第七单元 ： 心思的转化（二）：灵命塑造与感觉
1. 感觉是什么
堕落的生命和敬畏神的生命，他们对感觉的态度是不同的
i。堕落的生命：感觉是必须完全被满足的 （被感觉支配）
Those who continue to be mastered by their feelings— ..are typically persons who in their heart of hearts believe that their feelings must be satisfied. (163页，3段)
this is just another way of describing the ruined person discussed in chapter 3, the one who makes himself “god” in his world. （163页，4段）
ii。敬畏神的生命：感觉是可以不需要被满足的 （他们的其他面向可以支配感觉）
By contrast, the person who happily lets God be God does have a place to stand in dealing with feelings—
They know and deeply accept the fact that their feelings, of whatever kind, do not have to be fulfilled. （164页，2段）
b. 我们不能用意志力来控制和压抑感觉，这样做是徒劳无功的
No one can succeed in mastering feelings in his or her life who tries to simply take them head-on and resist or redirect them by “willpower” in the moment of choice. To adopt that strategy is to radically misunderstand how life and the human will work。 （163页，2段）
c. 我们要活出一种“状况”，是可以拥有更新感觉的生活里。
their strategy is not one of resisting them in the moment of choice but of living in such a way that they do not have such feelings at all, or at least do not have them in a degree that makes it hard to decide against them when appropriate. （164页，2段）
d. 拥有更新的感觉，可以帮助我们逃避犯罪；因为我们会选择不把自己放在受试探的状况里。
They do not wait until it is moving so fast they cannot get off of it. Their aim is not to avoid sin, but to avoid temptation— the inclination to sin. They plan their path accordingly. 119
a major step forward just to sincerely desire, not to not sin, but to have different feelings— feelings that lead away from sin. （164页，3段）
e. 感觉包含着情绪、感官和欲望
transformation of his feelings (emotions, sensations, desires) （166页，2段）
f. 感觉让我们对事务产生兴趣，它是很重要的。所以，我们需要学习照顾它，不是由它自由做主。
Without feeling we have no interest in things, no inclination to action. （167页，2段）
Feeling is essential to life…Healthy feelings, properly ordered among themselves, are essential to a good life. So if we are to be formed in Christlikeness, we must take good care of our feelings and not just let them “happen.” （167页，3段）
i。”感觉”是个好仆人，却不是一个好主人。
We do not have to be victimized by destructive feelings. Even the feelings that harm us are, for the most part, not bad in themselves, but are somehow not properly limited or subordinated. They are out of order. Feelings are, with a few exceptions, good servants. But they are disastrous masters. （169页，2段）
2. 当我们弄不清楚“感觉与其背后状况(condition)的关系”时，它可以对我们的生命产生各种沉溺行为。
When we confuse the condition with the accompanying feeling—…we very likely will try to manage the feelings and disregard or deny the reality of the conditions. That way lie such things as “falling in love with love” and most of the well-known addictions. （170页，4段）
a. 所以，在属灵生命塑造里，我们要特别专注感觉背后的状况。状况对了，感觉就自然不是问题了
as far as our planning for spiritual formation is concerned, we must choose and act with regard to the condition, good or bad, and allow the feelings to take care of themselves, as they certainly will. （171页，1段）
2.1 如果我们不去处理感觉背后的状况，而让感觉放肆的作大和继续蔓延，它的影响力是可怕的。
MUCH OF THE GREAT power of feelings over life derives not just from the fact that they touch us, move us, but from the fact that they creep over into other areas of our life （171页，4段）
a. 感觉可以控制我们，使我们认为自己无路可逃，无可救药。
Their very mind has been taken over by one or more feelings and is made to defend and serve those feelings at all costs. It is a fearful condition from which some people never escape. （172页，1段）
b. 感觉是可以由理性来纠正的，如果我们习惯聆听和使用理性来思考
Feelings can be successfully “reasoned with,” can be corrected by reality, only in those (whether oneself or others) who have the habit and are given the grace of listening to reason even when they are expressing violent feelings or are in the grip of them. （172页，4段）
c. 要不然，感觉是个无法被满足的东西，它是没有节制的。
Feeling has no limit … Feeling will then be sought for its own sake, and satisfaction in feeling alone always in turn demands stronger feeling. It cannot limit itself. （174页，1段）
d. 沉溺的行为（上瘾），是种感觉现象。我们把感觉摆在生命中最重要的地位
Addiction is a feeling phenomenon. The addict is one who, in one way or another, has given in to feeling of one kind or another and has placed it in the position of ultimate value in his or her life. （174页，2段）
in their heart of hearts they have accepted the rule of the feeling and have conceded its right to satisfaction. .. they have no way out （174页，3段）
e. 现代性的生活形式，人要无时无刻决定做什么，而往往就以感觉来做决定。
