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經文：「永活神的僕人但以理阿，你所常事奉的神，能救你...」（但6:20） 這節聖經我們曾經讀過多次，但是卻也常常被我們忽略；我們知道經上記著說神是永活的神，然而在日常生活中我們最會忘的，也正是神是活著的神。 因為祂是活著的神，祂在三四千年前如何，現在還是如何。祂以前是全能的，現在還是；以前有慈愛憐憫，如今對於那些愛祂事奉祂的人仍有慈愛憐憫；祂是不改變的。所以我們應該完全信靠祂。在我們最黑暗的時候，仍不失去這個真實--祂總是永活的神！ 如果你與神同行，仰望祂給你隨時的幫助，永活的主保證不會誤你的事。一位主內的年長弟兄認識活著的神已經四十四年，他作見證說：神從來沒有耽誤過我。在極大的艱難、極重的試煉、極深的窮困和需要中，神從來沒有誤過我的事。因為我靠著神恩相信，祂總是隨時給我幫助；故我樂意述說祂的名。--慕勒 Geo. Mueller 馬丁路得有一次覺得他的前途危機四伏，因此心中充滿了憂愁和恐懼；這時他知道必須抓住天上來的力量才能度過。他獨自枯坐，用手指在桌面寫上幾個字：「祂是永活的」。祂是永活的！他喜樂了，他恢復了。 「祂是永活的」，也是我們的力量和盼望。今日世上的偉人、領袖、科學家等等，只能發光一時，不久就熄滅了。世人都會過去，神卻是永存的。人是點著的燈，所以遲早會熄，惟有主是眞光，是眾光之源，是永遠常存的。--馬克拉倫 Alexander Maclaren 崔倫保 C.C. Trumbull 說：「有一天我去見靈命頂深的亞當博士 Dr. John Douglas Adam ，他告訴我他以為靈命中最寶貴的部份，就是靈中不斷感到主的真實同在。沒有任何事物比感受主的真實同在更能堅固他。這是確確實實的，並不是一種情感、幻想，或者心理作用。 「而且基督是他思想的家；無論任何時候，他的思想在其它事物上散漫了，就回到基督那裡去。他在獨處的時候，會出聲與基督說話--不論在街上或是何處--非常自然地，如同和一位朋友對話那般。基督的同在對於他真是實在的。」--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee" (Dan. 6:20). How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God! Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name. --George Mueller Luther was once found at a moment of peril and fear, when he had need to grasp unseen strength, sitting in an abstracted mood tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!" ("He lives! He lives!"). It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore. --Alexander Maclaren "One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam," writes C. G. Trumbull. "I learned from him that what he counted his greatest spiritual asset was his unvarying consciousness of the actual presence of Jesus. Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the realization that Jesus was always with him in actual presence; and that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence. "Moreover, he said that Christ was the home of his thoughts. Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to Christ; and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone--on the street, anywhere--as easily and naturally as to a human friend. So real to him was Jesus' actual presence. ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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