3. To know god, high stability

Accepting yourself, as well as their past, today, and the environment in the future, things that has happened to, and believe in it, and see the power of god and goodness, this is a person to give life the biggest praise.In the practice process, the first is by faith, meet together into god's sovereignty and love.Then there will be a life experience;Then is deeper and more really understanding, out of the deeper experience.Sing and praise not only is the mouth, it is joy in obedience and quiet.

David, after has experienced ups and downs of life in the poem said: "my heart is you've made.In my mother's womb, you've covered me.I will praise thee; for I am so wonderfully complex;Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.I was made in secret, in the depths of the earth be contact;At that time, my body is not hidden from you.My unformed physique, your eyes saw;You set by the day, I have not a day, you are written in the book of you."(psalm 139:13-16).And David said to god in the power of his life, have such a profound cognition, trust and praise, I think start from the beginning.

He was despised, lonely situation, not self-pity, but rather to become a "who can play the" (" 16:18) worshiper, joy;Him in danger in the wilderness, not helped by passively, but actively practice with diligence, became a "a brave soldier";He is not affected by parents and brother love situation, no distortion, speech extreme personality, but to become a "proper".

David at "anointed", "the spirit of the Lord came upon" (and not), are still in the sheep;When Saul's bodyguard, has failed to war, or the sheep (and keep), environment like no change, the elder brother also no change for his contempt.But David obey father SongLiang to barracks, and the elder brother scold him "proud" and "malicious" quiet answer (whom).This is because he see the battlefield like sheep in the desert of at ordinary times, "the Lord delivered me from the lion and the bear's paw, will deliver me from the hand of the philistines."(").

Throughout the life of David, we can see his spiritual characteristics and serve skill, is this period of time.David lives in the war, whether it is a slew of the philistines of sling stones, or as a soldier's courage and wisdom are the sheep in practice of the desert.As the greatest poet of the old testament times, David wrote lots of poems of praise and prayer, and this time when the sheep alone with god, and musical performances.

The growth of his spiritual life is continuity, internal.On the surface, this time what David did, god also didn't use him, he is a young sheep in the field.Yet just borrow the obedience of his state of its own creation, obedience to the environment, let god upon his completed one of the most important abdiel shape and ready to life.

In the process of Christian spirituality and the knowledge of god and understanding are complementary to each other: only really know people, can truly know god;Only truly know god, can really know people.And know the starting, and most important, is to know yourself: borrow the revelation of god, rely on the take of the holy spirit guide, by obeying heart, to know yourself.In know oneself, to know god, know other people between cycles to deepen constantly and improve, mature process is our spiritual life.

"Supreme sovereignty and know god believers as soon as possible, from strength to strength...All things in god's world, all within the will of god...Believers so that to realize the arrangement of the god is the most complete, all things happen, has its own meaning behind it, no matter whether we can see that."(the moment, the life of reforming P40)

2, naked and open the achievements of the joint

1. The holiness is with the main joint

"Righteousness" is with our letter: god had said;God for us to create, choose, lead, visit the sovereignty;Praise and faith and obedience, thanks to the will of his goodness.

"Holy" stage of the spiritual life practice is the "joint" two characters.

The old testament prophet Isaiah said, "and the joint of the gentiles unto the Lord: and shall serve him, to love the name of the Lord, will be his servant...Them (the Lord) shall I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.Their burnt offerings and peace offerings, and shall be accepted upon mine altar..."(56:6-7) as a result, we see that serve god, love god, pray and acceptable to sacrifice a prerequisite, are the life of a union with god.

In the new testament, Paul in Romans tell let us more clearly, if the Christian spirit molding process is a process of more like Christ Jesus, so in the process of the "holy", growth is the secret of life and the Lord Jesus and joint."We borrow the baptism into death, and he was buried, the original is called movements we have a new style, like Christ through the glory of the father from the dead.If we in the shape of his death and his coalition, also want to with him in his resurrection on the shape of joint..."(ROM. 6:4-5)

A spiritual goal is to make us more like Jesus, live out the life style of Christ, that one of the most important, it is our personal life the life of Jesus is not from what we have learned two separate, independent individuals.We learn when it comes to Jesus, will naturally think of interpersonal, social and cultural learning models.Between teacher and pupil, the model with learners, life is independent, unrelated to each other, learning process is a process of hard copy.This kind of thinking mode, caused some misunderstanding in our spirituality.One is that Jesus is god, is completely, it is impossible for me to like him, causing lose interest in spiritual practice without hope.Another kind is to make themselves more like another constant, hard for the sake of beacon individual (Jesus) penance, this causes the fully denied, the characteristics of the being built at the same time too rely on their own strength.

