0129 怎么会有人如此无知！
主啊，祢是谁？《使徒行传 26:15》
「耶和华以大能的手指教我…」（以赛亚书 8:11）。当我们的主说话时，就没有逃避的余地。祂总是以祂的权柄来抓住我们的理解。神的声音直接临到你了吗？如果是，你无法误解祂对你说话时的亲密坚持。神用你最熟悉的语言说话 —— 不是透过你的耳朵，而是透过你的处境。
神必须摧毁我们对自己信念的坚定信心。我们说：「我知道这是我应该做的。」 —— 突然间，神的声音以一种压倒我们的方式说话，通过揭示我们无知的深度。我们在决定事奉祂的方式上正表现出我们对祂的无知。我们以一种不属耶稣的灵事奉祂，借着我们防卫祂而伤害他。我们以魔鬼的灵来推动祂的主张；我们的话听起来没问题，但却是以敌人的灵在说话。耶稣转身责备他们说：「你们的心如何，你们并不知道。」（路加福音 9:55）。我们主的灵在祂的追随者中，在哥林多前书13章有所描述。
我是否热切决心以照自己的方式事奉耶稣而迫害祂？如果我觉得我已尽到责任，但在这个过程中却伤害了祂，那我就可以确定这不是我的责任；我的方式不会培养温柔安静的灵，只会滋养自满的灵。我们假设任何不愉快的事情都是我们的责任！这与我们的主的灵有何相似之处呢？「我的神啊，我乐意照祢的旨意行…」（诗篇 40:8）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
真理是我们无需害怕，也无需克服什么，因为祂是万有的一切，我们是藉着祂而得胜有余。认识这个真理并非奉承工人的英雄主义，而是令人惊奇地荣耀基督的工作。《蒙神悦纳》
0129 How Could Someone Be So Ignorant!
Who are You, Lord? —Acts 26:15
“The Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand…” (Isaiah 8:11). There is no escape when our Lord speaks. He always comes using His authority and taking hold of our understanding. Has the voice of God come to you directly? If it has, you cannot mistake the intimate insistence with which it has spoken to you. God speaks in the language you know best— not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. We say, “I know that this is what I should do” — and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance. We show our ignorance of Him in the very way we decide to serve Him. We serve Jesus in a spirit that is not His, and hurt Him by our defense of Him. We push His claims in the spirit of the devil; our words sound all right, but the spirit is that of an enemy. “He…rebuked them, and said, ‘You do not know what manner of spirit you are of’” (Luke 9:55). The spirit of our Lord in His followers is described in 1 Corinthians 13.
Have I been persecuting Jesus by an eager determination to serve Him in my own way? If I feel I have done my duty, yet have hurt Him in the process, I can be sure that this was not my duty. My way will not be to foster a meek and quiet spirit, only the spirit of self-satisfaction. We presume that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord— “I delight to do Your will, O my God…” (Psalm 40:8).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him. The recognition of this truth is not flattering to the worker’s sense of heroics, but it is amazingly glorifying to the work of Christ. –Approved Unto God, 4 R