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經文：「這樣，耶和華後來賜福給約伯，比先前更多．」（伯42:12） 約伯雖然遭受了許多患難，結果卻得到更多祝福。他所受的試煉，是為了證實他的敬虔。那麼，我們所受的患難，難道不也是為了榮耀神嗎？榮耀本就是從眼淚中生出的；約伯的苦難使他更看重神也更輕看自己。他呼喊說：「我從前風聞有祢，現在親眼看見祢。」（伯42:5） 如果，在痛苦失望中，我們能感覺神的同在而求告說：「願祢的旨意成全。」（太26:42），我們就有福了。正如約伯在痛苦中，竟然還能說 ：「我知道我的救贖主活著。」（伯19:25），這是多麼的不容易啊！果然，神後來賜給約伯的福分，比先前更多。--譯自靜默的時候 In the Hour of Silence 每一次患難來拜訪，都是帶著一塊黃金的。如果我們能在患難中忍耐等候，患難至終會成為我們的祝福。反之如果我們不能忍受，就有許多祝福我們無法得到。因為有許多快樂只能在憂傷中得到；有許多眞理的光只能在地上的光熄滅以後才會顯明。--選 最屬靈的信徒都是從苦難中誕生；最偉大的人物都是佩戴著傷痕的；殉道者的冠冕都是閃耀著火花的，他們進入天國都是流著眼淚面帶愁容。 --卓秉 Chaplin 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning" (Job 42:12). Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He was tried that his godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to robe me in graces I had little of before? I come to my glory through eclipses, tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee. And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near in His majesty that I bend low before Him and pray, "Thy will be done," I gain very much. God gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those wearisome days and nights, he penetrated within the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Surely the latter end of Job was more blessed than the beginning.--In the Hour of Silence "Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a nugget of gold in her hand." Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the right if we are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and endure suffering. There are joys that can come to us only through sorrow. There are revealings of Divine truth which we can get only when earth's lights have gone out. There are harvests which can grow only after the plowshare has done its work.--Selected Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. --Chapin ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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