1114 发现神圣的设计
至于我，耶和华在路上引领我…《创世记24:27》
我们应该与神是如此合一，以至于我们不需要持续寻求指引。成圣意味着我们成为神的儿女；儿女的生命正常就是顺服的，直到他选择不顺服。但是，一旦他选择不顺服，就会产生固有的内在冲突。在属灵层面上，内在冲突是神的灵的警告；当祂以这种方式警告我们之时，我们必须立即停下来，我们心灵要被更新以辨识神的旨意（见罗马书 12:2）。如果我们被神的灵重生，我们对祂的忠诚就会受到阻碍，或甚至停止，因为我们不断地要求祂在这里和那里指引我们。「主引领我…」而我们回顾过去，我们会看到一个惊人设计的存在。如果我们是从神所生，我们将看到祂引导的手，并将功劳归于祂。
我们都可以在特殊事件中看见神，但需要有属灵操练的成长，才能在每个细节中看见神，就需要有属灵纪律的成长。永远不要相信所谓生命里的随机事件，不是神所安排秩序的一部分。要准备好在任何地方和在每个地方发现祂神圣的设计。
当心沉迷于始终如一地坚持你自己的信念，而非忠于神。如果你是圣徒，并说「我永远不会做这做那」，很可能这正是神对你的要求。在这世上从来没有比我们的主更不一致的存在，但祂从不与祂的父不一致。圣徒重要的一致性，不是对一个原则，而是对神圣的生命，是神圣的生命，才不断对神的心意有越来越多的发现。做一个极端的狂热分子，比始终如一的忠信者更容易，因为当我们忠于神时，神会使我们的宗教自负变得令人难以相信地谦卑。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们不是要宣扬行善。善行不是被宣讲的，而是要被实践的。《故我差遣你》
1114 Discovering Divine Design
As for me, being on the way, the Lord led me… —Genesis 24:27
We should be so one with God that we don’t need to ask continually for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God. A child’s life is normally obedient, until he chooses disobedience. But as soon as he chooses to disobey, an inherent inner conflict is produced. On the spiritual level, inner conflict is the warning of the Spirit of God. When He warns us in this way, we must stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind to discern God’s will (see Romans 12:2). If we are born again by the Spirit of God, our devotion to Him is hindered, or even stopped, by continually asking Him to guide us here and there. “…the Lord led me…” and on looking back we see the presence of an amazing design. If we are born of God we will see His guiding hand and give Him the credit.
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the growth of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. If you are a saint and say, “I will never do this or that,” in all probability this will be exactly what God will require of you. There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but He was never inconsistent with His Father. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is the divine life that continually makes more and more discoveries about the divine mind. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.—So Send I You