信心的支票簿 Faith's check book
知道如何等候上帝
經文: ��「信靠的人必不著急。」（以賽亞書廿八︰16）�'`�Z�
上帝會信守祂的承諾，絕不耽延，也不會魯莽草率行事。�
信徒不必倉慌逃走，因為他不會被突來的驚慌嚇倒；當別人像無頭蒼蠅般四處亂闖時，他卻氣定神閒，胸有成竹，在受考驗時，應付裕如。�
他對於心裡所渴想追求的東西，不會像小孩子般毛躁地跳腳要求立刻兌現，因為他知道上帝有祂的時刻表。一般人常不顧一切著急地將心願達成，他們把上帝的應許，看成林中的鳥，恨不得這鳥立時到自己手上，這樣才覺得是屬於自己的，但真正的信徒，知道如何等候。
信徒不會憑血氣或己意，妄自做出錯誤的決定與行動；但不信主的人，常沒禱告就衝動行事，以致事後悔不當初。有信心的人，卻是按步就班，穩紮穩打，按著既定的計劃與步調，不疾不徐的往前行，如此就不致應驗「欲速則不達」的諺語，最後只好煩惱地從頭再做起。�
我的情形是怎樣呢﹖我對上帝有沒有信心﹖我是否按著上帝的步調與祂同行﹖還是隨著起伏不定的情緒，任意行事﹖平靜吧！我的靈，安息在上帝全然智慧的旨意裡，耐心地等候主，祂必要為你行大事。�
Know How to Wait
Scripture: "He that believeth shall not make haste" (Isaiah 28:16).
He shall make haste to keep the LORD's commandments; but he shall not make haste in any impatient or improper sense.
He shall not haste to run away, for he shall not be overcome with the fear which causes panic. When others are flying hither and thither as if their wits had failed them, the believer shall be quiet, calm, and deliberate, and so shall be able to act wisely in the hour of trial.
He shall not haste in his expectations, craving his good things at once and on the spot, but he will wait God's time. Some are in a desperate hurry to have the bird in the hand, for they regard the LORD's promise as a bird in the bush, not likely to be theirs. Believers know how to wait.
He shall not haste by plunging into wrong or questionable action. Unbelief must be doing something, and thus it works its own undoing; but faith makes no more haste than good speed, and thus it is not forced to go back sorrowfully by the way which it followed heedlessly.
How is it with me? Am I believing, and am I therefore keeping to the believer's pace, which is walking with God? Peace, fluttering spirit! Oh, rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him! Heart, see that thou do this at once!
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