荒漠甘泉
2012-03-29
原作∕Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
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「你想野地裡的百合花怎麼長起來。」
馬太福音 Matthew
6 : 24 - 34
6:24 「一個人不能事奉兩個主；不是惡這個，愛那個，就是重這個，輕那個。你們不能又事奉 神，又事奉瑪門（瑪門：財利的意思）。」
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.
6:25 「所以我告訴你們，不要為生命憂慮吃甚麼，喝甚麼；為身體憂慮穿甚麼。生命不勝於飲食麼？身體不勝於衣裳麼？
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,
or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
6:26 你們看那天上的飛鳥，也不種，也不收，也不積蓄在倉裡，你們的天父尚且養活牠。你們不比飛鳥貴重得多嗎？
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much
better than they?
6:27 你們那一個能用思慮使壽數多加一刻呢（或作：使身量多加一肘呢）？
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
6:28 何必為衣裳憂慮呢？你想野地裡的百合花怎麼長起來；它也不勞苦，也不紡線 。
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
6:29 然而我告訴你們，就是所羅門極榮華的時候，他所穿戴的，還不如這花一朵呢！
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these.
6:30 你們這小信的人哪！野地裡的草今天還在，明天就丟在爐裡， 神還給它這樣的妝飾，何況你們呢！
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to
morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of
little faith?
6:31 所以，不要憂慮說：吃甚麼？喝甚麼？穿甚麼？
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we
drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
6:32 這都是外邦人所求的，你們需用的這一切東西，你們的天父是知道的。
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things.
6:33 你們要先求他的國和他的義，這些東西都要加給你們了。
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.
6:34 所以，不要為明天憂慮，因為明天自有明天的憂慮；一天的難處一天當就夠了。」
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought
for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
古時有一個修道士，種了一棵橄欖樹。他禱告說：「神啊，它需要水分，好叫它柔嫩的根得吸收而長發。求你降下滋潤的甘霖。」
神就降雨下來。他又禱告說：「神啊，我的樹需要日光，我求你給它日光。」
於是雲散雨止，神就給它日光。他再禱告說：「神啊， 現在它需要霜來堅固它的組織。」看哪！那株幼小的植物上，果然罩上了一層薄霜。但是到了傍晚，它死了。
於是他就去見另一個修道士，告訴他自己奇異的經歷。那修道士回答說：「我也種了一棵小樹。看哪！現在長得多麼茂盛。我沒有為我的樹操一點心，只把它交給它的神。
造它的神知道它的需要遠勝過像我這樣無知的人。
所以我並不向神提出條件、建議、方法。」我禱告說：「神啊，你把它所需要的給它， 無論是風、是雨、是霜、是雪、是日光、是甚麼……既造它，你一定知道它，也一定會供給它。」── 選
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