神也必引你出離患難,進入寬闊不狹窄之地;擺在你席上的必滿有肥甘。 16 「He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
不要切慕黑夜,就是眾民在本處被除滅的時候。 20 Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes. 36:20 The meaning of the Hebrew for verses 18-20 is uncertain.
所發的雷聲顯明他的作為,又向牲畜指明要起暴風。 33 His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach. 36:33 Or ((announces his coming-- / the One zealous against evil))
March 19 "Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you....you are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it."(1 Peter 4:12.) MANY a waiting hour was needful to enrich the harp of David, and many a waiting hour in the wilderness will gather for us a psalm of "thanksgiving, and the voice of melody," to cheer the hearts of fainting ones here below, and to make glad our Father's house on high. What was the preparation of the son of Jesse for the songs like unto which none other have ever sounded on this earth? The outrage of the wicked, which brought forth cries for God's help. Then the faint hope in God's goodness blossomed into a song of rejoicing for His mighty deliverances and manifold mercies. Every sorrow was another string to his harp; every deliverance another theme for praise. One thrill of anguish spared, one blessing unmarked or unprized, one difficulty or danger evaded, great would have been our loss in that thrilling Psalmody in which God's people today find the expression of their grief or praise! To wait for God, and to suffer His will, is to know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to the likeness of His Son. So now, if the vessel is to be enlarged for spiritual understanding, be not affrighted at the wider sphere of suffering that awaits you. The Divine capacity of sympathy will have a more extended sphere, for the breathing of the Holy Ghost in the new creation never made a stoic, but left the heart's affection tender and true. ─Anna Shipton. "He tested me ere He entrusted me." (1 Tim. 1:12.) (Way's Trans.)