上帝过去的信实证明祂永远可靠。

See, the  your God has given you the land. . . . Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 1:21

看哪，耶和华你的上帝已将那地摆在你面前，……不要惧怕，也不要惊惶。-申命记1章21节

Before my husband and I surrendered our lives to Christ, we seriously considered divorce. But after committing to love and obey God, we recommitted to each other. We sought wise counsel and invited the Holy Spirit to transform us individually and as a couple. Our heavenly Father continues to help us develop healthy communication skills. He’s teaching us how to love and trust Him—and one another—no matter what happens.

我和丈夫在接受耶稣为救主之前，曾认真地考虑离婚。但当我们决定爱上帝并顺服祂时，我们也决定学习彼此相爱。我们寻求辅导，并求圣灵改变我们，学习夫妻相处之道。天父也帮助我们，让我们彼此间有良好的沟通。祂教导我们无论发生任何事，都要晓得去爱祂且相信祂，也要互相信任，彼此相爱。

Yet, even as we head toward celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary, I occasionally forget everything God has done in and through our trials. Sometimes, I struggle with a deep-seated fear of the unknown—experiencing unnecessary anxiety instead of relying on God’s track record.

虽然如今我们的婚姻即将迈入第二十五年，我偶尔还是会忘记上帝在我们艰难时所成就的一切。有时，我为着内心莫名的恐惧苦苦挣扎，经历毫无必要的焦虑，却没有想到上帝过去所成就的一切。

In Deuteronomy 1, Moses affirmed the Lord’s reliability. He encouraged the Israelites to move forward in faith so they could enjoy their inheritance (v. 21). But God’s people demanded details about what they’d be up against and what they’d receive before committing to trust Him with their future (vv. 22–33).

在申命记1章中，摩西肯定了上帝的信实。他鼓励以色列人凭信心往前进，得享上帝赐给他们的产业（21节）。但上帝的子民将未来全然交托给上帝之前，却要求更清楚地知道他们将会遭遇到些什么，又会得着什么（22-33节）。

Followers of Christ are not immune to succumbing to fear or anxiety. Worrying about what difficulties we may or may not encounter can keep us from depending on faith, and may even damage our relationships with God and others. But the Holy Spirit can help us create a trust tally of the Lord’s past faithfulness. He can empower us with courageous confidence in God’s trustworthiness yesterday, today, and forever.

基督的跟随者难免会恐惧与焦虑。若我们经常担忧是否会遇到困难，可能会让我们失去信心，甚至可能会破坏我们与上帝、与他人的关系。但圣灵能让我们的信心，与上帝过去的信实相称。圣灵能帮助我们，坚信上帝从昨日、今日，直到永远都是信实可靠的。

Lord, thank You for affirming that we don’t need to know everything that lies ahead when we know You. We know You never change.

谢谢主，让我们确信自己认识了祢，就有祢引导前路。
谢谢祢，因祢永不改变，并永远持守祢的应许。

Deuteronomy 1:21-33New International Version (NIV)

21 See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

22 Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spyout the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

23 The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. 24 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. 25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.”

Rebellion Against the Lord

26 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 27 You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. 28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”

29 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them.30 The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

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