0603 主的秘密
耶和華與敬畏祂的人親密，祂必將自己的約指示他們。《詩篇25:14》
朋友的標誌是什麼？是他把秘密的悲傷告訴你嗎？不，是他告訴你他秘密的快樂。許多人會向你吐露他們秘密的悲傷，但親密的最終標誌是他們與你分享他們秘密的快樂。我們有否讓神告訴我們祂的喜樂呢？或我們不斷地告訴神我們的秘密，沒有留給祂時間與我們交談？在我們基督徒生活的開始，我們對神充滿了請求。但後來我們發現神想要我們與祂建立親密的關係——要我們了解祂的目的。我們是否與耶穌基督的禱告理念「願你的旨意成就」（馬太福音6:10）如此親密聯合，以至於我們理解神的秘密？使神對我們如此寶貴的並不是祂給我們的大祝福，而是微小之事，因為這些小事顯示了祂與我們驚人的親密——祂知道我們每個人生活中的每一個細節。
「耶和華必指示他當選擇的道路。」（詩篇25:12）。首先，我們想要有被神引導的意識。但隨着我們靈命成長，我們活着如此完全意識到神，以至於我們甚至不需要問祂的旨意是什麼，因為選擇另一條路的想法從未發生在我們身上。如果我們得救並成聖，神就會通過我們日常的選擇來引導我們。如果我們即將選擇祂不要的，祂會給我們一種懷疑或克制的感覺，我們必須要注意到這一點。每當有疑問時，要立即停下來。永遠不要試圖推理解釋說：「我想知道為什麼我不應該這樣做？」神在我們所選擇事物中教導我們；也就是說，祂實際上引導我們的常識。當我們降服於祂的教導和指導時，我們就不再藉著不斷地問「現在，主啊，禰的旨意是什麼？」來阻礙祂的靈。
來自章伯斯的智慧
個人的最終重要性並不在於他做了什麼，而在於他在所做之事中是什麼樣子。一個人產生的氛圍，遠比他的活動更具有持久的影響力。《力圖更佳戰鬥》
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