在开始这一系列的每日灵修以前，让我们先来聚焦于一个有深刻属灵意义的主题。我个人确信基督教会需要一个从神而来的新异象。我们经常在几乎不自觉的情况下患上了一种属灵近视的毛病！由于我们没有清楚的看到神，所以我们也就没有把自己的生命看清楚。要是我们对神有真正的认识，我们就能够正视其他的事物如：生活、工作、金钱、服事、人际关系等等。

在整本圣经中，也许没有其他关于神和祂荣耀的异象，比记录在以赛亚书第六章的那个异象更大（除了约翰在启示录遇见全能的神以外），而我们所要研读的正是这一章圣经。在研读的过程中我们有时会暂时放下这段经文，而改为去思考一些相关的问题，不过神所赐给以赛亚的那个叫人震惊的异象将会是我们思考的核心。以赛亚面对面看见了永生的神以后，整个生命都被改变了，我相信在我们一起研读这个主题时，同样的事情也会发生在我们身上。

我们常会迷失在种种问题里面，那是因为我们重视瞬间的事物过于重视生命的永恒；就像一个最小的硬币只要放在眼前，它也足以把太阳给挡住。因此，我邀请你在我们开始进入属灵旅程的第一天，要清楚认识「注目上帝、轻看世界」的真理，这样你的生命力才能够更充分的发挥，因为清楚地看见神，能让我们看清楚其他的一切。

「注目上帝、轻看世界」

进深研究
诗九十九1-9；诗五十七11；赛三十三5

1. 诗篇的作者所肯定的是甚么？
2. 诗篇的作者劝我们当做些甚么？

祈祷
神啊，求您给我一个从您而来的新异象。我需要这异象，而且是十分的需要。求您以您的爱、您的能力和您荣耀的光辉充满我整个视域。奉基督无可比拟和宝贵的名字祈求，阿们。

The Vision of God

Day 1

Needed - a new vision

"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord..." (v.1)

Bible reading:
Isaiah 6:1-13

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

3 And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty."

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

9 He said, "Go and tell this people: "'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.[a] Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

11 Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And he answered: "Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,

12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land."

Message

We begin by focusing on a theme of deep spiritual importance. It is my conviction that the Christian Church needs a fresh vision of God. Almost without our realizing it, a spiritual myopia has afflicted us; we are not seeing life clearly because we do not see God clearly. A right perspective on God gives us the right perspective on everything else - life, work, money, service, relationships, and so on.

There is possibly no greater vision of God and His glory in the whole of the Bible (apart from John's encounter with the Almighty in the book of Revelation) than the vision we find recorded in Isaiah chapter 6. It is with this chapter that we are to be concerned. We shall depart from it at times to look at other related aspects, but the thrilling vision of God that was given to Isaiah is to be central to our study. Isaiah came face to face with the living God and found that his whole life was transformed. I trust the same thing will happen to us as we pursue this theme together.

The reason our problems often seem overwhelming is because we allow the things of time to loom larger in our gaze than the things of eternity. The tiniest of coins, when held close to the eye, can blot out the sun. I invite you, therefore, on this very first day of our journey to begin to lay hold on the truth that life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God. Seeing Him clearly will enable us to see all other things clearly.

"Glance at things but gaze at God"

Prayer
O God, give me, I pray, a fresh vision of Yourself. I need it and need it badly. Fill my whole horizon with the splendour of Your love, Your power and Your glory. In Christ's peerless and precious name I ask it. Amen.

Further study
Psalm 99:1-9; 21:13; 57:11
Isaiah 33:5

1. What does the psalmist affirm?
2. What does the psalmist exhort us to do?

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