是否能透过情况环境来认定主的引导？[6月24日专题信息]

专题信息｜是否能透过情况环境来认定主的引导？

6月24日

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朱志山牧师

经文: 撒上26:7-11；徒21:10-14； 16:6-10

课题: 神的话/真理/事实, 神为与人为, 顺服/跟从, 定见, 智慧,

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我们人都活在情况环境里。情况环境里有各种我们能接触到的事物、人的话、新闻、情报等。所以，对一般人来说，在现实环境所体感的远超出自己头脑所知道的道理。那既然情况环境是这么真实，且是最直接的，那我们能单单以情况环境来察看主的引导吗？往往，当我们向往有些结果，我们总是会以情况环境来看主的引导。例如：有些人想移民去一个国家，或是要找一份理想的工作，或是要去一个理想的学校，他们都是以所遇见的情况环境为主。或者，当我们不知道主的引导时，我们就是单以情况环境来看主的引导。我们常会听人说，“我没有去祈求什么，但神就是这让我遇见这样的情况，或遇见这样的人”，就以此为神的引导。有时候，我们会听见信徒说自己从来没有想做这份周末要上班的工作，但我找了这么多工作，只有这份工作入取我，但做的结果就是主日无法来教会；或有人说他刚好要找教会，不久后就发现家附近就有一个教会就去了。这些情况环境似乎很合乎自己的心意，但那真是神的引导吗？其实，对天然的人来说，情况环境是最真实的，因为那是直接能够看见，且能够体感的。所以，一般人自动的倾向是以情况环境来判断与决定一切事。甚至是我们这已经重生的人，我们也是多半以情况环境来作出判断与抉择。倘若我们是一个已经信主许久的人，我们很多时候也是无法正确辨别不同情况环境所给予我们的提示。确实，神在我们所遇见的每个情况环境里。但神更是在祂绝对不变的真道里。当我们信从祂的真理，祂在相对的情况中绝对的引导我们，也使我们在一切所行的事上有定见《雅1:8》。所以，纵然情况环境有时显得很真实，神也透过不同情况环境来引导我们，但那毕竟还是相对可变的。倘若我们学了主的真理，却在心中得不着指标，只有按着所遇见的情况环境来反应，就如一旦听人说什么就摇动，遇见什么事情就改变想法，那么我们不是在领受真理，只不过是在参考真理。我们在乎的不是“事实”，乃是“行得通”。圣经说，这样的人不要想从主那里得什么《雅1:7》。因为他是活在情况中，不是活在真理中。活在情况中的人暂时有好处，但是活在真理中的人长久有好处。的确，情况环境很真实，但我们一定要将情况环境放在他正确的位子。如果我们的生活一来都是看情况环境来反应，那你一定要问你在各样选择中所依靠不动摇的原则是什么？如果我们一边学习真理，但情况一改变，我们的思绪、看法、决定都跟着改变，那我们所学习的怎么能叫做“绝对不变的真理呢”？其实，我们千万不要误解，认为神是一个不切实际的神。祂并非叫我们完全不考虑情况环境所给予我们的提示。情况、环境、人的话、不同的人的见解、发生的事物等都有神的引导，但是我们也要明白自己软弱与主观的眼光是很容易会使我们错解或是过度看重情况环境给我们的带领。所以，神将真理给予我们，是要叫我们在心中得着真理的秤，以至我们会知道要将多少的重量给予人某些的环境或人所说的话。

We humans live under circumstances and environment. Within circumstances and environment, we can get in touch with all kinds of things, human words, news, information, etc. Thus, to the ordinary people, what they can sense in realistic environment is far beyond the truth they know in their heads. Since situations and environment are so real and most direct, then can we only use circumstances and environment to discern the Lord’s guidance? Often, when we yearn for some outcomes, we always use circumstances and environment to discern the Lord’s guidance. Examples: Some people want to migrate to another country, or find an ideal job, or go to an ideal school, they all focus mainly on the circumstances and environment they encounter. Or, when we do not know the Lord’s guidance, we base only on circumstances and environment to discern God’s guidance. We often hear people say, “I did not ask for anything, but God just let me meet such a situation, or meet such a person”, and they treat this as God’s guidance. Sometimes, we will hear a believer say he never thought of taking up a job which requires working on weekends, but after job-hunting for so long, only this one company offered him the job, but as a result of that job, he has to work on the Lord’s Day; or someone said he happened to be looking for a church, not long later he discovered that there was a church near his home, then he went there. All these situations seem to match one’s own heart, but are those truly the guidance of God? Actually, to the natural person, circumstances and environment are the realest, because those are what he can directly see and sense. Thus, the natural tendency for the ordinary people is to make all judgments and decisions based on circumstances and environment. Even we who are already born again, we also make judgments and choices mostly based on circumstances and environment. Even if we are believers for a long time, we also often cannot correctly distinguish the cues different situations give us. Indeed, God is present in every situation and environment we face. But God is all the more present in His absolute and unchanging truth. When we trust and obey His truth, He will absolutely guide us in relative situations, and make us stable in all we do <Jas 1:8>. Therefore, although circumstances and environment seem very real sometimes and God also guides us through different situations, nonetheless, those are after all relative and changing. If we learned the Lord’s truth, but we cannot receive any indication in our hearts, but only react based on the situations we encounter, such as we are shaken once we hear people say anything, or we change our minds according to circumstances, then we are not receiving the truth but only taking the truth as reference. We care not about the “truth”, but about “what works”. The Bible says that such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord <Jas 1:7>. Because he lives in situations and not in the truth. Those who live in situations may receive benefits temporarily, but those who live in the truth will receive benefits permanently. Indeed, circumstances and environment are very real, but we must put circumstances and environment in their rightful place. If we have been reacting based on circumstances and environment all our lives, then you must ask what is the unwavering principle you rely on when making all kinds of choices? As we learn the truth, if the situation changes a little and our thoughts, views and decisions also change along with it, then how can what we learned be called “absolute and unchanging truth”? In fact, we must not misunderstand, thinking that God is an impractical God. He is not asking us to totally ignore the cues given us by circumstances and environment. There is God’s guidance in situations, environment, human words, different opinions of people, things that happened, etc, but we also have to understand that our own weaknesses and subjective perspectives can easily make us misinterpret or over-emphasize how circumstances and environment are leading us. Thus, God gives us the truth, so that our hearts can have a scale of truth, such that we will know how much weight to give to certain environment or human words.

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