20所以我们要作代表权柄，就必须有属灵的条件，加上谦卑的条件。作权柄的条件，乃是根据自以为不配，自己觉得不行。我觉得有一句话不错：在新旧约圣经中我们看见，神所用的人，没有一个是骄傲的人。我顶直地告诉你，人一有骄傲，神立时把他摆在一边。我站作工地位二十余年，从来没有看见一个骄傲的人是神能用的。人在那里偷偷地骄傲，迟早会在话语里显出来，因为话语是走漏里面消息的。就是谦卑的人，将来在神的审判台前还不知要有多少的惊骇！而骄傲人的惊骇也不知要超过谦卑人多少倍！我们必须觉得自己不行，因为神只用无用的仆人。这不是我们客气，乃是真觉得我们是无用的仆人；虽然放了羊、耕了地，但回来时，仍说自己是无用的仆人。我们总要站在仆人的地位上（路十七10）。神绝不把权柄交给自以为是、自以为行的人。我们要拒绝骄傲，学习谦卑温柔（倪柝声文集第三辑第一册，二三三、二三七、三二四页）。 20In order to be a deputy authority, we must fulfill the condition of spirituality as well as the condition of humility. The qualification of an authority is based on one’s consciousness of his inability and unsuitability. One thing is sure: None of the persons that God used in the Old and New Testaments were proud. I can tell you frankly that as soon as a person becomes proud, God will put him aside. As a worker for over twenty years, I have never seen a proud man who was used by the Lord. Even if a man is just a little proud in private, his words will sooner or later expose him, because a person’s words always disclose the hidden state of his heart. Even a humble person will be greatly surprised at the judgment seat. The surprise that awaits the proud, however, will surely be many times more than that of the humble! We must be conscious of our unprofitableness all the time, because God can only use the unprofitable slaves. We are not saying this to be polite. We honestly should feel that we are unprofitable slaves. We may have tended sheep or plowed the field, but when we come in from the field, we should still acknowledge that we are unprofitable slaves. We should always stand in the position of a slave (Luke 17:10). God never entrusts His authority to the self-confident and self-assured. We have to reject pride and learn humility and meekness. (CWWN, vol. 47, “Authority and Submission,” pp. 212, 215, 286)