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經文：「在我裡面有平安。」（約16:33） 幸福和祝福是兩件不同的事；保羅雖然受盡監禁、痛苦、損失、患難，但是在這些當中，他卻得到了祝福。 帕格尼尼（Paganini）是一位非常知名的小提琴家。某次，他正要在公眾前演奏，在歡迎的喝采中，他赫然發現手中的小提琴有些不對，仔細一看，才驚覺他拿的並不是平日珍愛的那支貴重的提琴。 他呆住半晌，只能照實告訴在場聽眾他拿錯了琴。他退入後台回想他的琴究竟放在甚麼地方，不久就發現原來是有人把他的琴偷走，換下一把破舊的留在原處。他懊惱一陣子後，仍然出來站在聽眾面前說： 「各位來賓，今日我要向您們證明：音樂並不是存在樂器裡，而是在人的心裡。」；於是他用心演奏，竟然從那破舊的提琴中也流出悠揚動人的樂音；在場所有聽眾得到鼓舞，喝采聲之熱烈簡直要穿透屋頂。他果然向大家證實了音樂並不是存在樂器裡，而是在他的心裡。 親愛的讀者，你今天的使命就是出來站在這個世界的舞臺上，向天上地下的萬事萬物都宣告說：人生的音樂並不存在環境裡，不存在事物裡，也不是在外表裡，而是在你的心裡。--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "In me . . . peace" (John 16:33). There is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in the midst of those very conditions. Paganini, the great violinist, came out before his audience one day and made the discovery just as they ended their applause that there was something wrong with his violin. He looked at it a second and then saw that it was not his famous and valuable one. He felt paralyzed for a moment, then turned to his audience and told them there had been some mistake and he did not have his own violin. He stepped back behind the curtain thinking that it was still where he had left it, but discovered that some one had stolen his and left that old second-hand one in its place. He remained back of the curtain a moment, then came out before his audience and said: "Ladies and Gentlemen: I will show you that the music is not in the instrument, but in the soul." And he played as he had never played before; and out of that second-hand instrument, the music poured forth until the audience was enraptured with enthusiasm and the applause almost lifted the ceiling of the building, because the man had revealed to them that music was not in the machine but in his own soul. It is your mission, tested and tried one, to walk out on the stage of this world and reveal to all earth and Heaven that the music is not in conditions, not in the things, not in externals, but the music of life is in your own soul. ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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