4月15日 在专诚上散漫

只是邱坛还没有从以色列中废去，然而亚撒的心一生诚实。（代下十五17）

亚撒外在的顺服并不完全——他大体上是对的，但并不完全。若说“不大要紧”的事，要特别当心。对你不大要紧的，对神可能十分要紧。对神的儿女来说，没有一件事是小的。我们阻止神来教导我们到底要多久呢？但神不会失去耐性。你说：“我知道自己对得起神。”可是邱坛犹在，你仍有未顺服的事。你是否一面坚称自己对得起神，一面在生活上仍有些东西令你犹豫不决？一有犹豫，要立即放手，不管这是什么。没有什么事是无关重要的。

在你身体上、思想上，有没有任何东西，叫你不能专心的？你大致上没有问题了，但却很随便马虎；那就是在专心的事上出了岔子。你的心脏不能“告假”、停止跳动，同样的，你属灵的专一也不能“告假”，稍有松懈。你德行的操练若放假一天，你的道德就堕落了；你的灵若放假一天，你就不再属灵。神要你完全属他，这就是说，你要警醒自守，保持最佳状态。这实在需要很长的时间，但有些人却以为两三分钟就可以一飞冲天！

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你的光穿透我。将你满意的笑容和福祉赐给我，使我整个人都属于你。

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.