經文: 耶穌對他說：「你若能信，在信的人，凡事都能。」孩子的父親立時喊著說：「我信，但我信不足，求主幫助。」— [聖經·馬可福音 9章23-24節]
多麼榮耀寶貴的應許：「在信的人，凡事都能。」這應許的寶貴在於這是信心的考驗。最開始我們可能信不來這樣的話，但我們一旦抓住這應許的話，隨之而來的就是信心的考驗，覺得我們的信心無法達到那樣完全的地步。
但不久這信心的考驗，就轉變成為信心的得勝。當耶穌對孩子的父親說：「你若能信，在信的人凡事都能。」這父親覺得這實在是件非常困難的事，他如何能做到用完全的信心以求神蹟的實現呢？他望著耶穌的臉，耶穌卻以充滿慈愛溫和的眼神感化他的心，給他極大的信心，他立時流淚喊著說：「我信，但我信不足，求主幫助。」他深信站在他前面的這位耶穌，不但有能力醫治他兒子，還有能力加添他信心。耶穌給他的印象，就是祂是行奇蹟的上帝，而且行雙重的神蹟，不但醫治他兒子肉體的疾病，也拯救他心靈的軟弱，於是原本是信心的考驗，如今轉變成信心的勝利。
這是多麼重要珍貴的教導與真理！我們理智上相信「在信的人凡事都能。」但要真正運用這真理，卻發現很難落實；然而耶穌的同在使得我們的信心大增，只要我們緊緊地抓住耶穌，完全的信靠倚賴祂，那種強大的信心就成為可能。耶穌既應許我們每時每刻要與我們同在，祂也要以奇妙的能力加添我們信心，使我們完完全全相信祂的應許。那確信我們所擁有的信心，是來自於上帝的人有福了，因為他在心中掙扎作難的時候，就把自己交在那全能者與祂的大愛中：「我信，但我信不足，求主幫助。」
經由信心的考驗與得勝，我們親自經歷到上帝的信實與權能，我們自然有更大的信心確知與耶穌的同在。是的，讓我們安靜等候在上帝的腳前，直到祂施恩賜福我們：「我靠著那加給我力量的，凡事都能作。」(腓立比書 4章13節)
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 8月4日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『The Trial and Triumph of Faith』
Scripture: “And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith. Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.” — [Mark 9:23-24]
What a glorious promise: “All things are possible to him that believeth”! And yet it is just the greatness of the promise that constitutes the trial of faith. At first we do not really believe its truth. But when we have grasped it, then comes the real trial in the thought: Such a wonder-working faith is utterly beyond my reach.
But what constitutes the trial of faith soon becomes its triumph. How can this be? When Christ said to the father of the child, ” If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.” he felt that this was only casting him into deeper despair. How could his faith be able to work the miracle? But as he looked into the face of Christ, and the love of the tender eye touched his heart, he felt sure that this blessed Man not only had the power to heal his child, but the power too to inspire him with the needed faith. The impression Christ produced upon him made not only the one miracle of the healing possible, but the second miracle too that he should have so great a faith. And with tears he cried, “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.” The very greatness of faith’s trial was the greatness of faith’s triumph.
What a lesson! Of all things that are possible to faith, the most impossible is that I should be able to exercise such faith. The abiding presence of Christ is possible to faith. And this faith is possible to the soul that clings to Christ and trusts Him. As surely as He will lead us into His abiding presence all the day, so surely will He strengthen us with divine power for the faith that claims and receives the promise. Blessed the hour when the believer sees how entirely he is dependent on Christ for the faith as well as the blessing, and, in the consciousness of the unbelief that is still struggling within, he casts himself on the power and the love of Jesus: “Lord, I believe; Lord, I believe.”
Through such trial and through such triumph, sometimes the triumph of despair, we enter upon our inheritance, the abiding presence of Him who speaks to us now: “Lo, I am with you alway.” Let us tarry at His feet until we know that He has blessed us. “I can do all things in Him that strengtheneth me” (Phil, iv. 13). R. V.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 4 August 」
