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损失是祝福
经文: 「过了些日子，溪水就干了。」（王上十七7）
如果我们不知道损失是祝福，失败是成功，空虚是礼物的话，我们所受的信心
教育还不完全。物质的缺乏常是灵力的建设。以利亚坐在基立溪旁注视那日渐干涸的溪
水，正是我们生活的写眞。 「过了些日子，溪水就干了。」──这是我们昨天的历史
，明天的豫言。
有一天我们总会知道信靠恩赐和信靠赐恩者有什么不同。恩赐也许有一时好用
，可是赐恩者是永久的爱。
以利亚在未到撒勒法之前，基立对于他是一个难题。等他到了撒勒法之后，他
就清楚明白了。上帝严厉的对付并不是最后的对付。生活中的灾祸、沙漠、眼泪，都是
一些插入的音乐，并不是最后的精采。
如果以利亚不经过基立，直接由基列往撒勒法去的话，他必定会失去许多帮助
他的东西，因为他在基立过的是信心生活。在你我的生活中，什么时候属地的泉源干了
，属人的方法完了，我们就该知道我们的希望和帮助是在乎创造天地的上帝。 ──梅
尔（F.B.Meyer）
Providence of Loss
Scripture: "It came to pass . . . that the brook dried up" (1 Kings 17:7).
The education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that
there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things,
a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its
spiritual establishment. The dwindling stream by which Elijah sat and mused
is a true picture of the life of each of us. "It came to pass . . . that the
brook dried up"--that is the history of our yesterday, and a prophecy of
our morrows.
In some way or other we will have to learn the difference between
trusting in the gift and trusting in the Giver. The gift may be good for a
while, but the Giver is the Eternal Love.
Cherith was a difficult problem to Elijah until he got to Zarephath,
and then it was all as clear as daylight. God's hard words are never His
last words. The woe and the waste and the tears of life belong to the
interlude and not to the finale.
Had Elijah been led straight to Zarephath he would have missed
something that helped to make him a wiser prophet and a better man. He lived
by faith at Cherith. And whensoever in your life and mine some spring of
earthly and outward resource has dried up, it has been that we might learn
that our hope and help are in God who made Heaven and earth. --F. B. Meyer |
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