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注意里面的禁止
经文: 「地震后有火……火后有微小的声音。」（王上十九12）
有一位姊妹，在明白上帝旨意这件事上，进步得非常之快；有一次，有人问到
她容易进步的秘诀。她简洁地回答
道：「注意里面的禁止。」眞的，我们中间许多人不明白上帝旨意的缘故，就是因为不
注意里面圣灵的禁止。圣灵的声
音是微小的。一个微小的声音是不容易听见的，但是却能教你觉得──叫你心中觉得一
种平稳微小的压力，好像早晨的
微风吹在你脸上那样觉得。这种微小的声音，如果你好好注意它，会一次比一次更清楚
，一次比一次更容易听的。当我
们全心专注在爱人身上的时候，爱人一句顶轻细的耳语，我们很快地就领会了；圣灵的
声音就是爱人耳语的声音。但是
如果我们不回答他、不理会他、不相信他，爱人也就会不再说什么的。上帝是爱，我们
要认识祂和祂的声音，必须时常
留心注意。当你与人谈话，正要发言的时候，如果里面有禁止的话，就该立即闭口不言
。当你正要进行某种事业──正
当的事业──的时候，如果你灵里觉得不平安的话，就该立即改变计划，虽然按照人的
智慧来看，这也许是一个顶大的
愚眛。
在注意里面的禁止以外，我们还该学习等候上帝披露祂的旨意。在一切事上让
上帝替你计划、替你执行。不要倚靠
你自己的聪明。许多时候上帝的执行和上帝的计划似乎相反──祂似乎在反对自己；但
是你只要听从、顺服信靠，虽然
看上去这似乎是顶愚昧的事。至终，祂必使「万事互相效力，叫爱上帝的人得益处。」
（罗八28）
所以如果你要认识上帝的声音，你必须先有一个绝对顺服的存心──不顾结果
，不顾成败。就是上帝要你在暗中前
进，你也愿意顺服；因为上帝自己是你里面荣耀的光辉。这样，你就会更认识上帝、更
亲近上帝；甚至在最猛烈的试炼
下、可怕的压力下，你也会感到上帝的同在。 ──译自信心的方法（Way of Faith）
Mind The Checks
Scripture: "And after the earthquake a fire; and after the fire a sound of
gentle stillness" (1 Kings 19:12, RV
margin.)
A soul, who made rapid progress in her understanding of the Lord,
was once asked the secret of her
easy advancement. She replied tersely, "Mind the checks." And the reason
that many of us do not know and
better understand Him is, we do not give heed to His gentle checks, His
delicate restraints and constraints.
His is a still, small voice. A still voice can hardly be heard. It must be
felt. A steady, gentle pressure upon
the heart and mind like the touch of a morning zephyr to your face. A small
voice, quietly, almost timidly
spoken in your heart, but if heeded growing noiselessly clearer to your
inner ear. His voice is for the ear of
love, and love is intent upon hearing even faintest whispers. There comes a
time also when love ceases to
speak if not responded to, or believed in. He is love, and if you would know
Him and His voice, give
constant ear to His gentle touches. In conversation, when about to utter
some word, give heed to that gentle
voice, mind the check and refrain from speech. When about to pursue some
course that seems all clear and
right and there comes quietly to your spirit a suggestion that has in it the
force almost of a conviction, give
heed, even if changed plans seem highest folly from standpoint of human
wisdom. Learn also to wait on
God for the unfolding of His will. Let God form your plans about everything
in your mind and heart and then
let Him execute them. Do not possess any wisdom of your own. For many times
His execution will seem so
contradictory to the plan He gave. He will seem to work against Himself.
Simply listen, obey and trust God
even when it seems highest folly so to do. He will in the end make "all
things work together," but so many
times in the first appearance of the outworking of His plans.
So if you would know His voice, never consider results or possible
effects. Obey even when He asks you
to move in the dark. He Himself will be gloriously light in you. And there
will spring up rapidly in your heart
an acquaintanceship and a fellowship with God which will be overpowering in
itself to hold you and Him
together, even in severest testings and under most terrible pressures.--Way
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