「天地都要滅沒，你卻長存。」－希伯來書1:11
其實，他們並不孤單；有一位看不見、卻隨手可及的主就在他們身邊。
能夠感覺到主的是有福的－但蒙福的卻總是少數。因為感覺是屬乎情緒的，常常隨著天氣狀況、身體盛衰波瀾起伏；微微一陣細語、一抹霧氣、一夜翻覆，或一點不適，都會顛波心情，麻木心神。
但還有高過於感覺的事物。它，不隨波逐流；它，永遠長存。它認定那位看不見之神的同在，認定祂永不離去、永遠在他們身旁；認定祂奇妙、安適、溫暖、祥和，又無比真實的同在。
這種對真理的認定，使我們的感覺更加準確，但它卻不仰賴感覺。不僅如此，真理不光是一段陳述或事實，真理就是神的同在；真理就是一位最知心的朋友、最有能主宰的同在。
這真是所有在寂寞中哭泣心靈的福音喜訊；無論誰使你流下流淚，無論你哭泣的柳樹栽在那條溪水旁，你都能認定，神與你同在！
－戈登
"Thou remainest" (Heb. 1:11).There are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don't realize His presence. Realizing is blessed, but--rare. It belongs to the mood, to the feelings. It is dependent on weather conditions and bodily conditions. The rain, the heavy fog outside, the poor sleep, the twinging pain, these make one's mood so much, they seem to blur out the realizing. But there is something a little higher up than realizing. It is yet more blessed. It is independent of these outer conditions, it is something that abides. It is this: recognizing that Presence unseen, so wondrous and quieting, so soothing and calming and warming. Recognize His presence--the Master's own. He is here, close by; His presence is real. Recognizing will help realizing, too, but it never depends on it. Aye, more, immensely more, the Truth is a Presence, not a thing, a fact, a statement. Some One is present, a warm-hearted Friend, an all-powerful Lord. And this is the joyful truth for weeping hearts everywhere, whatever be the hand that has drawn the tears; by whatever stream it be that your weeping willow is planted. --S. D. Gordon
