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經文：「你當倚靠耶和華。」（詩37:3） 「依靠」是信的基本型態，源自於舊約，用來表示初期選民的信心。「信心」則主要是出於意志的行動；「信仰」則主要是精神或理性上的活動；但「信靠」卻是發自內心的根本。 「信心」和「信仰」比較是屬於一種已經相信的真理，或者是期望。「依靠」則包含更多的意義；它看到，感覺到，並且依靠著一件事物，就是那偉大，真實，永生的愛。 你當倚靠耶和華。 雖然祂遲延已久，雖然你的困難日甚一日，雖然親戚與朋友都棄絕你， 雖然一切都似乎失去盼望，雖然你不明白前面的路程，也不知道將來的結局，仍當繼續「倚靠祂，祂就必成全」（詩37:5）。 前方的道路必敞開，將來的結局必平安，頂上的烏雲必消散，正午的陽光必燦爛。--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "Trust also in him" (Ps. 37:3). The word trust is the heart word of faith. It is the Old Testament word, the word given to the early and infant stage of faith. The word faith expresses more the act of the will, the word belief the act of the mind or intellect, but trust is the language of the heart. The other has reference more to a truth believed or a thing expected. Trust implies more than this, it sees and feels, and leans upon a person, a great, true, living heart of love. So let us "trust also in him," through all the delays, in spite of all the difficulties, in the face of all the denials, notwithstanding all the seemings, even when we cannot understand the way, and know not the issue; still "trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass." The way will open, the right issue will come, the end will be peace, the cloud will be lifted, and the light of an eternal noonday shall shine at last. ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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