10月30日 信

人非有信，就不能得神的喜悅。（來十一6）

反常理的信心，是宗教狂熱；反信心的常理，是理性主義。信心的生活卻將二者調和成正確的關係。常理不是信心，信心也非常理。二者代表了自然與超然的關係，直覺與啟示的關係。耶穌基督所說的一切話，非從常理，乃從啟示，在常理無效之際，他的話依然有效。信心必須受試驗，然後這信心才真實。“我們知道萬事都互相效力”，這樣，無論什麼事發生，神的煉金術總能把理想的信心變作實際。信心必須從個人開始，神整個計劃就是使理想的信心，在他兒女身上實現。

日常生活中每一細節，都在啟示神，叫我們可以在實際經歷中，證實我們所信的。信心是一項極主動的原則，總把主耶穌放在首位－－“主啊，你這樣說過（太六33），看來全不合理，但我要依你的話去做。”若要把頭腦的信心變成個人產業，便時常都要經歷爭戰，不是偶爾經歷。神放我們在某一環境中，是要教育我們的信心；因為信心的本性是使目標成真。在我們認識耶穌之前，神只是一個抽象的概念，我們無法對祂有信心；但一旦聽見耶穌說：“人看見了我，就看見了父。”我們就有了實際的東西，信心就毫無止境。信心就是透過耶穌基督之靈的能力，全人與神建立正確的關係。

祈禱◆但如今，“神啊，求你堅固我的手”－－主啊，請在這一刻，到我這裡來，以你自己來充滿我，那麼，我便不會再有未滿足的渴求。

October 30 Faith

“Without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Hebrews 11:6

Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual. “We know that all things work together for good,” then no matter what happens, the alchemy of God's providence transfigures the ideal faith into actual reality. Faith always works on the personal line, the whole purpose of God being to see that the ideal faith is made real in His children.

For every detail of the common-sense life, there is a revelation fact of God whereby we can prove in practical experience what we believe God to be. Faith is a tremendously active principle which always puts Jesus Christ first – Lord, Thou hast said so and so (e.g., Matthew 6:33), it looks mad, but I am going to venture on Thy word. To turn head faith into a personal possession is a fight always, not sometimes. God brings us into circumstances in order to educate our faith, because the nature of faith is to make its object real. Until we know Jesus, God is a mere abstraction, we can not have faith in Him; but immediately we hear Jesus say – “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,” we have something that is real, and faith is boundless. Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.