个人成长：顺服神

第二天：认识神

阅读：申十12-13

概览一下以色列的历史，就会得知神的受约子民的基本问题，是他们重复多次违背神的命令。他们顺服神，神就祝福他们；但他们经常悖逆是痛苦及最终衰落的根 源。显然，这里没有基本的原则可以同样应用在我们的生活中。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，看看神出于爱而对他子民发出的要求。

Obedience to God and Who God Is

Read: Deuteronomy 10:12-13

• In one sense, God’s requirements of us are quite simple: fear Him, walk in His ways, love Him, serve Him, obey His commands.

• All these things are facets of one thing: a growing personal relationship with the God who has already demonstrated his unflinching commitment to our best interests.

• The more we realize in our thinking and experience that God always seeks our good, the more we will be willing to trust and obey Him in what He asks us to do and to avoid.

个人成长：诚信

第七天：认识神

阅读：太六1-34

有多少次你与自己的个人信誉争战，决心作得更好？耶稣知道我们将与伪善斗争，所以在马太福音六章1至34节中讲述了核心问题，那是我们必须彻底解决的，如果我们希望提高自己的诚信。请翻阅今天的阅读材料。

Integrity and Who God Is

Read: Matthew 6:1-34

• We must wrestle to the ground if we hope to increase our level of integrity.

• Integrity requires more than a commitment to itself.

• Jesus warned against doing right things for wrong reasons—things such as trying to develop integrity only because it will advance our career or help us to close a deal. Jesus called people who practice this kind of morality “hypocrites”.

• The essence of hypocrisy (lack of integrity) is public-dependent behavior. It is acting one way if people are watching but another when alone.

• Jesus’ key to integrity is that His followers will live their lives by the standard of their unchanging, ever-present heavenly Father. Resist the temptation to dance to every vendor’s tune; instead, march to the steady beat set by our Almighty God.

• Integrity involves living by one standard and for the approval of one Judge. People come and go, and their standards are fickle. Trying to please all of them will at best drive you nuts and at worst turn you into a hypocrite. But God is unchanging and always present. Living for Him is foundational to integrity—and it reaps an eternal reward.

个人成长：诚信

第二天：认识神

阅读：来十三8

有什么人值得我们信赖吗？人一再另我们失望，因为他们所宣称的与所行出来的总有差别。但神决不会让我们失望，因为他永不改变。他的应许象他永不改变的属性一样。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，可以从中得知神完全的诚信。

Integrity and Who God Is

Read: Hebrews 13:8

• God will never let us down, because he never changes. His promises are as good as His unchanging character.

• God’s character never changes; Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. His love, His truth and His goodness are not governed by external circumstances or conditions—they never vacillate.

• Therefore, God’s character and the promises He makes are supremely worthy of our trust and commitment. He does what He says, and His covenant love is always dependable.

• God is the ultimately reliable source of hope. His changeless character is the foundation of all of His promises. Whatever He says He will do is as good as done. When we hope in His promises, this hope becomes an anchor for the soul, both firm and secure (6:19).

• God’s yes is always yes, and His no is always no (James 5:12); His actions flow perfectly out of His character.

• There will be no possibility of manipulating, or bribing or bargaining with us if we never compromise our integrity.

• He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or changes His mind; for He is not a man, that he should change His mind (1 Samuel 15:29).

• God Himself has testified, “I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3:6).

领导技能：持续学习的机制

第二天：认识神

阅读：彼前二10-12

我们不会指定幼儿园的孩子阅读陀思妥也夫斯基（Dostoevsky，俄国小说家，1821-1881年）的《罪与罚》（Crime and Punishment），也不会向一年级的小学生讲授高级工程数学。在学习这些复杂的哲理和学科之前，需要一个漫长的思想发展和学习的培养过程。同理，神 给我们更多的属灵亮光，叫我们能对已获得的启示作出回应。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，了解神逐步启示这个重要的做法。

The Learning Organization and Who God Is

Read: 1 Peter 1:10-12

• A lengthy process of development and learning is necessary before people are ready to tackle more sophisticated subjects.

