13亚伯拉罕给我们看见什么都是出乎神,我们不能凭着自己作什么。以撒给我们看见一切都是神所赐给的,我们应当接受。但是,我们虽然接受了,如果没有受圣灵的管治,还会出毛病。这是雅各所给我们看见的。主总得有一天,把你摸一下,把你大腿窝的筋扭了,把你天然的生命对付了,然后你才会变成一个谦卑的人,然后你才会变成一个战兢恐惧跟从主的人。……我们是何等容易出主张,何等容易不祷告就说话行事,何等容易不在神面前等候就有把握。神要把你天然的生命厉害地摸一下,神要把你天然的生命打断了,给你看见靠着自己不能作什么;从那一天起,你才是一个瘸腿的人。瘸腿不是说你不能走路,而是说你每走一步路,就知道自己的不行,知道自己是一个瘸腿的人。所有认识神的人都有这一个共同的特点。……还想自己有办法、自己有把握、自己有能力的人,是没有受过圣灵管治的人(倪柝声文集第二辑第十五册,一一至一四页)。
13Abraham shows us that everything is of God; we cannot do anything by ourselves. Isaac shows us that everything comes from God, and our place is to receive. But if we only receive and do not have the discipline of the Holy Spirit, something will go wrong. This is what Jacob shows us. One day the Lord will come to us, touch us, and twist the hollow of our thigh; He will deal with our natural life. Then we will become humble and follow the Lord in fear and trembling…How easy it is for us to make proposals, and how easy it is for us to act without prayer. How easy it is for us to develop a confidence apart from God. God has to touch our natural life in a drastic way; He has to break apart our natural life and show us that we can do nothing by ourselves. From that day on, we will be lame men. Being lame does not mean that we cannot walk; rather, it means that every time we walk, we realize our weakness and our lameness. This is the common trait of all those who know God…All those who are still resourceful, confident, and powerful have not experienced the discipline of the Holy Spirit. (CWWN, vol. 35, “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” pp. 12-14)