0415 未能保持專註
只是邱壇還沒有從以色列中廢去，然而，亞撒的心一生誠實。 《歷代志下 15:17》
亞撒在他生活外在、可見的領域並不完全順服，他在他認為最重要的領域順服，但他並不是完全正確。謹防甚至認為：「哦，我生活中那件事並不重要。」事實上，它對你不重要，可能意味着它對神很重要。神的兒女不應該將任何事情視為小事。神在教導我們一件事，我們還要攔阻祂多久呢？但祂一直在努力教導我們，且從不失去耐心。你說：「我知道我與神和好」——但「高處的邱壇」仍然存在於你的生活中，仍然存有不順服的領域。你是否堅持說自己的心與神是正確的，然而在你的生活中神讓你產生懷疑？每當神導致你對某件事產生懷疑時，要立即停止，無論是那什麼。我們生活中，對神來說，沒有什麼是微不足道的細節。
關於你的身體或頭腦知識的事，是否有些事是你一直以來根本沒有注意到的？如果是這樣，你可能認為自己在重要領域都是正確的，但你是漫不經心的——你沒有集中注意力或正確地專註。在日常生活中的事情要保持屬靈注意，你不需要告假一天，就像你的心臟跳動不需要告假一天一樣；正如你不能在道德上告假一天還繼續保有道德一樣，你也不能在靈性上告假一天並依然屬靈。神希望你完全屬於祂，那就需要密切注意保持自己強健，也需要大量的時間；然而，我們中的一些人期望能夠超越所有問題，只需幾分鐘的努力即可從一個山頂體驗到另一個山頂體驗。
來自章伯斯的智慧
真誠意味着外表和實際完全一致。《登山寶訓研究》
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