0213 专注地听
撒母耳回答说：「请说，仆人敬听。」《撒母耳记上3:10》
只因我在一件事上仔细而专注地听神了，并不意味着我在每一件事上会听祂。我的心和思想对神所说的话无感，这表明我对祂缺乏爱和尊重。如果我爱我的朋友，我会本能地理解他想要什么。耶稣说：「你们是我的朋友…」（约翰福音 15:14）。本周我是否违背了主的某些命令？如果我意识到这是耶稣的命令，我就不会故意违背。但我们大多数人都对神表现出难以置信的不尊重，因为我们甚至不听祂，祂也可能从来没有和我们说过话。
我灵性生活的目标是与耶稣基督如此紧密地认同，以至于我总是会听见神，并且知道神总是听见我（参见约翰福音11:41）。如果我与耶稣基督联合，我通过专注的听而一直听见神。一朵花、一棵树或神的一位仆人，都可以向我传递神的信息。阻碍我听的，是我对其它事情的注意力。并不是我不想听神的话，而是我没有专注在生活的正确领域，我专注于事物，甚至服事，和我自己的信念。神可以说祂想说的，但我就是不听祂。神儿女的态度应该永远是：「请说，袮的仆人敬听。」如果我没有发展和培养专注的听，我只能在某些时候听见神的声音。在其它时候，我变得对祂耳聋，因为我的注意力是在其它事物上，就是那些我认为我必须做的事情。这不是神儿女的生活。今天你听见神的声音了吗？
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们面临当神温柔时我们严厉，当神严厉时我们温柔的危险。《神的爱—无敌安慰的信息》
0213 The Devotion of Hearing
Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” —1 Samuel 3:10
Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says. I show God my lack of love and respect for Him by the insensitivity of my heart and mind toward what He says. If I love my friend, I will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, “You are My friends…” (John 15:14). Have I disobeyed some command of my Lord’s this week? If I had realized that it was a command of Jesus, I would not have deliberately disobeyed it. But most of us show incredible disrespect to God because we don’t even hear Him. He might as well never have spoken to us.
The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me (see John 11:41). If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a tree, or a servant of God may convey God’s message to me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not that I don’t want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my life. I am devoted to things and even to service and my own convictions. God may say whatever He wants, but I just don’t hear Him. The attitude of a child of God should always be, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” If I have not developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God’s voice at certain times. At other times I become deaf to Him because my attention is to other things— things which I think I must do. This is not living the life of a child of God. Have you heard God’s voice today?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern. –The Love of God—The Message of Invincible Consolation, 673 L