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經文：「那沒有看見就信的，有福了。」（約20:29） 眼見的事物是多麼的靠不住，所以神必須保守我們在看不見的事物裡，這是非常重要的！ 如果一隻鳥想要起飛，牠必須先離開牆垣和樹枝，單單信賴牠的翅膀。如果牠還貼近地面，那麼牠飛行的能力就會受到影響。 亞伯拉罕必須先看見自己的力量已盡，不能再做甚麼，老我已經死了，然後才肯完全放手讓神來做；當他不看自己，單獨信靠神的時候，他才能完全相信：神所應許的，必能做成。 這就是神現在要我們學習的功課；祂必須先拿去一切說服我們的事物，直到我們能夠不憑眼見來信靠祂；到那時祂就要使祂所說的成為事實。 --信宣 A. B. Simpson 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" (John 20:29). How strong is the snare of the things that are seen, and how necessary for God to keep us in the things that axe unseen! If Peter is to walk on the water he must walk; if he is going to swim, he must swim, but he cannot do both. If the bird is going to fly it must keep away from fences and the trees, and trust to its buoyant wings. But if it tries to keep within easy reach of the ground, it will make poor work of flying. God had to bring Abraham to the end of his own strength, and to let him see that in his own body he could do nothing. He had to consider his own body as good as dead, and then take God for the whole work; and when he looked away from himself, and trusted God alone, then he became fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able to perform. That is what God is teaching us, and He has to keep away encouraging results until we learn to trust without them, and then He loves to make His Word real in fact as well as faith.--A. B. Simpson ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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