「活神的僕人但以理阿，你所常事奉的神能救你脫離獅子麼？」－但以理書 6:20
多少次我們曾在聖經中讀過這樣令人震撼的文字，卻一再的無動於衷，一再的忘卻？我們知道經文上所記的是「活神」，然而在實際的生活中，這個辭句對我們卻是何等的陌生。
我們忘記了神如何在這三四千年以來一直活著，如今也依舊活著；我們忘了今天祂仍在掌權；對那些愛祂事奉祂的人，祂對他們仍有拯救的愛。因為祂是永活的神，他是那位不改變的神。哦，所以我們可以儘管向祂傾投，在最深的黑夜籠罩的時候，仍然記得，祂是那位昔是、今是、以後永是的神！
你當確信，若你與祂同行，向祂不斷瞻仰，並時時尋求祂的幫助，祂必不令你失望。
一位已認識主44年的年長弟兄寫下這段話，為要鼓勵你：神從來不曾讓他失望。在最大的艱難、最重的試煉、最深的貧困和需要中，神從未曾讓我失望；相反的，因著在一切事上我對祂的信靠，祂總是一再的向我顯現，作我隨時的幫助。我樂意為祂美言。－喬治‧穆勒
有一次，馬丁路德在一個危難驚險、最需要抓住那未見之力的時刻，這時他卻靜靜的安坐，用手指在桌上緩緩的寫下：「祂活著！祂活著！」而這句話就是我們的盼望！
歷代的人們只能在世上短暫留存，所有的領袖、教師、思想家只在他們的時代中發光照耀，隨之便殞落消逝。但祂，卻仍舊長存。他們過去了，但祂仍活著。人們是一時點著，隨即稍縱及逝的燈火；唯有祂是真光，是眾光之源，是永遠照耀，永遠發光的那一位。－麥拉德
"O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee" (Dan. 6:20).
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God!
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name. --George Mueller
Luther was once found at a moment of peril and fear, when he had need to grasp unseen strength, sitting in an abstracted mood tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!" ("He lives! He lives!"). It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore. --Alexander Maclaren
"One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam," writes C. G. Trumbull. "I learned from him that what he counted his greatest spiritual asset was his unvarying consciousness of the actual presence of Jesus. Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the realization that Jesus was always with him in actual presence; and that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence.
"Moreover, he said that Christ was the home of his thoughts. Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to Christ; and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone--on the street, anywhere--as easily and naturally as to a human friend. So real to him was Jesus' actual presence.
