「凡事…時常感謝神與父。」－以弗所書5:20
因此你該為著一切你遭遇的環境感謝神；這不是說要為著環境裡的罪惡感謝祂，乃是為著神能從其中所引出的事物而感謝祂。
願神使我們生活中滿了讚美與感謝，使每件臨到的環境成為祝福。
有一次我目睹有個人在畫作上塗了幾個黑點；在我正理不出頭緒的時候，他在黑點的上下拉出了幾條橫線，補上了幾個休止符，並在前頭擺了高音譜記號；我這才豁然開朗，開心的照著譜的音符唱著：
「讚美神是祝福泉源，天上地上豈能閉口不言？」
我們生命的樂章也常佈滿了黑點；這些黑點令我們錯愕不解，我們不明白神為何允許他們存在。
但若我們願意讓神走進我們的人生，讓祂按自己的美意梳理整排雜亂的黑點，拉上筆直明確的線條，並合適地放置休止符，祂就要將一個個黑點，化為美麗和諧的音符。
別阻擋了祂這榮耀的工作啊！
－C.H.P.
"Giving thanks always for all things unto God" (Eph. 5:20).No matter what the source of the evil, if you are in God and surrounded by Him as by an atmosphere, all evil has to pass through Him before it comes to you. Therefore you can thank God for everything that comes, not for the sin of it, but for what God will bring out of it and through it. May God make our lives thanksgiving and perpetual praise, then He will make everything a blessing.
We once saw a man draw some black dots. We looked and could make nothing of them but an irregular assemblage of black dots. Then he drew a few lines, put in a few rests, then a clef at the beginning, and we saw these black dots were musical notes. On sounding them we were singing,
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below."
There are many black dots and black spots in our lives, and we cannot understand why they are there or why God permitted them to come. But if we let God come into our lives, and adjust the dots in the proper way, and draw the lines He wants, and separate this from that, and put in the rests at the proper places; out of the black dots and spots in our lives He will make a glorious harmony. Let us not hinder Him in this glorious work! --C. H. P.