In the “modern” condition, feeling will come to exercise almost total mastery over the individual. This is because people in that condition will have to constantly decide what they want to do, and feeling will be all they have to go on. Here lies the secret to understanding contemporary Western life and its peculiar proneness to gross immoralities and addictions. People are overwhelmed with decisions and can only make those decisions on the basis of feelings. （175页， 2段）
i。 现代的人误以为感觉就是理智，加上普遍上缺少自我节制的能力，所以容易拥有上瘾的行为。
Often they cannot distinguish between their feelings and their will, and in their confusion they also quite commonly take feelings to be reasons. And they will in general lack any significant degree of self-control. This will turn their life into a mere drift through the days and years, which addictive behavior promises to allow them to endure. （175页，4段）
ii。自我节制是有能力去做“不觉得想做”的事情，比如说读圣经；可以不去做”觉得要做“的事情，比如说上脸书。
Self-control means that you, with steady hand, do what you don’t want to do (or what you want not to) when that is needed and do not do what you want to do (what you “feel like” doing) when that is needed. （176页，5 段）
f. 形象（Image）与情绪的关系。
Feelings & emotions are fostered and sustained by ideas and images, though social or bodily conditions also factor in. （177页，2段）
3. 感觉的转化，从更新的状况里带来敬虔感觉
a. 感觉是可以井然有序的 (There is Order among feelings),不是一个完全困乱的范畴
There is also order among feelings, and it is a much simpler one than most people think. When we properly cultivate with divine assistance those few feelings that should be prominent in our lives, the remainder will fall into place. （178页，2段）
b. 拥有基督生命的，他的相关感觉，是爱、喜乐和平安。 (Love, Joy, Peace)
What then are the feelings that will dominate in a life that has been inwardly transformed to be like Christ’s? They are the feelings associated with love, joy, and peace. (178页，3段）
c. 他们整个人处在的状况，是伴随着这些积极的感觉
conditions of the whole person that are accompanied by characteristic positive feelings. （178页，3段）
从178页到－191页，最适合一口气看完，这样做你可以看到作者的思路，也看到以上所说的次序”Order among feelings“和我们应该拥有的状况(Conditions)。
我会以两张图来做对比“活在爱里”的状况和“活在欲望里”的状况，希望借此让我们更加掌握这个重要的教导。 再说，作者这里处理感觉VIM里的Vision。 希望我们看到了这Vision，再加上我们Intention和第191－194页里提到的Means,可以帮助我们给自己的感觉有自我节制的能力。
3.1 爱与欲望是相对的。 爱是“向善之意志”，欲望是“追求自己的益处” Love is Will to Good, Desire is Will to Consume.
Love is not the same thing as desire, for I may desire something without even wishing it well, much less willing its good. (182页，2段）
i。欲望 －如果我们无约束的要满足自己的感觉（欲望、情绪、和感官），必然的结果是把情欲，骄傲和惧怕包围着我们自己。 爱、喜乐和平安离我们愈来愈遥远。 持续在这种欲望未被满足的状况里，将延伸出更多的痛苦，伤害，罪恶和恐怖的行为。 （182-183页）
ii。感觉（欲望、情绪、和感官）不可以成为我们行动和品格改变的基础。
Feeling － They, more than any other component of our nature, are the “trigger” of sinful action. （193页，4段）
Feelings have a crucial role in life, but they must not be taken as a basis for action or character change. That role falls to insight, understanding, and conviction of truth, which will always be appropriately accompanied by feeling. Feelings are not fundamental in the nature of things but become so if we assign them that role in life, and then life will not go as it should. （194页，3段）
Satan uses feelings to captivate us today by making them more important to our life than they really are, as well as by inducing much false guilt about what we do and do not feel. （194页，4段）
3.2 住在爱里的状况 － 伴随着的就是爱、喜乐和平安；这里不是三个，而是一个圣灵的果子 （圣灵果子的三个基本向度）
Thus faith in Christ and the initial hope it inspires lead us to stand in the grace (the action) of God, and standing there leads, in turn, to a life full of love. We will want to see how this love relates to joy and peace, as well as to the rest of the fruit of the Spirit. But first we need to get a clearer picture of love itself, of its four movements required to complete its work in our life, of how (when completed) it casts out fear (1 John 4: 18). Then we shall see the effect of all this on the feeling dimension of our life. （181页，3段）
i。信心和希望是爱的基础。 （180页，3-4段）
ii。完全爱的四部曲（4 movements）－约翰一书4:721 （183页，4段－185页1段）
iii。延伸出来的就是喜乐和平安 （积极正面的感觉）
iv。在爱里没有惧怕和骄傲 （负面的感觉）
Love, joy, and peace fostered in divine fellowship simply crowd out fear, anger, unsatisfied desire, woundedness, rejection. There is no longer room for them— （191页，2段）
3.3 在“爱”里继续成长：感觉面向，谨慎的培养爱、喜乐、平安的习惯和状况。
AND SO, PRACTICALLY SPEAKING, the renovation of the heart in the dimension of feeling is a matter of opening ourselves to and carefully cultivating love, joy, and peace: first by receiving them from God and from those already living in him, and then as we grow, extending love, joy, and peace to others and everything around us in attitude, prayer, and action。（191页，4段）
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