信心的支票簿 Faith's check book
堅定不搖動的信靠
經文: 「他必不怕兇惡的信息；他心堅定，倚靠耶和華。」(詩篇一一二：7)
若你的家人深夜未歸，你的心一定焦急掛慮，深恐意外發生，即使人家勸你說：「沒有消息就是好消息。」你還是放不下這顆心。此時，信心就是最佳的安定劑。上帝藉著聖靈把我們的心安置在穩妥的隱密處，對現在或未來，都不再擔憂恐懼。
詩篇所說的這種內心的安穩篤定，是有待我們竭力地去追求，這不僅是相信上帝這個應許或那個應許而已，乃是一種對上帝毫不動搖的信心。我們堅信上帝不會加害我們，或使別人受苦而傷我們的心，這種持續的信心讓我們能面對已知或未知的各樣磨難挑戰。無論發生任何事，耶和華上帝是我永遠的上帝，我就是決心要信靠祂到底。即使最不幸的事臨到，我們的上帝仍然是最偉大、最好的上帝。所以，我們不必害怕郵差突然的電鈴，或半夜的電報；上帝活著，祂的孩子們怕什麼﹖
Unstaggering Trustfulness
Scripture: "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD"(Psalm 112:7).
Suspense is dreadful. When we have no news from home, we are apt to grow anxious, and we cannot be persuaded that "no news is good news." Faith is the cure for this condition of sadness; the LORD by His Spirit settles the mind in holy serenity, and all fear is gone as to the future as well as the present.
The fixedness of heart spoken of by the psalmist is to be diligently sought after. It is not believing this or that promise of the LORD, but the general condition of unstaggering trustfulness in our God, the confidence which we have in Him that He will neither do us ill Himself nor suffer anyone else to harm us. This constant confidence meets the unknown as well as the known of life. Let the morrow be what it may, our God is the God of tomorrow. Whatever events may have happened, which to us are unknown, our Jehovah is God of the unknown as well as of the known. We are determined to trust the LORD, come what may. If the very worst should happen, our God is still the greatest and best. Therefore will we not fear though the postman's knock should startle us or a telegram wake us at midnight. The LORD liveth, and what can His children fear?
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