0519 我从废墟中崛起
谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？《罗马书 8:35》
神并没有让祂的孩子免受麻烦；祂应许说：「他在急难中，我要与他同在…」（诗篇 91:15）。无论逆境多么可能真实或激烈，都无关紧要，没有什么可以使他与神的关系分离。 「在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了…」（罗马书 8:37）。保罗在这里指的不是虚幻之事，而是危险的真实事情；他说我们其中是「超级得胜者」，不是因为我们自己的聪明机智，也不是因为我们的勇气，而是因为那些都没有影响我们在耶稣基督里与神的必要关系。我为那些基督徒感到遗憾，因为他的生活环境中没有什么他希望没有的东西。
「难道是患难吗？」患难从来都不是一件备受欢迎的盛事；但无论是什么，是令人筋疲力尽、令人恼火，或只是造成一些软弱，它都不能「使我们与基督的爱隔绝」。永远不要让患难或「世上的忧虑」使你忘记神爱你（马太福音13:22）。
「是困苦么？」即使我们周围的每一个人、每一件事似乎都在说神的爱是虚假，并且没有公义这种事时，神的爱还能继续靠得住吗吗？
「是饥饿么？」我们能否不仅相信神的爱，且即使在挨饿之时也能「得胜有余」呢？
要么耶稣基督是一个骗子，甚至也欺骗了保罗，要么就是有些非同寻常的事情发生在他身上了，当一切都对他不利，他竟然还坚持神的爱。面对这些每一个逆境，逻辑都沉默了；只有一件事可以解释，那就是在基督耶稣里的神之爱，【因此】每次「我从废墟中崛起」。
来自章伯斯的智慧
当一个人的心与神是正确的时候，圣经中神秘的言语对他来说就是灵和生命。属灵的真理对纯净的心灵是可辨识的，而非对敏锐的智力。这不是智力深度的问题，而是心灵的纯洁。《引领儿子进入荣耀》
0519 Out of the Wreck I Rise
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? —Romans 8:35
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.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. Bringing Sons Unto Glory, 231 L