Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?
約伯記 17:15 這樣，我的盼望在哪裏呢？我所盼望的，誰能看見呢？16 這盼望要下到陰間的門閂嗎？要一起在塵土中安息嗎？」
In the midst of his suffering, Job cried out “Where is my hope, can anyone find it (NLT)”? Not only did his three friends not bring comfort to him but they also added more emotional pain on top of his physical suffering. The main battle for Job was his battle for hope. The best “medicine” for suffering is hope. Many Jews were able to survive in concentration camps because they had hope. Job 11:18 says that “you will feel secure, because there is hope”. But where is our hope? We cannot produce true hope; it can only come from God. “Find rest , O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.” (Psalms 62:5) Even more deadly than coronavirus is hopelessness. A Chinese saying states that “There is no greater sorrow than a hopeless heart 哀莫大于心死”. We cannot find hope from the world. We can only find hope from the Source of hope. Let us pray today as Paul prayed: “May the God of hope fill [us] with all joy and peace in believing (the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1 Peter 1:3), so that by the power of the Holy Spirit [we] may abound in hope.” (Romans 15:13)
在苦難中，約伯大喊“我的盼望在哪裡，誰能找到它（NLT）”？他的三個朋友不僅沒有給他帶來安慰，而且在他的身體痛苦之上還增加了更多的情感上的痛苦。約伯的主要爭戰是他的盼望之戰。痛苦的最好的“藥”就是盼望。許多猶太人因為有盼望而得以存活於納粹集中營。約伯記11:18說：“你因有指望就必穩固”。但是我們的盼望在哪裡？我們不能產生真正的盼望；它只能來自上帝。 “我的心哪，你當默默無聲，專等候 神，因為我的盼望是從他而來。” （詩篇62：5）絕望比冠狀病毒致命得多。古話說：“哀莫大於心死”。我們在世界找不到的盼望。我們只能從盼望之源中找到盼望。讓保羅的祈禱成為我們今天的禱告：“但 願 使 人 有 盼 望 的 神 ， 因 信(“耶穌基督的復活”, 彼得前書 1:3) 將 諸 般 的 喜 樂 、 平 安 充 滿 [我們] 的 心 ， 使 [我們] 藉 著 聖 靈 的 能 力 大 有 盼 望。” （羅馬書15:13）-這是我們所有人都需要的“疫苗”。
