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不要忧虑
经文: 「应当一无挂虑。」（腓四6）
许多基督人不断地过着焦急挂虑的生活，有的竟烦恼得可怜。怎样能在日常忙
乱的生活中得到完全的安息是一个值得知道的秘诀。让我们先看：挂虑究竟有什么用处
？挂虑从来没有使谁强壮过；从来没有使谁遵行上帝旨意过；也从来没有使谁逃出困难
过。挂虑只会损害有用的生命、美丽的生命。焦急、挂虑、担忧，都是我们的主所绝对
禁止的，我们的主说：「不要….忧虑吃什么….穿什么。」（太六25）主的意思并不是
说：我们用不着预先思想，我们的生活可以毫无计划、毫无规律；祂乃是说：我们用不
着为这些事挂虑。你以为你这样挂虑、担忧，别人不会知道么？我告诉你：从你脸上的
愁纹，从你说话的声调，从你生活中最微小的动作，从你缺乏喜乐的精神看来，别人早
已知道了。我们应当把我们的挂虑卸给上帝！因为祂说：「凡劳苦担重担的人可以到我
这里来，我就使你们得安息。」（太十一28）──沙勤德（Rev. Darlow Sargeant）
烦恼、挂虑、猜疑、不信，都是基督人最大的弱点。我们究竟能不能从它得到
什么呢？它们不是常使我们失去活动的机会么？它们不是常使我们失却智慧的果断么？
许多时候我们原可以依靠信心漂浮的，却因为自己挣扎的缘故反沉下去了。
哦，我们多么需要安静的能力！哦，我们当安静，当知道耶和华是上帝！以色
列的圣者不能不保护拯救祂自己的子民。祂的每一句话都是有效力的；高山可以挪开，
天地可以废去，祂的话却不能废去。祂值得我们信任，也应得我们信任。我的魂哪，归
来罢，归来安息罢，归来倒在主的怀里罢！ ──选
Don't Fret
Scripture: "Do not begin to be anxious" (Phil. 4:6, PBV).
Not a few Christians live in a state of unbroken anxiety, and others
fret and fume terribly. To be perfectly at peace amid the hurly-burly of
daily life is a secret worth knowing. What is the use of worrying? It never
made anybody strong; never helped anybody to do God's will; never made a way
of escape for anyone out of perplexity. Worry spoils lives which would
otherwise be useful and beautiful. Restlessness, anxiety, and care are
absolutely forbidden by our Lord, who said: "Take no thought," that is, no
anxious thought, "saying what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or
wherewithal shall we be clothed?" He does not mean that we are not to take
forethought and that our life is to be without plan or method; but that we
are not to worry about these things. People know you live in the realm of
anxious care by the lines on your face, the tones of your voice, the minor
key in your life, and the lack of joy in your spirit. Scale the heights of a
life abandoned to God, then you will look down on the clouds beneath your
feet. --Rev. Darlow Sargeant
It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and
mistrusting. Can we gain anything by it? Do we not unfit ourselves for
action, and unhinge our minds for wise decision? We are sinking by our
struggles when we might float by faith.
Oh, for grace to be quiet! Oh, to be still and know that Jehovah is
God! The Holy One of Israel must defend and deliver His own. We may be sure
that every word of His will stand, though the mountains should depart. He
deserves to be confided in. Come, my soul, return unto thy rest, and lean
thy head upon the bosom of the Lord Jesus. --Selected |
