13有时候我们批评别人刻变时翻,但我们自己也是善变的。……我们为了照顾初信者,也会警告他们不要信靠一些善变的人。但我们自己又怎样?我们难道不善变么?我必须承认我在天然的生命里是善变的。不仅如此,我所说的改变多半是消极的。许多年前,我在日记里记载了一些事情;譬如,我怎样在主面前彻底对付了某件事。但是许多年以后,我不敢看我写的那些话,因为在我作了这样的记录以后,我又有了一些改变。
13Sometimes we criticize others for being changeable when we ourselves are also changeable…In order to care for new believers, we may warn them not to trust certain people who are changeable. But how about ourselves? Are we not changeable? I must confess that in the natural life I am changeable. Further, most of the changes I am referring to are negative. Years ago I recorded certain things in my diary, for instance, a record of how I had dealt with a particular matter thoroughly before the Lord. But years later, I dare not read what I have written, for even after writing such a record, I experienced some change.