1122 浅而深
所以你们或吃或喝，无论作什么，都要为荣耀神而行。《哥林多前书 10:31》
你要慎防让自己认为生活的浅薄面不是神所命定的；它们与深奥的事物一样，同样都是被祂命定的。有时我们拒绝浅薄，不是出于我们对神的忠心，而是因为我们想让人觉得我们并非浅薄的事实。这是灵性骄傲的确实标志。我们必须当心，因为这就是我们生活中生出对他人的蔑视；那导致我们随时谴责别人，因为他们比我们更浅薄。要谨防冒充为有深度的人，连神都变成一个婴孩。
浅薄并不是罪恶的标志，也不表明你的生命绝无深度——连海洋都有岸边。即使生活中浅薄之事，例如吃喝、行走、说话，都是神所命定的；这些都是我们的主所做的事。祂身为神子做了这些事，并且祂说：「学生不能高过先生… 」（马太福音 10:24）。
我们受生活中浅薄事物的安全防卫。我们必须以常识的方式来过表面的、常识性的生活；那么，当神赐我们更深层次之事物时，它们显然与浅薄的关注是有别的。永远不要向神以外的任何人展示你生命的深度。我们是如此令人作呕地认真，如此拼命地关心我们自己的品格和声誉，以致我们拒绝在浅薄的日常生活中表现得像基督徒。
要下定决心，除了神之外，不要把任何人当真。你可能会发现，第一个你必须最严厉批评的人，你知道的最大骗子，就是你自己。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们永远不能通过头脑中的问题得到解答而进入神的国，只能通过献身。《至善—祢伟大的救赎》
1122 Shallow and Profound
Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. —1 Corinthians 10:31
Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we are not shallow. This is a sure sign of spiritual pride. We must be careful, for this is how contempt for others is produced in our lives. And it causes us to be a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than we are. Beware of posing as a profound person— God became a baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being sinful, nor is shallowness an indication that there is no depth to your life at all— the ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things of life, such as eating and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all things our Lord did. He did them as the Son of God, and He said, “A disciple is not above his teacher…” (Matthew 10:24).
We are safeguarded by the shallow things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated from the shallow concerns. Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God. We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We never enter into the Kingdom of God by having our head questions answered, but only by commitment.—The Highest Good—Thy Great Redemption, 565 R