不要擔憂

彼得前書5:7 你們要將一切的憂慮卸給上帝,因為他顧念你們。

根本不要擔憂。

如果事情發生了,因為你在世上有許多過失,令到你必須擔憂,就應當這樣行:不要嘗試自己去處理擔憂。不論是什麼事情,把擔憂拋到腦後,轉去向主禱告和祈求,祈求祂成就你想用憂慮成就的事。你要喜樂,因為你有一位上帝,祂為你擔憂。你要把一切擔憂大膽地交託給祂。

誰如果沒有這樣行,在事情發生後,卻首先用自己的理智估計情勢,用自己的想法管理事情。他就是自己在處理擔憂,在不幸中折騰。他失去了在主裡面的喜樂和平,結果一事無成。他就如同在沙子挖坑,越挖,陷得越深,不可自拔。每天我們都從自己和他人的經驗中經歷到這樣的事。——馬丁路德(AE 75:166)

1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Do not at all worry.

If something should happen to make you worry—as it must, since you have many offenses on earth—then act this way: Do not at all attempt to deal with your worry, whatever it may be, but leave the worry behind, turn with prayer and supplication to God, and ask Him to accomplish all you wanted to accomplish with your worries. Do that with gratitude that you have a God who cares for you and to whom you may boldly refer all your concerns.

But whoever does not act that way when something happens, but first wants to estimate it with his reason and manage it with his own ideas, and thus handle his own worries‚ meddles with much misery, loses his joy and peace in God, accomplishes nothing at all, but only digs in the sand and sinks in further and cannot get out. We learn this every day in our own experience and in that of others. (AE 75:166)