0729 你在雲中看見耶穌了嗎？
看哪，祂駕雲降臨…《啟示錄1:7》
在聖經中，雲總是與神相關聯；雲就是我們個人生活中里里外外的悲傷、痛苦或神護佑的情況，這實際上似乎是與神的主權相矛盾。然而，正是通過這些雲，神的靈在教導我們如何憑信心而行。如果我們的生活中從未有雲，我們就無法有信心。「雲彩為祂腳下的塵土」（那鴻書 1:3），它們是神在我們這裡的記號。知道悲傷、喪親和苦難實際上與神同來的雲，這是何等的啟示啊！神不能在無雲情況下接近我們——祂不會在明亮的光輝中降臨。
說神要在我們的試煉中教導我們一些事情，這種說法是不真確的。祂藉着帶給我們途中的每一朵雲，要我丟掉某些事物。祂使用雲的目的是要簡化我們的信仰，直到我們與祂的關係完全像孩子一樣——一種只存在於神與我們自己靈魂之間的關係，而其他人只是影兒。直到其他人對我們成為影兒之前，雲和黑暗將時不時地伴隨我們。我們與神的關係，是否正在變得比以往更單純呢？
神所允許不可思議的護佑環境，與我們對祂的認識，二者之間是有聯結，我們必須學會在我們對神的認識的光中來解釋生活的奧秘。直到我們能夠面對生活中最深沉、最黑暗的事實而不損害我們對神品德的看法之前，我們還不認識祂。
「…他們進入雲彩里就懼怕。」（路加福音 9:34）。在你的雲里，除了耶穌，還有其他人嗎？如果有，那雲只會變得更黑暗，直到你到達「不再見一人，只見耶穌…」的境地（馬可福音 9:8；另見第 2-7 節）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
關於信神的偉大之處，就在於它使人在紛擾中不受干擾。《以賽亞書注釋》
0729 Do You See Jesus in Your Clouds?
Behold, He is coming with clouds… — Revelation 1:7
In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. “The clouds are the dust of His feet” (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child— a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows. Until other people become shadows to us, clouds and darkness will be ours every once in a while. Is our relationship with God becoming more simple than it has ever been?
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child— a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows. Until other people become shadows to us, clouds and darkness will be ours every once in a while. Is our relationship with God becoming more simple than it has ever been?
There is a connection between the strange providential circumstances allowed by God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Until we can come face to face with the deepest, darkest fact of life without damaging our view of God’s character, we do not yet know Him.
“…they were fearful as they entered the cloud” (Luke 9:34). Is there anyone except Jesus in your cloud? If so, it will only get darker until you get to the place where there is “no one anymore, but only Jesus …” (Mark 9:8; also see verses 2–7).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. Notes on Isaiah, 1376 R