「我必使你成為有快齒打糧的新器具。」－以賽亞書41:15
可憐的鋼鐵需要經過多少的千錘百鍊，才能終於價值非凡啊！然而，越經過鍛鍊搥打、火燒琢磨，鋼鐵才越能彰顯出高貴的價值。
切願這個比喻使我們沉默深思，使我們學習恆久忍耐。
受苦的多寡，往往與與祝福的流露成正比；藉著痛苦，我們便能結出果子獻給神，使榮耀歸與祂，祝福歸與在地的人們。
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生命本身是個謎團；我們永遠無法解釋其中難測的遭遇，除非我們相信，神正用各種超越人所能理解的環境來預備我們，使我們終能看見永世裡的異象與職事。
在那個奇妙的範圍裡，需要鍛鍊成鋼的靈魂，來完成特殊的使命。
"I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument" (Isa. 41:15).A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated, the more it is hammered and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished, the greater the value.
May this parable help us to be silent, still, and longsuffering. Those who suffer most are capable of yielding most; and it is through pain that God is getting the most out of us, for His glory and the blessing of others. --Selected
Life is very mysterious. Indeed it would be inexplicable unless we believed that God was preparing us for scenes and ministries that lie beyond the veil of sense in the eternal world, where highly-tempered spirits will be required for special service.
