1月10日 在试炼时站立得住
在试炼时站立得住
但若你最终断定：神不能赦免、不能拯救，也不能来搭救你，这一结论便如利箭一般，彻底穿透了信心的心脏。
若无神的力量，你在试炼的时刻必站立不住。这挑战远非人的坚韧毅力所能承受。试想：当你已竭尽全力封锁灵魂的入口，抵挡试探，而撒但正步步紧逼，不断砍削你的决心，这时你该当如何？你不必惊慌。只需差遣“信心”去敲神的窗户向祂呼求，正如比喻中那人在半夜向邻舍求饼一样；那位永远守约的神，必会供应。然而，一旦信心失效，灵魂便无使者可派，去祈求属天的干预，战局便已基本定论，就在那一刻，撒但将跨过门槛长驱直入。
当你身处试炼之中，切勿绝望放弃。信心是一种坚韧不拔的恩典！除非你的灵魂断然否认神的大能，否则这位名为“信心”的信使，必会踏出一条通往施恩宝座的熟路。疑惑虽使信心跛脚，却不能致其瘫痪。诚然，即便你心中正在质疑神的怜悯，怀疑祂是否会来搭救，信心仍会跌跌撞撞地来到祂面前。它所呈递的信息将是：“主若肯，必能叫我洁净了。”
但若你最终断定：神不能赦免、不能拯救，也不能来搭救你，这一结论便如利箭一般，彻底穿透了信心的心脏。那时，你的灵魂就会倒在撒但脚前，灰心丧志，再无勇气将试探关在门外。切记：在属灵干旱中丢弃信心的人，就好比那愚昧人，仅因井水干涸了一天，便将水罐抛弃。
我们要单单信靠祂，这向来是也永远是父神的旨意。神要求被称为“全能者”；祂坚持要我们将信心安放在祂身上。听从父亲吩咐的孩子，才是智慧之子。人或许被称为有智慧、仁慈或强力，但唯有神是全智、全慈、全能的。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：创11章，太10章，
个人灵修：拉10章，徒10章
JANUARY 10, SATURDAY
STAND IN THE HOUR OF TESTING
But if you conclude finally that God cannot pardon or save, cannot come to your rescue, this shoots faith through the heart.
Without God’s strength, you cannot stand in the hour of testing. The challenge is beyond the stretch of human fortitude. Just suppose all your strength is already engaged to barricade your soul against temptation and Satan is steadily hacking away at your resolve; what will you do? You need not panic. Only send faith to cry at God’s window, like the man in the parable asking his neighbor for bread at midnight, and He who keeps covenant forever will provide. When faith fails, however, and the soul has no one to send for divine intervention, the battle is all but over, and Satan will at that very moment be crossing the threshold.
When you are in the midst of testing, do not give up in despair. Faith is a dogged grace! Unless your soul flatly denies the power of God, this courier—faith—will beat a well-worn path to the throne. Doubt cripples but does not incapacitate faith. Indeed, even as you are disputing the mercy of God and questioning in your mind whether He will come to your rescue, faith will make its way, if haltingly, into His presence. And the message it delivers will be, “If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.”
But if you conclude finally that God cannot pardon or save, cannot come to your rescue, this shoots faith through the heart. Then your soul will fall at Satan’s feet, too disheartened to keep the door shut any longer to his temptation. Remember this: The one who abandons faith in the midst of a spiritual drought can be compared to the fool who throws away his pitcher the first day the well is dry.
It has ever been and always will be the Father’s will that we trust only Him. God demands to be called the Almighty; He insists we place our confidence in Him. That child is wise who does as his father bids. Man may be called wise, merciful, mighty; but only God is all-wise, all-merciful, almighty.