第三十周 神的大能
“我只有一件事。”（腓3:13）
诗：基督荣耀无比，我力前为得他自己；
罪世永无安息，主，切望安息在你里。
一个有单一目标的人，必定是发奋有能的人。基督徒的单一目标，就是基督。
神所要求的，就是人的奉献。无论何处，那因爱人的灵魂而多花力气，去寻求失丧者的人，很容易变为疲惫，一直作工，可能会失去当初的爱心。但愿神把我们里面爱心能力的大再一次挑旺起来。
富足一进入神的教会，无疑就产生更多的试炼和难处。你可能看见富人把财物周济他人，这当然是蒙福的作法，但是无论在那里，富足的特色继续下去时，神的教会就失去能力，而软弱疲惫。
什么地方有圣灵的能力，什么地方就有光，孔就有同一看法，大家都以基督为至宝，其他的都看粪土，圣徒的心在此也蒙洁净了。
我们需要不断的更新，不然的话，属灵力量必难坚持，但知识的增多，并无助益。……要紧的乃是个人不断亲近神，在我们心里一有主的爱，就会得着滋润而长进。
当我们专心寻求主和他的恩典时，主的力量就来拯救，使我们得着自由，并且使我们在基督里得着喜乐，这喜乐能把罪恶与世界顶出去。要追求这一点，在属灵的事上千万不要懒惰。
基督要荣耀里彰显，就是一位强有力引导我们来模成他荣耀形象的主。一讲到如何培养里面的生命与性格时，我们就必须以吃喝的方式，把基督接受到里面，这就是腓立比二、三章中部分的情形，二章说到内在的光景与性格，或者说基督降卑下来的光景；三章说到在荣耀里的基督，他是我们奔跑的目标。
哥林多后书十一章二十三至三十三节，说到使徒外有艰危，内有为众教会挂心的事，但他却有临危不惧的勇气，及时传福音并教会热切无比的爱心。这里区区数行活画出一个绝对奉献的生活。足能感到最冰冷的心。这一幅图画叫我们觉得本身的自私自利，不能不屈膝敬拜主，因为他成为推动力量的源头，叫使徒有蒙福的奉献。这奉献是使徒在他面前受他荣耀的感动而有的。
我们的心灵虽然知道，什么是撇下一切而以得着基督为至宝，但跟着会来一些虚浮的小事，就给它拖下去，并使我们去极度关切那些转瞬即逝的小事，过于关切许多在基督耶稣里的实际大事。
神运行在我们心中，叫我们生发各种的渴慕（除蜚有神的荣耀，我们的渴望就得不到满足，）跟着圣灵产生能力而进入这些事物当中。“凡是可爱的，有美名的，都要思念。”若能这样，我们的心将变得何等的光明，我们若习惯住在神里面，就必在认识基督和宝贝基督这事上，大有长进。这里表明，我们的心思停留在这些荣耀的事物（基督）上，是何等重要。
真正长进的秘诀，是在于与主有个人的联系。
THIRTIETH WEEK DIVINE ENERGY
“This one thing I do.” Philippians 3:13
Thy glory, Lord—this living waste
To us no rest can give;
Our path is on with earnest haste,
Lord, in Thy rest to live.
The man with one object is the energetic man. The Christian’s one object is Christ.
It is devotedness that … God will have: everywhere … that love for souls which seeks them out with more activity easily grows slack. … One may lose one’s first love as to the work while continuing to work. May God kindle in us again that energy of love.
Certainly riches never entered the church of God without producing more trial and difficulty. You may see rich men giving their riches to relieve the poverty of others, and this is very blessed; but wherever the character of riches continues it enfeebles the energies of the church of God.
Where there is the energy of the Spirit, there is light, and a single eye which makes us judge that Christ is worth all, and that all else is worth nothing: and this purifies the saint’s heart.
We need to be constantly renewed; without that, spiritual energy does not keep up. … And it is not progress in knowledge that effects that … what is of moment is the keeping of oneself near God. There love maintains itself and grows—His love in our soul.
In seeking earnestly the Lord and His grace … power comes in to deliver and free us and make us find in Christ delight which shuts out evil and the world. Seek this, and do not be lazy in divine things.
Christ is presented in glory as One who leads us on in energy, conforming us to what He is according to glory; and … when the question is of nourishing the inward life … and character, it is the humbled Christ on whom we have to feed. This is partly the case in Philippians 2 and 3: the former the inward state and character, Christ coming down; the latter a glorified Christ, the Object after which we run.
(2 Cor. 11. 23 33.) Troubles and dangers without, incessant anxieties within, a courage that quailed before no peril, a love for poor sinners and for the assembly that nothing chilled—these few lines sketch the picture of a life of such absolute devotedness that it touches the coldest heart; it makes us feel our selfishness, and bend the knee before Him who was the living source of the blessed apostle’s devotedness, before Him whose glory inspired it.
Our souls know what it is to leave things here behind, and to find Christ excellently precious: and then some vain trifle comes in, and pulls us down, and makes us more intensely interested about the passing trifle than all the solid realities which are in Christ Jesus.
God produces desires within us that nothing but the glory can satisfy. The Holy Ghost produces the power now to enter into these things. This shews the importance of our minds dwelling there …. “Whatsoever is lovely”—or “of good report, think on these things.” How bright the heart would be! What growing up to the knowledge and preciousness of Christ, if accustomed to be where God dwells.
The secret of real progress is personal attachment to Himself.