How God Makes Known His Will to Each One of Us at Every Minute of the Day
神怎样在每天的每一分钟，把他的旨意指示给我们每一个人
Love between two spiritual beings demands a union of wills. This statement refers to the human soul insofar as it understands, desires, and pursues the purpose of its existence; it is the depth of one’s being that gives meaning to what constitutes his personality and way of acting.
两个灵性存在之间的爱，要求意志的合一。这句话是就人的灵魂而言：灵魂在认识、渴望并追求其存在目的之时；正是人存在的深处，赋予他的性格与行事方式以意义。
The relation of love between God and man implies that at every moment and in every circumstance man seeks what God wants him to do, and he does it.
神与人之间的爱之关系，意味着人在每一时刻、每一种处境里，都要寻求神要他做什么，并且去行。
How can man know what God’s will for him is? First of all, through the Ten Commandments, the evangelical counsels, and the general directives found in Scripture. In addition, through such events in our lives that God wills, permits, or tolerates. This Providence of God watches over all people, and so it pertains to everyone in general.
人怎样知道神对他的旨意是什么？首先，借着十诫、福音劝谕，以及圣经里的一般指引。除此之外，也借着我们生命里那些神所定意、所许可或所容许发生的事。神的护理看顾所有人，所以这些是普遍适用于每个人的。
But there is something more for each one of us, a particular will of God covering each moment of our existence. How can I know it? It makes itself known to me at the very center of my being by an imperious yet whispering call inviting me to choose this line of action in preference to all others. Undoubtedly this call is the natural reaction of my conscience as a person before a situation in which I find myself involved, but because I am a Christian the call is also the reaction of a conscience enlightened and strengthened by grace. The voice of the Lord, so to speak, is within me by virtue of two different conditions. It is there first of all as the judgment of a human conscience, and at the same time it is there as the motion of baptismal grace. This call is usually referred to by spiritual writers as the “inspiration of the Holy Spirit”.
The place of such inspirations of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian is therefore considerable. It is through inspirations that God informs me at each moment what his will is for me here and now. For the Christian the dramatic debate between good and evil, which takes place at the center of every conscience, consists of consenting to or resisting the inspirations of the Holy Spirit.
但对我们每个人来说，还有一件更具体的事：神对我们存在的每一刻都有他特别的旨意。我怎样知道它呢？它在我存在的最中心向我显明——那是一个既带着权威、又如耳语般的呼唤，邀请我选择这一条行动之路，而不选择其他无数的可能。毫无疑问，这呼唤是我在所处境况面前，良心的自然反应；但因为我是基督徒，这呼唤同时也是一个由恩典光照并加力的良心的反应。可以这样说，主的声音在我里面，以两种不同的方式同在：首先，它作为人的良心之判断在此；同时，它也作为洗礼恩典的推动在此。属灵作家通常把这呼唤称为「圣灵的感动」。
因此，圣灵的这些感动在基督徒的生命里占有极其重要的地位。正是借着这些感动，神在每一刻告诉我：他此时此地对我的旨意是什么。对基督徒来说，发生在每一个良心中心的那场关于善恶的戏剧性争战，实质上就是：要么同意、要么抵拒圣灵的感动。
Let us hear what St. Francis de Sales, an expert in this field, has to say about this subject: “After God had formed man from the clay of the ground, … he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and made of man a living person [Gen 2:7]—in other words, a soul that gave life, movement, and activity to Adam’s body. The same eternal God breathes, infuses into our souls the inspirations of the spiritual life, so that, in the words of St. Paul, they become living souls [1 Cor 15:45]—in other words, souls that give life, movement, feeling, and activity to the operations of grace.”St. Francis de Sales, The Love of God, 340. In this manner inspiration is as necessary to the life of our soul as breathing is to the life of our body. How does it function? “By inspiration”, again writes St. Francis de Sales, “we mean all those interior attractions, movements of the heart, pangs of conscience, and illuminations of the mind by which God, in his fatherly love and care, predisposes our hearts with his blessings, to awaken, stir, urge, and attract us to virtue, charity and good resolutions, in fact to everything that serves our eternal good.”St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, 76. Inspirations therefore play a major role in the continuous struggle between good and evil that goes on in a person’s conscience. They form an integral part of our spiritual life.
