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經文：「耶穌被聖靈充滿，從約但河回來，聖靈將祂引到曠野，四十天受魔鬼的試探。」（路4:1） 耶穌被聖靈充滿，但是也被魔鬼試探。試探常常使出渾身伎倆去尋找那些最親近神的人。有人說：「魔鬼有大志。」這話說得實在不錯，因為牠曾擄掠一個使徒，使他說他不認識主。 馬丁路得 Martin Luther 所受的攻擊比任何人都多，因為連地獄都受到他的震撼。著作天路歷程的約翰本仁 John Bunyan 也是如此。越被聖靈充滿的人，受到撒但的攻擊越多。神許可試探臨到我們，是因為試探能叫我們得益處。正如暴風使橡樹扎根更深，烈火使瓷器上的油彩更為耐久。 你從來不知道主怎樣護庇與緊緊抓住你，直到撒但盡力引誘你離開主的時候，你才會感覺到祂大能的手正緊緊牽著你。--選 特別的苦難不一定是因為罪所受的特別的刑罰，有時反而是特別的祝福；神有許多銳利的器具，是用來琢磨祂心愛的寶石；凡是神所特別心愛的，祂就常常加以琢磨。--雷登 Archbishop Leighton 我今天願意在這裡作一個見證：我一生的轉變，全是經過我主工廠裡的烈火、釘鎚、銼刀、棒杖而得。--司布眞 C.H. Spurgeon 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil" (Luke 4:1-2). Jesus was full of the Holy Ghost, and yet He was tempted. Temptation often comes upon a man with its strongest power when he is nearest to God. As someone has said, "The devil aims high." He got one apostle to say he did not even know Christ. Very few men have such conflicts with the devil as Martin Luther had. Why? Because Martin Luther was going to shake the very kingdom of hell. Oh, what conflicts John Bunyan had! If a man has much of the Spirit of God, he will have great conflicts with the tempter. God permits temptation because it does for us what the storms do for the oaks--it roots us; and what the fire does for the paintings on the porcelain--it makes them permanent. You never know that you have a grip on Christ, or that He has a grip on you, as well as when the devil is using all his force to attract you from Him; then you feel the pull of Christ's right hand. --Selected Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. God hath many sharp-cutting instruments, and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves, and means to make the most resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon. --Archbishop Leighton I bear my willing witness that I owe more to the fire, and the hammer, and the file, than to anything else in my Lord's workshop. I sometimes question whether I have ever learned anything except through the rod. When my schoolroom is darkened, I see most. --C. H. Spurgeon ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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