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经过火炼
经文: 「这样，耶和华后来赐福给约伯，比先前更多．」（伯四十二12）
约伯虽然遭遇了许多灾祸，结果却得到许多祝福。他受试炼，是为要证实他的
敬虔。那么，我们今天的灾祸，岂非也是为要叫上帝得到荣耀吗？荣耀原是从眼泪中出
来的。约伯的苦难使他更高看上帝，更低看自己。他喊叫说：「我从前风闻有祢，现在
亲眼看见祢。」（伯四十二5）
如果，在痛苦失望中，我们能感觉上帝的同在而求告说：「愿祢的意旨成全。
」（太廿六42）我们就有福了。约伯在痛苦之中，竟能看见说：「我知道我的救赎主活
着。」（伯十九25）这是多么不容易啊！果然，耶和华后来赐福给约伯，比先前更多。
──译自静默的时候（In the Hour of Silence）
患难每一次来找你，都是手里拿着一块黄金的。
如果我们能在患难中忍耐等候，患难至终必变成我们的祝福。如果我们不能忍
受苦难，有许多祝福我们不能得到。有许多快乐是只能在忧伤中得到的。有许多眞理的
光是只能在属地的光熄灭之后才启示出来的。 ──选
最属灵的信徒都是从苦难中出来的；最伟大的人物都是佩戴着伤痕的；殉道者
的冠冕都是闪着火花的，他们进入天门都是挂着眼泪带着愁容的。 ──卓秉（Chaplin）
Through the Fire
Scripture: "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning" (Job 42:12).
Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He was tried that his
godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my
character and to robe me in graces I had little of before? I come to my
glory through eclipses, tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the
roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with higher conceptions of God and
lowlier thoughts of himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee.
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near in His majesty
that I bend low before Him and pray, "Thy will be done," I gain very much.
God gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those wearisome days and
nights, he penetrated within the veil, and could say, "I know that my
Redeemer liveth." Surely the latter end of Job was more blessed than the
beginning.--In the Hour of Silence
"Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a nugget of gold in
her hand."
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the
right if we are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How
steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and
unafraid! There are blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and
endure suffering. There are joys that can come to us only through sorrow.
There are revealings of Divine truth which we can get only when earth's
lights have gone out. There are harvests which can grow only after the
plowshare has done its work.--Selected
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes
glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen
the gates of Heaven. --Chapin |
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