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經文：「你為自己圖謀大事麼？不要圖謀。我必使災禍臨到凡有血氣的。但你無論往那裡去，我必使你以自己的命為掠物。這是耶和華說的。」（耶45:5） 在當時極大的災難中，神賜給耶利米一個令人安心的應許，那就是「以自己的命為掠物」。在這末後的世代，這個應許對於我們也同樣適用。 那麼「以自己的命為掠物」是甚麼意思？那就是：我們能從毀滅者的爪牙中間搶出自己的命來；也就像大衛能從獅子的口中搶出羊羔來一般。這並非挪去戰爭與仇敵；而是在敵人面前擺設筵席，在風雨中間建立避難所，在災禍中間存留性命。就好像保羅身上的刺雖然沒有離開，但是基督的恩典是夠用的，因為主以能力覆庇了他。 主阿，求祢使我以自己的命為掠物，在最危難的環境中能獲得勝利！--譯自地上的屬天生活 Days of Heaven upon Earth 我們常常祈求脫離災禍，卻不求在災禍之中得勝；我們應當災禍中間站住，深信我們在神的庇護之下，可以被保守住不受到絲毫損傷。 主在曠野受魔鬼的試探四十晝夜，雖然又餓又倦，魔鬼並不能傷害祂。三個希伯來人面對比尋常燒熱七倍的火窯，卻能夠安然地在火中遊行。但以理雖然被扔進獅子坑，但是當再被從坑裡繫上來的時候，「身上毫無傷損，因為信靠他的神。」（但6:23）--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest" (Jer. 45:5). A promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life in the midst of tremendous pressure, a life "for a prey." It may well adjust itself to our own times, which are growing harder as we near the end of the age, and the Tribulation times. What is the meaning of "a life for a prey"? It means a life snatched out of the jaws of the destroyer, as David snatched the lamb from the lion. It means not removal from the noise of the battle and the presence of our foes; but it means a table in the midst of our enemies, a shelter from the storm, a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face of continual pressure: Paul's healing when pressed out of measure so that he despaired of life; Paul's Divine help when the thorn remained, but the power of Christ rested upon him and the grace of Christ was sufficient. Lord, give me my life for a prey, and in the hardest places help me today to be victorious. --Days of Heaven upon Earth We often pray to be delivered from calamities; we even trust that we shall be; but we do not pray to be made what we should be, in the very presence of the calamities; to live amid them, as long as they last, in the consciousness that we are, held and sheltered by the Lord, and can therefore remain in the midst of them, so long as they continue, without any hurt. For forty days and nights, the Saviour was kept in the presence of Satan in the wilderness, and that, under circumstances of special trial, His human nature being weakened by want of food and rest. The furnace was heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated, but the three Hebrew children were kept a season amid its flames as calm and composed in the presence of the tyrant's last appliances of torture, as they were in the presence of himself before their time of deliverance came. And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions, and when he was taken up out of the den, "no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God." They dwelt in the presence of the enemy, because they dwelt in the presence of God. ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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