|
經文：「那鬼喊叫，使孩子大大的抽了一陣瘋，就出來了。」（可9:26） 惡者從來不肯放棄牠的地盤，除非先有一番激烈的爭戰。我們得到屬靈的產業，並非在宴樂中得到的，乃是在戰場上得到的。 這是一個屬靈的祕密：我們的全人要恢復屬靈的自由，必須付出寶血的代價。亞玻倫（啟9:11）不是能用情誼、禮貌、要求，請出來的，牠仍會在裏面四處遊行。所以我們必須明白這個屬靈道理，否則我們會依然活在誤解中。 我們重生並非在王宮之中，乃是在曠野。在那裏我們的糧食，就是四周的風波和戰爭。「我們進入神的國，必須經歷許多艱難。」（徒14:22）--喬懷德 J. H. Jowett 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
|
|
◇◇◇
Scripture: "And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him" (Mark 9:26). Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." Dr. J. H. Jowett ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
|