0416 你能下山嗎？
你們應當趁着有光，信從這光……《約翰福音 12:36》
我們都會有感覺比以前更好的時刻，我們會說：「我覺得自己適合任何事情；但願我能總是如此！」我們本來就不該是如此。那些時刻是我們必須履行洞察力的時刻，即使我們不想這麼做。當我們不在山頂時，在日常生活的世界裡，我們許多人是不好的。然而，我們必須把我們日常生活提升到在山頂時向我們啟示出來的標準。
永遠不要讓你在山頂時裡面被喚醒的感覺消失了。不要如此思想把自己擱置不用：「能有如此美妙的心境真是太好了！」要立即行動——做些什麼，即使你行動的唯一理由是你寧願不這麼做。如果在禱告會，神指示你要做某事，不要說：「我會做」，就是去做！要緊緊抓住自己來發起行動，努力振作起來，積極努力控制自己來擺脫你肉體的懶惰。懶惰總是體現在我們渴望山頂經歷的慾望上。我們所談論的都是我們計劃在山上的時間，我們必須學會按照我們在山上所見，活在平凡「灰色」日子裡。
不要因為曾經被阻礙和困惑而放棄——要再次追求它。燒毀你身後的橋樑，並通過你自己的意志行動堅定委身於神的立場。永遠不要改變你的決定，但一定要根據你在山上所見所學的亮光做出你的決定。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們不是要宣揚行善。善行不是被宣講的，而是要被實踐的。《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》