8月5日
标 题：没有一句话会落空
经 节：你们是一心一意地知道，耶和华你们神所应许赐福与你们的话没有一句落空，都应验在你们身上了。（约书亚记廿三章14节下）
在约书亚走到生命的尽头时，他和以色列人重温自跟随神以后，神所有的作为。神给了他们一个不可能完成的使命，就是要他们征服比自己强大的敌人，敌方拥有强大的军事力量及坚固的防御工事城邑。以色列人除了神同在与神必看顾的应许之外，别无可靠。当约书亚回顾过去的经历，他提醒以色列人，神信守每个应许。
有时候，我们在事后才对神信实的作为恍然大悟。在危难中，我们会怀疑神是否信守诺言。当我们只专注自己的问题时，对神的信心就开始动摇。在神应许赐给亚伯拉罕与撒拉一个儿子之后，他们等了廿四年才等到神成就应许。当大卫逃命时，他可能不确定神会信守承诺，让自己作王，一直到长期而成功地统治以色列百姓的尾声，他能够肯定神信守每个诺言。
你一样也能倚靠神的信实。你是否正处于危难中？要牢牢捉住主给你的应许！祂不会忘记祂自己对你的应许。回头检视你基督徒的生活，重新数算神如何信守祂的话语。
Not One Word Has Failed
And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing
has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you.
All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed. (Joshua 23:14)
Near the end of his life, Joshua took time with the Israelites to review
all that God had done for them since they first began following Him. God had
given them an impossible assignment: to conquer a foreign and hostile land with
fortified cities and armies more powerful than their own. The Israelites were
to go forward with nothing more than God’s promise that He would go with them
and take care of them. Now Joshua looked back over their experience and
reminded the Israelites that God had kept every promise. They had experienced
numerous victories and had enjoyed God’s provision for every need.
Sometimes hindsight gives us a clear picture of how faithful God has
been. We are tempted during a crisis to wonder if God will be faithful to His
promises. We focus on our problems, and our trust in God begins to waver.
Twenty-four years after God promised Abraham and Sarah a son, they were still
waiting on God to fulfill His promise. But in the twenty-fifth year, Abraham
and Sarah could look back and see that God had been faithful. As David was fleeing
for his life, he may have been uncertain how God would keep His promise to make
him a king. But at the end of his long and prosperous reign, David could review
how God had kept every promise.
You, too, can rely on God’s faithfulness. Are you in a crisis? Hold to
the promises of your Lord! He will not forget His promises to you. Look back
over your Christian life and recount the many ways in which God has been
faithful to His word.
