「那沒有看見就信的有福了。」－約翰福音20:29
或行在水面，或游向耶穌，彼得只能選其一，因為兩者是無法並行的。
鳥兒若想在空中飛翔，牠就得遠避牆垣和枝頭，信靠能帶著牠上騰的翅膀。離地面太近，就無法飛翔。
神必須把亞伯拉罕帶到力量的盡頭，使他看見他無法憑著自己作什麼。他需要看自己的身體如同已死，並完全倚靠神的力量；當亞伯拉罕能不再看自己，專一仰望主，他才能完全相信神所應許的一切。
神必須挪去所有還讓我們存有盼望的結果，使我們學習在未見之時依舊信靠。唯有到了那時，神的話語才得以全然成為事實。
－宣信
"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" (John 20:29).How strong is the snare of the things that are seen, and how necessary for God to keep us in the things that axe unseen! If Peter is to walk on the water he must walk; if he is going to swim, he must swim, but he cannot do both. If the bird is going to fly it must keep away from fences and the trees, and trust to its buoyant wings. But if it tries to keep within easy reach of the ground, it will make poor work of flying.
God had to bring Abraham to the end of his own strength, and to let him see that in his own body he could do nothing. He had to consider his own body as good as dead, and then take God for the whole work; and when he looked away from himself, and trusted God alone, then he became fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able to perform. That is what God is teaching us, and He has to keep away encouraging results until we learn to trust without them, and then He loves to make His Word real in fact as well as faith.--A. B. Simpson
