“我已使你成为快齿打粮的新器具。”（赛41：15）
一条值五快钱的钢铁，如果作成蹄铁，可以卖十块钱；如果作成细针，可以卖三百五十块钱；如果作成小刀，可以卖三万二千块钱；如果作成钟表上的发条，可以卖二十五万块钱。但是一根钢条，要值到这许多钱，必须经过多少锻炼啊！钢铁越经锻炼，锤打，火烧，琢磨，越是值钱，这是人所共知的。
但愿这个比喻能帮助我们缄默，安静，坚韧。受苦受得最多的人，常是结果结得最多的人，因为我们的苦难能叫神得到荣耀，叫人得到祝福。——选
人生是一个谜，除非我们相信，在这个世界之外，神给我们准备了另一个服务的处所，那里需要经过高度锻炼的灵魂，作特殊的工作，否则就无法索解这个谜。
刀锋最锐利的车床，才能完成最精致的产品。
I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument (Isa. 41:15).
A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated, the more it is hammered, and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished, the greater the value.
May this parable help us to be silent, still, and long suffering. Those who suffer most are capable of yielding most; and it is through pain that God is getting the most out of us, for His glory and the blessing of others.
--Selected
Oh, give Thy servant patience to be still,
And bear Thy will;
Courage to venture wholly on the arm
That will not harm;
The wisdom that will never let me stray
Out of my way;
The love that, now afflicting, knoweth best
When I should rest.
Life is very mysterious. Indeed it would be inexplicable unless we believed that God was preparing us for scenes and ministries that lie beyond the veil of sense in the eternal world, where highly-tempered spirits will be required for special service.
"The turning-lathe that has the sharpest knives produces the finest work."
一条值五快钱的钢铁，如果作成蹄铁，可以卖十块钱；如果作成细针，可以卖三百五十块钱；如果作成小刀，可以卖三万二千块钱；如果作成钟表上的发条，可以卖二十五万块钱。但是一根钢条，要值到这许多钱，必须经过多少锻炼啊！钢铁越经锻炼，锤打，火烧，琢磨，越是值钱，这是人所共知的。
但愿这个比喻能帮助我们缄默，安静，坚韧。受苦受得最多的人，常是结果结得最多的人，因为我们的苦难能叫神得到荣耀，叫人得到祝福。——选
人生是一个谜，除非我们相信，在这个世界之外，神给我们准备了另一个服务的处所，那里需要经过高度锻炼的灵魂，作特殊的工作，否则就无法索解这个谜。
刀锋最锐利的车床，才能完成最精致的产品。
I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument (Isa. 41:15).
A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated, the more it is hammered, and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished, the greater the value.
May this parable help us to be silent, still, and long suffering. Those who suffer most are capable of yielding most; and it is through pain that God is getting the most out of us, for His glory and the blessing of others.
--Selected
Oh, give Thy servant patience to be still,
And bear Thy will;
Courage to venture wholly on the arm
That will not harm;
The wisdom that will never let me stray
Out of my way;
The love that, now afflicting, knoweth best
When I should rest.
Life is very mysterious. Indeed it would be inexplicable unless we believed that God was preparing us for scenes and ministries that lie beyond the veil of sense in the eternal world, where highly-tempered spirits will be required for special service.
"The turning-lathe that has the sharpest knives produces the finest work."