0311 顺服「天上来的异象」
我故此没有违背那从天上来的异象。《使徒行传 26:19》
如果我们失去了神赐给我们「天上的异象」，只有我们该负责任，而不是神。我们失去了异象，是因为我们自己缺乏灵命成长。如果我们不把对神的信仰应用到日常生活的议题上，神给我们的异象就永远不会实现。顺服「天上的异象」唯一之道，就是将我们的极致，为了至高的主，为祂的荣耀，给出我们最好的。只有当我们下定决心不断记住神的异象时才能实现竭诚为主。但严峻的考验，是在我们日常生活的细节中对异象的顺服，就是每分钟六十秒，每小时六十分钟，而不仅仅是在个人祈祷或公开聚会之时。
「虽然迟延，还要等候…」（哈巴谷书 2:3）。我们无法通过自己的努力使异象得以实现，而是必须在它的灵感下生活，直到它自己实现。我们试图要实际，以至于忘记了异象。在一开始我们看到了异象，但没有等待它，就急忙去做我们的实际工作，一旦异象实现了，我们甚至再也无法看到它。等待「迟延」的异象是我们忠于神的真正考验。陷入实际忙碌的事工中，只会错过异象的实现，这是我们灵魂福祉所处的风险。
要留意神的风暴，神栽种祂的圣徒唯一途径就是通过祂的风暴旋风。你会被证明是个空豆荚，里面没有种子吗？这将取决于你是否真的活在你所看到的异象之光中。让神透过祂的风暴差遣你，直到祂这么做之前，你不要有所行动。如果你选择自己被栽种的地点，你将证明自己是没有生产结果、空空的豆荚。然而，如果你让神栽种你，你就会「结出许多果子」（约翰福音15:8）。
活在神给我们的异象中，并「在光明中行」，是至关重要的。（约翰一书 1:7）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
基督教会不应该是专家们的秘密社团，而应该是信耶稣的公开表现。《面对现实》
0311 Obedience to the “Heavenly Vision”
I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. —Acts 26:19
If we lose “the heavenly vision” God has given us, we alone are responsible— not God. We lose the vision because of our own lack of spiritual growth. If we do not apply our beliefs about God to the issues of everyday life, the vision God has given us will never be fulfilled. The only way to be obedient to “the heavenly vision” is to give our utmost for His highest— our best for His glory. This can be accomplished only when we make a determination to continually remember God’s vision. But the acid test is obedience to the vision in the details of our everyday life— sixty seconds out of every minute, and sixty minutes out of every hour, not just during times of personal prayer or public meetings.
“Though it tarries, wait for it…” (Habakkuk 2:3). We cannot bring the vision to fulfillment through our own efforts, but must live under its inspiration until it fulfills itself. We try to be so practical that we forget the vision. At the very beginning we saw the vision but did not wait for it. We rushed off to do our practical work, and once the vision was fulfilled, we could no longer even see it. Waiting for a vision that “tarries” is the true test of our faithfulness to God. It is at the risk of our own soul’s welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work, only to miss the fulfillment of the vision.
Watch for the storms of God. The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms. Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside? That will depend on whether or not you are actually living in the light of the vision you have seen. Let God send you out through His storm, and don’t go until He does. If you select your own spot to be planted, you will prove yourself to be an unproductive, empty pod. However, if you allow God to plant you, you will “bear much fruit” (John 15:8).
It is essential that we live and “walk in the light” of God’s vision for us (1 John 1:7).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus. –Facing Reality, 34 R