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绝望的处境
经文: 「有主的一个使者，站在旁边，屋里有光照耀。天使拍彼得的肋旁，拍醒了他，
说，快快起来。那铁链就从他手上脱落下来。」 （徒十二7）
「约在半夜，保罗和西拉，祷告唱诗赞美上帝……忽然地大震动，甚至监牢的
地基都摇动了。监门立刻全开，众囚犯的锁链也都松开了。」（徒十六25 ~26）
这是上帝的方法。上帝的脚步常要等到深夜最黑暗的时候，才渐临近。我们看
见，直到希律要提彼得出来处决的前一夜，天使才来救彼得出监。挂末底改的木架预备
好了以后，才有哈随鲁王睡不着觉的事情发生。
啊，我的魂哪，也许在拯救临到你以前，你还须经过最黑暗的时期；但是不要
怕，上帝必拯救你！上帝也许喜欢让你多等一会儿，但是祂不能忘记祂的誓约，祂必要
实践祂那不可更改的应许。 ──梅尔（F.B.Meyer）
上帝有智慧的策略对付任何困难，上帝有坚定不移的信实对待信靠祂的，上帝
有不变的公义坚持祂的旨意，我们还怕什么呢？借着一个同坐监牢的囚犯，借着一个梦
，上帝就把约瑟从监狱里提到王宫里。所以信靠上帝的方法、上帝的时间，是最安稳不
过的。 ──戈登（S. D. Grodon）
上帝有一千把钥匙可以开一千扇不同的门户来拯救祂自己的孩子。所以让我们
忠忠心心地去尽我们自己的那一分──为祂受苦──基督自然会去尽祂那一分的。 ─
─麦唐纳（George MacDonald）
困难是神迹的第一期。如果是大神迹的话，情形不仅「困难」，并且「不可能
」。
上帝最喜欢祂的孩子用小手紧紧抱住祂，因此上帝常常给祂的孩子一些绝望。
Desperate Situations
Scripture: "The angel of the Lord came upon him (Peter) and a light shined
in the prison; and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying,
Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off" (Acts 12:7).
"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. .
. . And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of
the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and every
one's bands were loosed" (Acts 16:25, 26).
This is God's way. In the darkest hours of the night, His tread
draws near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the
angel comes to Peter's cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the
royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the favored race.
Ah, soul, it may have to come to the worst with thee ere thou art
delivered; but thou wilt be delivered! God may keep thee waiting, but he
will ever be mindful of His covenant, and will appear to fulfill His
inviolable Word. --F. B. Meyer
There's a simplicity about God in working out His plans, yet a
resourcefulness equal to any difficulty, and an unswerving faithfulness to
His trusting child, and an unforgetting steadiness in holding to His purpose
. Through a fellow-prisoner, then a dream, He lifts Joseph from a prison to
a premiership. And the length of stay in the prison prevents dizziness in
the premier. It's safe to trust God's methods and to go by His clock. --S. D
. Gordon
Providence hath a thousand keys to open a thousand sundry doors for
the deliverance of His own, when it is even come to a desperate case. Let us
be faithful; and care for our own part which is to suffer for Him, and lay
Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there.--George MacDonald
Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle--it is miracle in its
first stage. If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty
but impossibility.
The clinging hand of His child makes a desperate situation a delight
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