"But with the main joint, it is with the Lord is one spirit."(1 cor. 6:17) in combination with the implications of that is to say, the life of Jesus Christ is not outside us a role model, but to live a new life in us.The growth of spiritual life struggling with pain is normal and inevitable.To struggle and the pain, however, for the deep spiritual indicators, the pursuit of even the subconscious, is a kind of errors.

How to enter rest in the process of spiritual growth?Important is associated with the main, is one spirit.And associated with the main key is not what we become better, it's our nature laid bare in the presence of the Lord.Know laid bare, dare to laid bare, laid bare in all situation, to experience love in laid bare, healing, with led, it is with the Lord continually, more in-depth, more closely combined process, is also a spiritual practice and the process of growth.Li Yaoquan in his book spiritual disciplines and life care, is particularly pointed out life to god to open the key points."This life through spiritual practice, open yourself to accept the love of god and his infinite ability, make them the bible shape and strong, to do a physical and spiritual sound spiritual people, every day live a love life, love your neighbor as yourself."(P22)

In Hebrews have clearly explained: "so we have to enter into that rest, lest any man that disobeys the fell.The word of god is lively, have the effect, faster than any two-edged sword, even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and can Pierce, cut open, and can discern judges the thoughts and ideas.And no creature that is not manifest before him;The original in the eyes of him with whom we have to do all things, are laid bare.Since we have a has been moving up to the high priest of the high heavens, is Jesus, the son of god, let us hold fast our confession.Because we are not an high priest which cannot be touched our weaknesses.He had been tempted in all things, as we do, he just wasn't a crime.So, we just boldness to the throne of grace, may obtain mercy, grace, to help in time of need."(to 4:11-16)

2. David to god laid bare

Rise and fall of David's life was either grievances, Saul came for;Luck ark after several twists and turns;Or commits adultery, son died;And the son absalom pursue, he didn't because of the situation of injustice, or because of the shame for his SINS, or by crime is overweight, and leave the presence of god.

Chapter 5-6 Samuel note, David "took the strong place of zion, the city of David", and established the throne in Jerusalem, and selected thirty thousand people of Israel come together, personally led to baale-judah to bring the ark of god to Jerusalem, this is because of gratitude to god, and the great zeal."David and all the house of Israel before the Lord, and all manner of instruments made of pine and harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals, gongs, songs and dance."(6:5).

However, because of uzza negligence, optional hast profaned god's command, was killed on the spot.David was to glorify god only to trigger the wrath of god, so he and fear.This fear is not due to love in the spiritual life of fear, but is feeling guilty and cause of anxiety.As Adam and eve after the crime, the skirt of homemade cover, and hid from the presence of god into the woods, "David to fear the Lord, and said: 'how can the ark of the covenant of the Lord come to me?'so he would not put the ark of the covenant of the Lord into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of obed-edom the gittite."(6:9-10).

Because the Lord blessed the ark's family, David know calm down the heart of the blessing of god, and to "gladly will carried the ark of god from the house of obed-edom into the town of David."For the last time the threshing floor of nacon things at the moment he did not forget, but fear becomes extraordinarily alert."That bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and sheep for the offerings.David wearing a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord.So David and all the house of Israel with Shouting and the sound of the trumpet brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord."(13-15) when his wife, the daughter of Saul teased him "naked", "'," David answered, "this is in the presence of the Lord...I will dance in the presence of the Lord.I will become even more humble, 'as he saw fit."(the supplications - 22).

This whole process, we can see although there is also a fear before god, and David eventually does not escape the presence of god, for his sin of anxiety and panic of holy god judge, to fear of god wills for us in self-cleaning, cautious, low down.This is the correct direction of spirituality.Let us not far from god more and more, more and more unpredictable, but in god more and more close, more know the Lord.

