第三十一周 从至圣所来的帮助
“那等候耶和华的，必重新得力。”（40:31）
诗：漫漫长途你虽倦，祂赐新车壮如鹰。
盔甲鲜明脚步健，证实神恩带你行。
我们应有天城旅客那个等候的灵，不应有失意者疲倦的灵。
你不要自称衰老，好象疲乏无能一样。主永不疲倦，是恒古常存者，你应当如鹰一样，重新得力，在老年时，仍要结果子。
真力量的来源，是在于深。信主是施恩者。我们这天然的人，总是怀疑基督，不信祂是独一无二之力量与祝福的源头。
如果祂的道路是在“海中”，祂的道路也是在“圣所里”；如果我们与祂同在至圣所，大海就必向祂的能力低头，当祂一起来作工，海中一切就立刻恢复平静。但除他以外，我从来获悉何人能作此工。
哦，主自己若不亲自作工，我们想作工在有需要的人身上是多么的不可能。所以祂能给我们仰望，实在我们的安慰，我们一仰望，祂的看顾和恩典，就会临到罪人身上了。
我只有一句宝贵的话告诉你：要紧靠主耶稣身边！你知道在那里能得着喜乐、力量，并享受随时随在，给你扶持和爱的偎养。那爱使万事尽都虚空，而叫人摸着基督，我们的喜乐和生命。就在于此。
“神是我们的避难所，是我们的力量，是我们在患难中随时的帮助。”人自己的努力，会把这一人帮助关在门外，人的计划都是不对的。神有祂的方法，且在祂自己的时间中来到。……人的挣扎，不过证明缺乏信心和安息，打算也不过是肉体。
我救主经历的路途，直指祂父祂神之所，
到祂现今宝座之处，我现在从此路经过。
祂力如何，我必如何。
工作的本分会引我们进入难处，但我们可以安心说，神在那里必然得胜。
要专心注意于基督，使你们能灵里新鲜，并力量充沛。与主同经忧患是一件大事，忧患跟看会变成有水的井泉，恩典也必丰满降下，要为众圣徒祷告，将所有忧患都带给基督，并要在灵里把基督带到忧患中。
有一件顶大的安慰，就是当我们瞻仰基督时，不能只看见该如何行，并且也能得着所该达到的“恩上加恩”，“我们众人既然敞着脸，得以看见主的荣光，就变成主的形状，荣上加荣”。与基督的形状相似，这就是真正的长进；这长进应该是每时每刻的。
我进常有许多责任上的事情，重重的压在身上。但我将这些事交托主，祂的大能胜过这可怜的世界所要求的一切，在祂无重担之可言，祂能照着祂的意念安排一切。
THIRTY-FIRST WEEK HELP FROM THE SANCTUARY
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” Isaiah 11:31
Though thy way be long and dreary,
Eagle strength He’ll still renew
Garments fresh and foot unweary
Tell how God hath brought thee through.
We should be in the spirit of waiting pilgrims, not weary ones.
You must not call yourself old as if you were tired. The Lord is never weary, yet the Ancient of Days; you have to renew your strength as an eagle to bear fruit in old age.
The source of real strength is in the sense of the Lord’s being gracious. The natural man in us always disbelieves Christ as the only source of strength and every blessing.
His way is “in the sanctuary” if His way is “in the sea,” and if we are with Him there, the sea bows to His power; but to none else that I know of … when He works all is soon still.
Oh, if the Lord Himself was not the workman, how hopeless would be the thought of reaching all the souls that are in need. It is a comfort then to be able to look to Him, that His eye and grace may reach them.
I have only one precious word to say to you: keep close to Jesus, you know you will find there joy, strength, and that consciousness of His love which sustains everywhere and makes everything else become nothing, there is our happiness and our life.
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” … Human efforts shut this help out. … No human planning is ever right. In His own time and way, God will come in. … Human efforts prove want of faith and restlessness, and planning is mere flesh.
For the path where my Saviour is gone
Has led up to His Father and God—
To the place where He’s now on the throne:
And His strength shall be mine on the road.
Duty ever leads into difficulty, but I have the consolation of saying, God is there, and victory certain.
Occupy yourselves with Christ that you may be refreshed and strengthened. … It is a great thing to pass through sorrows with Him; they are then turned to a well, and grace comes down too. Pray for the saints—all of them—carry the sorrows to Christ, and in your own spirit bring Christ to the sorrows.
It is a great comfort that, in looking at Christ, I not only see the thing I ought to be, but I get the thing I ought to be, “grace for grace.” “We all, with open face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory unto glory.” There is real growth there. … In likeness to Christ, and it ought to be growth every instant.
I generally have many things which press heavily within the range of my responsibility. But I commit them to Him who is mighty above all which this poor world can require, and to whom a burden is no burden at all. … He orders everything according to the counsel of His will.