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經文：「凡你們腳掌所踏之地，我都...賜給你們了。」（書1:3） 直到今天，除了還有許多地方我們沒有得來歸主外，甚至更多神的應許，我們也還沒有得到。 神對約書亞講甚麼呢？「凡你們腳掌所踏之地，我都...賜給你們了。」於是上帝也把那應許之地的地界畫給他們看--只要是他們腳掌走遍的地方都歸給他們。 可是他們從沒完整走遍神所指定的地界，他們只走過那地的三分之一。所以他們只得著地的三分之一，並非全部，正好是所走過的，並不會多得一分。在彼得後書中有句話「主所應許的尚未成就」；主的旨意仍是要我們用信心和順服的腳掌踏遍全地並且得著。 今日在我們中間，有多少信徒曾藉著基督的聖名得到神所應許的呢？在我們面前有整片寬廣的地界，需要我們用信心的腳步去走遍的，可是我們至今還沒有起步。就讓我們起身去佔有神給我們的一切產業罷。讓我們舉目向東西南北觀看，聽神對我們說：「凡你們所看見的一切地，我都要賜給你。」（創13:14-15）--裴爾遜 A.T. Pierson 凡是猶大腳掌所踏之地，就歸猶大；凡是便雅憫所踏之地，就歸便雅憫。每個以色列支派都是這樣，只要腳掌一踏下去，那地就歸給他們。若是這樣，豈不是他們的腳掌一踏下去的時候，立刻就會很自然地覺得「這是我的」了？ 某日有人問一位年長且屬靈經歷很深的弟兄：「為甚麼您有這麼多的平安與喜樂？」他回答說：「哦，我只要俯伏在神極大極寶貝的應許前，把神所應許一切的豐富都算作我的，我就得著了。真是榮耀，榮耀啊！」凡是俯伏在神的應許前的，就得著神的所有的豐富。--譯自信報 Faith Papers 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you" (Joshua 1:3). Beside the literal ground, unoccupied for Christ, there is the unclaimed, untrodden territory of Divine promises. What did God say to Joshua? "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you," and then He draws the outlines of the Land of Promise--all theirs on one condition: that they shall march through the length and breadth of it, and measure it off with their own feet. They never did that to more than one-third of the property, and consequently they never had more than one-third; they had just what they measured off, and no more. In 2 Peter, we read of the "land of promise" that is opened up to us, and it is God's will that we should, as it were, measure off that territory by the feet of obedient faith and believing obedience, thus claiming and appropriating it for our own. How many of us have ever taken possession of the promises of God in the name of Christ? Here is a magnificent territory for faith to lay hold on and march through the length and breadth of, and faith has never done it yet. Let us enter into all our inheritance. Let us lift up our eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, and hear Him say, "All the land that thou seest will I give to thee." --A. T. Pierson Wherever Judah should set his foot that should be his; wherever Benjamin should set his foot, that should be his. Each should get his inheritance by setting his foot upon it. Now, think you not, when either had set his foot upon a given territory, he did not instantly and instinctively feel, "This is mine"? An old colored man, who had a marvelous experience in grace, was asked: "Daniel, why is it that you have so much peace and joy in religion?" "O Massa!" he replied, "I just fall flat on the exceeding great and precious promises, and I have all that is in them. Glory! Glory!" He who falls flat on the promises feels that all the riches embraced in them are his. --Faith Papers The Marquis of Salisbury was criticized for his Colonial policies and replied: "Gentlemen, get larger maps." ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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