从此他门徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。（约六66）
神藉圣灵，透过他的话语显示他的心意，使你心灵兴奋万分；但你若不行在这异象的光中，就沉沦在奴隶的状态中，受制于一种不属于主的观点。你若心里不服从天上来的异象，就必服役于主耶稣以外的观点。不要指着别人说：“看哪，他持那些观点，仍然顺利亨通，我为什么不可以？”你要行在异象的光中，不要与人比较，或判断别人，那是他与神之间的事。你若发现自己所喜悦的观点，与天上来的异象相违，你为此争辩，渐渐里面就会产生一种拥有感和个人权利感，这些都是主耶稣所弃绝的。他反对这些，因为这一切是叫人离开神的根源。“人的生命不在乎家道丰富。”我们不体会这一点，是因为我们漠视主基本的教训。
我们很容易回想过往美妙的经历。可是，神的光若向你显示一个标准，而你未能达到或不想达到，那你就开始退后了，因为这表示你的良心对真理并未作出回应。真理一旦启明，人便再也无法依然故我。那一刻就决定，你是向前做主的真门徒，还是退后做逃兵。
祈祷◆主啊，愿我们四周的每一寸空间，今天都被你所充满。愿你引导的手，适当而奇妙地掌管一切；愿你将我们举起，进入你奇妙的计划中，并且使我们不至冲动鲁莽。
December 29 Deserter Or Disciple?
“From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him.” John 6:66
When God gives a vision by His Spirit through His word of what He wants, and your mind and soul thrill to it, if you do not walk in the light of that vision, you will sink into servitude to a point of view which Our Lord never had. Disobedience in mind to the heavenly vision will make you a slave to points of view that are alien to Jesus Christ. Do not look at someone else and say – Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why cannot I? You have to walk in the light of the vision that has been given to you and not compare yourself with others or judge them, that is between them and God. When you find that a point of view in which you have been delighting clashes with the heavenly vision and you debate, certain things will begin to develop in you – a sense of property and a sense of personal right, things of which Jesus Christ made nothing. He was always against these things as being the root of everything alien to Himself. “A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth.” If we do not recognize this, it is because we are ignoring the undercurrent of Our Lord's teaching.
We are apt to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful experience we have had. If there is one standard in the New Testament revealed by the light of God and you do not come up to it, and do not feel inclined to come up to it, that is the beginning of backsliding, because it means your conscience does not answer to the truth. You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.