「在我裡面有平安。」－約翰福音16:33
保羅在獄中，肉身上雖受折磨、損失和痛苦，但他卻在其中蒙受祝福。在最惡劣的情況下，從各面匯集而來的恩典祝福，全都湧進他的心中。
有一天，小提琴大師帕格尼尼登台演奏，當觀眾的掌聲漸收，他卻發現手上的小提琴不大對勁。在仔細的端詳知後，他發現原來那把竟然不是他那珍貴的名琴。
他過一陣子才回過神來，只好向觀眾說明原委，退到幕後去找自己的琴。但找遍了後台，他明白名琴已遭竊，只留下他手上那把二手破琴。稍微思索了一會兒，帕格尼尼回到觀眾面前說：
「先生女士，今天我願意在你們面前證明：音樂不在樂器裡，乃在於人的心中。」於是他採取一種前所未見的方式開始演奏。音樂從老舊的二手琴裡傾瀉出來，直到聽眾們無一不目眩神迷；直到顛狂的歡呼聲幾乎掀掉了屋頂。因為帕格尼尼果真向他們證實：音樂的確並不存於樂器中，而是隱藏在音樂家的靈魂裡。
試煉重重的信徒們哪，這就是你們身上所承接的使命：挺身站在世界的舞台上，向天下萬邦作見證說：生命的音樂，無法在環境或事物的表象裡找到，生命的音樂，只能存在於你我的心中。
"In me . . . peace" (John 16:33).There is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in the midst of those very conditions.
Paganini, the great violinist, came out before his audience one day and made the discovery just as they ended their applause that there was something wrong with his violin. He looked at it a second and then saw that it was not his famous and valuable one.
He felt paralyzed for a moment, then turned to his audience and told them there had been some mistake and he did not have his own violin. He stepped back behind the curtain thinking that it was still where he had left it, but discovered that some one had stolen his and left that old second-hand one in its place. He remained back of the curtain a moment, then came out before his audience and said:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: I will show you that the music is not in the instrument, but in the soul." And he played as he had never played before; and out of that second-hand instrument, the music poured forth until the audience was enraptured with enthusiasm and the applause almost lifted the ceiling of the building, because the man had revealed to them that music was not in the machine but in his own soul.
It is your mission, tested and tried one, to walk out on the stage of this world and reveal to all earth and Heaven that the music is not in conditions, not in the things, not in externals, but the music of life is in your own soul.
