0525 好還是最好？
你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。《創世記13:9》
一旦你開始過信神的生活，令人着迷且欣慰的可能性就會展開在你面前。這些東西本是你的權利，但如果你是過着信心的生活，你就會行使你的權利去放棄自己的權利，而讓神為你做選擇。神有時會讓你進入一個考驗的境地，如果你不是過信心的生活，考慮你自己的福祉將是適當的。但如果你是，你會高興地放棄你的權利，讓神為你做選擇。這是神使用的紀律操練，藉着順從祂的聲音，將人天然的本質轉化為屬靈的。
每當我們的權利成為我們生活的指導因素時，它就會使我們靈性洞察力變得遲鈍。信神的生活中最大的敵人不是罪，而是好的選擇永遠不夠好；好，總是最好的敵人。在這段經文中，對亞伯蘭言，似乎世界上最明智之事就是去選擇，那是他的權利；如果他不選擇，周圍的人就會認為他是傻瓜。
我們許多人並未繼續在靈性上成長，因為我們更喜歡根據我們的權利做選擇，而非依靠神為我們做選擇。我們必須學習按照專註於神的標準而行事為人。神對我們說，如同祂對亞伯蘭說的那樣：「當在我面前行…」（創世記 17:1）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
無論上帝的旨意將我們扔到哪裡，無論是貧民窟、商店還是沙漠，我們都必須沿着祂的指示努力工作。永遠不可有「我在這裡毫無用處」的想法，因為如果你不在所在之地，你當然是毫無用處！無論祂在哪裡發動了你的環境，就是禱告。 《故我差遣你》
0525 The Good or The Best?
If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left. —Genesis 13:9
As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you. These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God make your choice for you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the life of faith. But if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and allow God to make your choice for you. This is the discipline God uses to transform the natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice.
Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. In this passage, it would seem that the wisest thing in the world for Abram to do would be to choose. It was his right, and the people around him would consider him to be a fool for not choosing.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “…walk before Me…” (Genesis 17:1).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Wherever the providence of God may dump us down, in a slum, in a shop, in the desert, we have to labour along the line of His direction. Never allow this thought—“I am of no use where I am,” because you certainly can be of no use where you are not! Wherever He has engineered your circumstances, pray. –So Send I You, 1325 L