一个人在重生之初，会有很多不一致的地方——有一些互不协调的情感，也有一些互不相连的事物。
在使徒保罗最深处有坚强稳固的贯彻如一，任凭外在生活怎样改变，也不受骚扰，因为他是扎根在神的根基上。我们没有属灵上的协调，多半是因为我们太着意于外在事物的协调。
保罗住在地下室，而我们却活在表面事物上的上层，两者未有相通的机会。保罗的协调是建基于最基本的事上。他协调最大的根源，就是神救赎人类所付上的痛苦——耶稣基督的十字架。
你要向自己重述所信的是什么，然后把其余的事物除掉，归回那唯一的基石——主耶稣的十字架。
从历史的观点看来，十字架是微不足道的。可是从圣经观点来看，却比世上所有王国更重要。
我们传讲的信息，若不提神在十字架上的惨痛，就必无所成，神的能力也无法传递给人。这听来似乎很有趣，但确是没有十架，就毫无能力。
当传扬十字架，神的能力就释放出来。[神就乐意用人所当作愚拙的道理，拯救那些信的人。][我们却是传钉十字架的基督。]
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祈祷
主啊，我在祢面前的生活，似乎是毫无目的、黯淡无光，直至祢在我里面出现。因着我相信祢大能的救赎，我敬拜祢。可是，噢！能够察觉祢的感动却是另一回事！
THE SECRET OF SPIRITUAL COHERENCE
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Galatians 6:14
When a man is first born again, he becomes incoherent, there is an amount of unrelated emotion about him, unrelated phases of external things. In the apostle Paul there was a strong steady coherence underneath, consequently he could let his external life change as it liked and it did not distress him because he was rooted and grounded in God. Most of us are not spiritual y coherent because we are more concerned about being coherent external y.
Paul lived in the basement; the coherent critics live in the upper storey of the external statement of things, and the two do not begin to touch each other.
Paul's consistency was down in the fundamentals. The great basis of his coherence was the agony of God in the Redemption of the world, viz., the Cross of Jesus Christ.
Re-state to yourself what you believe, then do away with as much of it as possible, and get back to the bedrock of the Cross of Christ. In external history the Cross is an infinitesimal thing; from the Bible point of view it is of more importance than all the empires of the world. If we get away from brooding on the tragedy of God upon the Cross in our preaching, it produces nothing. It does not convey the energy of God to man; it may be interesting but it has no power.
But preach the Cross, and the energy of God is let loose. "It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." "We preach Christ crucified."
