「我們…就當脫去各樣的重擔，和容易纏累我們的罪，憑著忍耐奔那擺在我們前頭的賽程」－希伯來書12:1
其中，最糟的一項就是沮喪。沉甸甸的心情是拖累我們的重擔，使我們無法聖潔，無法在神的手中有用。
以色列人無法進入美地，起因不過是幾句的抱怨。照民數記原文記載，他們不過「似乎是埋怨了」。
從這樣閃過一絲不滿足的感覺開始，經年累月地發展後竟成了悖逆，至終萬劫不復。
因此，絕不要容許自己對神有一點懷疑的思想，甚至懷疑神對我們永遠不變的愛和信實。
我們可以運用堅決的意志拒絕疑惑，如同我們拒絕其他的罪一樣；當我們堅定不向疑惑屈服時，聖靈就要立即幫助我們，以神的信心加強我們，並以得勝為我們的冠冕。
要陷入疑惑、焦慮的習慣，一點都不需要費力氣，我們很容易懷疑神是否遺棄了我們，是否要粉碎我們的美夢。
讓我們起來拒絕沮喪和不喜樂，讓我們看萬事為大喜樂，運用信心、決心，和確信來喜樂；這樣，神就要照著我們的信給我們成就了！
魔鬼的手中有兩樣計謀：
一樣是使人意氣消沉，一段時間內無法帶給人任何幫助；一樣是使人疑惑猜忌，斷開人與神信心的鎖鏈。
小心哪，別中了牠的詭計了！
G. E. M.
"Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and, let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1).There are weights which are not sins in themselves, but which become distractions and stumbling blocks in our Christian progress. One of the worst of these is despondency. The heavy heart is indeed a weight that will surely drag us down in our holiness and usefulness.
The failure of Israel to enter the land of promise began in murmuring, or, as the text in Numbers literally puts it, "as it were murmured." Just a faint desire to complain and be discontented. This led on until it blossomed and ripened into rebellion and ruin. Let us give ourselves no liberty ever to doubt God or His love and faithfulness to us in everything and forever.
We can set our will against doubt just as we do against any other sin; and as we stand firm and refuse to doubt, the Holy Spirit will come to our aid and give us the faith of God and crown us with victory.
It is very easy to fall into the habit of doubting, fretting, and wondering if God has forsaken us and if after all our hopes are to end in failure. Let us refuse to be discouraged. Let us refuse to be unhappy. Let us "count it all joy" when we cannot feel one emotion of happiness. Let us rejoice by faith, by resolution, by reckoning, and we shall surely find that God will make the reckoning real.--Selected
The devil has two master tricks. One is to get us discouraged; then for a time at least we can be of no service to others, and so are defeated. The other is to make us doubt, thus breaking the faith link by which we are bound to our Father. Lookout! Do not be tricked either way.--G.E.M.
