「我乃稱你們為朋友。」－約翰福音15:15
幾個學生下定決心，要找到教授屬靈的秘訣；於是其中一人在晚上偷偷躲在教授的書房裡，準備窺探教授晚間的生活。
教授回到書房已經是深夜了。
儘管十分疲倦，他仍然坐在桌前，在聖經面前逗留了一個鐘頭，然後他將聖經闔上，埋首於雙手中，輕聲向神禱告：「主耶穌啊！我們感情依舊。」
得以認識神，是我們生命中最高的成就。
每一位基督徒都該不惜一切代價地與主「感情依舊」。
在密室中的禱告，並個人親密的讀神的話語，最能使我們真實的經歷基督。
若我們持續的培養和祂親密交通的關係，基督之於我們，將一天比一天更加實際。－巴伯考克
"I have called you friends" (John 15:15).Years ago there was an old German professor whose beautiful life was a marvel to his students. Some of them resolved to know the secret of it; so one of their number hid in the study where the old professor spent his evenings.
It was late when the teacher came in. He was very tired, but he sat down and spent an hour with his Bible. Then he bowed his head in secret prayer; and finally closing the Book of books, he said,
"Well, Lord Jesus, we're on the same old terms."
To know Him is life's highest attainment; and at all costs, every Christian should strive to be "on the same old terms with Him."
The reality of Jesus comes as a result of secret prayer, and a personal study of the Bible that is devotional and sympathetic. Christ becomes more real to the one who persists in the cultivation of His presence.
--Maltbie D. Babcock
