以弗所书第五章
A driver stopped his car at an intersection and waited for the green
signal. When the green light came, he waited further to confirm it. That is, he
waited until the light turned green a second time! After that, he waited still
further until the green light flashed a third time, before he proceeded on his
way. Absurd? Of course. No one would drive like that.
But are there not Christians who live like that
driver drove? They are so overcautious that they wait for signs from God, wait
to reconfirm the signs, and then wait for an auspicious moment to act. They are
waiting almost perpetually and can never redeem the time they wasted or the
opportunities they lost.
【弗五20】「凡事....常常感谢父神。」
如果你在主里面，你就是被主包围着，如同被空气包围着一般，不论甚么遭遇，必须先经过祂，然后纔能临到你身上来。所以每一件临到你身上的事情，都是值得感谢赞美的。愿神叫我们的生活充满感谢赞美的声浪！这样，祝福就会多多加给我们。
可惜有许多时候，我们看不出那件事情是值得感谢赞美的，正如同有一次我看见一个人在画黑点，我看了好久，看不出这一些黑点是甚么意思。后来他画了几条直线，加上几个休止符，在开头的地方加上一个音部记号，那时我纔看出这些黑点原来是音乐上的音符。
我们的生活上也有许多黑点，我们不明白为甚么要有这些黑点，为甚么神容许它们留着。但是，如果我们让神进到我们的生活里来，让祂将黑点按照适当的方法调节起来，画上一些祂所要画的直线，在适当的地方加上一些休止符，祂就要从我们生活的黑点里，编出一首美丽和谐的音乐来。──
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许多人经过了极大的困难，纔成就了他们生命的伟大。──
司布真
音乐家弹琴的时候，他按着黑键，同按着白键一样会发出悦耳的音节，但要发挥琴的全部功能，黑白键必须都要弹按。──
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【弗五22~33】这段圣经讲妻子顺服丈夫，丈夫爱妻子︰(1)顺服与爱好像是两个不同的德行。(2)其实，真实的顺服仍是源自『爱』，没有爱的顺服，乃是外面的、虚假的顺服；有了爱，就容易顺服。(3)顺服，乃是爱的一种自然表露。(4)丈夫用爱来浇灌、对待妻子，引起妻子爱的共鸣，就是顺服。(5)不但顺服讲求舍己，连爱也讲求舍己；主是要丈夫像祂爱教会、为教会舍己那样的爱妻子。所以归根究底，主对妻子和对丈夫的要求乃是同等，并没有厚此薄彼。
The story is told of a prince and his family who
were captured by an enemy king. When brought before the enemy king, the
prisoner was asked, “What
will you give me if I release you?” “Half
of my wealth,”
was the prince’s
reply.
“And if I release your
children?”
“Everything I possess.”
“And if I release your wife?”
“Your Majesty, for her I
would give myself,”
said the prince.
The king was so moved by the prince’s devotion to his family that he freed them
all. As they returned home, the prince said to his wife, “Wasn’t
the king a handsome man!”
With a look of deep love for her husband, she said to him, “I didn’t notice. I could keep my eyes only on the one who was willing to give
himself for my sake.”