God speaks through His Word when we take time to listen.

上帝会透过圣经对我们说话，当花时间聆听。

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:27 

我的羊听我的声音，我也认识他们，他们也跟着我。-约翰福音10章27节

I’m hard of hearing—“deaf in one ear and can’t hear out of the other,” as my father used to say. So I wear a set of hearing aids.

我父亲以前常形容自己说：“一只耳朵聋了，另一只也不太灵光。”我的听力也不好，所以戴了助听器。

Most of the time the devices work well, except in environments where there’s a lot of surrounding noise. In those settings, my hearing aids pick up every voice in the room and I cannot hear the person in front of me.

助听器确实带给我很大的帮助，但在吵杂的环境却不然。因为在一片喧闹声中，助听器会接收所有的杂音，以至于我无法听见坐在我对面的人在说什么。

So it is with our culture: a cacophony of sounds can drown out God’s quiet voice. “Where shall the Word be found, where will the Word resound?” poet T.S. Eliot asks. “Not here, there is not enough silence.”

我们的文化也是如此：生活中的各种噪音会淹没上帝细微的声音。美国诗人艾略特（T. S. Eliot）曾说：“何处可寻得上帝的话语？何处能听闻上帝的言语？??不在此处，因这里不够宁静。”

Fortunately, my hearing aids have a setting that cuts out the surrounding sounds and enables me to hear only the voices I want to hear. In the same way, despite the voices around us, if we quiet our souls and listen, we will hear God’s “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:11–12 ).

幸好我的助听器可以设定排除背景噪音的功能，使我只接收到我想听的声音。同样地，即使周遭有许多噪音，只要我们静心地聆听，还是能听见上帝“微小的声音”（列王纪上19章11-12节） 。

He speaks to us every day, summoning us in our restlessness and our longing. He calls to us in our deepest sorrow and in the incompleteness and dissatisfaction of our greatest joys.

上帝每天都对我们说话，在我们忙碌焦躁和追求欲望的时候，祂会提醒我们；在我们极其悲伤，或我们的喜乐不能满足时，祂也会安慰我们。

But primarily God speaks to us in His Word (1 Thessalonians 2:13). As you pick up His book and read it, you too will hear His voice. He loves you more than you can ever know, and He wants you to hear what He has to say.

上帝要对我们说的话，都已经写在圣经里（帖撒罗尼迦前书2章13节） 。当我们阅读圣经时，就可以听见祂的声音。祂对我们的爱难以测度，祂要我们仔细聆听祂对我们说的话。

Lord, thank You for giving us Your Word. 

Help us to listen to Your voice 

as we spend time alone with You.

John 10:25-30 New International Version (NIV)

25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish;no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

约翰福音 10:25-30

25 耶稣回答说：“我已经告诉你们，你们不信。我奉我父之名所行的事可以为我作见证， 26 只是你们不信，因为你们不是我的羊。 27 我的羊听我的声音，我也认识他们，他们也跟着我。 28 我又赐给他们永生，他们永不灭亡，谁也不能从我手里把他们夺去。 29 我父把羊赐给我，他比万有都大，谁也不能从我父手里把他们夺去。30 我与父原为一。”

INSIGHT

Throughout the Scriptures, God used a variety of ways to speak to people. Sometimes, God spoke audibly (Abraham, Moses). Sometimes, He communicated by way of dreams (Joseph, Nebuchadnezzar). At other times, God gave His message through prophets (Samuel, Ezekiel). Occasionally, God even sent His message by way of angels, which means “messengers,” as He did with Mary and Joseph.

No wonder the writer of the letter to the Hebrews said, “God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways” (1:1). However, God’s greatest means of expressing His heart to people was His Son, as verse 2 states: “In these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.” That explains why John opened his gospel by describing Jesus as the Word (the Logos) who “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14). Jesus—the living Word—is God’s ultimate message of love to us! And He is revealed to us in the Scriptures—the written Word.

灵粮透视

整本圣经表明，上帝使用各种方式与人交流。有时候，上帝会亲自对人说话（如亚伯拉罕和摩西）。有时候，上帝会藉由异梦来传递信息（如约瑟和尼布甲尼撒）。有时，上帝会透过先知向人宣讲信息（如撒母耳和以西结）。此外，上帝甚至会差遣天使，即“使者”来传递信息，例如天使向约瑟和马利亚传达上帝的旨意。

难怪希伯来书的作者会说：“上帝既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖”（希伯来书1章1节）。不过，上帝向人表明祂的心意最伟大的方式乃是藉着祂的儿子，正如第2节所说：“就在这末世，藉着祂儿子晓谕我们，又早已立祂为承受万有的，也曾藉着祂创造诸世界。”这便解释了为何约翰一开始就将耶稣描述为“道”，进而又说：“道成了肉身，住在我们中间”（约翰福音1章14节）。耶稣就是生命之道，是上帝传给我们那至高的爱的信息，圣经——书面之道也向我们启示了耶稣。

整理：于姊妹