11月22日 浅与深
所以你们或吃或喝，无论作什么，都要为荣耀神而行。（林前十31）
别以为生活上浅显的事，不是出于神；这些事与深奥的事一样，同是出于神。你不肯表现肤浅，不是由于你对神的忠诚虔敬，而是你想叫人觉得你并不肤浅；这样，正好表现了你属灵的骄傲。若是如此，你就得当心：不要让鄙视在你心里成形，使你随时指控人，因为觉得人人都比你肤浅。当心别以高深莫测自居；神也是成了婴孩而来的。
肤浅并不是奸恶的表现，也并不表示没有深度，海洋也有边岸。生活中表面化的常事，如饮食、行走、谈话，都是神所定的。这也是主的生活。作为神的儿子，他也这样生活，他说：“学生不能高过先生。”
我们的保障是在于浅显的事。我们必须以平常之道过日常平凡的生活。深奥的事，是神在浅近的事以外赐给我们。除了向神，我们不必向任何人显露深度。我们往往太过专注于自己的品性，以致不肯在日常平凡生活中，活得像基督徒。要下决心除了神，不把任何人放在心内；这样你会发现第一个要摒弃不管的，就是最会假冒的家伙——你自己。
祈祷◆主啊，愿你今天将圣灵的直觉力和你所有的灵感赐给我，以致我可以在一切事情上辨别你。愿你恩慈的同在和平安充满这一整天。
November 22 Shallow And Profound
“Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31
Beware of allowing yourself to think that
the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God
as the profound. It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be
shallow, but your wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not
shallow, which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the
production of contempt in yourself, it always comes along this line, and causes
you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more
shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person; God became a Baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being
wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps: the ocean has a
shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking,
are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived
in them as the Son of God, and He said that “the disciple is not above his Master.”
Our safeguard is in the shallow things. We
have to live the surface common-sense life in a common-sense way; when the
deeper things come, God gives them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never
show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately
interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in
the shallow concerns of life.
Determinedly take no one seriously but
God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being
the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
