4月16日
标 题： 我信不足，求主帮助！
经 节： 孩子的父亲立时喊著说：“我信！但我信不足，求主帮助。”（马可福音九章24节）
无知不可能生成信心，信心乃是创建于我们的认识。我们相信他人会送给我们宝贝时，先要搞清楚他是否值得信任。这位父亲要求能更深认识神，好叫他相信主能够拯救自己的孩子。
他的儿子从童年就被魔鬼附身。这位父亲不够认识耶稣，但是他曾经听闻过，也亲眼见过，他知道如果自己的儿子还有救，除了耶稣以外，没有任何人有办法。他拼命地求耶稣帮助。结果，耶稣医治了他的儿子。这位绝望的父亲虽然信心不足，他仍然正确地把问题带到耶稣的面前。
当你自觉很难有信心的时候，这不是你回避耶稣，或者为自己的挣扎羞愧的时候。若不靠耶稣，你的信心永远不可能增加！耶稣愿意帮助你、增加你的信心。祂不仅能够满足你的需要，也能够赐给你信心，要相信祂的供应。
如果你正在挣扎，不确定神是否能够供应你所需，这是因为你不了解祂。祂愿意你去认识祂、寻求祂，让祂使你信服，祂能满足你一切的需求。
Help My Unbelief!
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears,
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)
Faith does not come from ignorance. Faith is based on what we know.
Before we will trust others with something precious to us, we first try
to find out if they are trustworthy. This father was asking that he might come
to know God in such a dimension that he could trust Him to cure his son.
His son had been possessed by an evil spirit since early childhood. The
father did not know Jesus well, but he had heard and seen enough to convince
him that if there was any hope for his son, it lay with Jesus. In desperation
he cried out to Jesus for help. Jesus’ response was to heal his son. The
desperate father had correctly gone to Jesus with his problem even though he
was struggling with his faith.
When you are struggling to believe, that is not the time to avoid Christ
or to be ashamed of your struggle. You will never increase your faith by not
going to Jesus! Rather, Jesus wants to help you with your belief. He can not
only meet your need, but He will also give you faith to trust Him to provide
for you.
If you are struggling to believe that God can take care of your need, it
is because you don’t know Him as He wants you to. Go to Him and allow Him to
convince you of His ability to meet every need you will ever face.
