寧靜時分：仰望等候祢
作者：司布真 (C. H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892)
影音連結
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEUv5eBU8A
英文版
https://archive.org/details/ME0830AM
主啊
等候這件事
看來似乎很容易
可是要學
總要花幾年
開步走 跑步
比立正容易的多
主啊
許多時候
我們很願意 很渴望事奉祢
但是
不曉得怎麼著手
可是
這又怎麼樣呢
難道我們就此絕望 煩惱嗎
就此膽怯 退後嗎
就此懼怕 停住嗎
還是
擅自前衝呢
主
祢告訴我們
不 都不
只要等候
用禱告等候
呼求祢
把事情展在祢面前
把難處告訴祢
向祢求應許
用信心等候
向祢表白不移的信任
讓我們相信
就是祢叫我們等到夜半
祢也必按時來臨
用忍耐等候
主
不讓我們發怨言
讓我們用簡單的心
完全接受臨到我們身上的一切
並且
把它們放在祢手裡
讓我們對祢說
現在 主啊
不要成就我的意思
只要成就祢的意思
我雖然不知道該怎麼做
我的心非常痛苦
但是
我願意等候
等候祢來
叫水分開
使敵人潰退
我願意等候
就是祢叫我等候多日
我也願意
因為我的心
單單仰望祢
主啊
我深信祢是我的喜樂
我的拯救
我的避難所
我的堅固台
禱告 奉主耶穌基督的聖名 阿門
Wait on the Lord
Author: C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Wait on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)
It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still.
There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption?
No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before him; tell him your difficulty, and plead his promise of aid. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in him. Believe that if he keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet he will come at the right time.
Wait in quiet patience, and accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying,
“Now, Lord, not my will, but thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for thee in the full conviction that thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower.”
