2012 禁食日记 – 第十四天：“开始与过程” 2012 Fasting Diary – Day 14: “The beginning and process”
第十四天（20/08/12）
有时候我们读有关圣经伟人的故事，那些伟大的结局、震撼性的影响力、神迹奇事、蒙大福、成大器等等，我们都好羡慕，很希望自己也会有这种恩膏和成就，也能够如此荣耀神。。。
可是我们往往只是很片面的看他们伟大的事迹和成就，却忘了他们的开始与过程。以下两句短短的经文有多深的内涵啊。。。
这些伟人是听了又顺从神的指示，做神要他们做的，放弃、离开或拒绝自己喜欢的而顺服神的指示和带领。
“于是以利亚照着耶和华的话，去。。。”
～ 王上 17:5 ～
“亚伯兰就照着耶和华的吩咐去了。。。”
～ 创 12:4 ～
我们多少次很伟大的唱着或祷告着：“主啊，带领我！”，可是我想可能上帝很多时候都想说：“我已经走了很长的一段路，你也没跟来。。。”
Day 14 (20/08/12)
Sometimes as we read the stories of the great men in the Bible, those outstanding outcomes, powerful lives with great impact, miracles and wonders, greatly blessed and used by God etc, we are so envious and wish we could also have such anointing and achievement, and that we could glorify God like them too…
But very often we only look selectively at their greatness and achievements, and forget their beginnings and processes. The two very short verses below contain such profound truth… these great men really listened and obeyed what God had told them, did what God asked them to, gave up, abandoned, left or refused their own liking and just obeyed God’s instruction and leading.
“So Elijah did what the Lord had told him…”
~ 1 Kings 17:5 ~
“So Abram left, as the Lord had told him…”
~ Genesis 12:4 ~
How many times have we sung or prayed so loudly: “Lead me, o Lord!”, but I think probably many times God wants to say to us: “I’ve been walking quite a distance already but I don’t see you following behind…”