Trusting the Bible 相信圣经
Dexu Xia
When your words came, I ate them. Jeremiah 15:16
Jeremiah 15:15–21
Billy Graham, the renowned American evangelist, once described his struggle to accept the Bible as completely true. One night as he walked alone in the moonlight at a retreat center in the San Bernardino Mountains, he dropped to his knees and placed his Bible on a tree stump, able only to “stutter” a prayer: “Oh, God! There are many things in this book I do not understand.”
By confessing his confusion, Graham said the Holy Spirit finally “freed me to say it. ‘Father, I am going to accept this as thy Word—by faith!’ ” When he stood up, he still had questions, but he said, “I knew a spiritual battle in my soul had been fought and won.”
The young prophet Jeremiah fought spiritual battles too. Yet he consistently sought answers in Scripture. “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight” (Jeremiah 15:16). He declared, “The word of the Lord . . . is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones” (20:8–9). Nineteenth-century evangelist Charles Spurgeon wrote, “[Jeremiah] lets us into a secret. His outer life, especially his faithful ministry, was due to his inward love of the word which he preached.”
We too can shape our life through the wisdom of Scripture despite our struggles. We can keep studying, as always, by faith.
How has your life been shaped by Scripture? As you accept it by faith, how do you expect your life to change?
Heavenly Father, show me new things about You as I read the Bible. Teach me Your ways. Show me Your love.
我得着祢的言语，就当食物吃了。—耶利米书15章16节
葛培理是位著名的美国布道家，有次提到自己曾无法相信圣经全然无误。有天晚上，他在圣贝纳迪诺山上的退修中心，独自在月光下漫步静思时，他双膝跪地，将圣经摆在树墩上，然后磕磕巴巴地祷告说：“上帝啊，圣经里有许多事我根本无法理解！”
葛培理坦言，当他承认内心的困惑之后，圣灵最终让他心得释放，能坦然地说：“天父啊，我要凭信心接受圣经都是祢的话语。”在他起身站立时，虽然心中仍有疑问，但他却说：“我知道，在我灵深处打赢了一场属灵的战争。”
年轻的先知耶利米虽也曾多次经历属灵的战争，但他却仍持续在圣经中寻求解答，正如他说：“我得着祢的言语，就当食物吃了，祢的言语是我心中的欢喜快乐”（耶利米书15章16节），甚至说：“[上帝]的话就像火在我心中焚烧，被困在我的骨里”（20章9节，新译本）。19世纪的布道家司布真写道：“耶利米告诉我们一个秘诀。他所做的一切，尤其是他忠心服事上帝、传讲上帝的道，乃是因他内心深爱上帝的话。”
尽管我们仍会有挣扎，但我们能藉由圣经中的智慧，塑造我们的生命。始终凭靠信心，研读不懈！
圣经如何塑造你的生命？
当你凭信心领受上帝的话，你的生命将有哪些改变呢？
天父，每当我读圣经时，求祢让我能对祢有新的认识。
求祢将祢的道指教我，让我明白祢的大爱。