更新心靈Renewing the Mind
[每日靈修] 2/7/2019, 駱鴻銘編譯
沒有智慧還是有可能擁有知識。然而，在沒有知識的情況下擁有智慧是不可能的。知識是智慧的必要前提。敬虔的操練要求我們認識並明白敬虔需要哪些內容。
基督徒的生命是轉化後的生命。正如使徒保羅所宣稱的那樣，生命的轉變是通過心智的更新而產生的。對上帝之道的理解會更新思想。上帝的道向我們表達了上帝的思想。
我們的思想應當要與基督的思想相符。這種一致性不會隨著我們的歸信就自動或立即發生。我們的歸信是靠著聖靈的能力，但它不是學習過程的終點，而是起點。在歸信時，我們在基督學校註冊開始學習。在彼岸的天堂裏，沒有畢業這回事。這是終身教育的朝聖之旅。
追求智慧就是追求認識上帝。從某種意義上說，蘇格拉底堅持認為正確的行為是正確的知識是正確的。但這並不是說正確的知識就保證了正確的行為，而是說，當知識成長為智慧時，就會帶來正確的行為。因此，哲學家可以成為「愛上帝的人」（philotheos）。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
今天通過沉浸在神的話語中來更新你的心智。
進一步研讀：
帖後二1 弟兄們，論到我們主耶穌基督降臨和我們到他那裏聚集， 我勸你們：無論有靈、有言語、有冒我名的書信，說主的日子現在（現在或作就）到了，不要輕易動心，也不要驚慌。
林前二16 誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。
林後十4～5 我們爭戰的兵器本不是屬血氣的，乃是在神面前有能力，可以攻破堅固的營壘， 將各樣的計謀，各樣攔阻人認識神的那些自高之事，一概攻破了，又將人所有的心意奪回，使他都順服基督。
Renewing
the Mind
It is
possible to have knowledge without having wisdom. It is not possible, however,
to have wisdom without knowledge. Knowledge is a necessary precondition for
wisdom. The practice of godliness demands that we know and understand what
godliness requires.
The
Christian life is a transformed life. The transformation of life comes about,
as the apostle Paul declares, through the renewal of the mind. An understanding
of the Word of God renews the mind. The Word of God expresses the mind of God
to us.
Our
minds are to be conformed to the mind of Christ. That conformity does not
automatically or instantly occur with conversion. Our conversion by the power
of the Holy Spirit is not the end of our learning process but the beginning. At
conversion we enroll in the school of Christ. There is no graduation this side
of heaven. It is a pilgrimage of lifelong education.
The
pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of the knowledge of God. In one sense,
Socrates was right in his insistence that right conduct is right knowledge.
This is not in the sense that correct knowledge guarantees right behavior, but
in the sense that knowledge, when it grows to wisdom, leads into right
behavior. Thus, philosophers can become philotheos, “lovers of God.”
Coram
Deo
Renew
your mind today by immersing it in God’s Word.
Passages
for Further Study
2
Thessalonians 2:1–2
1
Corinthians 2:16
2
Corinthians 10:4–52/8/2019