0625 在悲伤火焰中接纳自己
…我说什么才好呢？父啊，救我脱离这时候。但我原是为这时候来的。父啊，愿你荣耀你的名。 《约翰福音 12:27-28》
作为神的圣徒，我对待悲伤和困难的态度不应该是求阻止它们，而是请求神保护我，使我能够继续保持祂创造我的所是，尽管在我一切悲伤火焰。我们的主在悲伤烈火中接纳了自己，接受了祂的地位并实现了祂的目的。祂不是被拯救脱离了那时辰，而是在那时辰中得救。
我们说不应该有悲伤，但悲伤确实存在，我们必须在其烈火中接受并接纳自己。如果我们试图逃避悲伤，拒绝面对处理它，我们就是愚不可及的。悲伤是生命中最大的事实之一，说不应该有悲伤是没有用的。罪恶、悲伤和苦难都是存在的，我们不能说神允许它们就是错误的。
悲伤很大程度消除了一个人的肤浅，但并不总是使这人变得更好。苦难要么让我拥有自我，要么摧毁我。你无法通过成功找到或接纳自己，因为你会因骄傲而失去理智。你也无法通过一成不变的日常生活来接纳自己，因为你会陷入抱怨中。找到自己的唯一途径就是在悲伤火焰中。为什么会这样并不重要；事实上，在圣经和人类的经验里都是真的。
你总能辨识出谁经历了悲伤火焰并接纳了自己，你知道在你困境时你可以去找祂，并发现祂有足够的时间给你。但如果一个人没有经历过悲伤的火焰，他很容易轻蔑你，对你不尊重或没有时间给你，只会把你拒之门外。如果你在悲伤火焰中会接纳自己，神就会使你成为他人的滋养。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们对神的看法有可能像熔化的铅倒入专门设计的模具中一样危险，当它又冷又硬时，我们就把它扔到不同意我们观点的宗教人士的头上。《真的门徒》
0625 Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow
…what shall I say? “Father, save Me from this hour”? But for this purpose I came to this hour. “Father, glorify Your name.” —John 12:27-28
As a saint of God, my attitude toward sorrow and difficulty should not be to ask that they be prevented, but to ask that God protect me so that I may remain what He created me to be, in spite of all my fires of sorrow. Our Lord received Himself, accepting His position and realizing His purpose, in the midst of the fire of sorrow. He was saved not from the hour, but out of the hour.
We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but there is sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
Sorrow removes a great deal of a person’s shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow. Why it should be this way is immaterial. The fact is that it is true in the Scriptures and in human experience. You can always recognize who has been through the fires of sorrow and received himself, and you know that you can go to him in your moment of trouble and find that he has plenty of time for you. But if a person has not been through the fires of sorrow, he is apt to be contemptuous, having no respect or time for you, only turning you away. If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us. Disciples Indeed, 388 R