0609 然後，下一步要做什麼？
凡祈求的，就得着… 《路加福音 11:10》
如果你沒有得到，就要祈求。這沒有什麼比祈求更困難的了。我們會渴望和欲求某些特定的東西，甚至會因為它們沒有實現而感到痛苦，但直到絕望的邊緣，我們才會祈求。正是這種靈性上不真實的感覺促使我們祈求。你曾出於自己全然不足和貧窮的深處而祈求嗎？「你們中間若有缺少智慧的，應當求那厚賜與眾人、也不斥責人的神，主必賜給他。」（雅各書 1:5），但要確保在求之前你真的缺乏智慧。你無法在你選擇的任何時候讓自己達到真實屬靈的境地。一旦你意識到自己沒有屬靈的真實，最好的做法就是根據耶穌基督的應許而向神祈求聖靈（見路加福音11:13）。聖靈是使耶穌為你所做的一切在你的生活中成為真實的那一位。
「凡祈求的，就得着…」 這並不意味着如果你不祈求就得不到，而是意味着直到你開始祈求，否則你不會從神那裡得到（見馬太福音5:45）。要能夠得到，就意味着你必須進入與神的兒女關係中，然後你在思想上、道德上和屬靈理解上，你領悟和欣賞這些來自神的東西。
「你們中間若有缺少智慧的…」 如果你意識到你缺乏，那是因為你接觸到了屬靈的真實面，請勿再戴上理性的眼罩。 「求」這個字，實際上意味着「乞求」。有些人窮得足以對自己的貧窮感興起，而我們中的一些人靈里窮得足以表現出我們的興趣。然而，如果我們心懷特定的結果而求，我們就永遠不會得到，因為我們的祈求是出於我們的私慾，而不是出於我們的貧窮。一個乞丐並無其他任何原因而祈求，除了因他貧窮的完全無望和痛苦光景。他不以乞求為恥——在靈里貧窮的人是有福的（見馬太福音5:3）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
根據神在你環境中的護理次序來讀聖經，此乃讀經唯一之道。即，在個人生活的熱血與情感中讀經【理解聖經】。《真的門徒》
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