7月29日 你在雲中看見什麼？

看哪，他駕雲降臨。（啟一7）

在聖經裡，雲總與神有關。雲就是我們個人生命中裡裡外外的悲哀痛苦，這些似乎與神的本質相違，但神的靈卻正用這些雲教我們在信心中行走。若沒有雲，就無法有信心。“雲不過是我父腳下的塵。”雲是他在這裡的表徵，當我們明白愁苦是與神一起來的雲，那是何等的啟示啊！沒有雲，神就無法就近，他不會萬丈光芒地來。

不要說神要在試煉中教導我們什麼，其實他要用每一朵雲，去掉我們學的一些東西。神用雲的目的，是要簡化我們的信心，直到我們與他的關係像一個小孩子一樣——只有神和我，別人不過是影兒。別人若不成為影兒，雲和黑暗就必不斷臨到。我與神的關係，是否日益單純？似乎難以明白神的旨意，與我們對他的認識有一定的關係；我們必須學習在認識神的光中，明白生命中的奧秘。除非我們能面對最黑暗的人生，而對神的性情仍無所歪曲，否則我們仍未認識神。

“他們進入雲裡，就甚懼怕……”在你的雲裡“除耶穌以外”，還有誰？若有，那雲就會愈變愈黑。你一定要“不見一人，只見耶穌”。

祈禱◆噢，我的父神，雲彩只是你足下的塵土！當恐懼過後，讓我在神的眷佑、或神的屬性、或神的恩典的每朵雲彩中，不見別人，只見耶穌，直至恐懼不再存在。

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.”