第二十五周 舍己
“人要成了爱自己的。”（提后3:2新译）
诗：人啊！你已证明，你心一切蕴藏；
神恩不能感应，因你受“己”捆绑。
肉体总是把自己圈起来，因为肉体总是自私的，什么时候我们是在灵里，什么时候就有合一。
我们若专顾自己，就不能在人前见证神。
唯我主义和自爱观念所产生的愁烦，势必在人心中给邪灵有工作的余地。
爱，欢喜服事人，利己，则欢喜受人服事。
如果我看准了主耶稣的道路，祂的灵和祂的心意，那么就没有其他东西比“己”更可憎的，你在基督身上，永远不能找出一件这己的事。主不止没有自私自利，祂根本没有“己”。
人若完全交托了神，在试炼当中就必有主同在，心思也被蒙保守，有完全的平安，爱的灵，就是基督的灵，必定同在，那时若还想自己，那就是自私的灵。
圣灵是不能与“己”相交的。在圣灵没有带领我们的思想朝着主耶稣这前，这一个心是不能脱离“己”的，圣灵的实际同在，就把主钉死。顾念自己的意想一消失，我们的思想就专以主为对象。
我们有这样的特权，就是在神的居所和胸怀里，我们自己就完全了。
“己”的意志和以“己”作中心是思想，就是我们所有苦恼之源；因为外面的环境纵使难当，也许会带来忧患，但不能叫我们苦恼。如有藏苦恼，那必定是“己”的不安、不满所造成的结果。
我们天然的倾向，都是为自己求娱乐。这种娱乐，表南上好像无甚妨害，但能叫我们心离开神，它们是罪恶所娇宠的东西，许多人要问这些娱乐有什么害处，问题是在于：它们对你有什么用？你的心在那里？人什么时候稍微离开十字架（十字架就是向一切死。）我们的主就要说：“退我后边去罢！”
摩西没有去追求脸上发光，及至脸上发了光，他也不自知。由于他的与神同在，面就发起光来。一个会发光的面，是永不会看见自己的。因为这个人的心专向基督，可以说“己”在大体是灵没有了。
“己”总是与神分离的。
自信自恃是最坏的，“不要自以为有智慧。”眼睛只看自己的人，不能高瞻远瞩，我们的光景常是如此。
我们的祷告，我们的赞美，以及我们的事奉，是这样的可怜而没有价值，但我们还自以为不错。我们把那些受罪的玷污，需要向神认罪的东西，用来向人夸耀，博取称赞。所以你们看，何等需要敞开我们的心，对主说：“看在我里面有什么恶行没有，引导我走永生的道路。”
TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK SELF-RENUNCIATION
“Men shall be lovers of self.” 2 Timothy. 3:2 (New Translation)
O man! how hast thou proved
What in thy heart is found;
By grace divine unmoved,
By self in fetters bound.
The flesh always pens itself in, because it is selfish. When we are in the Spirit there is always unity.
Impossible when we think of ourselves to be witnesses to others of what God is!
The grief, which egotism and self-love produce, makes room for the action of the evil spirit on the soul.
Love likes to be a servant, and selfishness likes to be served.
If I get hold of the path, the spirit, the mind of Jesus, nothing could be more hateful to me than anything of self. You never find an act of self in Christ. Not merely was there no selfishness, but there was no self in Him.
When the soul is cast upon God the Lord is with the soul in the trial, and the mind is kept perfectly calm. The Spirit of love, the Spirit of Christ is there; if thinking of myself this is the spirit of selfishness.
The Holy Spirit has no fellowship with … self. The heart is not delivered from it until the Spirit has guided our thoughts to Jesus. … The effectual presence of the Spirit crucifies egotism and gives freedom of thought about ourselves … it occupies us with but one object—Jesus.
We have the privilege to have done with ourselves in the house and bosom of God.
Our own will and making ourselves the centre is the spring of all our wretchedness; for outward circumstances may be trying—may give sorrow, but not wretchedness—where this is it is the fruit of will, restless and discontented.
Our natural tendency is to get pleasures for self. Innocent they may be but they take the heart from God; they are spoiled by sin. People ask the harm of these things. The question is, What use are you making of them, and where is your heart? The moment there is a turning from the cross (death to everything) our Lord says, “Get thee behind me.”
Moses did not seek to have his face shine, nor even know when it did, but when he had been with God it did so. … A shining face never sees itself. The heart is occupied with Christ, and in a certain sense and measure self is gone.
Self is always alienation from God.
Self confidence is ruin. “Be not wise in thine own eyes.” They do not see far if they only see self, and that is what always is in our own eyes.
Our prayers, our praises and our services are so poor and worthless, and yet we are proud of them. We seek praise from our fellowmen for the very things we have to confess as tainted with sin before God. What need, therefore, to bare our hearts and say, “See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”