八福
內在影響外在
經文
哥林多前書六12-20
12凡事我都可行,但不都有益處。凡事我都可行,但無論那一件,我總不受他的轄制。
13食物是為肚腹,肚腹是為食物;但神要叫這兩樣都廢壞。身子不是為淫亂,乃是為主;主也是為身子。
14並且神已經叫主復活,也要用自己的能力叫我們復活。
15豈不知你們的身子是基督的肢體嗎?我可以將基督的肢體作為娼妓的肢體嗎?斷乎不可!
16豈不知與娼妓聯合的,便是與他成為一體嗎?因為主說﹕二人要成為一體。
17但與主聯合的,便是與主成為一靈。
18你們要逃避淫行。人所犯的,無論什麼罪,都在身子以外,惟有行淫的,是得罪自己的身子。
19豈不知你們的身子就是聖靈的殿嗎?這聖靈是從神而來,住在你們裡頭的;並且你們不是自己的人;
20因為你們是重價買來的。所以,要在你們的身子上榮耀神。
信息分享
這幾天我們談到一個重要觀念,就是我們的生活態度對健康有著重要和決定性的影響,今天,我想繼續這個話題。有一位醫生告訴我,他收到每一期的《與耶穌同行》都會很快地瀏覽一遍,看看有沒有任何文章,是談及態度與健康之間的關系的──這是我最常討論的題目──然後就訂一些給他那些需要改變態度的病人。有一次他寫信給我說:「如果可以的話,請再繼續研討這個主題,你不知道你對我的醫學工作有多大的幫助。」
《英國醫學雜志》(British Medical Journal)有一篇文章寫道:「身體沒有一個組織或器官,是不受意志和靈性的態度所影響的。」人是由靈、魂、體所組成的,沒有可能其中一部分病了,其他部分會不受影響的。因此,我們所持守的態度不僅僅是態度的問題,牠們對健康有一定程度的影響。
神設計我們,是讓正確的態度在我們身體裡產生正面的影響,如果我們的態度所產生的是不良的影響,那麼身體和道德便會變得格格不入。一位出色的外科醫生說:「我在自己的手術刀末端──軟組織裡面,發現了神的國度。道德上的正確往往也是身體上的正確。」道德的法則和健康的法則都是由同一位神、為了同一個目的而寫成的,那就是健康和快樂的生活。
「人是由靈、魂、體所組成的」
進深研究
林後四1-16;箴二十27;太十五18-19;可七21-23
1. 保羅如何需要每天更新?
2. 什麼使人污穢?
祈禱
天父,您以自然的法則創造了我們,所以,若我們不好好保護自己的健康,牠們便會遭到損害。求您幫助我在日常的言行中,能效發你的態度。奉您親愛的聖名祈求,阿們。
The Beatitudes
The inner affects the outer
Bible reading:
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
12 "I have the right to do anything," you say—but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything"—but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 You say, "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both." The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."[a]
17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[b]
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Message
We are still focusing on this important thought that our attitudes play an important and determinative part in our physical health. One doctor told me that immediately he receives the current edition of Every Day with Jesus, he quickly scans it to see if I have written anything along the line of the relationship between attitudes and health - a favourite topic of mine - and then orders a small supply for those of his patients who need to have their attitudes changed. He wrote to me on one occasion and said: "Keep coming back to this subject every time you can - you just don't know how much good you are doing in my medical practice."
According to an article in the British Medical Journal, "there is not a tissue or an organ in the body that is not influenced by the attitude of mind and spirit". Man is a unit made up of spirit, soul and body, and he cannot be sick in one part without passing on the sickness to other parts. The attitudes we hold in our minds do not stay merely as attitudes - they pass over into definite physical effects.
God has so designed our beings that the right attitudes produce the right effects in our bodies. Suppose they produced the wrong effects. Then the body and morality would be alien to one another. An outstanding surgeon said: "I've discovered the kingdom of God at the end of my scalpel, it's in the tissues. The right thing morally is always the right thing physically" The laws of morality and the laws of health are written by the same God for the same purpose - healthy and happy living.
"Man is spirit, soul and body"
Prayer
O Father, You have made us so that we can either damage or deliver ourselves in this matter of health. Help me to have Your attitudes in everything I say and everything I do. For Your own dear Name's sake. Amen.
Further study
2 Corinthians 4:1-16
Proverbs 20:27
Matthew 15:18-19
Mark 7:21-23
1. How did Paul need to be daily renewed?
2. What is it that defiles a man?
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