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經文：「凡事...常常感謝父神。」（弗5:20） 如果你是活在主的裡面，那麼你就是被主包圍，如同被空氣包圍一樣；不論是任何災禍，都必須先經過祂，然後才能臨到你的身上。 所以每一件臨到你身上的事，都是值得感謝與讚美的。願神使我們的生活充滿感謝與讚美的聲音，這樣祝福就會更多加給我們！ 只可惜有許多時候，我們似乎看不出有什麼是值得感謝讚美的。就好像有一回，我看到某個人在畫黑點，我看了半天也看不出這一堆黑點有甚麼意義。 直到他畫了幾條直線，加上幾個休止符，在開頭的地方加上一個音部記號，那時我才看出這些黑點原來是樂譜上的音符。 在我們的生活中也有許多黑點；我們不明白為甚麼要有這些黑點，為甚麼神容許它們留著。 但若願意讓神進入我們的生活，讓神將黑點按照適合的方法串聯起來，畫上祂心意中的直線，在適當的地方加上休止符；祂就從我們生活的黑點中編出一首美麗和諧的音樂來。--C.H.P. 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Giving thanks always for all things unto God" (Eph. 5:20). No matter what the source of the evil, if you are in God and surrounded by Him as by an atmosphere, all evil has to pass through Him before it comes to you. Therefore you can thank God for everything that comes, not for the sin of it, but for what God will bring out of it and through it. May God make our lives thanksgiving and perpetual praise, then He will make everything a blessing. We once saw a man draw some black dots. We looked and could make nothing of them but an irregular assemblage of black dots. Then he drew a few lines, put in a few rests, then a clef at the beginning, and we saw these black dots were musical notes. On sounding them we were singing, There are many black dots and black spots in our lives, and we cannot understand why they are there or why God permitted them to come. But if we let God come into our lives, and adjust the dots in the proper way, and draw the lines He wants, and separate this from that, and put in the rests at the proper places; out of the black dots and spots in our lives He will make a glorious harmony. Let us not hinder Him in this glorious work! --C. H. P. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. --C. H. Spurgeon When the musician presses the black keys on the great organ, the music is as sweet as when he touches the white ones, but to get the capacity of the instrument he must touch them all. --Selected ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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