0502 等待异象的耐心
虽然迟延，还要等候….《哈巴谷书2:3》
耐心不等于冷漠；耐心传达了一个人非常坚强并能够承受所有攻击的观念。拥有神的异象是忍耐之源，因为它给我们神真实和适当的感动。摩西坚忍，不是因为他委身于他正确的原则，也不是因为他对神的责任感，而是因为他有神的异象， 「…他恒心忍耐，如同看见那不能看见的主。」（希伯来书11:27）。一个有神的异象的人并不是献身于某个事业或任何特定的问题——他是献身于神本身。你总是知道什么时候异象是神的，因为随之而来的灵感；事情伟大地降临到你身上，并为你的生活增添活力，因为神使一切运转。祂可能在灵性上给你一段时间，完全没有来自祂自己的话语，就像祂的儿子在旷野受试探时所经历的那样。当神那样做时，只要忍耐，忍耐的力量就在那里，因为你看见了神。
「虽然迟延，还要等候。」我们拥有异象的证明，是我们正在努力追求的，比我们已抓住的更多。灵性自满是一件不好之事。诗人说：「我拿什么报答耶和华向我所赐的厚恩？我要举起救恩的杯…」（诗篇 116:12-13）。我们很容易在自己内心寻找满足感，说：「现在我得到了！现在我已经完全成圣了。现在我能忍耐了。」瞬间我们立刻就走上了毁灭之路。我们追求的必须超越我们所把握的。保罗说：「这并不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了；我乃是竭力追求…」（腓立比书3:12）。如果我们只有我们所经历过的，我们就一无所有。但如果我们有神的异象的灵感，我们有的就超过我们能经历的。要当心灵性懈怠的危险。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我是越来越爱神是个圣洁的神，还是爱这样概念的一个和蔼可亲的存在，祂说：「哦，好吧，罪并不重要？」《真的门徒》
0502 The Patience To Wait for the Vision
Though it tarries, wait for it… —Habakkuk 2:3
Patience is not the same as indifference; patience conveys the idea of someone who is tremendously strong and able to withstand all assaults. Having the vision of God is the source of patience because it gives us God’s true and proper inspiration. Moses endured, not because of his devotion to his principles of what was right, nor because of his sense of duty to God, but because he had a vision of God. “…he endured as seeing Him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27). A person who has the vision of God is not devoted to a cause or to any particular issue— he is devoted to God Himself. You always know when the vision is of God because of the inspiration that comes with it. Things come to you with greatness and add vitality to your life because everything is energized by God. He may give you a time spiritually, with no word from Himself at all, just as His Son experienced during His time of temptation in the wilderness. When God does that, simply endure, and the power to endure will be there because you see God.
“Though it tarries, wait for it….” The proof that we have the vision is that we are reaching out for more than we have already grasped. It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually. The psalmist said, “What shall I render to the Lord…? I will take up the cup of salvation…” (Psalm 116:12-13). We are apt to look for satisfaction within ourselves and say, “Now I’ve got it! Now I am completely sanctified. Now I can endure.” Instantly we are on the road to ruin. Our reach must exceed our grasp. Paul said, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on…” (Philippians 3:12). If we have only what we have experienced, we have nothing. But if we have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we can experience. Beware of the danger of spiritual relaxation.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”? —Disciples Indeed, 389 L