「你是叫我多經歷重大急難的，必使我復活，使我從地的深處再上來。」－詩篇71:20
當我們正在祂急難的管教下時，我們降到「地的深處」，穿越地底的甬道，睡臥在死去人們的身旁；但這時，神卻不會斷了祂和我們親密的交通聯結，祂必領我們重現光明。
絕不要懷疑神，不要說神已經將你棄絕，將你遺忘了，也絕不要以為祂對你已失去了憐憫。因為祂必使你復活！
線球再怎麼糾纏一起，總有一絲平順的部份；最漫長的一日，也有夜幕低垂的時候；寒冬的冰雪，也有逐漸融去的一天。
務要堅固；因為知道你的勞苦不是徒然的。
神會再次轉身賜你安慰；那時，你那早已忘卻了歌唱的心，就要再度湧出歡樂的詩章：「我要稱謝你，我要向你彈琴，我的嘴唇要揚聲歌頌你。」
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"Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, wilt quicken us again" (Ps. 71:20, RV).God shows us the troubles. Sometimes, as this part of our education is being carried forward, we have to descend into "the lower parts of the earth," pass through subterranean passages, lie buried amongst the dead, but never for a moment is the cord of fellowship and union between God and us strained to breaking; and from the depths God will bring us again.
Never doubt God! Never say that He has forsaken or forgotten. Never think that He is unsympathetic. He will quicken again. There is always a smooth piece in every skein, however tangled. The longest day at last rings out the evensong. The winter snow lies long, but it goes at last.
Be steadfast; your labor is not in vain. God turns again, and comforts. And when He does, the heart which had forgotten its Psalmody breaks out in jubilant song, as does the Psalmist: "I will thank thee, I will harp unto thee, my lips shall sing aloud." --Selected
