7月4日 神的“不要”

不要心怀不平，以致作恶。（诗三十七8）

心怀不平就是思想上或灵性上的反抗状态。口头上说不要心怀不平，与内心真的没有不平是两回事。说“安息在主里”、“忍耐等候主”多么容易，但风浪一至，生活落在困逼苦恼中，真能安息在主里吗？若这个“不要”在此行不通，在其他方面就更无功效。这“不要”不但要在平安无事的日子行得通，也必须在烦恼的日子行得通，否则，这就完全没有意义。再者，若在你身上行不通，就别希冀在别人身上行得通了。安心靠主是完全不仗赖外在的环境，只在乎你与神的关系。

不安结果总变成罪。我们以为一点点的焦虑忧心是表示自己的聪明，其实这正显示我们的劣根性。不安不平是从偏行己路而来的。我们的主从不焦虑，从不忧心，因为他来到世上并非为了自己，乃是要实现神的旨意。你若是神的儿女，心怀不平是坏透了的。

你是否认为当前的处境连神也难倒了？这个思想是否支撑着你愚顽的心？把所有“假如”放在一旁，住在全能者的荫下。郑重的对神说你不再为那事心怀不平。一切的不平与挂虑，其实是离开神而自作打算。

祈祷◆主啊，我自觉深切地渴慕你和你的生命，我从诗篇九十一篇中找到保证——“他必救你”。主啊，我对它深信不疑，并且，为着你保护看顾我，我感谢你。

One Of God's Great Don'ts

“Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing.” Psalm 37:8 (R.V.)

Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “Fret not,” but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about “resting in the Lord” and “waiting patiently for Him” until the nest is upset – until we live, as so many are doing, in tumult and anguish, is it possible then to rest in the Lord? If this “don't” does not work there, it will work nowhere. This “don't” must work in days of perplexity as well as in days of peace, or it never will work. And if it will not work in your particular case, it will not work in anyone else's case. Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to God Himself.

Fussing always ends in sin. We imagine that a little anxiety and worry are an indication of how really wise we are; it is much more an indication of how really wicked we are. Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way. Our Lord never worried and He was never anxious, because He was not “out” to realize His own ideas; He was “out” to realize God's ideas. Fretting is wicked if you are a child of God.

Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all “supposing” on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.