0426 至高的攀登
现在你带着你的儿子….在我所要指示你的山上，把他献为燔祭。 《创世记 22:2》
一个人的品格决定了他如何诠释神的旨意（见诗篇18:25-26）。亚伯拉罕解释神的命令为他必须杀死他的儿子，他只有通过巨大磨难的痛苦，才能将传统信仰置之脑后。神只能如此净化他的信仰，别无他法。如果我们根据自己真诚的信仰听从神的话，神会使我们摆脱那些歪曲祂的传统信仰。有很多这样的信念必须被消除，例如，神因母亲太爱孩子而夺去孩子生命，这是魔鬼的谎言，以及对神的真实本性的嘲弄！如果魔鬼能够阻止我们迈出至高攀登，并阻止我们摆脱对神错误的传统信仰，牠就会这么做。但如果我们保持对神忠贞，神就会带我们走过可怕的经历，那会使我们更好地认识神自己。
从亚伯拉罕对神的信心中我们学到的重要教训，是他准备好为神做任何事。他在那里是为了服从神，无论他的服从可能会违背他的信念。亚伯拉罕并不是忠于自己的信念，否则他就会杀死以撒，并说天使的声音实际上是魔鬼的声音；那就是狂热分子的态度。如果你保持对神忠贞，神会直接引导你穿过每一个障碍，直入内室认识祂自己。但你必须始终愿意放弃自己的信念和传统信仰。不要祈求神来考验你，永远不要像彼得那样宣称你愿意做任何事，甚至「下监和受死……」（路加福音22:33）。亚伯拉罕并没有做出任何这种宣告，他只是忠于神，而神净化了他的信仰。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我没有权利说我相信神，除非我把我的生活安排在祂全知的眼下。《真的门徒》
0426 The Supreme Climb
Take now your son…and offer him…as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. —Genesis 22:2
A person’s character determines how he interprets God’s will (see Psalm 18:25-26). Abraham interpreted God’s command to mean that he had to kill his son, and he could only leave this traditional belief behind through the pain of a tremendous ordeal. God could purify his faith in no other way. If we obey what God says according to our sincere belief, God will break us from those traditional beliefs that misrepresent Him. There are many such beliefs which must be removed– for example, that God removes a child because his mother loves him too much. That is the devil’s lie and a travesty on the true nature of God! If the devil can hinder us from taking the supreme climb and getting rid of our wrong traditional beliefs about God, he will do so. But if we will stay true to God, God will take us through an ordeal that will serve to bring us into a better knowledge of Himself.
The great lesson to be learned from Abraham’s faith in God is that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter what contrary belief of his might be violated by his obedience. Abraham was not devoted to his own convictions or else he would have slain Isaac and said that the voice of the angel was actually the voice of the devil. That is the attitude of a fanatic. If you will remain true to God, God will lead you directly through every barrier and right into the inner chamber of the knowledge of Himself. But you must always be willing to come to the point of giving up your own convictions and traditional beliefs. Don’t ask God to test you. Never declare as Peter did that you are willing to do anything, even “to go …both to prison and to death” (Luke 22:33). Abraham did not make any such statement— he simply remained true to God, and God purified his faith.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye. –Disciples Indeed, 385 L