22我们的灵是我们接触神的器官(约四24),我们的心是我们爱神的器官(可十二30)。我们的灵接触、接受、盛装并经历神,但需要我们的心先爱神。我们的魂有三部分—心思、意志和情感;我们的灵也有三部分—良心、交通和直觉。我们的心不是与魂和灵分开的,乃是由魂的各部分,加上灵的良心所组成的。因此,我们的心里有带着思念的心思,以及带着主意的意志。思念影响主意,而主意实现思念。神的活话能辨明我们心思里的思念,和意志里的主意。当希伯来的信徒在救恩的过程中徘徊时,作者在前面的经文中所引用神的话,能把他们的思念和主意显露出来(圣经恢复本,来四12注2,注3)。 22Our spirit is the organ with which we contact God (John 4:24), while our heart is the organ with which we love God (Mark 12:30). Our spirit contacts, receives, contains, and experiences God. However, this requires that our heart love God first. Our soul is of three parts—mind, will, and emotion; and our spirit too is of three parts—conscience, fellowship, and intuition. Our heart is not separate from our soul and spirit but is a composition of all the parts of our soul, plus the conscience, a part of our spirit. Hence, in our heart is the mind, with the thoughts, and the will, with the intentions. The thoughts affect the intentions, and the intentions carry out the thoughts. The living word of God is able to discern the thoughts in our mind and the intentions in our will. What was quoted from the word of God by the writer in the foregoing verses was able to expose what and where the thoughts and intentions of the Hebrew believers were while they were staggering in the process of their salvation. (Heb. 4:12, footnotes 2 and 3)