5.19_竭诚为主：重整旗鼓

谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？—罗8:35...

谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？

—罗8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

—Romans 8:35

神并不叫人与患难绝缘；祂说：「在患难中，我要与他同在。」人生不管遭受怎样重大苦难的打击，一概都不能叫人与神的关系隔绝。我们「在这一切事上已经得胜有余了」，保罗在此并不是说些虚幻的事，而是指一些极其真实的事；他说我们在这些事上所以是优胜者，不是靠一己的机智，一己的勇气，也不是靠任何其他事物，乃是根据一件事实；我们与神在基督耶稣里的关系，而这关系不是任何事物可以影响的。不管对也好错也好，我们的景况就是这样，环境际遇就是这样。那些环境一帆风顺的基督徒，我为他们感到可惜。

「难道是患难么……？」患难绝不是什么赏心乐事；它所包罗的范围极大，举凡困倦、屈辱、劳累等都接踵而至，但都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝。千万别让忧虑和患难阻碍你认识神爱你这事实。

「是困苦么……？」当事事不如意，人说神的爱只是谎言，而正义也不存在，神的爱仍然靠得住么？

「是饥饿么……？」我们饿着肚子的时候，是否仍然相信神的爱，而且得胜有余呢？

除非耶稣基督是个骗子，把保罗蒙在鼓里；否则，必定有极不寻常的事发生在这个人身上，叫他在万事不如意之中，仍然抓紧神的爱。在这一切事情上，逻辑已经失去它的功用。只有一件事可作解释——就是神在耶稣基督里的爱。让我重整旗鼓，再接再励吧！

God does not keep His child immune from trouble; He promises, “I will be with him in trouble…” (Psalm 91:15). It doesn’t matter how real or intense the adversities may be; nothing can ever separate him from his relationship to God. “In all these things we are more than conquerors…” (Romans 8:37). Paul was not referring here to imaginary things, but to things that are dangerously real. And he said we are “super-victors” in the midst of them, not because of our own ingenuity, nor because of our courage, but because none of them affects our essential relationship with God in Jesus Christ. I feel sorry for the Christian who doesn’t have something in the circumstances of his life that he wishes were not there.

“Shall tribulation…?” Tribulation is never a grand, highly welcomed event; but whatever it may be— whether exhausting, irritating, or simply causing some weakness— it is not able to “separate us from the love of Christ.” Never allow tribulations or the “cares of this world” to separate you from remembering that God loves you (Matthew 13:22).

“Shall…distress…?” Can God’s love continue to hold fast, even when everyone and everything around us seems to be saying that His love is a lie, and that there is no such thing as justice?

“Shall…famine…?” Can we not only believe in the love of God but also be “more than conquerors,” even while we are being starved?

Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver, having deceived even Paul, or else some extraordinary thing happens to someone who holds on to the love of God when the odds are totally against him. Logic is silenced in the face of each of these things which come against him. Only one thing can account for it— the love of God in Christ Jesus. “Out of the wreck I rise” every time.

祈祷

主啊，为着我身处的地方，我赞美祢；可是在我里面正开始猜想——这是否祢为我预备的地方？求祢牢牢地拖带我实行祢的旨意。我可能只是烦躁不安，求祢使我安静和得力，以致我不会因疑惑而得罪祢。

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