Daily Devotion - Apr 4 - ?H?sao?a2?A‾ Faith's check book

信心的支票簿 Faith's check book 上帝的黃蜂 經文: 「我要打發黃蜂飛在你前面，把希未人、迦南人、赫人攆出去，……恐怕地成為荒涼，野地的獸多起來害你。」（出埃及記廿三︰28） 我們且不必管黃蜂是什麼，他們是上帝的軍隊，被差派來叮咬敵軍，使以色列民容易獲勝。我們的上帝以祂的方式，為祂的民在前線爭戰。通常上帝會以出奇不意的方式，使敵軍驚惶失措，招架不住，四散奔逃。 讓我們切莫驚怕，上帝的靈會剛強我們。當我們迎向爭戰衝突時，常會覺得自己孤軍奮鬥，無人可並肩作戰。但你大可放心，上帝會為我們爭戰，祂的黃蜂比起我們武器的威力，可強了好幾倍，那是我們從未想到過的方法，可以用來制勝敵軍，我們只管服從我們的元帥，為了耶和華的名，勇往殺敵，上帝已走在我們前面，為我們舖路。最終我們必要高唱凱歌︰「上帝的右手和全能的膀臂，使我們旗開得勝。」 God's Hornets Scripture: "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee"(Exodus 23:28). What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own army which He sent before His people to sting their enemies and render Israel's conquest easy. Our God by His own chosen means will fight for His people and gall their foes before they come into the actual battle. Often He confounds the adversaries of truth by methods in which reformers themselves have no hand. The air is full of mysterious influences which harass Israel's foes. We read in the Apocalypse that "the earth helped the woman." Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the enemies of our souls. Oftentimes when we march to the conflict we find no host to contend with. "The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." God's hornets can do more than our weapons. We could never dream of the victory being won by such means as Jehovah will use. We must obey our marching orders and go forth to the conquest of the nations for Jesus, and we shall find that the LORD has gone before us and prepared the way; so that in the end we will joyfully confess, "His own right hand and his holy arm, have gotten him the victory." www.glorypress.com