「在他們（四活物）頭以上的穹蒼之上有聲音。他們站住的時候，便將翅膀垂下。」－以西結1:25
人們常會好奇：「你是如何聽見神的聲音的？」這段經文告訴我們其中的秘訣：當活物站住，垂下翅膀時，他們就能聽見全能者的聲音。
有時我們雖然雙膝跪在神的面前，我們心思卻四處遨遊亂竄。這表示我們在祂的面前無法真正安靜下來。
幾天前，一位親愛的聖徒向我述說她禱告的經過。她說：「我總是在神還沒有回應之前就離開祂了。」
她無法耐性等候主的回應，她寧可照著她自己的意思去處理事情。這樣的結果必是悲劇收場，於是她需要一切重新來過。
哦！我們還有多少的時間精神可以耗費呢？只因為我們不肯「站住」，不願「垂下心思的翅膀」，我們就不能聽見祂的聲音，也不能從祂得著安息和穩妥。
所以，讓我們簡單的聽從神話語的吩咐：「站住」，「翅膀垂下」，我們才能「直往前行，靈往那裡去，…就往那裡去，行走並不轉身...，往來奔走，好像閃電的樣子」（以西結書1:12&14）。
"And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings" (Ezek. 1:25).That is the letting down of the wings? People so often say, "How do you get the voice of the Lord?" Here is the secret. They heard the voice when they stood and let down their wings.
We have seen a bird with fluttering wings; though standing still, its wings are fluttering. But here we are told they heard the voice when they stood and had let down their wings.
Do we not sometimes kneel or sit before the Lord and yet feel conscious of a fluttering of our spirits? Not a real stillness in His presence.
A dear one told me several days ago of a certain thing she prayed about, "But," said she, "I did not wait until the answer came."
She did not get still enough to hear Him speak, but went away and followed her own thought in the matter. And the result proved disastrous and she had to retrace her steps.
Oh, how much energy is wasted! How much time is lost by not letting down the wings of our spirit and getting very quiet before Him! Oh, the calm, the rest, the peace which come as we wait In His presence until we hear from Him!
Then, ah then, we can go like lightning, and turn not as we go but go straight forward whithersoever the Spirit goes. (Ezek. 1:1, 20.
