0801 学习关乎祂的方式
耶稣吩咐完了十二个门徒，就离开那里，往各城去传道教训人。 《马太福音 11:1》
祂来到祂命令我们离开的地方。当神要你离开，如果你因为太关切在那里你自己的人，而留在家里，那么你实际上是剥夺了他们直接领受耶稣基督自己教导的机会。当你顺服并将一切后果交给神时，主就进你的城市教导，但只要你不顺服，你就阻挡了祂的路。要注意你从开始与祂争辩的地方，将你所谓的责任置于与祂的命令相争之中。如果你说：「我知道祂叫我去，但我的责任是在这里。」这就正意味着你不相信耶稣所说的是认真的。
祂在指示我们不要教导的地方教导。「夫子，我们…可以搭三座棚…」（路加福音 9:33）。
我们是否在扮演业余的护佑者的角色，试图在别人的生活中扮演神的角色？我们教导别人的时候是否如此嘈杂，以致神无法接近他们？我们必须学会闭嘴，灵里保持警惕。神想要教导我们关于祂儿子的事，并想要将我们的祷告时间转变为变像山的时间。当我们确信神是以某种特定方式工作时，祂就再也不会以那种方式工作了。
祂在祂派我们等候的地方工作。「…等候，直到…」（路加福音 24:49）。 「当等候耶和华」，祂必行事（诗篇 37:34）。但不要因为看不到眼前的一寸，你等候时就灵里生闷气，自怜自艾！我们是否与自己灵里的情绪波动有足够脱离，「耐性等候祂」？（诗篇 37:7）。等待并不是双手交叠坐着无所事事，而是学习去做我们被告知的事情。
这些是我们很少认识到祂行事方式的某些方面。
来自章伯斯的智慧
亚伯拉罕的一生是两件事的例证：毫无保留地降服于神，以及神为了祂自己至高目的而完全拥有祂的孩子。《不知往何处去》
0801 Learning About His Ways
When Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples…He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. —Matthew 11:1
He comes where He commands us to leave. If you stayed home when God told you to go because you were so concerned about your own people there, then you actually robbed them of the teaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all the consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach, but as long as you were disobedient, you blocked His way. Watch where you begin to debate with Him and put what you call your duty into competition with His commands. If you say, “I know that He told me to go, but my duty is here,” it simply means that you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He instructs us not to teach. “Master…let us make three tabernacles…” (Luke 9:33).
Are we playing the part of an amateur providence, trying to play God’s role in the lives of others? Are we so noisy in our instruction of other people that God cannot get near them? We must learn to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct us regarding His Son, and He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration. When we become certain that God is going to work in a particular way, He will never work in that way again.
He works where He sends us to wait. “…tarry…until…” (Luke 24:49). “Wait on the Lord” and He will work (Psalm 37:34). But don’t wait sulking spiritually and feeling sorry for yourself, just because you can’t see one inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual fits of emotion to “wait patiently for Him”? (Psalm 37:7). Waiting is not sitting with folded hands doing nothing, but it is learning to do what we are told.
These are some of the facets of His ways that we rarely recognize.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The life of Abraham is an illustration of two things: of unreserved surrender to God, and of God’s complete possession of a child of His for His own highest end. —Not Knowing Whither, 901 R