暫且回到神放置你的所在之處，
在那裡神呼召你，在其中的試煉、
困難和苦難中，來活出你的生命和
做你的工作，並且不要費力掙脫它。
不要失去它目前的價值，藉由你一直
在心態上希望活在擺脫它的那一時刻，
然而，要回到那裡，並且認清如果
你是屬於主的、如果你愛主且按祂旨意被召，
神正試圖與你一起、並在你裡面成就一些事，
透過你現在處境的條件。如果你試著掙脫，
你只會使神的目的失敗落空，
而且無法識別和接受祂正試圖要成就的事。
我想很少有什麼事情，更令人遺憾和悲痛，
過於此事：我們回顧我們生命中的任何一個階段，
而必須說："如果我採取另外一種態度對待它，
而非當時所持的態度，我也許已經實現了
一些神在我生命那個時期裡的偉大目的；
那時我惱怒、不耐煩，總是在尋找逃脫的方法；
我悖逆，活在自己所創造的另一個內心世界中，
在其中我想做這、做那，並成為這個、那個；
因此我錯失了神在那時候，打算要成就的一切。"
我說，很少有什麼事情，比這件事更令人悲痛。
所以我們必須以這樣的態度來回到
神所把我們放置的領域和環境中 –
身為屬乎祂自己的一分子，
神有一個關乎我的意念；而那個意念就是
經由我生命中的處境和苦難，
祂要擴展祂兒子的特徵在我的裡面。
一方面，舊造的特徵越看越糟糕、越看越可怕，
當我認識到它們就在我自己裡面時。然而與此相反地，
神正在做一些與我的自己無關、一點也不再是我之事。
祂正在成形另一個完全不同的，而那就是祂的兒子。
Go back to the place where, for the time being,
the Lord has put you, where He has called you
to live your life and do your work in all the trial
and difficulty and suffering of it, and do not strain
to get out of it. Do not lose the present value of it
by always living mentally or hopefully in a time
when you will be out of it, but go back there
and recognize that if you are the Lord‵s,
if you love God and are called according to purpose,
God is seeking to do something with you and in you
by means of the conditions of your present situation.
You will only defeat God‵s end if you try to get out, and
will fail to recognize and accept what He is seeking to do.
I can think of few things more regrettable and
grievous than that we should look back upon
any part of our life and have to say, "I might
have realized some great purpose of God
in that period of my life if only I had taken
another attitude toward it than the one I did take;
I was chafing, impatient, all the time looking for
a way of escape; I was rebellious, living in
another mental world of my own creating,
in which I would do and be this and that;
and I missed all that God intended at that time."
I say, there can be few things more grievous than that.
So we must go back to the sphere and conditions in which
the Lord has placed us, with this attitude – God has a thought
which relates to me as one of His Own; and that thought is,
that through the conditions and sufferings of my life
He should develop in me the features of His Son.
On the one hand, the features of the old creation
may be seen to be more and more terrible and horrible,
as I recognize them in myself; but over against that
God is doing something which is other than myself, not me at all.
He is bringing into being Another, altogether other, and that is His Son.
- 史百克 (T. Austin-Sparks, 1888-1971)
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