0603 主的秘密
耶和华与敬畏祂的人亲密，祂必将自己的约指示他们。《诗篇25:14》
朋友的标志是什么？是他把秘密的悲伤告诉你吗？不，是他告诉你他秘密的快乐。许多人会向你吐露他们秘密的悲伤，但亲密的最终标志是他们与你分享他们秘密的快乐。我们有否让神告诉我们祂的喜乐呢？或我们不断地告诉神我们的秘密，没有留给祂时间与我们交谈？在我们基督徒生活的开始，我们对神充满了请求。但后来我们发现神想要我们与祂建立亲密的关系——要我们了解祂的目的。我们是否与耶稣基督的祷告理念「愿你的旨意成就」（马太福音6:10）如此亲密联合，以至于我们理解神的秘密？使神对我们如此宝贵的并不是祂给我们的大祝福，而是微小之事，因为这些小事显示了祂与我们惊人的亲密——祂知道我们每个人生活中的每一个细节。
「耶和华必指示他当选择的道路。」（诗篇25:12）。首先，我们想要有被神引导的意识。但随着我们灵命成长，我们活着如此完全意识到神，以至于我们甚至不需要问祂的旨意是什么，因为选择另一条路的想法从未发生在我们身上。如果我们得救并成圣，神就会通过我们日常的选择来引导我们。如果我们即将选择祂不要的，祂会给我们一种怀疑或克制的感觉，我们必须要注意到这一点。每当有疑问时，要立即停下来。永远不要试图推理解释说：「我想知道为什么我不应该这样做？」神在我们所选择事物中教导我们；也就是说，祂实际上引导我们的常识。当我们降服于祂的教导和指导时，我们就不再借着不断地问「现在，主啊，祢的旨意是什么？」来阻碍祂的灵。
来自章伯斯的智慧
个人的最终重要性并不在于他做了什么，而在于他在所做之事中是什么样子。一个人产生的氛围，远比他的活动更具有持久的影响力。《力图更佳战斗》
0603 The Secret of the Lord
The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him… —Psalm 25:14
What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. But then we find that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself— to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so intimately united to Jesus Christ’s idea of prayer— “Your will be done” (Matthew 6:10)— that we catch the secrets of God? What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us— He knows every detail of each of our individual lives.
“Him shall He teach in the way He chooses” (Psalm 25:12). At first, we want the awareness of being guided by God. But then as we grow spiritually, we live so fully aware of God that we do not even need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing another way will never occur to us. If we are saved and sanctified, God guides us by our everyday choices. And if we are about to choose what He does not want, He will give us a sense of doubt or restraint, which we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never try to reason it out, saying, “I wonder why I shouldn’t do this?” God instructs us in what we choose; that is, He actually guides our common sense. And when we yield to His teachings and guidance, we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually asking, “Now, Lord, what is Your will?”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. –Baffled to Fight Better, 51 L