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经文: 你们当依靠耶和华直到永远，因为耶稣华是永久的磐石。（以赛亚书二十六：4）
有这样一位值得信靠的上帝，我们可以安息在祂里面。让我们决心驱出所有的不信。排除损伤我们安息的疑惑和恐惧。上帝是我们依靠的根基，我们绝无恐惧的理由。孩子若不信靠他的父母，父母将会何等忧伤啊！天父永不会也永不愿使我们失望，但是我们对祂没有信心，这是何等卑劣、何等残酷的行为啊！疑惑应该从上帝的家中被驱逐出去。偍是“老旧的不信”今日仍然活跃，如同诗人在问：“难道祂的慈爱永远穷尽，祂的应许世世废弃么？”（诗七十七：8）纵使疑惑来试探，我们应当述说上帝的好处。天上地上没有一人像祂。“那圣者说，你们将谁比我，叫他与我相等呢？”（赛四十：25）没有一磐石像雅各的磐石。我们的仇敌也明白这一点。不能容许疑惑活在我们心中，却要像以利亚对付巴力的先知般，将全部极可恶的罪，在河边杀尽。我们要在圣泉旁杀尽它们，此泉乃是从我们救主受伤之处涌出。我们曾经历许多试验，但是在上帝里面，我们总可以找到一切所需。让我们得鼓励永远依靠主，因祂曾经是，也永远是我们的力量，是我们的帮助，是我们的山寨。
Evening, July 5
Scripture: “Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”(Isaiah 26:4)
Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust. A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who never will. It were well if doubting were banished from the household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble nowadays as when the psalmist asked, “Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Will he be favourable no more?” David had not made any very lengthy trial of the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, “There is none like it.” He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and it had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised it ever afterwards; even so should we speak well of our God, there is none like unto him in the heaven above or the earth beneath; “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” There is no rock like unto the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being judges. So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them at, we will select the sacred torrent which wells forth from our Saviour’s wounded side. We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord for ever, assured that his ever lasting strength will be, as it has been, our succour and stay.