「然而祂知道我所行的路；祂試煉我之後，我必顯出如金子。」－約伯記23:10
信心是神賜的能力，能將未見之事變為眼見，將不可能轉為可能。信心不是自然界裡看得見的狀態，它是超自然的產物。
「風雨生信心」的意思是，在屬靈的經歷上遇到難處時，我們的信心會因此更加茁壯。自然界的風暴是出於氣流的衝擊，屬靈的風暴則來自和仇敵的爭戰。在這樣惡劣的環境中，信心反而能尋找到出入，快速長大成熟。
若你願意屬靈生命成熟，你需要經過的路途必定不會陽光普照，花香常漫，而是險峻、崎嶇狹小的窄路。一路上，撒但刮起的陣風屢屢使你穩不住腳，路旁突出的尖石擦破你的皮肉，荊棘撕破你的額頭，兇猛的野獸也在四面威脅低吼。
這一路上，滿滿地交織著悲傷和喜悅、傷痛和醫治、眼淚和微笑、挫折與得勝；你會遇見數不清的危險；有時接受拳打腳踢，有時遭逢逼迫誤會、煩惱苦楚。
然而因著那位愛我們的主，我們卻可以在這一切的事上得勝有餘。
「風雨中」－在風雨最強勁的時刻，即便你已經閃過放棄的念頭，你卻還得繼續向前。神要在風雨中與你相會，向你啟示祂的心意，使你明白祂的秘密。
當你再從風雨中走出來的時候，你的臉面就要發光如星；自此以後，陰間的鬼魔就在也不能搖撼你堅定不移的信心了。
－E. A. Kilbourne
"He hath acquainted himself with my beaten path. When he hath searched me out, I shall come out shining" (Job 23:10, free translation).Faith grows amid storms"--just four words, but oh, how full of import to the soul who has been in the storms!
Faith is that God-given faculty which, when exercised, brings the unseen into plain view, and by which the impossible things are made possible. It deals with supernaturals.
But it "grows amid storms"; that is, where there are disturbances in the spiritual atmosphere. Storms are caused by the conflicts of elements; and the storms of the spiritual world are conflicts with hostile elements.
In such an atmosphere faith finds its most productive soil; in such an element it comes more quickly to full fruition.
The staunchest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest, but out in the open where the winds from every quarter beat upon it, and bend and twist it until it becomes a giant in stature this is the tree which the mechanic wants his tools made of, and the wagon-maker seeks.
So in the spiritual world, when you see a giant, remember the road you must travel to come up to his side is not along the sunny lane where wild flowers ever bloom; but a steep, rocky, narrow pathway where the blasts of hell will almost blow you off your feet; where the sharp rocks cut the flesh, where the projecting thorns scratch the brow, and the venomous beasts hiss on every side.
It is a pathway of sorrow and joy, of suffering and healing balm, of tears and smiles, of trials and victories, of conflicts and triumphs, of hardships and perils and buffetings, of persecutions and misunderstandings, of troubles and distress; through all of which we are made more than conquerors through Him who loves us.
"Amid storms." Right in the midst where it is fiercest. You may shrink back from the ordeal of a fierce storm of trial?but go in! God is there to meet you in the center of all your trials, and to whisper His secrets which will make you come forth with a shining face and an indomitable faith that all the demons of hell shall never afterwards cause to waver. --E. A. Kilbourne
