0415 未能保持专注
只是邱坛还没有从以色列中废去，然而，亚撒的心一生诚实。 《历代志下 15:17》
亚撒在他生活外在、可见的领域并不完全顺服，他在他认为最重要的领域顺服，但他并不是完全正确。谨防甚至认为：「哦，我生活中那件事并不重要。」事实上，它对你不重要，可能意味着它对神很重要。神的儿女不应该将任何事情视为小事。神在教导我们一件事，我们还要拦阻祂多久呢？但祂一直在努力教导我们，且从不失去耐心。你说：「我知道我与神和好」——但「高处的邱坛」仍然存在于你的生活中，仍然存有不顺服的领域。你是否坚持说自己的心与神是正确的，然而在你的生活中神让你产生怀疑？每当神导致你对某件事产生怀疑时，要立即停止，无论是那什么。我们生活中，对神来说，没有什么是微不足道的细节。
关于你的身体或头脑知识的事，是否有些事是你一直以来根本没有注意到的？如果是这样，你可能认为自己在重要领域都是正确的，但你是漫不经心的——你没有集中注意力或正确地专注。在日常生活中的事情要保持属灵注意，你不需要告假一天，就像你的心脏跳动不需要告假一天一样；正如你不能在道德上告假一天还继续保有道德一样，你也不能在灵性上告假一天并依然属灵。神希望你完全属于祂，那就需要密切注意保持自己强健，也需要大量的时间；然而，我们中的一些人期望能够超越所有问题，只需几分钟的努力即可从一个山顶体验到另一个山顶体验。
来自章伯斯的智慧
真诚意味着外表和实际完全一致。《登山宝训研究》
0415 The Failure To Pay Close Attention
The high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days. —2 Chronicles 15:17
Asa was not completely obedient in the outward, visible areas of his life. He was obedient in what he considered the most important areas, but he was not entirely right. Beware of ever thinking, “Oh, that thing in my life doesn’t matter much.” The fact that it doesn’t matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience. You say, “I know I am right with God”— yet the “high places” still remain in your life. There is still an area of disobedience. Do you protest that your heart is right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt? Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct in the important areas, but you are careless— you are failing to concentrate or to focus properly. You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it requires paying close attention to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes’ effort.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same. –Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, 1449 L