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經文：「使我們勝了世界的，就是我們的信心。」（約壹5:4） 甚麼叫作勝了世界？勝了世界就是： 雖然環境似乎顯示神已經棄絕了你，但是你對於神的信靠仍絲毫不移； 雖然你的禱告得不著答應，就好像神沒有聽見你，你卻仍然繼續呼求； 雖然你看見世上充滿殘忍，許多生命沒有被顧惜，懇求也沒有被顧念； 你卻依然相信神是醒著的，並且是全然慈愛的；除了神親自賜給你的以外，並不願望別的；忍耐等候，寧願飢餓，也不願失去絲毫信心；這就是勝了世界，這就是眞實的信心。--麥唐納 George MacDonald 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken; to keep crying out into the vast, whence comes no returning voice, and where seems no hearing; to see the machinery of the world pauselessly grinding on as if self-moved, caring for no life, nor shifting a hair-breadth for all entreaty, and yet believe that God is awake and utterly loving; to desire nothing but what comes meant for us from His hand; to wait patiently, ready to die of hunger, fearing only lest faith should fail--such is the victory that overcometh the world, such is faith indeed. --George MacDonald ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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