让我们听听在这一领域里的专家——圣方济·德·撒肋——怎么说：「当神用地上的尘土造人之后……他就向他的鼻孔里吹气，人就成了有灵的活人［创2:7］——也就是说，一个赐给亚当的身体以生命、运动与活动的灵魂。同样的永恒之神也向我们的灵魂吹入、灌注属灵生命的感动，使它们，正如圣保罗所言，成为有灵的活人［林前15:45］——也就是说，那些使恩典的运行有生命、运动、感觉与作为的灵魂。」圣方济·德·撒肋，《论爱神》，第340页。 这样一来，感动之于我们灵魂的生命，就像呼吸之于我们身体的生命一样必要。它怎样运行呢？圣方济·德·撒肋又写道：「我们所谓的感动，指的是一切内在的吸引、心中的发动、良心的刺责、心思的光照；借着这些，神以父亲般的爱与看顾，用他的福分先行预备我们的心，好叫我们被唤醒、被挑动、被敦促、被吸引，去追求德行、仁爱与美好的立志；总之，去追求一切有益于我们永恒益处的事。」圣方济·德·撒肋，《献身虔敬生活导论》，第76页。 因此，在一个人的良心里，那场持续不断的善恶争战中，感动扮演着重要的角色；它们是我们属灵生命不可分割的一部分。
It would seem that for a generous soul the way leading toward the good should be clear and simple, that it would be enough for him to follow the motions of the Holy Spirit. The fact is, however, that the process is far more difficult than it would appear at first sight. The soul itself is subject to illusions, and Satan, in order to carry out his intrigue, can at times transform himself into an angel of light. Given this fact, the following bit of advice from St. Francis de Sales is extremely valuable: “Before you consent to inspirations concerning important or extraordinary matters,” he writes, “seek the advice of your confessor, that he may examine whether they are true or false and so preserve you from deception; for the devil often sends false inspirations to deceive those who receive them readily, but he can never deceive those who humbly obey their confessor.”St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, 78. Elsewhere he repeats a few words full of wise advice, which he has already given in the eighth book of The Love of God, on how to recognize “legitimate inspirations”: “It comes therefore to this: the three finest, surest proofs of the genuine character of inspiration are perseverance in contrast to fickleness, peace of soul in contrast to impulsive anxiety, humble obedience in contrast to stubborn willfulness.”St. Francis de Sales, The Love of God, 351.
看起来，对于一颗慷慨的心来说，通往善的道路应该清楚而简单，似乎只要跟随圣灵的推动就够了。然而事实是，这过程远比初看之下来得困难。灵魂本身会落入错觉；而撒但为着他的诡计，有时会装作光明的天使。鉴于此，下面这段圣方济·德·撒肋的忠告极其宝贵：他写道：「在你对那些关乎重要或非凡事项的感动予以同意之前，要征询你的告解导师的建议，好叫他检验这些感动是真是假，从而保守你不被欺骗；因为魔鬼常常发送虚假的感动，去欺骗那些轻易接受的人；但他绝不能欺骗那些谦卑顺服告解导师的人。」圣方济·德·撒肋，《献身虔敬生活导论》，第78页。 他在别处也重复了几句话，充满智慧的忠告——他已经在《论爱神》第八卷里给出过——告诉我们如何辨认「合法的感动」：「归根到底，证明感动为真最精当、最可靠的三条证据是：相对于反复无常的『恒久不变』、相对于急躁焦虑的『心灵平安』、相对于固执任性的『谦卑顺服』。」圣方济·德·撒肋，《论爱神》，第351页。
We can better appreciate the rules St. Ignatius gives for understanding, analyzing, and appreciating the different movements that can take place in the soul of the person making the retreat when we see them within the general framework of the role inspirations play in our spiritual life.
当我们把这些规则放在「感动」在我们属灵生命里所扮演角色的整体框架中来看，就能更好地理解、分析与珍视圣依纳爵为退省者灵魂里可能出现的各种动向所给出的规则。