你曾否試過懷疑神──祂怎麼容讓你的人生遭遇試煉和禍患，而其他生活順遂的人，卻完全沒有給予你一點兒的關懷和幫助？

聖經告訴我們，神由一開始就看見事情的終結，沒有任何東西能在祂眼前隱藏。祂的意念高過我們的意念，所以，我們以有限的理解能力，無法明白許多事情。但最重要的，是神的旨意和計劃永遠都是真實、公義和美善的。

以下這篇詩正是描述神在每個兒女的身上，都有各種不同的計劃，要帶領他們經過不同的道路。

有時

有時神要獅子的口緊閉，有時神要我們奮戰到底；

有時祂叫烏鴉供給一切，有時涓涓河流也乾涸見底。

有時熊熊烈火迅被撲滅，有時洪爐卻被燒旺七倍；

有時祂將洋洋大海分開，有時滔天浪濤不住澎湃。

有時祂撥開鋒利的刀劍，有時又讓利刃直刺心扉；

有時仇敵從後步步進逼，有時祂讓我們藏身祂懷。

我們不懂選擇所走的路，也不敢孤身走自己的路；

因祂已安排最好的道路，祂更會親自陪同作嚮導。

祂容許路途出現的危難，遠比我們所恐懼的輕鬆；

「困難必有出路」這應許，正是助我勇往直前的武器。

牢記：

因祂已安排最好的道路，祂更會親自陪同作嚮導。

Have you sometimes been tempted to question God - to wonder why he has allowed the trials and troubles which have come your way while others sail through life with hardly a care?

God sees the end from the beginning. We cannot understand, for his thoughts are far beyond ours. But his plans and purposes are always true and right and good.

The author of this poem expresses some of the differences in God's plans for his children.

Sometimes

Sometimes the lions' mouths are shut; Sometimes God bids us fight or fly;

Sometimes He feed us by the brook; Sometimes the flowing stream runs dry.

Sometimes the burning flames are quenched; Sometimes with sevenfold heat they glow;

Sometimes His hand divides the waves; Sometimes His billows overflow.

Sometimes He turns the sword aside; Sometimes He lets the sharp blade smite;

Sometimes our foes are at our heels; Sometimes He hides us from their sight.

We may not choose, nor would we dare, The path in which our feet shall tread,

Enough that He that path hath made, And He Himself shall walk ahead.

The danger that His love allows, Is safer than our fears may know;

The peril that His care permits, Is our defence where'er we go.

(From 'Providential Channels' by Retta Long)

REMEMBER:

'Enough that He that path hath made, And He Himself shall walk ahead.'