13当我们这样认罪时,我们可以向主承认自己对许多事的领会是多么天然。你也许不觉得你对许多事的领会很天然,所以你需要到主面前,对祂说,“主啊,光照我,暴露我的心思,暴露我所有的思想。主,把我的心思完全带进你的光中。”然后你应当照着主的光照和暴露,承认你思想上一件件的难处。譬如,……你对你的丈夫、妻子、孩子以及家庭事务的领会,也许都是天然的,一点不属灵。如果主在你里面暴露这一点,你应当马上承认说,“主,赦免我,我虽然爱你,但我对婚姻生活的领会完全是天然的。主,拯救我脱离这种天然的领会,把这种领会从我里面拿去。”……我们要有这种暴露与认罪,就需要有一段长的时间与主同在。
13As we are making confession in this way, we may confess to the Lord how natural our understanding is concerning many matters. Perhaps you do not feel that your understanding of so many things is natural. This is the reason you need to go to the Lord and say to Him, “Lord, enlighten me and expose my mind. Expose all my thoughts. Lord, bring my mind fully into Your light.” Then you should follow the enlightenment and exposure to confess the problems in your thinking one by one. For example,…you may understand your spouse, your children, and your family affairs in a natural way, not at all in a spiritual way. If the Lord exposes this in you, you should immediately confess and say, “Lord, forgive me. Although I love You, my understanding of married life is altogether natural. Lord, deliver me from this natural understanding and take it out of me.”…For this kind of exposure and confession it may be necessary for us to stay with the Lord for a long time.