0222 属灵坚韧的操练
你们要休息，要知道我是神。《诗篇46:10上》
坚韧毅力不仅仅是耐力，这是对我们所寻求的事情将会发生的耐力，兼有绝对确据和确实性。坚韧意味着不仅仅只是坚持，那可能只会暴露我们对放手和跌倒的恐惧。坚韧是我们最大努力去拒绝相信我们的英雄会被征服。我们最害怕的不是我们会被定罪，而是耶稣基督会以某种方式被击败。此外，我们也担心我们的主所主张的，正是人与人之间的爱、正义、饶恕和仁慈，最终不会获胜，并将成为我们无法达到的目标。然后是对属灵坚韧毅力的呼召，这是一个呼召，不是徒然持守而无所事事，而是确信神永远不会被击败而有意识地努力工作。
如果我们的盼望现在似乎正在经历失望，那只是意味着它们正在被净化。人类心灵的每一个希望或梦想，如果是高尚的、来自于神的，都将会实现。但生活中最大压力之一就是等候神。祂带来实现，「因你遵守我忍耐的道。」（启示录 3:10）
在灵性上要坚持不懈。
来自章伯斯的智慧
对自己无法理解的事物，怀有敬畏的同情心，就像黄金一样珍贵。 《力图更佳战斗》
0222 The Discipline of Spiritual Perseverance
Be still, and know that I am God… —Psalm 46:10
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may be only exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered. Our greatest fear is not that we will be damned, but that somehow Jesus Christ will be defeated. Also, our fear is that the very things our Lord stood for— love, justice, forgiveness, and kindness among men— will not win out in the end and will represent an unattainable goal for us. Then there is the call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified. Every hope or dream of the human mind will be fulfilled if it is noble and of God. But one of the greatest stresses in life is the stress of waiting for God. He brings fulfillment, “because you have kept My command to persevere…” (Revelation 3:10).
Continue to persevere spiritually.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. –Baffled to Fight Better, 69 L