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經文：「關上門，你和你的兒子在裡面。」（王下4:4） 他們必須關上門與世隔離，好專一親近神；因為他們不是靠自然的定律或世人的方法，也不是靠教會的幫助與先知的神蹟；他們必須從可借助的人們，從可靠的環境，與可信的理由中出來，專一到密室中親近神。這就是神的課程中的一個階段，每一信徒在隔離的密室中，操練禱告和信心是非常有果效的。 許多時候與許多情境，神特地在我們四周包圍一道神秘的牆用來遮蓋我們，不讓我們和人的做法與計謀接觸；在那裡神要我們依靠的是新鮮而出乎常情的辦法；在那裡神要替我們裁製一件新的衣裳，叫我們穿了可以更像祂。 有許多信徒正過著刻板文章式的生活；他們知道哪些事情，會在甚麼時間發生，又該用何種方法對付。但是對於那些神有特別期許的信徒，常常會被神圈在一個隔離的處境，和所有的常情常理斷絕，專門接受神的非常訓練。所以請讓我們試著學這寡婦：外在與世隔離，心內與神親近；這樣我們就會看見主的神蹟了。--譯自靈糧 Soul Food 在最苦的試煉中，神總會給你祂的最甜。--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons" (2 Kings 4:4). They were to be alone with God, for they were not dealing with the laws of nature, nor human government, nor the church, nor the priesthood, nor even with the great prophet of God, but they must needs be isolated from all creatures, from all leaning circumstances, from all props of human reason, and swung off, as it were, into the vast blue inter-stellar space, hanging on God alone, in touch with the fountain of miracles. Here is a part in the programme of God's dealings, a secret chamber of isolation in prayer and faith which every soul must enter that is very fruitful. There are times and places where God will form a mysterious wall around us, and cut away all props, and all the ordinary ways of doing things, and shut us up to something Divine, which is utterly new and unexpected, something that old circumstances do not fit into, where we do not know just what will happen, where God is cutting the cloth of our lives on a new pattern, where He makes us look to Himself. Most religious people live in a sort of treadmill life, where they can calculate almost everything that will happen, but the souls that God leads out into immediate and special dealings, He shuts in where all they know is that God has hold of them, and is dealing with them, and their expectation is from Him alone. Like this widow, we must be detached from outward things and attached inwardly to the Lord alone in order to see His wonders. --Soul Food In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself. --Gems ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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