0519 我從廢墟中崛起
誰能使我們與基督的愛隔絕呢？《羅馬書 8:35》
神並沒有讓祂的孩子免受麻煩；祂應許說：「他在急難中，我要與他同在…」（詩篇 91:15）。無論逆境多麼可能真實或激烈，都無關緊要，沒有什麼可以使他與神的關係分離。 「在這一切的事上已經得勝有餘了…」（羅馬書 8:37）。保羅在這裡指的不是虛幻之事，而是危險的真實事情；他說我們其中是「超級得勝者」，不是因為我們自己的聰明機智，也不是因為我們的勇氣，而是因為那些都沒有影響我們在耶穌基督里與神的必要關係。我為那些基督徒感到遺憾，因為他的生活環境中沒有什麼他希望沒有的東西。
「難道是患難嗎？」患難從來都不是一件備受歡迎的盛事；但無論是什麼，是令人筋疲力盡、令人惱火，或只是造成一些軟弱，它都不能「使我們與基督的愛隔絕」。永遠不要讓患難或「世上的憂慮」使你忘記神愛你（馬太福音13:22）。
「是困苦么？」即使我們周圍的每一個人、每一件事似乎都在說神的愛是虛假，並且沒有公義這種事時，神的愛還能繼續靠得住嗎嗎？
「是飢餓么？」我們能否不僅相信神的愛，且即使在挨餓之時也能「得勝有餘」呢？
要麼耶穌基督是一個騙子，甚至也欺騙了保羅，要麼就是有些非同尋常的事情發生在他身上了，當一切都對他不利，他竟然還堅持神的愛。面對這些每一個逆境，邏輯都沉默了；只有一件事可以解釋，那就是在基督耶穌里的神之愛，【因此】每次「我從廢墟中崛起」。
來自章伯斯的智慧
當一個人的心與神是正確的時候，聖經中神秘的言語對他來說就是靈和生命。屬靈的真理對純凈的心靈是可辨識的，而非對敏銳的智力。這不是智力深度的問題，而是心靈的純潔。《引領兒子進入榮耀》
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