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June 30
"There was silence, and I heard a still voice."(Job 4:16, margin.)
Ａ SCORE of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought─that God was waiting in the depths of my being to talk to me if I would only get still enough to hear His voice.
I thought this would be a very easy matter, and so began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect Pandmonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din.
Some were my own voices, my own questions, some my very prayers. Others were suggestions of the tempter and the voices from the world's turmoil.
In every direction I was pulled and pushed and greeted with noisy acclamatios and unspeakable unrest. It seemed necessary for me to listen to some of them and to answer some of them; but God said,
"Be still, and know that I am God." Then came the conflict of thoughts for tomorrow, and its duties and cares; but God said, "Be still."
And as I listened, and slowly learned to obey, and shut my ears to every sound, I found after a while that when the other voices ceased, or I ceased to hear them, there was a still small voice in the depths of my being that began to speak with an inexpressible tenderness, power and comfort.
As I listened, it became to me the voice of prayer, the voice of wisdom, the voice of duty, and I did not need to think so hard, or pray so hard, or trust so hard; but that "still small voice" of the Holy Spirit in my heart was God's prayer in my secret soul, was God's answer to all my questions, was God's life and strength for soul and body, and became the substance of all knowledge, and all prayer and all blessing: for it was the living GOD Himself as my life, my all.
It is thus that our spirit drinks in the life of our risen Lord, and we go forth to life's conflicts and duties like a flower that has drunk in, through the shades of night, the cool and crystal drops of dew. But as dew never falls on a stormy night, so the dews of His grace never come to the restless soul.
─A. B. Simpson.
「因此，我在父面前屈膝……使基督因你們的信，住在你們心裏；叫你們的愛心有根有基，……知道這愛是過於人所能測度的。」以弗所書三章14—19節
這些默想能使我們感覺到不夠愛神，是何等慚愧；這比一個堅決尋求如何，他的國家還要多，只有神能奇妙的運行，去幫助那些誠心求助的人，以愛使他們來到施恩寶座面前。
愛的恩賜並非單獨賜予，而是當我們的心為基督所充滿才能賜下；假如我們每天與神交談，則我們對祂的愛才會維持長久。我們剛才所看的經文，使徒保羅說：「我屈膝，當我們謙卑地俯伏在施恩寶座面前，敬拜、等候，然後才會接受在心中的聖靈，並能測度基督的愛。」
我們不單是求罪得赦免，我們也要求更豐盛的恩幫助我們繼續勝過罪，不使內在的聖靈擔憂；我們要誠心祈求使那「過於我們所能測度的愛」在我們生命佔首要地位，在施恩座前，我們的愛心才能有根有基。
我們不僅尋求罪得赦免，也要求豐盛的恩典幫助我們繼續勝過罪惡，配成為聖靈的殿；我們必須迫切禱告，使我們生活以「無法測透基督的愛」為首位，在施恩寶座前生根建造在這愛裏，使我們可以愛神和週遭那些不明白愛的人，使他們心裡富足。
如此蒙福的光景，只有憑信心從施恩座求得，根據父神豐富的恩典向祂祈求，就能憑信心得著，我們可以看出這只有從神支取能力，並且學習明白基督的愛，使我們遵命去愛弟兄。
「就趕緊與他和息。」馬太福音五章25節
耶穌立下了這種原理──做你認為必要做的，現在趕緊做；如果你不做，那不幸的過程不但不能避免，同時必得償付苦痛與困難的代價。神的律是不能變更的；是不能逃脫的。耶穌的教訓正合我們的性情。
不許對頭侵犯我的權利，可以說是人情之常；但照耶穌的意見看，最重要的，是把應該付給對頭的，付給對頭，無論我受欺沒有，無甚關係；我不欺人，倒是值得注意的。我堅持我的權利，或是照耶穌基督的觀點償還我追付的欠項呢？
趕緊做，現在把自己陳列於審判之前吧！關於道德和靈性的事，你必得馬上做；如若不然，那不幸的過程，必然來到。神一定要祂的子女潔白如雪，如有任何一點尚未服從祂的教訓，祂的靈的工作絕不停止。我們一定要證明我們是對的，似乎是我們當有不服從的表示。無怪乎聖靈常常催逼我們行在光中，沒有一點兒希奇。「趕緊與你的對頭和息」。你在某件事上懷恨你的朋友麼？趕緊承認，趕緊在神面前糾正，去與那人和息──現在就做。
「……所以你要揀選……」申命記三十章19節
每個人都在選擇屬靈的以及屬世的事。當我們做任何選擇時，常會不知不覺地選擇與基督為友，或是與世界為友。我們得小心，因為神不僅在乎我們所說的話，並且在乎我們心中所思想的。
當所羅門王在基遍向神求智慧聰明時，神對他說：「……你既有這心意……只求智慧……我必賜你智慧聰明，也必賜你貲財、豐富、尊榮。在你以前的列王都沒有這樣……。」(代下一11—12)所羅門王如此說，並不是因為要說一些好聽的討神歡喜；而是他心中真的這麼想，所以神看到他的心意，不僅給了他智慧，並且給了他所沒有選擇的貲財、豐富和尊榮。
我們在做什麼樣的選擇呢？記住我們的選擇往往能決定我們的目的。而且我們是否已選擇上好的？我們是否曾說過：「無論我還能做什麼，還能擁有什麼，我願做神的兒女，我願有祂的恩惠、祝福，我選擇討祂喜悅。」或者我們仍然不斷地說：「我必須先有這個那個，才能考慮信仰。」小心啊！神看得見我們的心意，或許祂已經低語：「這些人已經得著他們的報酬了。」
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