荒漠甘泉
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原作∕Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
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「你當走的路甚遠。」（聖經列王紀上十九章 7 節）
神怎樣對待祂疲乏的僕人？給他好東西吃，給他甜蜜睡眠。以利亞
曾行了奇妙的神蹟，曾奔在亞哈的車子前頭，所以他的身體非常疲憊；
疲憊的反應就是受壓。
在這裡我們看見：身體的保重是必需的。今天許多神的僕人所缺乏
的都是睡眠和調養。有許多屬靈的偉人都像以利亞一般 ── 在羅騰樹
下求死！啊，聽哪，這聲調何等甘甜 ──「起來喫罷，因為你當走的
路甚遠。」
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"I'm too tired to trust and too tired to pray,
Said one, as the over-taxed strength gave way.
The one conscious thought by my mind possessed,
Is, oh, could I just drop it all and rest.
"Will God forgive me, do you suppose,
If I go right to sleep as a baby goes,
Without an asking if I may,
Without ever trying to trust and pray?
"Will God forgive you? why think, dear heart,
When language to you was an unknown art,
Did a mother deny you needed rest,
Or refuse to pillow your head on her breast?
"Did she let you want when you could not ask?
Did she set her child an unequal task?
Or did she cradle you in her arms,
And then guard your slumber against alarms?
"Ah, how quick was her mother love to see,
The unconscious yearnings of infancy.
When you've grown too tired to trust and pray,
When over-wrought nature has quite given way:
"Then just drop it all, and give up to rest,
As you used to do on a mother's breast,
He knows all about it--the dear Lord knows,
So just go to sleep as a baby goes;
"Without even asking if you may,
God knows when His child is too tired to pray.
He judges not solely by uttered prayer,
He knows when the yearnings of love are there.
"He knows you do pray, He knows you do trust,
And He knows, too, the limits' of poor weak dust.
Oh, the wonderful sympathy of Christ,
For His chosen ones in that midnight tryst,
"When He bade them sleep and take their rest,
While on Him the guilt of the whole world pressed--
You've given your life up to Him to keep,
Then don't be afraid to go right to sleep."
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