“为了这事，我曾经三次求主，使这根刺离开我。 他却对我说：‘我的恩典是够你用的，因为我的能力在人的软弱上显得完全。’所以，我更喜欢夸自己的软弱，好让基督的能力临到我的身上。 因此，我为基督的缘故，就以软弱、凌辱、艰难、迫害、困苦为喜乐，因为我甚么时候软弱，甚么时候就刚强了。” - 哥林多后书 12:8-10 我们软弱的时候又怎么会是刚强的呢？这似乎讲不通，不是吗？如果不是从圣经的角度来看这个问题，的确很难理解。但是，在神的国度，基督已来纠正一切，将这世界的事情“颠倒”过来了，所以，当我们理解了神对我们的恩典，以及在创造我们的主面前谦卑地生活意味着什么时，这是完全讲得通的。
"...a thorn was given me in the flesh...Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." - 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 How can we be strong when we are weak? It doesn't seem to make sense, does it? Without a biblical perspective, it would be hard to understand this. However, in God's kingdom, Christ has come to make things right, to turn things upside down, so it does make perfect sense when we understand God's grace toward us and what it means to live humbly before our Creator God.
当我们感到生活艰难、压力很大的时候，当我们感到对人失望、被压迫的时候，当我们感到日子很黑暗、生活苍白无色的时候，当我们感觉喜乐如此遥远，似乎已无踪迹可循的时候，我们能在哪里找到希望，并保有在主里的盼望呢？ 使徒保罗在罗马书 15:4 中给了我们一个很好的提醒：“从前经上所写的，都是为教训我们而写的，好使我们借着忍耐和圣经中的安慰得着盼望。”
When life feels very hard and pressures are high, when we feel let down and pressed down, when days feel dark and life pale, when joy feels far gone with no trace to hold on to, how do we find hope and remain hopeful in God? The Apostle Paul gives us a great reminder in Romans 15:4, where he says, "For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
Author: Sophie Luo Most of us have known from a young age that there are many unpleasant things in life, there are many troubles and…
我们大多数人从小就知道，生活里有很多不顺心的事情，有很多烦恼，有很多苦难。对于基督徒来说，很多人也有这种感悟：自从信主后，我的苦难不是减少了，而是增多了。有这种感悟是再正常不过的，因为事实的确如此。正如耶稣在约翰福音 16:33 中告诉我们的：“在世上你们有患难”，基督徒面对和经历的不只是这被罪污染的破碎世界里原本就有的许多“正常”苦难，还有更严重的来自撒旦的持续攻击（为的是动摇我们的信心，让我们远离神），以及来自我们被罪污染败坏的心所发出的无数罪的攻击。在世界、撒旦和我们自己的罪的三重影响下，基督徒的苦难自然是增多了，但从神的角度来看，这未必是一件坏事，因此，神在罗马书 5:3-5 中提醒和鼓励我们：“不仅如此，我们也以患难夸耀，因为我们知道患难生出忍耐， 忍耐生出品德，品德生出盼望， 而这盼望不使人羞愧，因为神的爱藉着所赐给我们的圣灵，已经倾注在我们的心里。”
Have you ever reacted quickly and emotionally to what another person had just said, without asking them what they really meant by what they said and getting clarification, but only found out later that you had misunderstood them, that they didn’t mean what you thought they meant? 你是否曾对别人说的话快速和情绪化地作出反应，却没有先问对方他们究竟是什么意思或请他们作出澄清，而后来却发现是你误会了他们，他们所要表达的意思并不是你以为的那样？
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