Day 73
上帝的心
雷克-喬納 Rick Joyner
翻譯：Kate
轉載/轉寄 請註明出處：國度禱告網

你所賜給我的榮耀，我已賜給他們，使他們合而為一，像我們合而為一。
我在他們裡面，你在我裡面，使他們完完全全的合而為一，叫世人知道你差了我來，也知道你愛他們如同愛我一樣。
（約翰福音17:22-23）。

這兩節經文值得我們一生去研究和沉思。這也是主在被釘死在十字架上的前一晚所做的禱告的重點。如果我們知道我們只有不到二十四小時的生命，我們的禱告可能會比以往任何時候都更專注於我們內心深處的問題。因此，我們可以認為那晚的主禱文就是這樣--揭示了祂心中最深的關切。因此，約翰福音第17章可能是對神的心最純粹的反映。顯然，祂心中最深的問題之一是祂的子民的合一。祂甚至為此目的將祂的榮耀賜給我們--使我們成為一體。

正如保羅在哥林多後書3:18中所寫，是主的榮耀改變了我們。

我們眾人既然敞著臉得以看見主的榮光，好像從鏡子裡返照，就變成主的形狀，榮上加榮，如同從主的靈變成的。

上帝的基本特徵之一是合一。父、子、聖靈總是完美的合一。三位一體中從來沒有任何嫉妒、爭論、紛爭或不和。我們越是接近改變成主的形象，我們與祂和彼此之間的合一就越多。這是透過觀看祂的榮耀來實現的。祂把祂的榮耀賜給我們，使我們可以合而為一，在我們看到祂的榮耀的程度上，我們將有合一性。

反過來也是如此。如果教會中存在不和諧，那是因為我們的眼睛離開了主，不再看祂的榮耀。既然知道主心中最深的願望之一是祂的子民的合一，那麼真正愛救主的人怎麼會故意把不和諧帶到祂為拯救和合一而死的教會中呢？以弗所書4:29-32強調了這一關鍵真理。

污穢的言語一句不可出口，只要隨事說造就人的好話，叫聽見的人得益處。
不要叫神的聖靈擔憂；你們原是受了他的印記，等候得贖的日子來到。
一切苦毒、惱恨、忿怒、嚷鬧、毀謗，並一切的惡毒（或作：陰毒），都當從你們中間除掉；
並要以恩慈相待，存憐憫的心，彼此饒恕，正如神在基督裡饒恕了你們一樣。

苦毒、忿怒、憤怒、喧嘩和誹謗使聖靈憂傷，因為它們破壞了祂子民的合一。因此，我們應該始終努力遵守這裡的勸告，不讓任何不健康的話語從我們口中發出，而只讓那些能給祂的子民帶來益處的話語。

作為父母，很少有事情能比看到我的孩子們彼此相愛和相處更讓我感到幸福。同樣地，也沒有什麼事情比他們開始互相爭吵或生氣更讓我感到悲傷。請記住，祂的子民的合一是神心目中最深的問題之一。如果我們愛祂，難道我們不應該完全投入到對祂來說如此明顯重要的事情上嗎？

DAY 73
God's Heart
Rick Joyner

"And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one;
I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me,
and didst love them, even as Thou didst love me" (John 17:22-23).

These two verses are worth a lifetime of study and contemplation. This was a focus of the prayer the Lord made the night before He was crucified. If we knew that we had less than twenty-four hours to live, our prayers would probably be the most focused than they have ever been on the deepest issues of our hearts. We can therefore consider the Lord's Prayer that night to be just that—the revelation of the deepest concerns of His heart. Therefore, John 17 may be the most pure reflection of the heart of God. Obviously one of the deepest issues of His heart was the unity of His people. He has even given us His glory for this purpose—so that we will be one.

As Paul wrote in II Corinthians 3:18, it is the glory of the Lord that changes us:

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

One of the basic characteristics of God is unity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are always in perfect unity. There is never any jealousy, contention, strife, or discord in the Trinity. The closer we have become to being changed into the image of the Lord, the more unity we will have with Him and one another. It is by beholding His glory that this will be accomplished. He gave us His glory that we might be one, and to the degree that we have beheld His glory we will have unity.

The reverse is also true. If there is discord in the church it is because we have taken our eyes off of the Lord and are no longer beholding His glory. Knowing that one of the deepest desires of the Lord's heart is the unity of His people, how could anyone who truly loves the Savior willfully bring discord to the church that He died to save and unify? Ephesians 4:29-32 punctuates this crucial truth:

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification
according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and slander grieve the Holy Spirit because they destroy the unity of His people. Therefore, we should always endeavor to obey the exhortation here by not letting any unwholesome word proceed from our mouth, but only those that bring edification to His people.

As a parent there are few things that bless me more than seeing my children loving and getting along with each other. Likewise, there are few things that bring me more grief than when they begin to fight or get angry with each other. Remember, the unity of His people is one of the deepest issues of God's heart. If we love Him should we not utterly devote ourselves to that which is so obviously important to Him?