WATCHFULNESS ｜ 警醒

ENWATCHFULNESS. Associated in Scripture with prayer, and with the conflict against temptations from within and from without. What it implies and includes. Watchfulness is a habitual attitude of spiritual alertness. It includes: (1) a taking heed to moral and spiritual environments, noting especially exposures to harm and loss from inimical forces within our own hearts and wills, from worldly allurements, and from Satanic temptations; (2) a deep consciousness of spiritual danger and damage impending from these foes within and without the soul; (3) a profound sense of weakness, insufficiency and utter unreadiness to meet and avert or resist these assaulting spiritual foes. It implies also: (1) a recognition of God's efficient interposition, and a conscious dependence upon His proffered help; (2) an actual reliance upon His direction, guardianship and deliverance, and a looking for and expectation of a blessed result, by reason of His certain and assuring promises. Hab. 2:1. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me.

BSBHabakkuk 2:1 I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

中警醒。在圣经中，警醒常与祷告相连，也与抵挡内外试探的争战相连。它含有什么、包括什么。警醒是一种惯常的属灵警觉姿态。它包括：（1）留意自己道德与属灵的处境，尤其注意自己可能因哪些敌对力量而受害受损——那些力量或在我们自己的心与意志之内，或来自世俗的诱惑，或来自撒但的试探；（2）深切意识到这些内外之敌所带来、迫在眼前的属灵危险与损害；（3）深刻自知软弱、不足，全然没有预备去应对、躲避或抵挡这些前来攻击的属灵仇敌。它同时也含有：（1）认取神有效的介入，并自觉倚赖他所递上的帮助；（2）实实在在地倚靠他的引导、看顾与拯救，并因他确定而使人笃定的应许，仰望、期待一个蒙福的结果。哈巴谷书 2:1 —— 我要站在守望所，立在望楼上观看，看耶和华对我说什么话。

ENInjunctions and counsels: Mark 13:33. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Luke 21:36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass. Matt. 26:41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. 1 Cor. 16:13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1 Thes. 5:6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. Eph. 6:18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance. Col. 4:2. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. 1 Pet. 4:7. Be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Rev. 3:2. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. Results of watching: Prov. 8:34. Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors. Luke 12:37. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching. Rev. 16:15. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments. Practical considerations: (1) the watcher must not only look and pray for divine guidance and guardianship, but also for divine girding in the actual conflict, and must engage in every conflict with an assured expectation of a triumphant issue (illustration: Neh. 4:9. Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night). (2) The true order of these related duties is: watch; pray; expect and rely upon God for guidance and assistance; then, in the name of God, manfully resist. And this order is to be persistently maintained until the life-release from spiritual peril, temptation and conflict: life-long vigilance is the condition of final rest and peace at the entering into the eternal life.

BSB1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

中命令与劝勉：马可福音 13:33 —— 你们要谨慎，警醒祈祷，因为你们不晓得那日期几时来到。路加福音 21:36 —— 你们要时时警醒，常常祈求，使你们能逃避这一切要来的事。马太福音 26:41 —— 总要警醒祷告，免得入了迷惑。哥林多前书 16:13 —— 你们务要警醒，在真道上站立得稳，要作大丈夫，要刚强。帖撒罗尼迦前书 5:6 —— 所以我们不要睡觉，像别人一样，总要警醒谨守。以弗所书 6:18 —— 靠着圣灵，随时多方祷告祈求，并要在此警醒不倦。歌罗西书 4:2 —— 你们要恒切祷告，在此警醒感恩。彼得前书 4:7 —— 所以你们要谨慎自守，警醒祷告。启示录 3:2 —— 你要警醒，坚固那剩下将要衰微的。警醒的结果：箴言 8:34 —— 听从我、日日在我门口仰望、在我门框旁边等候的，那人便为有福。路加福音 12:37 —— 主人来了，看见仆人警醒，那仆人就有福了。启示录 16:15 —— 那警醒、看守衣服的有福了。两点实践性的按语：（1）警醒的人不但要仰望并祈求神的引导与看顾，也要祈求在实际争战中神亲自束他的腰；并且每逢争战，都当带着『必得胜』的笃定期待去应战（例证：尼希米记 4:9 —— 然而我们祷告我们的神，又因他们的缘故，就派人看守，昼夜防备）。（2）这几项相关本分的正确次序是：警醒；祷告；期待并倚靠神的引导与帮助；然后，奉神的名，堂堂正正地抵挡。而这一次序要持续维持下去，直到人生离世、脱离属灵的危险、试探与争战为止：终身的警觉，正是进入永生时得着最终安息与平安的条件。