【双语灵修】一位父亲A FATHER

马可福音 9:14-29

耶稣到了门徒那里，看见有许多人围着他们，又有文士和他们辩论。众人一见耶稣，都甚稀奇，就跑上去问他的安。耶稣问他们说：“你们和他们辩论的是什么？”众人中间有一个人回答说：“夫子，我带了我的儿子到你这里来，他被哑巴鬼附着。无论在哪里，鬼捉弄他，把他摔倒，他就口中流沫，咬牙切齿，身体枯乾。我请过你的门徒把鬼赶出去，他们却是不能。”耶稣说：“唉！不信的世代啊，我在你们这里要到几时呢？我忍耐你们要到几时呢？把他带到我这里来吧！”他们就带了他来。他一见耶稣，鬼便叫他重重地抽风，倒在地上翻来覆去，口中流沫。耶稣问他父亲说：“他得这病有多少日子呢？”回答说：“从小的时候。鬼屡次把他扔在火里、水里，要灭他。你若能做什么，求你怜悯我们，帮助我们！”耶稣对他说：“你若能信，在信的人，凡事都能。”孩子的父亲立时喊着说：“我信！但我信不足，求主帮助！”耶稣看见众人都跑上来，就斥责那汙鬼，说：“你这聋哑的鬼，我吩咐你从他里头出来，再不要进去！”那鬼喊叫，使孩子大大地抽了一阵风，就出来了。孩子好像死了一般，以致众人多半说：“他是死了。”但耶稣拉着他的手，扶他起来，他就站起来了。耶稣进了屋子，门徒就暗暗地问他说：“我们为什么不能赶出他去呢？”耶稣说：“非用祷告，这一类的鬼总不能出来。”

4月9日

一位父亲

“众人中间有一个人回答说：‘夫子，我带了我的儿子到你这里来，他被哑巴鬼附着。’” -可 9:17

我和妻子有两个孩子，我无法想象他们患上比流感还严重的疾病。每当我听到有孩子患上癌症或其他可怕的疾病时，我就会控制不住地流泪，因为我会想到童年时期的苦难以及父母在这种情况下所承受的重担。

我无法想象《马可福音》第9章中，男孩的父亲经历了什么。听说有一位名叫耶稣的医治者，以及祂和祂的门徒所做的事，这可能是这位父亲最后的希望了。因此，当耶稣的门徒无法赶出他儿子身上的污鬼时，这位父亲一定伤心欲绝。当耶稣问他是否相信时，这个人发自内心的坦白是如此的朴素而真实：“我信，但我信不足，求主帮助。”

我们经常会遇到类似的情况，虽然没有这位父亲的困境那么严重。我们想要相信，也知道我们需要相信。但与此同时，我们却一直在与挥之不去的不信情绪较劲。

耶稣总是以我们最需要的方式来帮助我们。虽然祂帮助我们的方式可能与帮助那位痛苦的父亲和他的儿子不太一样，但耶稣为我们舍去性命，以此显明祂真的爱我们。祂的复活让我们有希望永远与祂同在！

祷告

主啊，我相信你是至高的主宰，掌管着万物。请帮助我在生活的每个层面都胜过我的小信！阿们。

A FATHER

"A man in the crowd answered, 'Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech.'" - Mark 9:17

My wife and I have two children, and I can’t imagine them being sick with more than the flu. When I hear about kids who have cancer or other terrible diseases, my eyes tear up as I think about the burden of suffering in childhood and the load of concern weighing on parents in those situations.

I can’t imagine what the father of the boy in Mark 9 was going through. Hearing about the healer named Jesus and what he and his disciples could do was probably that father’s last hope. So when Jesus’ disciples couldn’t cast out the impure spirit from his son, the man must have been devastated. And when Jesus asked him if he believed, the man’s heartfelt confession was as raw and true as they come: “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

We often find ourselves in similar situations, even if they aren’t as dire as this father’s predicament. We want to believe. We know that we need to believe. And in the meantime we keep fighting against nagging feelings of unbelief.

Jesus has come to help in the way we need it most. Though he might not help us in the same way he helped the anguished father and his son in today’s story, Jesus showed, by laying down his life, that he truly loves us. And by his resurrection he made it possible for us to live with him forever!

Lord, I believe you are God above all and in control of all things. Help me overcome my unbelief in every area of life! Amen.