17……凡在祂的眷临之外,出于你的东西,神绝不认可。……我们都必须说,“主啊,没有你的眷临,我就不作什么。主,你若不临到我,借着我作些事,并从我作出来,我就不作什么。我既不恨也不爱,既不骄傲也不谦卑。我要作一张白纸。主,没有你的眷临,我就一无所有。”神的眷临是实际的恩典。当我凭神的眷临,而不凭自我的努力爱人并谦卑,那就是享受恩典(创世记生命读经,一○○四、九九四至九九五、一○○○页)。
17God does not recognize anything that comes out of you apart from His visitation…We all must say, “O Lord, I will not do anything without Your visitation. Lord, if You will not visit me and work something through me and out of me, I will do nothing. I will neither hate nor love, be proud nor be humble. I want to be blank. Lord, without Your visitation, I am nothing.” God’s visitation is the practical grace. When I love others and am humble by God’s visitation, not by my self-effort, that is the enjoyment of grace. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 826, 819-820, 823)