Daily Devotion - Feb 21 - ¯îºz¥Ì¬u Streams in the Desert

荒漠甘泉 Streams in the Desert

耐性等候

經文: 「你當默然等候耶和華，耐性等候祂。」（詩卅七7）

你有沒有禱告了又禱告，等候了又等候，而仍舊沒有效果呢？

你看見沒有效果，覺得厭倦麼？你正想放棄麼？你或許要想你等候錯了。如果你這樣想，就會叫你離開正路──離開上帝所能遇見你的地方了。

「忍耐等候」（羅八25），忍耐能挪去愁煩。若是主說祂要來，祂的應許就等於祂的同在；忍耐也能擦去你的眼淚，為甚麼難過、沮喪呢？祂比你自己更知到你的需要，祂等候的目的，乃是要使你得到更榮耀、更豐盛的祝福。忍耐也能挪去自己的工作，主所要求的工作乃是「信」（約六29）。當你相信的時候，你就會知道一切都已經成功了。忍耐也能挪去一切的慾，你切望得到你所要的慾，也許遠勝過完成上帝的旨意。

忍耐也能挪去一切的輭弱。忍耐不是懶惰，也不是虛度光陰。你既知道上帝在預備更榮耀、更豐富的祝福給你，你自己也必須預備去接受。忍耐也能挪去一切飄搖無定，「扶我站起來」（但八18）。上帝的根基是頂穩固的，我們有祂的忍耐在裡面，我們等候的時候，也穩固了。忍耐有讚美和快樂。讚美的忍耐──「歡歡喜喜的忍耐」（西一11）──是最美麗的忍耐。「但願忍耐成功」（雅一4，直譯），叫我們在等候中得到上帝豐富的恩典。－－（C.H.P.）


Wait With Patience

Scripture: "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him" (Ps. 37:7).

Have you prayed and prayed and waited and waited, and still there is no manifestation?
Are you tired of seeing nothing move? Are you just at the point of giving it all up? Perhaps you have not waited in the right way? This would take you out of the right place the place where He can meet you.
"With patience wait" (Rom. 8:25). Patience takes away worry. He said He would come, and His promise is equal to His presence. Patience takes away your weeping. Why feel sad and despondent? He knows your need better than you do, and His purpose in waiting is to bring more glory out of it all. Patience takes away self-works. The work He desires is that you "believe" (John 6:29), and when you believe, you may then know that all is well. Patience takes away all want. Your desire for the thing you wish is perhaps stronger than your desire for the will of God to be fulfilled in its arrival.
Patience takes away all weakening. Instead of having the delaying time, a time of letting go, know that God is getting a larger supply ready and must get you ready too. Patience takes away all wobbling. "Make me stand upon my standing" (Daniel 8:18, margin). God's foundations are steady; and when His patience is within, we are steady while we wait. Patience gives worship. A praiseful patience sometimes "long-suffering with joyfulness" (Col. 1:11) is the best part of it all. "Let (all these phases of) patience have her perfect work" (James 1:4), while you wait, and you will find great enrichment. --C. H. P.


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