「作餅的穀是用磨磨碎。」－以賽亞書28:28
「作餅的穀是用磨磨碎」。要得到主的祝福，意味著需要先經過苦難。
但就算是付上了苦難的代價，只要能藉此使人得福，豈不已經值得？
因為世上最甜美的事，都是經由痛苦和眼淚所換來的。－密勒
生命的流出，需要經過死亡的代價。停止了流血，就停止了祝福。
貧困、艱難和不幸，造就了無數世上的偉人和屬靈的聖徒。
父親老舊的掛鐘能夠不停擺盪，乃是因為鐘垂的重量；船隻能夠順利安全入港，常是靠著逆風的幫助。照樣，神也利用惡劣環境的阻撓，激發我們的信心，完成祂神聖的工作。
聖經中最璀璨光耀的人物都是先經過了擊打和磨碾，才成了供應世人的糧倉：
- 亞伯拉罕被稱作「信心之父」，是因為他在那一個時代中所受的苦難、所學的順服都是領頭的；
- 雅各受了極盡的磨難；
- 約瑟被壓傷、被擊打，還作了波提乏的僕役，最後才能爬上埃及宰相的高位；
- 大衛在荒山野嶺被人如同禽獸般的追殺，既疲倦又痛苦，至終卻成了供應全國的「糧食」；
- 保羅若沒有經歷鞭子的擊傷和亂石追打，他也必定無法成為該撒家族的供應；經過了無數的碾磨，他已經化為搗碎的麵粉，供皇家享用。
爭戰如何，勝利也如何。
若神量給你特殊的試煉，祂也必定在祂心中為你預留了特殊的位子。
被壓傷過的靈魂，才是神所揀選的靈魂。
"Bread corn is bruised" (Isa. 28:28).Many of us cannot be used to become food for the world's hunger until we are broken in Christ's hands. "Bread corn is bruised." Christ's blessing ofttimes means sorrow, but even sorrow is not too great a price to pay for the privilege of touching other lives with benediction. The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain. --J. R. Miller
"We must burn out before we can give out. We cease to bless when we cease to bleed."
"Poverty, hardship and misfortune have pressed many a life to moral heroism and spiritual greatness. Difficulty challenges energy and perseverance. It calls into activity the strongest qualities of the soul. It was the weights on father's old clock that kept it going. Many a head wind has been utilized to make port. God has appointed opposition as an incentive to faith and holy activity.
"The most illustrious characters of the Bible were bruised and threshed and ground into bread for the hungry. Abraham's diploma styles him as 'the father of the faithful.' That was because he stood at the head of his class in affliction and obedience.
"Jacob suffered severe threshings and grindings. Joseph was bruised and beaten and had to go through Potiphar's kitchen and Egypt's prison to get to his throne.
"David, hunted like a partridge on the mountain, bruised, weary and footsore, was ground into bread for a kingdom. Paul never could have been bread for Caesar's household if he had not endured the bruising, whippings and stonings. He was ground into fine flour for the royal family."
"Like combat, like victory. If for you He has appointed special trials, be assured that in His heart He has kept for you a special place. A soul sorely bruised is a soul elect."
