1月19日 异象與黑暗
忽然有驚人的大黑暗落在他身上。（創十五12）
神什麽時候把异象給信徒，就什麽時候把他放在他手的陰影底下。聖徒那時的責任，是要安靜聆聽。在極度強烈的光綫下，會産生一種黑暗，那時就得洗耳恭聽。創世記十五章就是個好例子。在黑暗中，人只會尋求人的指示，卻不等候神的光照。每逢神賜下异象，黑暗卻接踵而來的話，就要等候。只要等候神的時間，他會按照給你的异象成就。切勿自告奮勇地幫助神成就他的應許。亞伯拉罕有十三年在靜默中度過，在那些年日裏，一切自己的辦法都行不通，故不能憑頭腦理智去解決問題。那段寂靜的日子是操練的日子，而不是愁苦的日子。不必故意製造喜樂和勇氣，只要心堅依靠神。（賽五十10-11）
我對肉體還有所倚恃嗎？還是我已經脫離了對自己、對神的兒女、對書本、對禱告、及興奮感覺的信賴，甚至是他的祝福，而把信心完全放在神身上，“我是全能的神”——是作爲父母的神。我們受操練的目的，是要認識神是真實的。一旦看見神是真實的，其他人就成爲影子了。其他信徒無論說什麽，做什麽，再也無法影響一個建造在神裏面的人。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，我在重重的黑暗中靠近你，求你爲我驅散黑暗，幷以你的臉光照我。
January 19 Vision And
Darkness
“An horror of great darkness fell upon him.” Genesis 15:12
Whenever God gives a vision
to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in the shadow of His hand, and the saint’s
duty is to be still and listen. There is a darkness which comes from excess of
light, and then is the time to listen. Genesis 16 is an illustration of
listening to good advice when it is dark instead of waiting for God to send the
light. When God gives a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will make you in
accordance with the vision He has given if you will wait His time. Never try
and help God fulfil His word. Abraham went through thirteen years of silence,
but in those years all self-sufficiency was destroyed; there was no possibility
left of relying on common-sense ways. Those years of silence were a time of
discipline, not of displeasure. Never pump up joy and confidence, but stay upon
God (cf. Isaiah 50:10,11).
Have I any confidence in the
flesh? Or have I got beyond all confidence in myself and in men and women of
God; in books and prayers and ecstasies; and is my confidence placed now in God
Himself, not in His blessings? “I am the Almighty God” – El-Shaddai, the
Father-Mother God. The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to
know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become
shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is
built on God.
