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经文: 我必搭救你脱离恶人的手,救赎你脱离强暴人的手。(耶利米书十五:21)
主耶和华亲自出马搭救和救赎祂的百姓。祂誓言要亲自拯救他们。祂的膀臂将要施行拯救,祂也将得着荣耀。圣经并没有提到我们要努力来协助耶和华。不必考虑我们的能力,也不必考虑我们的软弱。既然如此,我们为什么还要依靠自己的力量和血气以致悲惨跌倒呢?耶和华有足够的能力,无需要借助我们微不足道的力量。平静吧,不信的头脑!安静并知道主是统管一切的。主没有提及朋友或帮助祂的人。祂单独作工,并不感到需要人的协助。我们惯于依靠亲友。但那是没用的。当我们依靠他们时,他们就像芦苇般折断了──他们有能力时不愿意帮助,没有能力时反倒愿意帮助。因为应许是从上帝而来,最有智慧的行动就是等候祂。我们若如此必永不失望。谁是我当惧怕的恶者?上帝要完全消灭他们,我们应当可怜他们而不是害怕。至于强暴者,对那些没有一位上帝可以投靠的人来说,他们才是恐布分子。上帝既站在我们的一方,我们还要惧怕谁呢?倘若我们犯罪教恶人喜悦,那才真有害怕的理由;但是若我们对上帝笃诚,暴君之怒气将被镇压。在每一个可怕试验中,愿我们都能忍耐持守,全心信靠全能上帝的应许。
Evening, October 10
Scripture: “And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.”(Jeremiah 15:21)
Note the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord Jehovah himself interposes to deliver and redeem his people. He pledges himself personally to rescue them. His own arm shall do it, that he may have the glory. Here is not a word said of any effort of our own which may be needed to assist the Lord. Neither our strength nor our weakness is taken into the account, but the lone I, like the sun in the heavens, shines out resplendent in all-sufficience. Why then do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm. Peace, ye unbelieving thoughts, be still, and know that the Lord reigneth. Nor is there a hint concerning secondary means and causes. The Lord says nothing of friends and helpers: he undertakes the work alone, and feels no need of human arms to aid him. Vain are all our lookings around to companions and relatives; they are broken reeds if we lean upon them-often unwilling when able, and unable when they are willing. Since the promise comes alone from God, it would be well to wait only upon him; and when we do so, our expectation never fails us. Who are the wicked that we should fear them? The Lord will utterly consume them; they are to be pitied rather than feared. As for terrible ones, they are only terrors to those who have no God to fly to, for when the Lord is on our side, whom shall we fear? If we run into sin to please the wicked, we have cause to be alarmed, but if we hold fast our integrity, the rage of tyrants shall be overruled for our good. When the fish swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again. In all times of fiery trial, in patience let us possess our souls.