示出引導和警告的信息。聖靈在基督徒的生命中也有同樣的功能。有些人說「我怎麼都沒有看見神在我生命當中的引導?」也許是因為你沒有把大燈打開。你忽略聖靈的存在,因此你看不見神為你所設立的那些路牌。聖靈是耶穌升天之後,神賜給教會的禮物,是三位一體的神的其中一位,也是最親近我們的一位。如果我們要正確去理解聖經,需要聖靈的引導。
「人不要以為把一切都轉讓給神,會使他失去人間的尊貴。他如此做,並不減低他為人的地位,他恢復本來照著神的形像造出來的人的模樣。人的最大羞辱,乃是道德倫理的錯亂,和反常地侵奪神的寶座。他一交還所竊奪的寶座,就會再得榮耀。他高舉神在一切之上的時候,也高舉了自己。」(陶恕:渴慕神)
我們需要真正聆聽和順服聖靈聲音的基督徒。我們需要的教會不僅是尋求神的旨意,而且要真正讓聖靈在敬拜和事工的所有領域中都發揮領導作用!
:使徒行傳 2:1-8 (和合本)
- 五旬節到了,門徒都聚集在一處。
- 忽然,從天上有響聲下來,好像一陣大風吹過,充滿了他們所坐的屋子,
- 又有舌頭如火燄顯現出來,分開落在他們各人頭上。
- 他們就都被聖靈充滿,按著聖靈所賜的口才說起別國的話來。
- 那時,有虔誠的猶太人從天下各國來,住在耶路撒冷。
- 這聲音一響,眾人都來聚集,各人聽見門徒用眾人的鄉談說話,就甚納悶;
- 都驚訝希奇說:看哪,這說話的不都是加利利人麼?
- 我們各人,怎麼聽見他們說我們生來所用的鄉談呢?,
Acts 2:1-8 (NIV)
- When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
- Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
- All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
- Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
- When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.
- Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
- Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?