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經文：「這些事都歸到我身上。」（創42:36）「萬事都互相效力，叫愛上帝的人得益處。」（羅8:28） 許多信徒都在祈求能力，但能力是怎樣產生的呢？記得有一回我參觀電機廠，聽見無數的機輪發出軋軋的機聲來，就問那裏的工作人員說：「電力究竟是如何產生的？」他說：「機輪間轉動就會產生磨擦，而磨擦就會發出電力。」 當神要給你更多的能力時，祂就會給你更多的難處好產生磨擦。只可惜許多人並不喜歡磨擦，反而要逃避磨擦，因此失去了得能力的機會。就好像向心力和離心力之間互相制衡，才能使行星維持在軌道上運行。兩種力量一個推進一個拉回，才不會使衛星脫離軌道。 神也是這樣管理我們的生命；只有前進的力是不夠的，我們還需要一個拉回的力。所以神給我們一些試驗，一些阻擋我們的重壓；其實這些互相效力都是幫助我們前進的。 所以請讓我們一起感謝神；歡迎祂給予我們的重壓，就像歡迎祂給了我們一雙翅膀，讓我們可以用信心和忍耐前進。所以，甚麼地方有磨擦，甚麼地方就有能力。--A. B. Simpson 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "All these things are against me" (Gen. 42:36)."All things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28). Many people are wanting power. Now how is power produced? The other day we passed the great works where the trolley engines are supplied with electricity. We heard the hum and roar of the countless wheels, and we asked our friend, "How do they make the power?" "Why," he said, "just by the revolution of those wheels and the friction they produce. The rubbing creates the electric current." And so, when God wants to bring more power into your life, He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by hard rubbing. Some do not like it and try to run away from the pressure, instead of getting the power and using it to rise above the painful causes. Opposition is essential to a true equilibrium of forces. The centripetal and centrifugal forces acting in opposition to each other keep our planet in her orbit. The one propelling, and the other repelling, so act and re-act, that instead of sweeping off into space in a pathway of desolation, she pursues her even orbit around her solar centre. So God guides our lives. It is not enough to have an impelling force--we need just as much a repelling force, and so He holds us back by the testing ordeals of life, by the pressure of temptation and trial, by the things that seem against us, but really are furthering our way and establishing our goings. Let us thank Him for both, let us take the weights as well as the wings, and thus divinely impelled, let us press on with faith and patience in our high and heavenly calling. --A. B. Simpson ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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