0605 神的保证
因为主曾说… 所以我们可以放胆说…《希伯来书13:5-6》
我的确信是建立在神对我的保证之上的，神说：「我总不撇下你」，因此我「可以坦然无惧地说：『主是帮助我的，我必不惧怕 。』」（希伯来书13:5-6）。换句话说，我不会沉迷于担忧中，这并不意味着我没有害怕的试探，但我会记住神保证之言。我会充满勇气，像一个孩子努力达到他父亲为他设定的标准一样。当忧虑进入思想时，许多人的信心就开始动摇，他们忘记了神保证的意义。他们忘记了做属灵的深呼吸。消除我们生活中的惧怕唯一之道就是聆听神对我们的保证。
你在害怕什么？无论那是什么，你都不因此是懦夫——你决心要面对它，但你仍有一种恐惧的感受。当似乎没有任何事物和没有人可帮助你的时候，对你自己说：「但『主是帮助我的 』是正在这个时刻，即使在我当前的处境中。」你学习了在说话之前先听从神的话吗？或者你先说话，然后试图让神的话语符合你所说的？抓住天父的保证，然后以坚强的勇气说：「必不惧怕。」在我们的道路上有什么邪恶或错误并不重要，因为「祂亲自说过，『我总不撇下你…』」
在神保证的话语和我们自己的言语和思想之间，人性的软弱是另一件事。当我们意识到自己在面对困难时是多么软弱时，困难就变得像巨人一样，我们就变得像蚱蜢一样，神似乎不存在了。但要记得神对我们的保证——「我总不……丢弃你。」我们学会在听到神的主调后就跟着唱和吗？我们是否不断充满足够的勇气说：「主是帮助我的」，还是向惧怕屈服呢？
来自章伯斯的智慧
许多国家和个人都曾尝试过基督教，但放弃了，因为发现它太难了。但无人经历过有意使耶稣为主却发现祂是个失败者的危机。《神的爱—一个基督徒的形成》
0605 God’s Assurance
He Himself has said….So we may boldly say… —Hebrews 13:5-6
My assurance is to be built upon God’s assurance to me. God says, “I will never leave you,” so that then I “may boldly say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear’ ” (Hebrews 13:5-6). In other words, I will not be obsessed with apprehension. This does not mean that I will not be tempted to fear, but I will remember God’s words of assurance. I will be full of courage, like a child who strives to reach the standard his father has set for him. The faith of many people begins to falter when apprehensions enter their thinking, and they forget the meaning of God’s assurance— they forget to take a deep spiritual breath. The only way to remove the fear from our lives is to listen to God’s assurance to us.
What are you fearing? Whatever it may be, you are not a coward about it— you are determined to face it, yet you still have a feeling of fear. When it seems that there is nothing and no one to help you, say to yourself, “But ‘The Lord is my helper’ this very moment, even in my present circumstance.” Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God’s Word fit what you have said? Take hold of the Father’s assurance, and then say with strong courage, “I will not fear.” It does not matter what evil or wrong may be in our way, because “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you….’ ”
Human frailty is another thing that gets between God’s words of assurance and our own words and thoughts. When we realize how feeble we are in facing difficulties, the difficulties become like giants, we become like grasshoppers, and God seems to be nonexistent. But remember God’s assurance to us— “I will never…forsake you.” Have we learned to sing after hearing God’s keynote? Are we continually filled with enough courage to say, “The Lord is my helper,” or are we yielding to fear?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Both nations and individuals have tried Christianity and abandoned it, because it has been found too difficult; but no man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure. The Love of God—The Making of a Christian, 680 R