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约翰福音第六章

【约六9】人们都讲，五饼二鱼在我们的手中原是算不得甚么，但一交到主的手中，就能供应五千人的需要而绰绰有余。我却觉得，五饼二鱼在那小孩的眼中看来，并不是算不得甚么，乃是舍不得的东西。主所要的，不是我们以为算不得甚么的，主乃是要我们因着祂的缘故，把我们所宝贵的、所看重的摆出来，如此主就藉以显出神迹。

John 6:35, 51

During World War II, the Germans forced many twelve- and thirteen-year-old boys into the Junior Gestapo. These boys were treated very harshly and given inhumane jobs to perform. When the war ended, most had lost track of their families and wandered without food or shelter. As part of an aid program to post-war Germany, many of these youths were placed in tent cities. Here doctors and psychologists worked with the boys in an attempt to restore their mental and physical health. They found that many of the boys would awaken in the middle of the night, screaming in terror. One doctor had an idea for handling that fear/ After feeding the boys a large meal, he put them to bed with a piece of bread in their hands, which they were told to save until morning. The boys then slept soundly because, after so many years of hunger, they finally had the assurance of food for the next day.

Do you have Jesus as your Savior? If you do, you hold the Bread of Life in your hands and therefore have the assurance that you will not go out of this life in terror and fear.

【约六66】「从此祂门徒中多有退去的，不再和祂同行。」

他们吃了饼和鱼之后，你看他们是何等热心追求主，他们不辞辛苦，不怕路远，要来寻求主。但是，当主指出他们追求的存心不过是为着吃饼得饱的时候，当主说出吃人子的肉、喝人子的血、十字架生命之道的时候，当主没有照着他们的心愿成全的时候，当主叫他们的盼望落空的时候，从此祂门徒中就多有退去的，不再和祂同行了。如果追求的目的不是主自己，而是在主以外的甚么，这种人都是经不起试验的，都是要被淘汰的。在主的道路上，不知道已经有多少人因着惧怕，因着骄傲、自夸，因着爱惜自己性命，因着贪爱世界，因着主的静默，因着患难、痛苦...而被淘汰了。亲爱的旅伴，你站不住了么？你甘心被淘汰么？虽然蒙召的人多，选上的人少，但愿我们不是退后的人，乃是有信心奔那前面道路的人。── 愚