0609 然后，下一步要做什么？
凡祈求的，就得着… 《路加福音 11:10》
如果你没有得到，就要祈求。这没有什么比祈求更困难的了。我们会渴望和欲求某些特定的东西，甚至会因为它们没有实现而感到痛苦，但直到绝望的边缘，我们才会祈求。正是这种灵性上不真实的感觉促使我们祈求。你曾出于自己全然不足和贫穷的深处而祈求吗？「你们中间若有缺少智慧的，应当求那厚赐与众人、也不斥责人的神，主必赐给他。」（雅各书 1:5），但要确保在求之前你真的缺乏智慧。你无法在你选择的任何时候让自己达到真实属灵的境地。一旦你意识到自己没有属灵的真实，最好的做法就是根据耶稣基督的应许而向神祈求圣灵（见路加福音11:13）。圣灵是使耶稣为你所做的一切在你的生活中成为真实的那一位。
「凡祈求的，就得着…」 这并不意味着如果你不祈求就得不到，而是意味着直到你开始祈求，否则你不会从神那里得到（见马太福音5:45）。要能够得到，就意味着你必须进入与神的儿女关系中，然后你在思想上、道德上和属灵理解上，你领悟和欣赏这些来自神的东西。
「你们中间若有缺少智慧的…」 如果你意识到你缺乏，那是因为你接触到了属灵的真实面，请勿再戴上理性的眼罩。 「求」这个字，实际上意味着「乞求」。有些人穷得足以对自己的贫穷感兴起，而我们中的一些人灵里穷得足以表现出我们的兴趣。然而，如果我们心怀特定的结果而求，我们就永远不会得到，因为我们的祈求是出于我们的私欲，而不是出于我们的贫穷。一个乞丐并无其他任何原因而祈求，除了因他贫穷的完全无望和痛苦光景。他不以乞求为耻——在灵里贫穷的人是有福的（见马太福音5:3）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
根据神在你环境中的护理次序来读圣经，此乃读经唯一之道。即，在个人生活的热血与情感中读经【理解圣经】。《真的门徒》
0609 Then What’s Next To Do?
Everyone who asks receives… —Luke 11:10
Ask if you have not received. There is nothing more difficult than asking. We will have yearnings and desires for certain things, and even suffer as a result of their going unfulfilled, but not until we are at the limit of desperation will we ask. It is the sense of not being spiritually real that causes us to ask. Have you ever asked out of the depths of your total insufficiency and poverty? “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God…” (James 1:5), but be sure that you do lack wisdom before you ask. You cannot bring yourself to the point of spiritual reality anytime you choose. The best thing to do, once you realize you are not spiritually real, is to ask God for the Holy Spirit, basing your request on the promise of Jesus Christ (see Luke 11:13). The Holy Spirit is the one who makes everything that Jesus did for you real in your life.
“Everyone who asks receives….” This does not mean that you will not get if you do not ask, but it means that until you come to the point of asking, you will not receive from God (see Matthew 5:45). To be able to receive means that you have to come into the relationship of a child of God, and then you comprehend and appreciate mentally, morally, and with spiritual understanding, that these things come from God.
“If any of you lacks wisdom….” If you realize that you are lacking, it is because you have come in contact with spiritual reality— do not put the blinders of reason on again. The word ask actually means “beg.” Some people are poor enough to be interested in their poverty, and some of us are poor enough spiritually to show our interest. Yet we will never receive if we ask with a certain result in mind, because we are asking out of our lust, not out of our poverty. A pauper does not ask out of any reason other than the completely hopeless and painful condition of his poverty. He is not ashamed to beg— blessed are the paupers in spirit (see Matthew 5:3).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
To read the Bible according to God’s providential order in your circumstances is the only way to read it, viz., in the blood and passion of personal life. —Disciples Indeed, 387 R