「耶和華豈有難成的事麼？」（創世紀十八章 14 節）
這是神今天給你我的一個責問。可能我們心中曾經有過一個最深、最高、最大的願望，也許是關於我們自己的，也許是關於我們所愛的人的 。經過了好久，還沒有成就；我們就以為以前還有成功的可能，現在是決不能成功的了，於是就把今生能成為事實的希望完全放棄了。
那一個願望，如果是合乎神旨意的，神必替我們成就；雖然照我們看來，可能是完全不可能的一回事了 ， 可能我們一聽見人說起，還會笑為荒謬。那一個願望，神必替我們成就，如果我們肯讓祂成就。
「耶和華豈有難成的事麼？」沒有；如果我們相信祂，按照祂的旨意前行，讓祂獨自去替我們作那不可能的，耶和華就沒有難成的事了。不然的話，連亞伯拉罕和撒拉也有攔阻神旨意的可能。
那唯一能攔阻神的，就是：繼續不信祂的慈愛與能力；和一直拒絕神在我們身上的計畫。
對於那些信靠祂的人，耶和華是沒有一件難成的事的。 ── 譯自晨更信息（Messages for the Morning Watch）
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“Is there anything too hard for Jehovah?” (Gen. 18:14.)
Here is God’s loving challenge to you and to me today. He wants us to think of the deepest, highest, worthiest desire and longing of our hearts, something which perhaps was our hearts, something which dear to us, yet which has been so long unfulfilled that we have looked upon it as only a lost desire, that we have looked kupon it as only a lost desire, that which might have been but now cannot be, and so have given ukp hope of seeing it fulfilled in this life.
That thing, if it is in line with what we know to be His expressed will (as a son to Abraham and Sarah was), God intends to do for us, even if we know that it is of such utter impossibility that we only laugh at the absurdity of anyone’s supposing it could ever now come to pass. That thing God intends to do for us, if we will let Him.
“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Not when we believe in Him enough to go forward and do His will, and let Him do the impossible for us. Even Abraham and Sarah could have blocked God’s plan if they had continued to disbelieve.
The only thing too hard for Jehovah is deliberate, continued disbelief in His love and power, and our final rejection of His plans for us. Nothing is too hard for Jehovah to do for them that trust Him. --- Messages for the Morning Watch.
「凡我所疼愛的，我就責備管教他。」（啟示錄三章 19 節）
受到最劇烈的痛苦的，常是最屬靈的信徒。恩典受得最多的人，也是受苦受得最多的人。苦難臨到信徒，沒有一次是偶然的，每一次都是受著父神的指揮的。父神決不會隨意冒險張弓發矢。祂的每一枝箭都是帶著一個特別的使命出去的。── 卡萊爾（Joseph Caryl）
最屬靈的基督徒都是曾經過烈火的。如果你要更認識基督，你不要驚異，祂必須帶你從你現在的環境中出來，引你經過荒野、爐火。
主啊，別的刑罰我都願意受，只求你不要拿去我的十字架；求你叫我能服從你的旨意，求你叫我能愛你所給我的十字架。求你給我那最能叫你滿足的恩賜，好叫你在我身上按照你自己的旨意榮耀你名。 ── 一個俘虜的禱告（A Captive s Prayer）
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“As many as I love I rebuke and chasten.” (Rev. 3:19.)
God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly. --- Joseph Caryl.
“The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul-anguish. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He takes you aside into a desert place, or leads you into a furnace of pain.”
Do not punish me, Lord, by taking my cross from me, but comfort me by submitting me to Thy will, and by making me to love the cross. Give me that by which Thou shalt be best served…and let me hold it for the greatest of all Thy mercies, that Thou shouldst glorify Thy name in me, according to Thy will. --- A Captive’s Prayer.
If all my days were sunny, could I say,
“In His fair land He wipes all tears away”?
If I were never weary, could I keep Close to my heart, “He give His loved ones sleep”?
Were no graves mine, might I not come to deem The Life Eternal but a baseless dream?
My winter, and my tears, and weariness, Even my graves, may be His way to bless.
I call them ills; yet that can surely be Nothing but love that shown my Lord to me!
--- Selected.
為天災受難者祈禱，願平安喜樂！
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