並且你們要說:『你僕人雅各在我們後邊。』」因雅各心裏說:「我藉著在我前頭去的禮物解他的恨,然後再見他的面,或者他容納我。」 20 And be sure to say, Your servant Jacob is coming behind us. 」 For he thought, 「I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.」
March 3 "And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him." (Mark 9:26.) EVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." ─Dr. J.H.Jowett. "Faith of our Fathers! living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword: O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word. Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to Thee till death! "Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and conscience free; How sweet would be their children's fate, If they, like them, could die for Thee!"