「弟兄們勝過他，是因羔羊的血，...他們雖至於死，也不愛自己的魂生命。」－啟示錄12:11
我們也要加入這場爭競嗎？
偉大的事物總是被艱難緊緊圍繞，我們勢必在路上遇見高山密林和鐵車鐵馬。
冠冕的代價就是苦難的累積；凱旋門不是玫瑰蠶絲所編成，而是經過重重的錘打和斑駁的血痕。
今日我們的艱困是主所賜給的，為了幫助我們贏得冠冕。
你無須期待想像中的逆境或美化後的困苦，你只需要今日就起身，面對神所量給的真實環境。
你榮耀冠冕的所在，就是實際生活中，日日月月催逼的艱難試煉。
最難勝過的環境，並非世界中眾人皆知的那些，而是隱藏在你心中，那個微小的秘密；那個除了主以外，無人知曉的小小試煉，那個你不敢面對、對你來說比犧牲性命還難的處境。
親愛的，那就是你的冠冕所在之地。願神使你能以勝過它，使你有朝一日戴上冠冕。
－選
"They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb . . . and they loved not their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12:11).When James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to give them the best place in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request, but told them it would be given to them if they could do His work, drink His cup, and be baptized with His baptism.
Do we want the competition? The greatest things are always hedged about by the hardest things, and we, too, shall find mountains and forests and chariots of iron. Hardship is the price of coronation. Triumphal arches are not woven out of rose blossoms and silken cords, but of hard blows and bloody scars. The very hardships that you are enduring in your life today are given by the Master for the explicit purpose of enabling you to win your crown.
Do not wait for some ideal situation, some romantic difficulty, some far-away emergency; but rise to meet the actual conditions which the Providence of God has placed around you today. Your crown of glory lies embedded in the very heart of these things--those hardships and trials that are pressing you this very hour, week and month of your life. The hardest things are not those that the world knows of. Down in your secret soul unseen and unknown by any but Jesus, there is a little trial that you would not dare to mention that is harder for you to bear than martyrdom.
There, beloved, lies your crown. God help you to overcome, and sometime wear it. --Selected
