「你們要把下垂的手，癱弱的膝挺起來；也要為自己的腳把路徑修直了，使瘸子不至脫臼，反得醫治。」 －希伯來書12:12-13
這裡的比喻令人十分印象深刻。
主的意思似乎是說，我們膽怯到了一個地步，即使再細微的障礙也會驚嚇我們，使我們沮喪；於是，我們只好繞向另外一條輕省容易的道路。
也許這細微的障礙是你身上的一點疾病，神雖然已經準備好要醫治你，你卻仍然需要繼續堅持，雖然這絕非易事；難怪我們便想尋求人的幫助，或另外繞道而行。
遇到路障時，繞道而行的方式有很多，你也會總是覺得：「我現在還沒有預備好」。
每當我們預備奉獻、盼望順服，準備好奪取耶利哥城，準備好要為主贏得靈魂，或者我們的疾病就要被神醫治時，我們就宣佈放棄，繞道而行。
神說：「你們要把下垂的手...挺起來。」神要你勇敢的走進深水中，然後紅海就要變為乾地，約旦河的水也要立起成壘。
不要任由自己「歪著腳」，反要到祂面前「得痊癒」，使你的信心堅強起來。直直的向前走，不要留下任何一個未攻陷的耶利哥，也不要容讓一點撒但誇口的機會。
你會發現，這是一條對你極有益處，又可實行的路，因為我們手、腳常會不知不覺地下垂發酸，或許這就是你現在的光景！
－宣信
"Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed" (Heb. 12:12-13).This is God's word of encouragement to us to lift up the hands of faith, and confirm the knees of prayer. Often our faith grows tired, languid, and relaxed, and our prayers lose their force and effectiveness.
The figure used here is a very striking one. The idea seems to be that we become discouraged and so timid that a little obstacle depresses and frightens us, and we are tempted to walk around it, and not face it: to take the easier way.
Perhaps it is some physical trouble that God is ready to heal, but the exertion is hard, or it is easier to secure some human help, or walk around in some other way.
There are many ways of walking around emergencies instead of going straight through them. How often we come up against something that appalls us, and we want to evade the issue with the excuse:
"I am not quite ready for that now." Some sacrifice is to be made, some obedience demanded, some Jericho to be taken, some soul that we have not the courage to claim and carry through, some prayer that is hanging fire, or perhaps some physical trouble that is half healed and we are walking around it.
God says, "Lift up the hands that hang down." March straight through the flood, and lo, the waters will divide, the Red Sea will open, the Jordan will part, and the Lord will lead you through to victory.
Don't let your feet "be turned out of the way," but let your body "be healed," your faith strengthened. Go right ahead and leave no Jericho behind you unconquered and no place where Satan can say that he was too much for you. This is a profitable lesson and an intensely practical one. How often have we been in that place. Perhaps you are there today. --A. B. Simpson
