"I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation……and with it eternal glory."(2 Tim. 2:10.) (Weymouth.)
IF Job could have known as he sat there in the ashes, bruishing his heart on this problem of providence─that in the trouble that had come upon him he was doing what one man may do to work out the problem for the world, he might again have taken courage. No man lives to
himself. Job's life is but your life and mine written in larger text...So, then, though we may not know what trials wait on any of us, we can believe that, as the days in which Job wrestled with his dark maladies are the only days that make him worth remembrance, and but for which his name had never been written in the book of life, so the days through which we struggle, finding no way, but never losing the light, will be the most significant we are called to live. --- Robert Collyer.Who does not know that our most sorrowful days have been amongst our best? When the face is wreathed in smiles and we trip lightly over meadows bespangled with spring flowers, the heart is often running to waste.
The soul which is always blithe and gay misses the deepest life. It has its reward, and it is satisfied to its measure, though that measure is a very scanty one. But the heart is dwarfed; and the nature, which is capable of the hightest heights, the deepest depths, is undevelped; and life presently burns down to its socket without having known the resonance of the deepest chords of joy.
"Blessed are they that mourn." Stars shine brightest in the long dark night of winter. The gentians show their fairest bloom amid almost inaccessible heights of snow and ice.
God's promises seem to wait for the pressure of pain to trample out their richest juice as in a wine-press. Only those who have sorrowed know how tender is the "Man of Sorrows." --- Selected.
Thou hast but little sunshine, but thy long glooms are wisely appointed thee; for perhaps a stretch of summer weather would have made thee as a parched land and barren wilderness. Thy Lord knows best, and he has the clouds and the sun at His disposal. --- Selected.
"It is a gray day." "Yes, but dinna ye see the patch of blue?" --- Scotch Shoemaker.
买 地
[说地]
这是托尔斯泰讲的故事：
俄国高加索一带地方，售土地以“日”计算，买地人从日出到日落之间，所奔跑围得的土地即作为买卖之地。价格低廉且固定，跑的越多得到就多，但必须最后跑成圈。某人天亮即奔，开始时步子轻松，欲尽量围大些。中午时他已围得一大块地，非常高兴。他还嫌不够，再跑。太阳西斜，他开始焦急起来，但两腿发软无力，身子沉重，但距离终点尚远……无情日头西沉，气喘吁吁，满口白沫，眼目昏暗。当太阳完全消失地平线时，呀终于跑到终点。正当大家为他欢呼时，他扑倒在地，口吐鲜血，顷刻间，停止呼吸，命归黄泉。
他最后得到的是6尺宽的坟坑地。
[谈天]
世界上多少人，不正也象这位买地者？一生拼搏，到头来两手空空，悔恨终生。
[经文]
传 2:22 “人在日光之下劳碌累心，在他一切的劳碌上得着什么呢”
可 8:36-37 “人若赚得全世界，赔上自己的生命，有什么益处呢？人还能拿什么换生命呢？”
圣 经 金 句 选
求你指教我们怎样数算自己的日子，好叫我们得着智慧的心。(诗 90:12)
天离地何等地高，他的慈爱向敬畏他的人，也是何等地大。东离西有多远，他叫我们的过犯，离我们也有多远。(诗 103:11-12)
你的话是我脚前的灯，是我路上的光。(诗 119:105)
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