• In a similar way, God gives us greater amounts of illumination as we respond to the light we have already received.

• God’s Word is a progressive revelation in which clearer and fuller insights concerning the person and work of God were communicated in a gradual and dynamic way.

• God is the master pedagogue—He knows the right time to communicate the next lesson.

• There is no point in conveying additional light if a group or a person does not have the capacity to receive it or has not responded appropriately to the light that has already been given.

• Romans 15:4—For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11—Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

个人成长：勇气/冒险精神

第二天：认识神

阅读：来六13-20

世上[那想当然]的事存在吗？这个世界上，似乎并不存在必然的事；我们许多人都发现，我们感觉能够掌管控制一切只是一种错觉，我们甚至不能控制一天之内要发生什么事情。只有一位最高的掌管者，统管万有。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，看看那唯一能使生命真正得安慰的锚。

Courage/Risk-taking and Who God Is

Read: Hebrews 6:13-20

• In this world, nothing appears to be certain. Our sense of being in control is only an illusion. We cannot control the outcome of even a single day.

• There is only One who exercises sovereign control.

• There are two reasons why God’s promises are certain:

1. the unchanging nature of His purpose
2. the fact that He cannot break His covenant.

• The only stable and unqualified ground of hope is the immutable character of God and the promises that flow out of His character.

• We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

• It takes real courage for us to risk everything on the promises of God—at least those who hope in the promises of the world have something tangible and visible to bolster their confidence. But those who hope in God’s promises are staking their lives on what is not seen and what is not yet.

• Romans 8:24-25   For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 我们得救是在乎盼望；只是所见的盼望不是盼望，谁还盼望他所见的呢（有古卷：人所著见的何必再盼望呢）？ 但我们若盼望那所不见的，就必忍耐等候。

• Hebrews 11:1   Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 信就是所望之事的实底，是未见之事的确据。

领导技能：架构/组织

第二天：认识神

阅读：启四2-11

宇宙是个整体，不是个多元体。宇宙的创造充满创造者智慧设计的证据，甚至最简单的生物系统（更不用说人类的大脑），也比现今最复杂的电脑复杂精巧得多。因此圣经记载神用组织架构来成就他的许多目的，这不足为怪。请翻到今天的阅读材料，可一瞥神天上宏伟的灵界组织。

Structure/Organization and Who God Is

Read: Revelation 4:2-11

• The created order of the universe is replete with evidence of intelligent design.

• God of the bible uses structure and organization to accomplish His many purposes.

• Revelation 4:2-11 furnishes us with a glimpse of the degree of symmetry and hierarchical order that surrounds the manifest presence of the eternal God.

• God’s penchant for structure, beauty, and harmony is also suggested in Paul’s description of Christ as the Creator and Sustainer of all things: Colossians 1:16-17. Notice how the words thrones, powers, rulers and authorities are used in this passage to portray the angelic hierarchy.

• Christ integrates, orders and sustains all things.

• Consider Genesis 1:1-2:3 from the standpoint of creation’s structure and organization.  In what ways does God change chaos into order?

领导技能：长远计划

第二天：认识神

阅读：赛三十七26

毫无疑问，神才是那最终的长远计划者。他的计划涵盖一切，从永远到永远，并延展到他管治的每个角落。从有限的眼光来看，人类的情况仿佛糟糕一片，但其实神仍掌管一切，叫万事互相效力，最终成就他的荣耀。请思想神所定下的长远计划。

Long-range Planning and Who God Is

Read Isaiah 37:26

• God’s active involvement in the affairs of people and nations is not capricious or reactive but purposeful and deliberate. His timing is perfect, and His purpose cannot be thwarted.

• God’s sovereign intentions exceed the boundaries of time and are consistent with the perfection of His character.

• God works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will.