Prayerful Inner-Searching

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless . . . —1 Thessalonians 5:23

“Your whole spirit . . . .” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139 . The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, the God of the late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. But, my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. You who are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover, dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me.”

Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus-no longer condemned in God’s sight. We should more frequently allow our minds to meditate on these great, massive truths of God.

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求神省察

願你們的靈，與魂，與身子，得蒙保守，在我主耶穌基督降臨的時候，完全無可指摘。 （帖前五23）

[你們的靈（整個靈）……] 聖靈最奧妙的工作是隱藏在我們裡面，這個隱密處，連我們自己也無法探究。試讀詩篇一三九篇。詩人說：你是清早的神，你是深夜的神，你是山峰的神，你是海洋的神。可是，我的神啊，我的靈魂裡有比清晨更廣遠的天際，比黑夜（世間的）更深沉的黝黑，高過任何崇山峻嶺，深過任何大海深淵；但你是這一切的神，求你做我的神。我攀不上那頭顛峰；也達不到那深淵；有許多動機，我追溯不了；有許多夢想，我無法實現。我的神啊，找我出來吧。

你信否神的保守遠非我們所能想像？ [基督耶穌的血洗淨我們一切的罪]這句話若只是感知上的經驗，願神憐憫我們。那在罪中麻木的人，他可以說並不感覺到罪。其實罪得潔淨，是靠我們裡面得靈。當我們活在光明中，如同神在光明中，那充滿耶穌基督生命的聖靈，也必把生命的靈灌注在我們裡面。

惟有當神以聖靈的大能，防衛著我們，我們的靈與魂與身子，才得蒙保守，毫無瑕疵，而且在神眼中無可指摘，直到主來。我們往往未懂得把心思放在神這些重要得真理上。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，今天親臨在我們當中，又牽引我們進入你裡面；請先由我開始。潔淨我，噢，主啊，除去我的一切瑕疵；縱使我對它們仍渾然不知，你卻早已一目了然。