"Samuel write down" in chapter 11-12, David lust pleasure and fell into the crime of fornication;Then bathshebapregnancyAnd uriah to avoid sin lie;Do not deceive and joab sent by rivalskillFlees, and involving the death of the other soldiers.Careful analysis of the series of things, David unfaithful to god's law, abuse of power, devoid of conscience.When Jonathan accused him of contempt of god face to face, and announced that god punished to David, he is not as usual as excuse, or shuffle lie to escape from god, or god to become angry from embarrassment to escape, but in the face of angry god, confess our SINS: "I have sinned against the Lord!"David said to Nathan, "the Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die.You just do this thing, that the opportunity to have made the enemies of the Lord, therefore, the son born to you shall surely die."(" 12:13-14)

"The Lord struck when uriah's wife had borne to David, the children, that he was very sick", though David know this is god's punishment, but still dare to expose their true feelings in front of god, fasting, prayer, besought god for the child, he went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground ", also don'tHave a meal.When a child finally died, he did not fear god or resentment, and avoid the presence of god, but up, bath, put cream, change clothes, go into the temple to worship, back to the palace to have a meal, the normal way of thinking and acting are different.He did not fall into the dark ages in life: long sorrow and remorse, resentment, fear, but rather to obey god's will and arrangement, and believe god's forgiveness and love, believe that god's relationship with his don't change.

3. Close and continuous connected with god

Christians in the process of spiritual growth, the pursuit of "walk on high", the pursuit of "living" in the Lord, but I don't think its meaning is not able to pursue crime, not weak, but the pursuit of always before god laid bare, conservative we trust and understanding for god, believe that life does not change with the main joint.

Running away from the son absalom David original belongs to the people and army to kill David, the psalms recorded in the third he prayed to god, he neither hidden bitterness in distress, "o Lord, my enemy is increased;There are many people who rise up against me.There are a lot of people said about me: he is not god's help."(3:1, 2) at the same time, he from failure in my own situation, and hold fast in the faith of god: "but you, o Lord, are a shield around me is my glory, and looked up to me."Although David left the palace, left Jerusalem the holy city, and all four channeling flee for life, but he did not leave the presence of god, he said: "I lay down and slept, I awake, for the Lord sustained me."Therefore, the "ten thousands people around to attack me, I will not be afraid."(psalm 3:5-6)

David the secret of spiritual growth, he to please god, become the servants of the god wills for us, I believe, not because he has a distinctive holy character, great ability, not because he is a man of noble special moral behavior, but because he truly open and in front of god and obedience.We could hear him in the psalms of David tore heart crack lung's lament, call upon, or even questioned, but he is with do not leave the presence of god in a variety of environments, obedience to god's sovereignty, and to make life of praise to god.

I sat down, I, you know;You perceive my thoughts from afar.I'm on the road, I lie down, you are acquainted with;You also know that I had done.O Lord, on my tongue, you don't have a don't know.You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.Wonderful, such knowledge is I can't measure;Is high, and I can't.

Where I go from your spirit?I am going to escape, from the presence of you?If I ascend to heaven, you are there;If I in hell where, you are there.If I spread the wings of the morning, fly to the sea, is there, your hand will guide me.Your right hand will support me.(psalm 139:2-10)

Agreed with the main joint of life, not by what we are doing better, but against the Lord by his carve, refined.This is the most beautiful quality in a species in spiritual life, know the power of god, to know their own weakness and corruption, but with all good believe in god, and full of hope to keep in fellowship with god laid bare.

Was laid bare in front of god, for god is allowed to come to our internal and external situation of obedience, this makes our fellowship with god is always at the moment, the moment, rather than "the past", or "future".Let your life every moment, every corner is open in front of the father, is the secret of our spiritual life growth, spiritual practice.Which fully open before god, and it is also the most difficult practice Chinese believers.Merit in the view of Chinese culture, with a good "performance" please father, superior habits of thinking, often become the bottleneck of our spiritual life growing, even let our spiritual life often trapped in the natural struggle, dark penance, lose our life Christ originally should have the joy of life, the characteristic of the rest.

Our daily life can make us to evaluating their own spiritual situation, also can come to help us through the growth of spiritual life, realize the goal of the glory of god and live out the spirituality of Christ.Jinbi gentleman in his spiritual classics "Christ", tells the story of the eight core priorities of faith, the first step is to rely on the obedience, humility to destroy self-centered, to get beyond the self, found that the ability of god.After each step, also must be built on open to god, let him on the basis of molding.In the love of trust, obedience to god and open, can life be god molding process, be filled with joy and sweetness, tears of joy, have peace in the corner.Therefore, I believe that only obey can bring out the true praise, only can enter into with the main joint, and let the will of god in us.

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