靈命日糧 - 2005年4月1日
讀經: 詩篇31篇9-24節

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金句: 「我好像破碎的器皿。」（詩篇31篇12節）

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全年讀經: 撒母耳記上21-24章  

被上帝使用的人很少從未受過挫折，在實現夢想的過程中，總是有曲折和失望一路相伴。
但是人的盡頭常常是上帝的起頭，在人看來是糟透了的事，也許正是上帝展現祂大愛與恩典的時刻。我們只有跟隨到底，才能看到那些受過挫折和磨難的人成了更好的基督徒，但按照自己的計劃和意願而行的，他們是不可能做到這一點的。

我的朋友，現在的你正面臨著重挫嗎？你失去了你生命裡最珍貴的東西嗎？請記住，如果你能全然地以上帝的觀點，來看這件事情背後的目的，你便會讚美主。

我們生命上最寶貴的事情不是靠自己的方式所得來，而是有上帝的安排。雖然試煉和考驗的過程似乎既艱苦又殘忍，然而那是上帝展現大愛的方式，並且那結果對我們才是最好的。請記住，主對我們做出應許：「他未嘗留下一樣好處不給那些行動正直的人」（詩篇84篇11節）。MRD


一生之中，始終將主信靠，
不要害怕，因為祂在身旁；
一路讚美，哪怕天色黑暗，
終有一天，看到陽光燦爛。Cornelius

無數的挫折，重塑了基督徒的完美。
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Broken Things



Read:Psalm 31:9-24
I am like a broken vessel. —Psalm 31:12


Bible In One Year: 1 Samuel 21-24

Few unbroken lives in this world are useful to God. Few men and women can fulfill their hopes and plans without some interruption and disappointment along the way.

But man's disappointments are often God's appointments, and the things we believe are tragedies may be the very opportunities through which God chooses to exhibit His love and grace. We have but to follow these lives to the end to see that people who have been broken become better and more effective Christians than if they had carried out all their own plans and purposes.

Are you, my friend, being broken today? Has the dearest thing in your life been torn away? Then remember that if you could see the purpose of it all from God's standpoint, you would praise the Lord.

The best things that come to us are not those that accrue from having our way, but by letting God have His way. Though the way of testing and trial and sorrow often seems hard and cruel, it is the way of God's love and in the end will be the best for us.

Remember, we have the Lord's promise: "No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). —M. R. De Haan, M.D.


Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way, still sing and praise,
Sometime, sometime, we'll understand. —Cornelius

For a Christian, wholeness always comes after brokenness.