2017年November月
1022:6:21
留言. 荒漠甘泉11月10日
11月10日
他在无可指望的时候,因信仍有指望。(罗马书4章18节,魏默思译本)
亚伯拉罕的信心似乎与耶和华的权势和恒定不变的诚信彻底地一致。按照表面的情形看来,亚伯拉罕虽已入选,但并没有最大的把握期望应许的实现。但是他相信耶和华的话,仍然期望他的后裔多如天上的星星。
我心灵啊,你不象亚伯拉罕那样,只有一个应许;在你面前有着成百上千的应许,以及许多忠诚信徒的楷模;因此,你对上帝的话应当满怀信心。虽然他的救助有些延迟,邪恶势力似乎越来越恶劣,你与其灰心丧气,不如刚强喜乐,因为上帝最荣耀的应许一般来说是以这样一种非常的方式来成就的,他是在最没有希望的时候才来拯救我们。
他一般对我们的拯救是在我们最极端的情况下才会出现,这样好叫我们被拯救时能够清清楚楚看见他的手指。他选择的这种方式好让我们不再信靠我们常倾向相信所看见的和感觉到的任何东西,而是只信靠主的话,主的话是在任何情况下都可以信靠。
C. H. 旺. 濮该斯该
记住,当不凭眼见的时候,正是信心工作的时候。困难越大,信心就越容易工作;还留存一定主观的愿意时的时候,信心就没有像完全没有主观意愿时那样容易工作。
乔治. 莫勒
(1030)
November 10
Under hopeless circumstances he hopefully believed (Rom. 4:18). (Weymouth)
Abraham's faith seemed to be in a thorough correspondence with the power and constant faithfulness of Jehovah. In the outward circumstances in which he was placed, he had not the greatest cause to expect the fulfillment of the promise. Yet he believed the Word of the Lord, and looked forward to the time when his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude.
O my soul, thou hast not one single promise only, like Abraham, but a thousand promises, and many patterns of faithful believers before thee: it behooves thee, therefore, to rely with confidence upon the Word of God. And though He delayeth His help, and the evil seemeth to grow worse and worse, be not weak, but rather strong, and rejoice, since the most glorious promises of God are generally fulfilled in such a wondrous manner that He steps forth to save us at a time when there is the least appearance of it.
He commonly brings His help in our greatest extremity, that His finger may plainly appear in our deliverance. And this method He chooses that we may not trust upon anything that we see or feel, as we are always apt to do, but only upon His bare Word, which we may depend upon in every state.
C. H. Von Bogatzky
Remember it is the very time for faith to work when sight ceases. The greater the difficulties, the easier for faith; as long as there remain certain natural prospects, faith does not get on even as easily as where natural prospects fail.