經文：耶穌對他說：「你若能信，在信的人，凡事都能。」— (聖經·馬可福音 9章23節)
聖經中最重要的真理，就是「信心」。耶穌對祂的門徒，或跟隨祂的眾人，耳提面命一再強調的也是「信心」。祂說：「在信的人，凡事都能。」按著我們過往的經驗，我們也領悟到這個真理，只要我們單純地仰賴天父，祂必將祂的應許成就在我們身上。要有不間斷的信心，才能常保有上帝的同在。
讓我們來思想何謂「真正的信心」，真正的信心是絕對相信上帝要成就祂「所有」的應許，而非「部份」的應許，也就是向上帝要求兌現祂所作的一切承諾，而且是毫不打折扣的。特別需要思想到自己本身是何等渺小，一無所有、一無所能，只有仰賴全能的上帝，在信祂的人中要做奇妙的善工。
藉著信心，我們站立在上帝穩若磐石的應許上，相信祂要負全責使祂的話語成就，我們只要全心全意地相信祂，知道因著祂的慈愛與大能，必給我們的期待帶來盼望。而祂的命令與祂的應許之間有密切的關連，只要我們盡心盡力地愛上帝，順從祂的旨意，祂就會負全責成就祂在聖經中所作的承諾。
在追求「信心生活」的過程中，我們試著想得著那能力，卻發現不是那麼容易掌握或得著。其實，要擁有這樣的信心與能力，必須先「等候」上帝，「安息」在主的蔭庇下，就如經上所記「那等候耶和華的，必從新得力。」(以賽亞書 四十31)，再說得深刻一點，這是一種意志的決定，我們必須選擇單單地信靠祂的話語，定睛仰望祂，且等候祂行奇妙大事和成就祂的應許；即使在前途茫茫的黑暗中，因信就仍有盼望。
信心生活所帶來上帝同在的經驗，可以讓我們全人浸沐在與上帝親近的關係中，整天散發出基督馨香之氣，這是何等大的特權，是我們所未曾想到的甘甜生活。誠如祂是全地的主，是生命的光與愛，也是我們最親密的朋友，我們是可以坦然無懼地來到祂施恩寶座前，向祂懇求：「主啊！祢說過要永遠與我們同在，願祢的話成就。」
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 7月25日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
(圖片版權屬「香港宣教會」所有，在此僅供分享福音用途。)
『 The Power of Faith 』
Scripture: “And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.” — (Mark 9:23)
Scripture teaches us that there is not one truth on which Christ insisted more frequently, both with His disciples and with those who came seeking His help, than the absolute necessity of faith and its unlimited possibilities. And experience has taught us that there is nothing in which we come so short as the simple and absolute trust in God to fulfil literally in us all He has promised. A life in the abiding presence must of necessity be a life of unceasing faith.
Think for a momnet of what the marks of a true faith are. First of all, faith counts upon God to do all He has promised, as the only measure of its expectation. It does not rest content with taking some of the promises; it seeks nothing less than to claim every promise that God has made, in its largest and fullest meaning. Under a sense of its own nothingness and utter impotence, it trusts the power of an Almighty God to work wonders in the heart in which He dwells.
It does this with the whole heart and all its strength. Faith yields itself to the promise that God will take full possession, and all through the day and night inspire its hope and expectation. It recognizes the inseparable link that unites God’s promises and His commands, and yields itself to do the one as fully as it trusts the other.
In the pursuit of the power which such a life of faith can give, there is often a faith that seeks and strives, but cannot grasp. This is followed by a faith that begins to see that waiting on God is needed, and that quietly rests in the hope of what God will do. This should lead on to an act of decision, in which the soul takes God at His word, and claims the fulfilment of the promise, and then looks to Him, even in utter darkness, to perform what He has spoken.
The life of faith to which the abiding presence will be granted must needs have complete mastery of the whole being. It is such a wonderful privilege, Christ’s presence actually keeping us all day in its blessed experience, that it needs a parting with much that was formerly thought lawful, if He is indeed to be the Lord of all, the blessed Friend who companies with us, the joy and light of our life. This faith will be able to claim and to experience the words of the Master: “Lo, I am with you alway.”
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 25 July 」
