「我要使你乘駕地的高處」－以賽亞書 58:14
常在空中飛行的人告訴我們，學習飛翔的第一個守則就是逆風駕駛，因為逆風能使飛機升上高空。
這個逆風駕駛的技巧是飛行員向鳥類學習的經驗。若鳥兒恣意而飛，牠會順著風，四處翱翔；但當一遇到危險，牠馬上調頭，迎著風，為使自己衝向高天，遠離危險威脅。
苦難是神賜給我們的逆風和暴風。有時他們一發不可收拾，使人們被吹得四處打轉。但他們也有機會令人衝向高空，迎向在高天之上的神。
逆境該使我們歌唱。風若要引吭高歌，不能在開闊廣大的海洋，唯有透過層層阻攔，在枝葉繁密的松樹林，在密佈的夾縫中尋找空隙，才能發出令人讚賞、滿有力道的美妙聲響。
讓你的靈魂自在的迎向生命中險阻的逆境吧！讓它掃過密不透風的流淚谷，吹進令人心傷的樹林，它必能從中學習如何歌唱。
"I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth" (Isa. 58:14).Those who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away towards the very sun.
Sufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens.
You have seen in the summer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed.
Human life is worked out according to exactly the same principle. When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. --Selected
Obstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when rushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice. --Selected
