4月15日 在專誠上散漫

只是邱壇還沒有從以色列中廢去，然而亞撒的心一生誠實。（代下十五17）

亞撒外在的順服並不完全——他大體上是對的，但並不完全。若說“不大要緊”的事，要特別當心。對你不大要緊的，對神可能十分要緊。對神的兒女來說，沒有一件事是小的。我們阻止神來教導我們到底要多久呢？但神不會失去耐性。你說：“我知道自己對得起神。”可是邱壇猶在，你仍有未順服的事。你是否一面堅稱自己對得起神，一面在生活上仍有些東西令你猶豫不決？一有猶豫，要立即放手，不管這是什麼。沒有什麼事是無關重要的。

在你身體上、思想上，有沒有任何東西，叫你不能專心的？你大致上沒有問題了，但卻很隨便馬虎；那就是在專心的事上出了岔子。你的心臟不能“告假”、停止跳動，同樣的，你屬靈的專一也不能“告假”，稍有鬆懈。你德行的操練若放假一天，你的道德就墮落了；你的靈若放假一天，你就不再屬靈。神要你完全屬他，這就是說，你要警醒自守，保持最佳狀態。這實在需要很長的時間，但有些人卻以為兩三分鐘就可以一飛沖天！

祈禱◆噢，主啊，願你的光穿透我。將你滿意的笑容和福祉賜給我，使我整個人都屬你。

April 15 The Relapse Of Concentration

“But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.” 2 Chronicles 15:17

Asa was incomplete in his external obedience, he was right in the main but not entirely right. Beware of the thing of which you say – “Oh, that does not matter much.” The fact that it does not matter much to you may mean that it matters a very great deal to God. Nothing is a light matter with a child of God. How much longer are some of us going to keep God trying to teach us one thing? He never loses patience. You say – “I know I am right with God”; but still the “high places” remain, there is something over which you have not obeyed. Are you protesting that your heart is right with God, and yet is there something in your life about which He has caused you to doubt? Whenever there is doubt, quit immediately, no matter what it is. Nothing is a mere detail.

Are there some things in connection with your bodily life, your intellectual life, upon which you are not concentrating at all? You are all right in the main but you are slipshod; there is a relapse on the line of concentration. You no more need a holiday from spiritual concentration than your heart needs a holiday from beating. You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions” in about two minutes.