7月29日 你在云中看见什么？
看哪，他驾云降临。（启一7）
在圣经里，云总与神有关。云就是我们个人生命中里里外外的悲哀痛苦，这些似乎与神的本质相违，但神的灵却正用这些云教我们在信心中行走。若没有云，就无法有信心。“云不过是我父脚下的尘。”云是他在这里的表征，当我们明白愁苦是与神一起来的云，那是何等的启示啊！没有云，神就无法就近，他不会万丈光芒地来。
不要说神要在试炼中教导我们什么，其实他要用每一朵云，去掉我们学的一些东西。神用云的目的，是要简化我们的信心，直到我们与他的关系像一个小孩子一样——只有神和我，别人不过是影儿。别人若不成为影儿，云和黑暗就必不断临到。我与神的关系，是否日益单纯？似乎难以明白神的旨意，与我们对他的认识有一定的关系；我们必须学习在认识神的光中，明白生命中的奥秘。除非我们能面对最黑暗的人生，而对神的性情仍无所歪曲，否则我们仍未认识神。
“他们进入云里，就甚惧怕……”在你的云里“除耶稣以外”，还有谁？若有，那云就会愈变愈黑。你一定要“不见一人，只见耶稣”。
祈祷◆噢，我的父神，云彩只是你足下的尘土！当恐惧过后，让我在神的眷佑、或神的属性、或神的恩典的每朵云彩中，不见别人，只见耶稣，直至恐惧不再存在。
July
29 What Do You See In Your Clouds?
“Behold, He cometh with
clouds.” Revelation 1:7
In the Bible clouds are always connected with God.
Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our
personal lives, which seem to dispute the rule of God. It is by those very
clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there
were no clouds, we should have no faith. “The clouds are but the dust of our
Father’s feet.” The clouds are a sign that He is there. What a revelation it is
to know that sorrow and bereavement and suffering are the clouds that come along
with God! God cannot come near without clouds, He does not come in clear
shining.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us
something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn
something. His purpose in the cloud is to simplify our belief until our
relationship to Him is exactly that of a child – God and my own soul, other
people are shadows. Until other people become shadows, clouds and darkness will
be mine every now and again. Is the relationship between myself and God getting
simpler than ever it has been?
There is a connection between the strange
providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret
the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Unless we can look
the darkest, blackest fact full in the face without damaging God’s character,
we do not yet know Him.
“They feared as they entered the cloud . . .” – Is there anyone “save
Jesus only” in your cloud? If so, it will get darker; you must get to the place
where there is “no one any more save Jesus only.”
