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經文：「以利沙禱告說，耶和華阿，求祢開這少年人的眼目，使他能看見。耶和華開他的眼目，他就看見滿山有火車火馬圍繞以利沙。」（王下6:17） 這也是我們需要為自己與他人，所向神祈求的一個禱告「耶和華阿，開我們的眼目，使我們能看見」。因為就和經文中的先知一樣，四圍都是火車火馬，等帶領我們進入榮耀的勝利。當眼目開啟以後，就能看見生活中無論順境逆境的所有大小事，都是我們進入勝利的「火車」。 有如大山般的難處，也可以作我們的「火車」，只要我們如此看待它們；反面言之，芥菜子那樣的的小事，也可以作我們的「極軋鬧車」。（印度教中費煦奴偶像所乘之車謂之「極軋鬧車」。當車出行時，教徒躺身於地，任輪輥過傷命。） 所以這是我們可以用意念決定的，不在於事情的大小，而在於如何去看待；如果只是躺下任其輥過，再小的難處也是我們的「極軋鬧車」；如果爬上去乘駕其上，天大的難事也是神使用帶領我們進入勝利的「火車」。--Hannah Whitall Smith 神不能重用一個失望的人，因為仇敵的詭計就是盡力將神的子民推入絕望的境地。常有人說：「垂頭喪氣的軍隊出去打仗，結果就是註定失敗。」這話說得一點也不錯。今日我們需要知道，仇敵是如何在我們裡面進行攻擊，而我們又該如何加以抵擋。一旦仇敵將我們逐出戰場，牠就能「折磨」（但7:25）我們，叫我們失去勝利的機會全然失敗。所以務要堅定警醒，持守站穩在我們的陣地！--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see" (2 Kings 6:17). This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, "Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all events of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a "chariot" for our souls. Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a Juggernaut car to crush us into misery or despair if we consider it. It lies with each of us to choose which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what these events are, but upon how we take them. If we lie down under them, and let them roll over us and crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of God. --Hannah Whitall Smith The Lord cannot do much with a crushed soul, hence the adversary's attempt to push the Lord's people into despair and hopelessness over the condition of themselves, or of the church. It has often been said that a dispirited army goes forth to battle with the certainty of being beaten. We heard a missionary say recently that she had been invalided home purely because her spirit had fainted, with the consequence that her body sunk also. We need to understand more of these attacks of the enemy upon our spirits and how to resist them. If the enemy can dislodge us from our position, then he seeks to "wear us out" (Daniel 7:25) by a prolonged siege, so that at last we, out of sheer weakness, let go the cry of victory. ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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