December 18

"In all these things we are more than conquerors¹ through him that loved us"(Rom.8:37)

The Gospel is so arranged and the gift of God so great that you may take the very enemies that fight you and the forces that are arrayed against you and make them steps up to the very gates of heaven and into the presence of God.

Like the eagle, who sits on a crag and watches the sky as it is filling with blackness, and the forked lightnings are playing up and down, and he is sitting perfectly³ still, turning one eye and then the other toward the storm. But he never moves until he begins to feel the burst of the breeze and knows that the hurricane has struck him; with a scream, he swings his breast to the storm, and uses the storm to go up to the sky; away he goes, borne upward upon it.

That is what God wants of every one of His children, to be more than conqueror², turning the storm-cloud into a chariot. You know when one army is more than conqueror it is likely to drive the other from the field, to get all the ammunition⁴, the food and supplies, and to take possession of the whole. That is just what our text means. There are spoils to be taken!

Beloved, have you got them? When you went into that terrible valley of suffering did you come out of it with spoils? When that injury struck you and you thought everything was gone, did you so trust in God that you came out richer than you went in? To be more than conqueror is to take the spoils from the enemy and appropriate them to yourself. What he had arranged for your overthrow⁵, take and appropriate for yourself.

When Dr. Moon, of Brighton, England, was stricken with blindness, he said "Lord, I accept this talent of blindness from Thee. Help me to use it for Thy glory that at Thy coming Thou mayest receive Thine own with usury⁶." Then God enabled him to invent the Moon Alphabet for the blind, by which thousands of blind people were enabled to read the Word of God, and many of them were gloriously saved. ━Selected

God did not take away Paul's thorn; He did better━He mastered that thorn, and made it Paul's servant. The ministry⁷ of thorns has often been a greater ministry to man than the ministry of thrones. ━Selected

十二月十八日

「靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上，已经得胜有余了。」 （罗八:37）

福音这样指示我们，攻击我们的仇敌，反对我们的势力，是我们进到神前的梯阶。

　 正如鹫鹰坐在峭壁上，守望黑云密布的天空；虽然叉状的闪电穿上穿下，牠仍顶安静的坐着，期待那将来的风雨。牠从不肯早一刻飞行的；牠必须觉到风雨已经爆发了，已经打到身上了；然后尖叫一声，就冲入风雨之中，借风之势向天空飞去。

这正是神要祂每一个孩子做的事━把黑云当作火车，藉此得胜有余。「得胜有余」不单是把对方驱逐出去，并且还掠得对方一切的军火、粮食…。

亲爱的，你有没有得到战利品呢？当你进入苦难谷的时候，你有没有带着掠物出来呢？当毁灭临到你的时候，你有没有信靠神：祂必叫你出来的时候，比进去的时候更丰富呢？「得胜有余」就是从仇敌那里把掠物夺来，拨作己用。要比以前的力量更充实更强大。

英国孟博士（Dr.Moon）瞎眼的时候说：「主阿，我从祢手里接受这盲目的恩典。求祢叫我用它铸造祢的荣耀，好使祢来的时候，得着满足。」神果然藉着他发明盲人所用的凸版文字，千万盲人得读神的话语；有许多竟因此蒙了救赎。━选

神并不挪去保罗的刺；神做的比「挪去」更好━神利用那刺。刺的用处比宝座的用处更大。━选

1 conquerors   

征服者，占领者( conqueror的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Danes had selfconfidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual. 这些丹麦人具有征服者的自信，而且他们的安全防卫也是漫不经心的。
• The conquerors believed in crushing the defeated people into submission, knowing that they could not win their loyalty by the victory. 征服者们知道他们的胜利并不能赢得失败者的忠心，于是就认为只有通过武力才能将他们压服。

2 conqueror   

n.征服者，胜利者

参考例句：

• We shall never yield to a conqueror.我们永远不会向征服者低头。
• They abandoned the city to the conqueror.他们把那个城市丢弃给征服者。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

5 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

6 usury   

n.高利贷

参考例句：

• The interest of usury is unfairly high.高利贷的利息惊人得高。
• He used to practise usury frequently.他过去经常放高利贷。

7 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。