「我在暗中告訴你們的，你們要在明處說出來。」－馬太福音10:27
祂帶我們進入幽暗陰沉的房間，在那裡，哀悼遮蔽了日光；祂帶我們進入進入孤單、寂寞的生命，在那裡，軟弱剝奪了生命中的光亮，只剩下傷痛與絕望。
然後，在這些黑暗裡，主揭露出祂心中的秘密：祂無限的永恆、祂奇妙的偉大。
祂使我們那雙在世界的絢麗中失迷的眼，重新見到天上的星辰；祂使我們被世俗喧囂掩埋的耳，重新聽到那細微的低迴。
當我們得到這樣的啟示，我們就肩負著責任：「你們要在明處說出來，要在屋頂上宣揚出來。」
神不要我們流連於暗處，祂要我們在紛紛擾擾的世界中站出來，將我們所看見、所聽見的宣揚出來。
我們若能用這樣的態度來面對生命中的苦難，一切就都擁有了全新的意義。－邁爾
"What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light" (Matt. 10:27).
Our Lord is constantly taking us into the dark, that He may tell us things. Into the dark of the shadowed home, where bereavement has drawn the blinds; into the dark of the lonely, desolate life, where some infirmity closes us in from the light and stir of life; into the dark of some crushing sorrow and disappointment.
Then He tells us His secrets, great and wonderful, eternal and infinite; He causes the eye which has become dazzled by the glare of earth to behold the heavenly constellations; and the car to detect the undertones of His voice, which is often drowned amid the tumult of earth's strident cries.
But such revelations always imply a corresponding responsibility--'that speak ye in the light--that proclaim upon the housetops."
We are not meant to always linger in the dark, or stay in the closet; presently we shall be summoned to take our place in the rush and storm of life; and when that moment comes, we are to speak and proclaim what we have learned.
This gives a new meaning to suffering, the saddest element in which is often its apparent aimlessness. "How useless I am!" "What am I doing for the betterment of men?" "Wherefore this waste of the precious spikenard of my soul?"--F. B. Meyer
