2月20日 控制夢想的動力
起來，我們走吧。（約十四31）
爲求事情做得好而産生的夢想，原是對的。但在實行時仍在發夢，那就不對了。我們的主對門徒說完了那番美好的教訓後，我們多半以爲他會吩咐門徒好好去默想；但主從來不容讓我們只有空想。與神相交，要尋求他的心意，夢想是可以的；但當神已經告訴我們怎樣做，我們仍想花時間去做夢，這就不對了，神是不會祝福這事。神對此等夢想，總是鞭辟入裏，要給我們一個當頭棒喝。這一棒叫我們“不要再坐著、再站著，乃要出去”。
若果我們正安靜等候神，他說：“來歇一歇吧！”這是在神面前的默想，爲要明白神的心意，但一旦神已經說了，就不要耽擱在夢想裏。讓神成爲你一切的夢想、一切賞心樂事的源頭，然後遵行他所吩咐的。在愛情裏，你不會一天到晚坐在那裏，夢想你所愛的人；你會去爲他有所行動；這正是耶穌基督期望我們做的。當神顯明他的心意，而我們仍在發夢，那表示我們幷不信任他。
祈禱◆在我感到自己變得完全無用，只有軟弱的當兒，我何等需要全然抓緊你。我感到自己已經錯失了那起點，而我現時似乎在這種感受下屈服。主啊，求你糾正我的意念和理想。
February 20 The Initiative Against
Dreaming
“Arise, let us go hence.” John 14:31
Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming
about it when we should be doing it is wrong. After Our Lord had said those
wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected that He would tell
them to go away and meditate over them all; but Our Lord never allowed
“mooning.” When we are getting into contact with God in order to find out what
He wants, dreaming is right; but when we are inclined to spend our time in
dreaming over what we have been told to do, it is a bad thing and God’s
blessing is never on it. God’s initiative is always in the nature of a stab
against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us “neither sit nor stand but
go.”
If we are quietly waiting before God and He has said – “Come ye
yourselves apart,” then that is meditation before God in order to get at the
line He wants; but always beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God
has spoken. Leave Him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and
delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not
sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something
for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has
spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.
