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June 26
"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?"(Rom. 3:3.)
I THINK that I can trace every scrap of sorrow in my life to simple unbelief. How could I be anything but quite happy if I believed always that all the past is forgiven, and all the present furnished with power, and all the future bright with hope because of the same abiding facts which do not change with my mood, do not stumble because I totter and stagger at the promise through unbelief, but stand firm and clear with their peaks of pearl cleaving the air of Eternity, and the bases of their hills rooted unfathomably in the Rock of God. Mont Blanc does not become a phantom or a mist because a climber grows dizzy on its side.
─James Smetham.
Is it any wonder that, when we stagger at any promise of God through unbelief, we do not receive it? Not that faith merits an answer, or in any way earns it, or works it out; but God has made believing a condition of receiving, and the Giver has a sovereign right to choose His own terms of gift.
─Rev. Samuel Hart.
Unbelief says, "How can such and such things be?" It is full of "hows"; but faith has one great answer to the ten thousand "hows," and that answer is─GOD!
─C. H. M.
No praying man or woman accomplishes so much with so little expenditure of time as when he or she is praying.
If there should arise, it has been said─and the words are surely true to the thought of our Lord Jesus Christ in all His teaching on prayer─if there should arise ONE UTTERLY BELIEVING MAN, the history of the world might be changed.
Will YOU not be that one in the providence and guidance of God our Father?
─A. E. McAdam.
Prayer without faith degenerates into objectless routine, or soulless hypocrisy. Prayer with faith brings Omnipotence to back our petitions. Better not pray unless and until your whole being responds to the efficacy of your supplication. When the true prayer is breathed, earth and heaven, the past and the future, say Amen. And Christ prayed such prayers.
─P. C. M.
"Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God."
「彼得因為耶穌第三次對他說『你愛我嗎』,就憂愁。」約翰福音廿一章17節
在主復活以後,因著彼得曾否認主,主要使他明白其愛心是何等薄弱。其實,對我們而言也是如此,主一再地問:「你愛我嗎?」直到我們從心中誠實回答說:「主啊!您知道我愛您。」並且承認我們明白在心中和生活上,並沒彰顯祂的愛。
思想什麼才是真實相愛的記號?一個長期忠於交誼和彼此相愛的人,必會使人們看到他和朋友的友誼關係;而我們若愛基督,則可由我們樂於擁有基督內在的性情。愛使我們會去取悅於對方,我們會儘量使所愛的人快樂;同樣,對主旨意的順服可以看出我們愛心的程度,「人若愛我,就必遵守我的道……你們若遵守我的命令,就常在我的愛裏。」愛本來就是儘可能使對方高興。
愛能使雙方完全地合而為一,這是靈裡的合一。當我們試著回答「你愛我嗎?」這個問題時,讓我們省察我們與主是否有相似的性情;假如在那方面有欠缺,我們必須到愛我們的主面前謙卑的承認,並且從施恩寶座前支取能力,全心去愛祂。
當我們讀到彼得的回答:「主啊!您知道我愛您。」主就賜他能力去餵養祂的羊和小羊。既然主耶穌愛我們,找到我們,祂的愛便會激勵我們去領人歸向祂、服事祂。
「我們……也勸你們,不可徒受祂的恩典。」哥林多後書六章1節
你昨日所蒙的恩,是昨日的,不是今日的。恩典是神滿溢的寵愛;也可以照你所預料的取得。「在許多忍耐,患難,窮乏,困苦中」──那就是測驗忍耐的所在。你在這些方面辜負了神的恩典呢?還是說──「啊,我不計算這次呢?」這不是祈禱請求神幫助的問題;是現在承受神恩典的事實。我們以禱告為作工的準備,這種態度在聖經上絕然找不出的。禱告是承受神恩典的練習。不要說──「我忍受這,直到我能脫離它,得到充足的時間禱告為止」。現在祈禱;在需要的那一頃刻,接受神的恩典吧!禱告是最實際的事,不是由崇拜反映出來的行動。我們在禱告上能得學習接近神的恩典。「鞭打,監禁,擾亂,勞動」──在這些事裡,能彰顯接近神的恩典,不但你自己驚奇,別人也驚奇。現在就接近,不是最近的將來接近。靈性字彙上只有「現在」這個字。讓環境領你到任何地方去,總得趁著時機依靠神的恩典。依靠神恩典的大證據,你遭不公道待遇或輕視的時候只表現神的恩典,不表現別的態度。
「一無所有……」,絕對不要保留甚麼。將你最好的捨去,永遠做個貧窮的人。切不要以手段與憂慮去保留神所賜給的恩惠,是要在貧窮(指謙虛)中獲得勝利。
「祂看見許多的人,就憐憫他們……」馬太福音九章36節
我們的主「能體恤我們的軟弱。」(來四15)體恤這個詞含意很深,它表示我們的困難就是基督的,我們的軟弱也是祂的。這種感受並非是一種同情的傷感,乃是指祂正與我們一同經歷苦痛的憐憫。
正因主願意與我們一同經歷苦痛,因此祂能安慰疲乏睏倦的人。事實上,這也正是這位大祭司一切行為的動機,使神能藉著祂作為我們無盡安慰的來源。所以讓我們更加認識與我們合而為一的主,並且把一切重擔都交託給祂,因祂的心充滿了愛和憐憫。
如果我們能體會一個受極大痛苦的孩子,他的神經是如何地與疼痛的部份連接著,那麼我們或許能明白我們的傷痛是如何地與基督的心連在一起。就像母親能體恤嬰兒的痛苦,好朋友能憐憫他人的悲哀一樣;我們坐在寶座上的救主,雖然在天上有無比的喜樂,但仍然能在祂的靈裡,甚至肉體上經歷我們所受的痛苦。經上說:「我們既然有一位已經升入高天尊榮的大祭司……所以我們只管坦然無懼地來到施恩的寶座前……。」(來四14—16)因此,讓我們隨時來到這位已升入高天尊榮的大祭司面前。