2013年12月13日 星期五

神能使一切的仇敵和反對的勢力,相繼為我們效力-12月18日

「藉著那愛我們的,在這一切的事上,我們已經得勝有餘了。」-羅馬書8:37
福音的安排實在巧妙,祂的恩典實在浩大;祂能使一切的仇敵和反對的勢力相繼為我們效力,成為使我們扶搖直上神國的台階,得以進入神的同在。

親愛的,你是否領會了呢?

在離開苦難的幽谷時,你是否雙手攜著掠物而出呢?

在傷害臨及、萬念俱灰時,你是否仍然持守對神信靠,使後來的豐富勝過先前的呢?

「得勝有餘」的意思,就是掃蕩仇敵的虜物,全數佔為己有。

英國布萊頓的慕恩博士失明時,他說:
「主啊,我從你手中接去了這盲眼的『一千銀子』;求你幫助我能為著你的榮耀,妥善的管理這筆財產,好使你再臨的時候,可以連本帶利的收回。」

結果,神讓他發明了慕恩活字版,使千萬的盲人得以閱讀神的話語,因此得救。
-選

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37).
The Gospel is so arranged and the gift of God so great that you may take the very enemies that fight you and the forces that are arrayed against you and make them steps up to the very gates of heaven and into the presence of God.

Like the eagle, who sits on a crag and watches the sky as it is filling with blackness, and the forked lightnings are playing up and down, and he is sitting perfectly still, turning one eye and then the other toward the storm. But he never moves until he begins to feel the burst of the breeze and knows that the hurricane has struck him; with a scream, he swings his breast to the storm, and uses the storm to go up to the sky; away he goes, borne upward upon it.

That is what God wants of every one of His children, to be more than conqueror, turning the storm-cloud into a chariot. You know when one army is more than conqueror it is likely to drive the other from the field, to get all the ammunition, the food and supplies, and to take possession of the whole. That is just what our text means. There are spoils to be taken!

Beloved, have you got them? When you went into that terrible valley of suffering did you come out of it with spoils? When that injury struck you and you thought everything was gone, did you so trust in God that you came out richer than you went in? To be more than conqueror is to take the spoils from the enemy and appropriate them to yourself. What he had arranged for your overthrow, take and appropriate for yourself.

When Dr. Moon, of Brighton, England, was stricken with blindness, he said "Lord, I accept this talent of blindness from Thee. Help me to use it for Thy glory that at Thy coming Thou mayest receive Thine own with usury." Then God enabled him to invent the Moon Alphabet for the blind, by which thousands of blind people were enabled to read the Word of God, and many of them were gloriously saved. --Selected