11月14日 看出神的安排
耶和華在路上引領我……（創二十四27）
我們應該與神合一到一個地步，不必一天到晚求他指引。成聖就是成為神的兒女，而兒女的生命就是順服－－一旦不順服，就立刻直覺地感到一種隔膜。在屬靈的範疇裡，這隔膜是聖靈的一個警告。當聖靈警告，我們就該立即停下來，在心靈裡更新，好知道神的旨意。我們若是神的靈重生的，仍不住求神引我到這裡、到那裡，就是不敬虔。“耶和華引領我”，回顧過去，我們可以處處看見神奇妙無比的安排。我們若是從神生的，就必歸榮耀給神。在特殊的事上容易看見神的作為，可是只有在屬靈上有操練，才會在每一細節上看見神。別忽略一些偶然的事，認為這些是在神的旨意以外；要隨時隨地明白神的安排。
當心只顧崇拜自己一貫的信念，而不是專心愛神。“我永不做那件事”－－若你是個聖徒的話，很可能你不能不做。主在世上是最不持守一貫做法的人，但他從不違背父神。聖徒唯一要持守的，不是一套原則，乃是神的生命。有神的生命，才不斷增加對神心意的認識。做狂熱主義者容易，做忠心耿耿的人難，因為要效忠神，需要一種出奇的謙卑；尤其是對在宗教上的虛偽，尤為困難。
祈禱◆“凡有智慧的……也必思想耶和華的慈愛。”主啊，那是多麼美好！為著你的榮耀，請賜給我這個記號。今天，我仰望你；願你的恩惠和美善豐厚地臨到我們。
November 14 Discovering Divine Designs
“I being in the way, the Lord
led me. . .” Genesis 24:27
We have to be so one with God that we do
not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made
the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience – until he
wishes to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar. In the
spiritual domain the intuitive jar is the monition of the Spirit of God. When
He gives the check, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our
mind in order to make out what God’s will is. If we are born again of the
Spirit of God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and
there. “The Lord led me,” and on looking back we see the presence of an amazing
design, which, if we are born of God, we will credit to God.
We can all see God in exceptional things,
but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God’s appointed order, and
be ready to discover the Divine designs any where.
Beware of making a fetish of consistency
to your convictions instead of being devoted to God. I shall never do that – in
all probability you will have to, if you are a saint. There never was a more
inconsistent Being on this earth than Our Lord, but He was never inconsistent
to His Father. The one consistency of the saint is not to a principle, but to
the Divine life. It is the Divine life which continually makes more and more
discoveries about the Divine mind. It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful
soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our
religious conceit, in being loyal to God.
