八福
内在影响外在
经文
哥林多前书六12-20
12凡事我都可行,但不都有益处。凡事我都可行,但无论那一件,我总不受他的辖制。
13食物是为肚腹,肚腹是为食物;但神要叫这两样都废坏。身子不是为淫乱,乃是为主;主也是为身子。
14并且神已经叫主复活,也要用自己的能力叫我们复活。
15岂不知你们的身子是基督的肢体吗?我可以将基督的肢体作为娼妓的肢体吗?断乎不可!
16岂不知与娼妓联合的,便是与他成为一体吗?因为主说﹕二人要成为一体。
17但与主联合的,便是与主成为一灵。
18你们要逃避淫行。人所犯的,无论什么罪,都在身子以外,惟有行淫的,是得罪自己的身子。
19岂不知你们的身子就是圣灵的殿吗?这圣灵是从神而来,住在你们里头的;并且你们不是自己的人;
20因为你们是重价买来的。所以,要在你们的身子上荣耀神。
信息分享
这几天我们谈到一个重要观念,就是我们的生活态度对健康有着重要和决定性的影响,今天,我想继续这个话题。有一位医生告诉我,他收到每一期的《与耶稣同行》都会很快地浏览一遍,看看有没有任何文章,是谈及态度与健康之间的关系的──这是我最常讨论的题目──然后就订一些给他那些需要改变态度的病人。有一次他写信给我说:「如果可以的话,请再继续研讨这个主题,你不知道你对我的医学工作有多大的帮助。」
《英国医学杂志》(British Medical Journal)有一篇文章写道:「身体没有一个组织或器官,是不受意志和灵性的态度所影响的。」人是由灵、魂、体所组成的,没有可能其中一部分病了,其他部分会不受影响的。因此,我们所持守的态度不仅仅是态度的问题,牠们对健康有一定程度的影响。
神设计我们,是让正确的态度在我们身体里产生正面的影响,如果我们的态度所产生的是不良的影响,那么身体和道德便会变得格格不入。一位出色的外科医生说:「我在自己的手术刀末端──软组织里面,发现了神的国度。道德上的正确往往也是身体上的正确。」道德的法则和健康的法则都是由同一位神、为了同一个目的而写成的,那就是健康和快乐的生活。
「人是由灵、魂、体所组成的」
进深研究
林后四1-16;箴二十27;太十五18-19;可七21-23
1. 保罗如何需要每天更新?
2. 什么使人污秽?
祈祷
天父,您以自然的法则创造了我们,所以,若我们不好好保护自己的健康,牠们便会遭到损害。求您帮助我在日常的言行中,能效发你的态度。奉您亲爱的圣名祈求,阿们。
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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