0416 你能下山吗？
你们应当趁着有光，信从这光……《约翰福音 12:36》
我们都会有感觉比以前更好的时刻，我们会说：「我觉得自己适合任何事情；但愿我能总是如此！」我们本来就不该是如此。那些时刻是我们必须履行洞察力的时刻，即使我们不想这么做。当我们不在山顶时，在日常生活的世界里，我们许多人是不好的。然而，我们必须把我们日常生活提升到在山顶时向我们启示出来的标准。
永远不要让你在山顶时里面被唤醒的感觉消失了。不要如此思想把自己搁置不用：「能有如此美妙的心境真是太好了！」要立即行动——做些什么，即使你行动的唯一理由是你宁愿不这么做。如果在祷告会，神指示你要做某事，不要说：「我会做」，就是去做！要紧紧抓住自己来发起行动，努力振作起来，积极努力控制自己来摆脱你肉体的懒惰。懒惰总是体现在我们渴望山顶经历的欲望上。我们所谈论的都是我们计划在山上的时间，我们必须学会按照我们在山上所见，活在平凡「灰色」日子里。
不要因为曾经被阻碍和困惑而放弃——要再次追求它。烧毁你身后的桥梁，并通过你自己的意志行动坚定委身于神的立场。永远不要改变你的决定，但一定要根据你在山上所见所学的亮光做出你的决定。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们不是要宣扬行善。善行不是被宣讲的，而是要被实践的。《故我差遣你》
0416 Can You Come Down From the Mountain?
While you have the light, believe in the light… —John 12:36
We all have moments when we feel better than ever before, and we say, “I feel fit for anything; if only I could always be like this!” We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to even when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for the everyday world when we are not on the mountaintop. Yet we must bring our everyday life up to the standard revealed to us on the mountaintop when we were there.
Never allow a feeling that was awakened in you on the mountaintop to evaporate. Don’t place yourself on the shelf by thinking, “How great to be in such a wonderful state of mind!” Act immediately— do something, even if your only reason to act is that you would rather not. If, during a prayer meeting, God shows you something to do, don’t say, “I’ll do it”— just do it! Pick yourself up by the back of the neck and shake off your fleshly laziness. Laziness can always be seen in our cravings for a mountaintop experience; all we talk about is our planning for our time on the mountain. We must learn to live in the ordinary “gray” day according to what we saw on the mountain.
Don’t give up because you have been blocked and confused once— go after it again. Burn your bridges behind you, and stand committed to God by an act of your own will. Never change your decisions, but be sure to make your decisions in the light of what you saw and learned on the mountain.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed. 《So Send I You》