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Default No Comments R. A. Torrey – 如何得豐富的能力
——R. A. Torrey 叨雷《如何得豐富的能力》(How to obtain fullness of power)
“神說了一次兩次，我都聽見，就是能力都屬乎神” (詩 62:11)。能力最大的儲藏所是屬乎神，這儲藏所就是他自己的話——聖經。如果我們要它成為我們的，我們必須就近這書。教會中有很多人想要求屬靈的能力，可是卻忽略了聖經。他們很想在他們的生活上結果子，卻忘了基督耶穌的話說：”種子就是神的道” (路 8:11)。他們很希望有能力融化那冰冷的心，折服那頑梗的意志，卻忘記神的話說：”我的話豈不像火，又像能打碎磐石的大鎚嗎” (耶 23:29)？
如果我們要在我們的生活上，工作上，得豐富的能力，我們必須以神的話當食物，沒有一種別的食物有如此的力量，如果我們沒有功夫讀聖經，我們就不能有能力，正如我們沒有功夫吃飯，身體不能有能力一樣。
我曾見過不少的男女，他們並沒讀過什麼書，但他們知道聖經，我寧願坐在他們的腳前聽他們口中智慧的話，而不願聽那些明白哲學、科學、甚至神學而絲毫不知聖經之人的講論。
“Power belongeth unto God.” (Psalm 62:11) The great reservoir of the power that belongs to God is His own Word——the Bible. If we wish to make it ours, we must go to that Book. Yet people abound in the church who are praying for power and neglecting the Bible. Men are longing to have power for fruit-bearing in their own lives and yet forget that Jesus has said: “The seed is the Word of God” (Luke 8:11). They are longing to have power to melt the cold heart and break the stubborn will, and yet forget that God has said: “Is not my Word like as a fire? …and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jer. 23:29).
If we are to obtain fullness of power in life and service, we must feed upon the Word of God. There is no other food so strengthening. If we will not take time to study the Bible, we cannot have power, any more than we can have physical power if we will not take time to eat nutritious food.
I have seen men and women without culture, who have had almost no advantages in school, but who knew their Bibles; and I would rather sit at their feet and learn the wisdom that falls from their lips, than listen to the man who knows much about philosophy and science and theology even, and does not know anything about the Word of God.