February 13

"The hill country shall be thine." (Josh. 17:18, R.V.)

There is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those who can. If you cannot move earth by your speech, you may move Heaven. If the development of life on the lower slopes is impossible, through limitations of service, the necessity of maintaining others, and such-like restrictions¹, let it break out toward the unseen, the eternal, the Divine.

Faith can fell forests. Even if the tribes had realized what treasures lay above them, they would hardly have dared to suppose it possible to rid the hills of their dense² forest-growth. But as God indicated their task, He reminded them that they had power enough. The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us, like these forest-covered steeps, not to mock us, but to incite³ us to spiritual exploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of His own indwelling.

Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works. Are you straitened in the valleys? Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest. ━Daily Devotional Commentary

Got any rivers they say are uncrossable,

Got any mountains they say 'can't tunnel through'?

We specialize in the wholly impossible,

Doing the things they say you can't do.

━Song of the Panama builders

二月十三日

“山地也要归你” （书十七：18）

　　山上有宽畅的地盘。平原上住满了迦南人，他们都有铁车阻碍你的扩张，所以你该上山去，占据山上的地业。也许今日你受阻不能为神作工，你该求神兴起能作工的。也许你的话语不能感动人，你可以感动天。也许你的工作受经济，人才，恩赐，以及种种难处的限制，你可以在上面看不见的，永活的神那里发展。

　　山上有树林的拦阻，然而凭着信心可以砍伐。当初以色列各支派虽然明知山上有宽地和宝藏，他们还不敢自信能砍伐丛密的树林，开路上山。但是神指示他们，提醒他们：他们有足够的力量可以把树木砍去。今天许多的拦阻，许多似乎不可能的事情，摆在我们面前，像山上的树林一般，并不是来嘲笑我们的，乃是来催促我们向神恳求应许和支取力量的。

　　每一次难处来到，都是暗示我们神怎样答应我们信心的祷告和工作的。读者，你觉得平原太窄小么？上山去罢，住在那里，在那里发展罢；在那里你可以从盘石中得蜜，从地中得宝藏。━译自日诚报

可曾遇到，被认为跨不过的大江？

可曾遇到，被认为凿不通的山岗？

别人说不可能做的事，我们都能，

克服任何不可能，是我们的专长。

━巴拿马运河工人之歌

1 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

2 dense   

a.密集的，稠密的，浓密的；密度大的

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
• The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。

3 incite   

v.引起，激动，煽动

参考例句：

• I wanted to point out he was a very good speaker, and could incite a crowd.我想说明他曾是一个非常出色的演讲家，非常会调动群众的情绪。
• Just a few words will incite him into action.他只需几句话一将，就会干。