Daily Devotion - Dec 10 - ¯îºz¥Ì¬u Streams in the Desert

荒漠甘泉 Streams in the Desert

苦難中學習

經文: 「我們受患難呢，是為叫你們得安慰……這安慰能叫你們忍受我們所受的那樣苦楚。我們為你們所存的盼望是確定的。因為知道你們既是同受苦楚、也必同得安慰。」（林後一6~7）

在你四圍有沒有甚麼人是特別會幫助你，你在試煉中、憂傷中，特別會去向他尋求安慰呢？這個人每次所說的話，都頂能幫助你，頂合你的需要。你知道他是頂會幫助你，但是你知不知道他怎樣會是的呢？他這樣會紮縛人的傷口、揩乾人的眼淚，絕非偶然的事，乃是曾出了重大代價的。如果你去調查他以往的歷史，你就會發現他曾受過多少苦難。他曾親見他喜樂的金碗被摔在地上，他曾站在怒潮旁邊、烈日之下；但是這一切都是他成為保姆、醫生，所必需經歷的。苦難固然頂難忍受；可是底下卻隱藏著頂寶貴的教育──教導我們怎樣幫助別人。所以信徒阿，你不要動怒，你不要咬牙，你只要看見這是訓練你成為一個安慰使者的；因此你當甘甘心心在上帝的旨意裡面忍受。──選

Learning From Suffering

Scripture: "If I am in distress, it is in the interests of your comfort, which is effective as it nerves you to endure the same sufferings as I suffered myself. Hence my hope for you is well-founded, since I know that as you share the sufferings you share the comfort also" (2 Cor. 1:6, 7).

Are there not some in your circle to whom you naturally betake yourself in times of trial and sorrow? They always seem to speak the right word, to give the very counsel you are longing for; you do not realize, however, the cost which they had to pay ere they became so skillful in binding up the gaping wounds and drying tears. But if you were to investigate their past history you would find that they have suffered more than most. They have watched the slow untwisting of some silver cord on which the lamp of life hung. They have seen the golden bowl of joy dashed to their feet, and its contents spilt. They have stood by ebbing tides, and drooping gourds, and noon sunsets; but all this has been necessary to make them the nurses, the physicians, the priests of men. The boxes that come from foreign climes are clumsy enough; but they contain spices which scent the air with the fragrance of the Orient. So suffering is rough and hard to bear; but it hides beneath it discipline, education, possibilities, which not only leave us nobler, but perfect us to help others. Do not fret, or set your teeth, or wait doggedly for the suffering to pass; but get out of it all you can, both for yourself and for your service to your generation, according to the will of God. --Selected

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