0129 怎麼會有人如此無知！
主啊，禰是誰？《使徒行傳 26:15》
「耶和華以大能的手指教我…」（以賽亞書 8:11）。當我們的主說話時，就沒有逃避的餘地。祂總是以祂的權柄來抓住我們的理解。神的聲音直接臨到你了嗎？如果是，你無法誤解祂對你說話時的親密堅持。神用你最熟悉的語言說話 —— 不是透過你的耳朵，而是透過你的處境。
神必須摧毀我們對自己信念的堅定信心。我們說：「我知道這是我應該做的。」 —— 突然間，神的聲音以一種壓倒我們的方式說話，通過揭示我們無知的深度。我們在決定事奉祂的方式上正表現出我們對祂的無知。我們以一種不屬耶穌的靈事奉祂，藉著我們防衛祂而傷害他。我們以魔鬼的靈來推動祂的主張；我們的話聽起來沒問題，但卻是以敵人的靈在說話。耶穌轉身責備他們說：「你們的心如何，你們並不知道。」（路加福音 9:55）。我們主的靈在祂的追隨者中，在哥林多前書13章有所描述。
我是否熱切決心以照自己的方式事奉耶穌而迫害祂？如果我覺得我已盡到責任，但在這個過程中卻傷害了祂，那我就可以確定這不是我的責任；我的方式不會培養溫柔安靜的靈，只會滋養自滿的靈。我們假設任何不愉快的事情都是我們的責任！這與我們的主的靈有何相似之處呢？「我的神啊，我樂意照禰的旨意行…」（詩篇 40:8）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
真理是我們無需害怕，也無需克服什麼，因為祂是萬有的一切，我們是藉着祂而得勝有餘。認識這個真理並非奉承工人的英雄主義，而是令人驚奇地榮耀基督的工作。《蒙神悅納》
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