11月2日
标 题： 照你所知的去行
经 节： 人若知道行善，却不去行，这就是他的罪了。（雅各书四章17节）
知道神的旨意却不去做，绝对不是一件小事。神称这种行为是罪。我们可以为自己的不顺服找借口，说：“我还没有预备好”、“等会儿再做”，或说：“我不认为这样做有何分别”、“我做不到”……。我们常为自己的借口合理化，或拖延没有行动。在神眼中，合理化或拖延都是不顺服。有时候，我们自己骗自己，以为好的动机等于顺服的行动。不，这种想法是错误的。当我们与神相遇，祂给我们生命的方向。单单把日期写在灵修笔记上，或甚至把自己的“决定”告诉朋友及教会，都是不够的。神对我们的呼召，不是要我们“作决定”，而是要我们顺服！决定顺服并不等于顺服（马太福音廿一：28～31）！大声肯定顺服的必要性，并不等于顺服（路加福音六：46）。在公开场合决志奉献，并不等于顺服我们的主。就算是自己努力的好成果，也不可能替代顺服。
神要扫罗王等候，直到先知撒母耳到来，但扫罗等不及就自己献祭了。扫罗十分讶异，他发现，看似很敬虔的行动也无法替代神清楚的命令（撒母耳记上十五：22）。就像对扫罗一样，神期待你完全照着祂向你所说的话顺服祂。唯有顺服才能够满足神对顺服的要求！
Have You Done
What You Know to Do?
Therefore, to
him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. (James 4:17)
It is never a minor thing to know God’s will and not do it. God calls
this sin. We can make excuses for our lack of obedience: “I’m just not ready
yet” or “I’ll do it later!” or “I don’t think it will make a difference” or “I
can’t afford to!” We rationalize, we procrastinatate; yet, in God’s eyes,
rationalization and procrastination are nothing more than disobedience. At
times we deceive ourselves into thinking that good intentions equal obedient
actions. They do not. A good intention without corresponding activity is
disobedience. When we encounter God and He gives us a direction, it is not
enough to write down the date in our spiritual journal, or even to tell our
friends and church of our “decision.” God’s call is not to “make a decision”
but to obey! Deciding to obey is not equal to obeying! (Matt. 21:28–31). Loudly
affirming the necessity of obedience is not the same as obeying (Luke 6:46).
Making commitments, even publicly, is not the same as obeying our Lord.
Substituting our own good works is not the same as obeying.
God told King Saul to wait until the prophet Samuel arrived. Instead of
waiting, Saul took matters into his own hands and offered a sacrifice. Saul
discovered, to his deep dismay, that other acts of supposed piety do not take
the place of obeying a clear command from God (1 Sam. 15:22). As with Saul, God
expects you to obey everything exactly as He tells you. Only obedience
satisfies God’s desire for obedience!
