【诗 18:30 】至于　神，他的道是完全的，耶和华的话是炼净的。凡投靠他的，他便作他们的盾牌。【Psa18:30】As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD ’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.

大卫在十几年的逃亡中，患难重重，经历了无数的命悬一线的危机…一定听过无数人的建议、各种各样的言语。During more than a decade of life on the run, David was surrounded by hardship and danger, facing countless moments when his life hung by a thread. He must have heard endless advice and many different voices. 但在时间面前，那些声音都像草木禾秸一样随风而去。唯有神的话，像是经过烈火提炼的精金，没有杂质，经得起最残酷环境的考验。Yet in the passing of time, those voices proved to be like grass and straw, carried away by the wind. Only the word of God stood firm—like pure gold refined in the fire, without impurity, able to endure the harshest testing. 大卫在脱离比他强盛的仇敌之手、似乎是置之死地而复活后，他深深感叹：“至于神，他的道是完全的；耶和华的话是炼净的。”After being delivered from the hand of enemies far stronger than himself, and after a deliverance that felt like being brought back from death, David declared with deep conviction: “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless.”

什么是“投靠祂”？大卫用一生告诉我们：投靠神，就是信靠在祂的话语里。What does it mean to “take refuge in him”? David’s whole life gives us the answer: to take refuge in God is to place our trust in his word. 当仇敌的火箭射来、当不公的待遇临到，人本能地想用自己的手段去反击、去保护自己。但大卫选择躲进神的话语里，把神的话当作唯一的避难所。When the enemy’s arrows are flying, when injustice comes upon us, our natural instinct is to strike back, to defend ourselves by our own means. But David chose instead to hide himself in the word of God, making God’s word his only refuge.

主啊，你知道我，在我遇见危机的时候，我本能的第一反应就是马上判断不好，立即就想处理，抵挡，推开，拒绝，保护自己，试图把损失降为最低…Lord, you know me. When I face crisis, my instinctive first reaction is to judge it as bad straight away, to move immediately to fix it, resist it, push it away, reject it, and protect myself—trying to minimise the loss as much as possible. 我想大卫也跟我们有一样的肉体，天然人在环境里，开始都是一样的反应。I believe David shared the same flesh as we do; as natural people in difficult circumstances, our first responses are often the same.

但感谢你训练大卫，无数次的操练，带领他从恐惧、自我保护机制慢慢脱离出来，在环境里转向你，投靠在你的话语里，祷告，寻求你…当大卫这样操练的时候，你就实实在在地挡在了仇敌面前。But I thank you for the way you trained David. Through countless acts of discipline and repeated practice, you led him out of fear and out of his instinct for self-protection, teaching him instead to turn to you in the midst of his circumstances—to take refuge in your word, to pray, and to seek you. And as David learned to practise this, you truly stood between him and his enemies.这不是他的说教，而是大卫在无数次绝境中碰触到的真实。他发现，只要他守住你的话，你就作他的盾牌。你的话语怎么说，你的保护就怎么发生，不折不扣。因此投靠在你的话语，已经成为大卫生命的律。This was not a theory he taught, but a reality he encountered again and again in the most desperate situations. He discovered that as long as he kept your word, you became his shield. Just as your word declared, so your protection came—fully and without compromise. And so taking refuge in your word became the governing law of David’s life.

主啊，感谢你赐给我各样的环境，不舒服的环境。让我看见我本能自保的反应，我里面的坚固的自我保护机制就像铜墙铁壁，试图把我圈在无法突破的困境里。Lord, I thank you for every circumstance you allow in my life, even the uncomfortable ones. Through them you show me my instinctive need to protect myself—the strong, entrenched self-defence mechanisms within me, like walls of bronze and iron, seeking to enclose me in situations I cannot break through. 主啊，我求你医治我，释放我脱离这样的不自由。求你也带领我，训练我像你训练大卫那样，学习在环境里转向你，不顺从自己里面的难受，止住判断好坏，想照自己的意思行的欲望。Lord, I ask that you would heal me and set me free from this lack of freedom. Train me also, as you trained David, to learn to turn to you in every circumstance—not to give in to the discomfort within me, to restrain the impulse to judge what is good or bad, and to resist the desire to act according to my own will.

我愿意在环境里、心里最难受的时候，停下我心中的“抵抗”，转向你，求圣灵把你的话语释放在我里面，带领我去经历：你的话没有一句不带着能力，你的话就是灵，就是生命！I am willing, in the midst of my circumstances—when my heart feels most distressed—to stop the resistance within me and turn to you. I ask the Holy Spirit to release your word within me and lead me to experience this truth: not one of your words is without power; your words are spirit and they are life. 当我投靠在你的话语里，你不仅成为在我前面的盾牌，抵挡属灵恶魔一切的火箭，还带着医治的力量，抚平我的慌乱和抵抗，并释放我，使我生出属天的平安和自由，也成为我生命的律。As I take refuge in your word, you become not only the shield before me, extinguishing every flaming arrow of the evil one, but you also bring healing power—to quiet my panic, to soften my resistance, and to set me free. Through your word you give birth within me to a peace and a freedom that come from heaven, and your word becomes the governing law of my life.

陈弟兄（Raymond Chan）