9月15日 弃绝什么？

将那些暗昧可耻的事弃绝了。（林后四2）

你有没有将暗昧可耻的事弃绝？－－那些你廉耻之心不想敞露的东西。要遮掩这些事并不难。你心中是否有一些念头，是不想放在光中的？当这些念头一出现，就要立刻弃绝，完全的弃绝，直至没有丝毫可耻诡诈在你里面隐藏。嫉忌、贪恋、争竞－－未必是出于罪根性，而是因为你在过去的日子中，肢体惯于和这种事打交道（参罗六19，彼前四1-2）。你要不住的警醒，使生命没有丝毫可耻的东西生长。

“不行诡诈”，诡诈就是运用手段以求达到目的。这是个极大的网罗。若你知道神只容许你以某一方法行事，那么就不可用别的方法。不然，神的责难必然临到。人家做的事，在你看来是行诡诈，但在他们可能并非诡诈，因为神给你另一个观点。切勿削弱竭诚为主的敏锐性触觉。你所作的某件事，可能叫你离开神的旨意去追求别的目标：若是这样，诡诈就随之而生，而你对神也变得迟钝。许多人退后，是由于不敢从神的观点看事物。一个人若要越过自己已接纳的信念，在属灵上就有大危机。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，求你护卫我生命的中心免受腐蚀；愿你隐密地保守我，使我与你有着满意的关系，以致我能彰显你的荣耀。

September 15 What To Renounce

“But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.” 2 Corinthians 4:2

Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty” – the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone which you would not like to be dragged into the light? Renounce it as soon as it springs up; renounce the whole thing until there is no hidden thing of dishonesty or craftiness about you. Envy, jealousy, strife – these things arise not necessarily from the disposition of sin, but from the make-up of your body which was used for this kind of thing in days gone by (see Romans 6:19 and 1 Peter 4:1-2). Maintain a continual watchfulness so that nothing of which you would be ashamed arises in your life.

“Not walking in craftiness,” that is, resorting to what will carry your point. This is a great snare. You know that God will only let you work in one way, then be careful never to catch people the other way; God's blight will be upon you if you do. Others are doing things which to you would be walking in craftiness, but it may not be so with them: God has given you another standpoint. Never blunt the sense of your Utmost for His Highest. For you to do a certain thing would mean the incoming of craftiness for an end other than the highest, and the blunting of the motive God has given you. Many have gone back because they are afraid of looking at things from God's standpoint. The great crisis comes spiritually when a man has to emerge a bit farther on than the creed he has accepted.