1215 「得神认可」
你当竭力，在神面前得蒙喜悦，作无愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。《提摩太后书2:15》
如果你不能很好地表达自己信仰的每一条，那就努力学习，直到你能为止。如果你不这样做，其他人可能会错失认识真理带来的祝福。努力向自己重新表述神的真理，清晰易懂，这样当你与他人分享时，神也会使用那同样的解释。但你必须愿意经过神的酒榨池，葡萄在那里被压碎。你必须努力、试验和练习你的话，才能清楚地表达神的真理。总有一天，那种表达将成为神能力的酒，送给别人。但如果你不勤奋，说：「我不要学习和努力用我自己的话来表达这个真理；我只会借用别人的话。」那么，这些话对你或对他人都没有任何价值。试着向自己陈述你所相信是神的绝对真理，这样你就让神有机会通过你把它传递给别人。
始终养成习惯，彻底激发你自己的思想，仔细思考那些你轻易相信的事物。你的立场不真正是你的，直到你通过痛苦和学习，才真是你自己的立场。你从哪个作者或讲员学习最多的，那个不是教你以前不知道的，而是那个帮助你表达你一直默默挣扎的真理，并且清晰大胆表达出来的人。
来自章伯斯的智慧
圣经是事实的联系，其中的真实性必须经过考验。生活可能会一帆风顺一段时间，突然间却发生丧亲之痛，或某个危机；单恋或新恋，灾难，生意倒闭，或令人震惊的罪，而我们再次打开圣经，神的话就直接触动我们心灵，我们会说：「哎呀，我以前在那里怎么从未见过呢！」《神手之荫》
1215 「Approved to God」
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. —2 Timothy 2:15
If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else. But you must be willing to go through God’s winepress where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will become God’s wine of strength to someone else. But if you are not diligent and say, “I’m not going to study and struggle to express this truth in my own words; I’ll just borrow my words from someone else,” then the words will be of no value to you or to others. Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone else.
Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible is a relation of facts, the truth of which must be tested. Life may go on all right for a while, when suddenly a bereavement comes, or some crisis; unrequited love or a new love, a disaster, a business collapse, or a shocking sin, and we turn up our Bibles again and God’s word comes straight home, and we say, “Why, I never saw that there before.” —Shade of His Hand, 1223 L