7月13日 異象的代價

當烏西雅王崩的那年，我見主坐在高高的寶座上。（賽六1）

我們心靈與神的歷程，往往是英雄人物式逝去的歷程。神一次又一次地把我們的朋友挪開，使他自己可以代替他們的地位，我們卻因此失敗灰心。就個人經驗來說：那年那個替代了神位置的人死了——我是否萬念俱灰？病了？頹喪灰心？還是看見了主？

我對神的異象，有賴於我品性的狀況。品性決定啟示。我若要說“我看見了主”，就必先在品性上有了與神相呼應的成分。在我重生得見神的國以前，所看見的都隨我的偏見而定；我需要接受手術，切除外在的事物，也需要內裡的潔淨。第一是神，第二、第三也是神，直到生命單單面對神，其他人都無關重要。“世上除你還有誰？我的神，只有你。”不斷付代價，讓神知道你甘願達成異象。

祈禱◆主啊，我感謝你，因為我發現自己在盼望你再來時深感熱切的喜樂！噢，由此我可以在你眼前蒙恩，並且，要讓自己的行事為人，與你的偉大救恩更為相稱！

July 13 The Price Of Vision

“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord.” Isaiah 6:1

Our soul's history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died – I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or – I saw the Lord?

My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say “I saw also the Lord,” there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification.

It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. “In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.” Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.