3月16日 主的审判

 因为我们众人，必要在基督台前显露出来。（林后五10）

保罗说，我不论是传道人，还是平信徒，“必要在基督台前显露出来”。你若随时随地活在基督圣洁的光中，审判将使你因神在你身上的工作而欢乐。使自己可以面对基督的审判台；尽力行在最圣洁的光中。不管你如何圣洁，若对别人存有一丝恶意，至终必带进魔鬼的灵。只要你下一个属血气的论断，你就尝到地狱的苦味。要立即去到主的光中，对主说：“我的神啊，我在这事上有罪了。”要不然刚硬的心，就会充满全人。罪的刑罚，就是罪的本身。神不但要刑罚罪，罪在人身上的结果，也已证实了。无论怎样挣扎祷告，都不能停止做那些事；那罪的刑罚就是要你渐渐习惯，不再觉得这是罪，除了圣灵的能力，没有其他办法改变罪所带来的后果。

“我们若在光明中行，如同神在光明中……”我们不少人认为行在光中，就是行在我对别人要求的标准中。今日最致命的法利赛主义，不是假冒为善，乃是与现实脱节而不自觉。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，为着你的恩典，并你在我的内心和动机上所作的工，我感谢你，可是，在我现实的生活中，我能否在世人面前表达你的平安呢？

March 16 The Master Assizes

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:10

Paul says that we must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light of Christ here and now, judgment finally will cause you to delight in the work of God in you. Keep yourself steadily faced by the judgment seat of Christ; walk now in the light of the holiest you know. A wrong temper of mind about another soul will end in the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment, and the end of it is hell in you. Drag it to the light at once and say – “My God, I have been guilty there.” If you don’t, hardness will come all through. The penalty of sin is confirmation in sin. It is not only God who punishes for sin; sin confirms itself in the sinner and gives back full pay. No struggling nor praying will enable you to stop doing some things, and the penalty of sin is that gradually you get used to it and do not know that it is sin. No power save the incoming of the Holy Ghost can alter the inherent consequences of sin.

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light.” Walking in the light means for many of us walking according to our standard for another person. The deadliest Pharisaism to-day is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.