1215 「得神認可」
你當竭力，在神面前得蒙喜悅，作無愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。《提摩太後書2:15》
如果你不能很好地表達自己信仰的每一條，那就努力學習，直到你能為止。如果你不這樣做，其他人可能會錯失認識真理帶來的祝福。努力向自己重新表述神的真理，清晰易懂，這樣當你與他人分享時，神也會使用那同樣的解釋。但你必須願意經過神的酒榨池，葡萄在那裡被壓碎。你必須努力、試驗和練習你的話，才能清楚地表達神的真理。總有一天，那種表達將成為神能力的酒，送給別人。但如果你不勤奮，說：「我不要學習和努力用我自己的話來表達這個真理；我只會借用別人的話。」那麼，這些話對你或對他人都沒有任何價值。試着向自己陳述你所相信是神的絕對真理，這樣你就讓神有機會通過你把它傳遞給別人。
始終養成習慣，徹底激發你自己的思想，仔細思考那些你輕易相信的事物。你的立場不真正是你的，直到你通過痛苦和學習，才真是你自己的立場。你從哪個作者或講員學習最多的，那個不是教你以前不知道的，而是那個幫助你表達你一直默默掙扎的真理，並且清晰大膽表達出來的人。
來自章伯斯的智慧
聖經是事實的聯繫，其中的真實性必須經過考驗。生活可能會一帆風順一段時間，突然間卻發生喪親之痛，或某個危機；單戀或新戀，災難，生意倒閉，或令人震驚的罪，而我們再次打開聖經，神的話就直接觸動我們心靈，我們會說：「哎呀，我以前在那裡怎麼從未見過呢！」《神手之蔭》
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