Once you touch God.... 當你遇見神....

Where there is no divine appearance, there is no altar. No one can offer himself to God unless he has first met God....Consecration is not the result of man's exhortation or persuasion but of God's revelation. No one can voluntarily offer up all he has on the altar if God has not first appeared to
him. By nature, no one can offer himself to God. Even when a man does want to offer himself to God, he finds that he really has nothing to offer. Some have said, “I want to give my heart to the Lord, but my heart will not agree.” Man cannot come over to God's side. However, when man meets God, consecration takes place spontaneously in his life. If you catch sight of God just once and touch God just once, you are no longer your own. God is Someone who cannot be touched lightly! Once a man touches God, he can no longer live for himself. (The Life of the Altar and the Tent)

沒有神的顯現，就沒有祭壇。誰也不能將他自己奉獻給神，而他是沒有遇見神的…。奉獻不是由於人的勸勉，不是由於人的催促，乃是由於神的顯現。如果神沒有向人顯現，那就沒有一個人是能自動把他所有的都擺在祭壇上的，沒有一個人是能自動把自己奉獻給神的。人即使盼望將他自己奉獻給神，但是事實上人憑着自己沒有一點東西可以奉獻給神，就像有的
人所說的：『我要將我的心奉獻給主，我的心卻不去。』人這一邊不能到主那一邊去。如果有一天，我們遇見主，那一個遇見，就自然而然產生奉獻。只要你遇見神一下，只要你看見神一下，你就不是你自己的。神是遇見不得的！人一遇見神，人就沒有方法爲自己活着。《倪柝聲文集第二輯第十七冊》