有一位著名的講員曾經講到我們今天所讀的經文，他的講題是：「你有沒有一位能讓你在祂面前安靜下來的神？」（“Have you a God you can be still with?”）當時在座的大部分會眾都受過良好的教育，他們都沒有太注意講道的內容，只因為講員在一個句子結束時使用了前置詞。（以前對英語抱嚴謹態度的人，認為把前置詞放在句子的末後是錯誤的。）

在談到永恆的問題時他們所注意的竟然只是語法的問題，這是多麼可悲的事情！偉大的講員慕迪（D.L. Moody）在講道時往往將不定式結構分開。有一次，一位退休教師因為慕迪這個語法錯誤而責備他。慕迪回答說：「太太，當我看到靈魂正走向地獄，而語法卻擋在中間時，我把語法的問題交給神！」

我不介意重複上述講員那個所謂的錯誤，而向你提出同樣的問句：「你有沒有一位能讓你在祂面前安靜下來的神？」換句話說，你的生活是否太忙碌，影響了你將思想集中在神的身上，導致你的禱告總是那麼倉促？要是這樣的話，你不可能認識神，真正的認識神。

你知道嗎，這段經文所說的是：除非你願意在神面前安靜，否則你不能認識祂。認識神的意思是默想祂、崇拜祂和研究祂。今天，這段經文對那些自信、忙亂、在教會進進出出的敬拜者來說，幾乎毫無意義！這在屬靈上是一個我們必須重視的問題。

A famous preacher once preached from the text that is before us today and entitled his message: "Have you a God you can be still with?" It was reported that most of the congregation, being well educated, tuned out a lot of what he was saying because they could only think of the fact that he ended a sentence with a preposition. How sad that when eternal issues were at stake their only thought was of grammar. The great preacher D.L. Moody often split an infinitive when preaching. Once, when a retired schoolteacher took him to task for this lapse of grammatical correctness, he replied: "Madam, when I see souls going to hell and grammar gets in the way - then God help grammar!"

At the risk of repeating the unfortunate mistake of the first minister to whom I referred, I would like to ask you that same question: Have you a God you can be still with? In other words, is your life such a ceaseless round of activity that when you come to focus your mind on God you cannot give yourself to the task for very long, so you blurt out a few prayers and then you are gone? You won't get to know God - really know God - that way.

You see, what our text is saying is this: you cannot get to know God until you are willing to stay still before Him. Knowing God means contemplating Him, worshipping Him, and studying Him. It should be a cause for deep spiritual concern that the words of our text mean next to nothing to the self-confident bustling worshippers who move in and out of our churches nowadays.