【双语灵修】我们的意念都属于神OUR MINDS BELONG TO GOD

哥林多后书10：1-6

我保罗，就是与你们见面的时候是谦卑的，不在你们那里的时候向你们是勇敢的，如今亲自藉着基督的温柔、和平劝你们。 有人以为我是凭着血气行事，我也以为必须用勇敢待这等人，求你们不要叫我在你们那里的时候，有这样的勇敢。 因为我们虽然在血气中行事，却不凭着血气争战。 我们争战的兵器本不是属血气的，乃是在神面前有能力，可以攻破坚固的营垒， 将各样的计谋、各样拦阻人认识神的那些自高之事，一概攻破了，又将人所有的心意夺回，使它都顺服基督； 并且我已经预备好了，等你们十分顺服的时候，要责罚那一切不顺服的人。

五月十一日

我们的意念都属于神

“将人所有的心意夺回，使他都顺服基督。”— 哥林多后书10:5

神经科学家发现了，我们平均每天会产生大约6,000个意念。要“将人所有心意夺回”来顺服基督，是一个何等大的挑战啊！

人们心里有些抗拒服从神的据点，你或许也有一两个。它们是我们心中那些叛逆神的性情和思维模式的一部份，它们举起“这里不需要神”的牌子。这些可能是你对性的看法，可能是你对某邻居或亲戚的看法，或者是你使用地球资源的做法，又或者是其他的事情。

然而，我们没有任何思维是不属于神的，它每一部份都必须归服神。如何才能做到呢？第一，“你们要休息，要知道（主）是神”（诗篇46：10）。承认你在心里所竖立的据点，正在向万王之王管理你生命的权利挑战，它抗拒我们真的认识神。第二，向神承认这些罪，又或者也向一个可以信任的基督徒朋友认罪。第三，靠着圣灵的帮助，以神的真理来向这些错谬的据点挑战。你可以对自己说：“不对，这样做是错的，我知道这不是神的意思。”如果有需要，以后撒但再以“神真的说……？”来回应你时，你可以对自己再说同样的话。

这是一场永远不会结束的战事，然而基督已经赢了这场仗了。

祷告

圣灵啊，你住在我们里面，求你帮助我们看到我们意念里的邪恶据点，又藉着你真理的能力来瓦解它们。阿们。

2 Corinthians 10:1-6

MONDAY, MAY 11

OUR MINDS BELONG TO GOD

We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. —2 Corinthians 10:5

Neuroscientists have discovered that we average about 6,000 thoughts per day. What a challenge it is to “take captive every thought” for Christ!

There are strongholds of thoughts within us that resist submission to God. You probably have one or two of them. They are little parts of our character and thought patterns that are opposed to God. They have signs set up that say, “God is not needed here.” Perhaps it is the way you think about sex. Perhaps it is the way you view a neighbor or a relative. Perhaps it is the way you use the earth’s resources. Or something else.

Yet there is no piece of our mind that does not belong to God. Every inch of it must surrender to God. How? First, “be still, and know that [the Lord is] God” (Psalm 46:10). Admit that the stronghold you have set up in your mind is challenging the right of the King of kings to rule your life. It opposes true knowledge of God. Second, confess this sin to God, and perhaps also to a trusted Christian friend. Third, with the help of the Holy Spirit, challenge the strongholds of falsehood with the true knowledge of God. You can do this by saying to yourself, “No, that isn’t right. I know that is not what God wants.” And, if necessary, tell yourself the same thing later when the devil responds with, “Did God really say . . . ?”

It is a never-ending battle. But Christ has already won it.

Holy Spirit, you live within us. Help us to recognize evil strongholds in our minds and to break them down with the power of your truth. Amen.