主啊，你是谁？（徒二十六15）
“耶和华以大能的手，指教我……”(赛八11) 我们的主一开口，我们再无可躲藏。他来的时候，总要抓住你。神的声音有没有直接临到你？若有，你对他的话里的亲切肯定，对他用你所熟悉的语句，必不至于认不出来。神用你最熟悉的语言对你说话，不是透过耳朵对你说，乃是透过环境际遇对你说。
神必须破坏我们执着自信的主见。我们会说，“我晓得这就是我该该做的。”突然，神的声音震撼我们，显出我们是何等的无知。我们用自己的方法来事奉主，这也正表现出自己的无知。我们事奉耶稣的心，与圣灵并不合一，因为没有属基督的灵。我们为他辩护，却伤害了他；我们推崇他的教导，却是在魔鬼的灵里；我们说的话听起来没什么不对，但我们的灵却是出于仇敌。“他责备他们说，你们的心如何，你们并不知道。”(路九55) 哥林多前书十三章所说的，才是真正为主发言，因为是出自他的灵。
我有没有以自己的方法，抱着满腔热诚，立志事奉主，然而却逼迫了他？我若自以为尽了责，却在过程中伤了主的心，那么，那决不是我应该做的，因为我的方式没有使温柔谦卑的灵得以长进，反而带来自满的灵。我们总以为凡是不讨好的工作，就是自己的任务！这像不像我们主的表现——“我的神啊，我乐意照你的旨意行。”？
祈祷◆噢，主啊，我要称颂你声音的语调和能力，你的语调带着温柔和满有恩典的爱，也带有如自然界强风的能力。主啊，让人在这地方听闻你荣耀的声音，亦让我的灵得以听见.
January 29: How Could Someone Be So Ignorant!
Who are You, Lord? —Acts 26:15
“The Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand . . .” (Isaiah 8:11). There is no escape when our Lord speaks. He always comes using His authority and taking hold of our understanding. Has the voice of God come to you directly? If it has, you cannot mistake the intimate insistence with which it has spoken to you. God speaks in the language you know best— not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. We say, “I know that this is what I should do”-and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance. We show our ignorance of Him in the very way we decide to serve Him. We serve Jesus in a spirit that is not His, and hurt Him by our defense of Him. We push His claims in the spirit of the devil; our words sound all right, but the spirit is that of an enemy. “He . . . rebuked them, and said, ’You do not know what manner of spirit you are of’ ” (Luke 9:55). The spirit of our Lord in His followers is described in 1 Corinthians 13 .
Have I been persecuting Jesus by an eager determination to serve Him in my own way? If I feel I have done my duty, yet have hurt Him in the process, I can be sure that this was not my duty. My way will not be to foster a meek and quiet spirit, only the spirit of self-satisfaction. We presume that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord— “I delight to do Your will, O my God . . .” (Psalm 40:8).