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經文：「等到...的，那人便為有福。」（但12:12） 「等候」這門功課，看起來似乎容易，可是學起來卻要花許多年。「開步走」、「跑步」，比「立正」容易得多。 許多時候，我們都很願意也很渴望事奉神，只是不知道該怎麼著手。那麼，接下來呢？難道就此絕望、煩惱？膽怯、退後？懼怕、停留？還是逕自向前衝？ 不，都不是；只要等候；用禱告等候與呼求神，把事情展開在祂面前；把你的難處陳明，向神求應許，用信心等候，並且表現你不移的信任。你可以相信：如果神要你等到半夜，祂必定按時來臨。 用忍耐等候，並不發怨言；不要像曾經的以色列人那樣對摩西發怨言。用簡單的心全然接受凡臨到你身上的一切；將它們交在神的手裡，說： 「主阿，此刻請不要成就我的意思，只要成就祢的意思。我不知道該怎麼做；我的心非常痛苦；但是我願意等候祢來叫水分開，使敵潰敗。 我願意等候，就算是需要等候多日，我也願意，因為我的心單仰望祢。是的，主阿，我深信祢是我的喜樂、我的拯救、我的避難所、我的堅固臺。」--每晨必讀 Morning by Morning 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Blessed is he that waiteth" (Dan. 12:12). It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. Wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come, and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses. Accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities; but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower." --Morning by Morning ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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