If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them —John 13:17
Be determined to know more than others. If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. Put everything in your life afloat upon God, going out to sea on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and your eyes will be opened. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself— begin to have spiritual discernment.
When you know that you should do something and you do it, immediately you know more. Examine where you have become sluggish, where you began losing interest spiritually, and you will find that it goes back to a point where you did not do something you knew you should do. You did not do it because there seemed to be no immediate call to do it. But now you have no insight or discernment, and at a time of crisis you are spiritually distracted instead of spiritually self-controlled. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to continue learning and knowing more.
The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you create your own opportunities to sacrifice yourself, and your zeal and enthusiasm are mistaken for discernment. It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfill your spiritual destiny, which is stated in Romans 12:1-2. It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice. “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice . . .” (1 Samuel 15:22). Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been. “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . .” (John 7:17).
下一步是什麼？
你們既知道這事，若是去行就有福了。 （約十三17）
你若不切斷錨索，神就會用風暴來把它們折斷，好送你出去。把所有的交給神，在他旨意的狂瀾中出去，你的眼就必開啟。你若相信耶穌，就不可老是留在風平浪靜的港口內，滿心快樂地度日，被纜繩一直拴住。你必須從港口出來，進入神的深處，親自探索，要得屬靈得亮光，能以分辨是非。
若是做了該做的事，你隨即就知道的更多。試檢討一下你的靈性在什麼地方停滯了。你就必發現在某一件該做的事上你沒有去做，因為覺得沒有逼切的呼召。如今你失去了知覺與分辨力了。在緊要關頭上，你的靈性分了心，不能收斂起來。不繼續求知，是很危險的。
虛偽的順服，就是製造自我犧牲，誤把熱情當做明辨。犧牲自己比達成屬靈任務容易很多，這就是羅馬書十二章1至2節所說的。察驗神的心意，成全他在你身上的旨意，比自我犧牲的壯舉要好很多。 [聽命勝於獻祭。 ]當神要在你身上成就還未成就的，要追憶你往日聽見神的光景。 [若是去行……就知道……]。
祈禱◆主啊，在關於人的事情上，我的思想模糊。求你成為他們的堅固城堡，因為似乎沒有人注意或關心他們。讓他們免受敵人的壓迫，因著他們對你的忠心，願你保存他們。主啊，願你以大能承擔此事。
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