你当努力,在神面前得蒙喜悦,作无愧的工人,接着正意分解真理的道。(提后二15)
要是你不能在任何题目上表达自己,就当好好努力,直至你能表达出来,否则,有些人会因此一生贫瘠。试把神某些真理对自己再三说出来,力求改进,神会藉你的话叫别人得益。要进入神的压酒池,竭力用各种方式把道理表达,时候到了,那些话就成为别人得力的美酒。若你懒洋洋地说:“我自己不必努力去表达,我可以借用别人的话。”这样,不但自己无用,对别人也无益。试把神的真理说出来,这样你就给神机会,把资讯带给人。
经常保持反诌的习惯,刺激脑袋再三思想那些理所当然的东西。经过苦练,岗位才真正成为我们的。一个作者叫你收益最大,不是因他把你从不知晓的东西告诉你,而是他把你不能表达的东西表达出来。
祈祷◆主啊,我愿称颂和赞美你,然而,当我身体软弱,我感到赞美你是何其困难,但为何必然是这样呢?这意味着惟有当我感到愉快,我才赞美你。但愿我的心能持续不断地赞美你!
December 15 Approved Unto God
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily – “I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say,” the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.
Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.