【读圣经学英语】第二件神迹

　虽然那大臣恳求主下去医治他的儿子，（约四47，49，）主却仅仅说话，那孩子就痊愈了。耶稣对他说，『去吧，你的儿子活了。那人信耶稣对他所说的话，就去了。』（约四50。）大臣相信从主口中出来的话。当他听见他的奴仆说他儿子活了，他和他全家就都信了。（约四51～53。）我们要为赐生命的话高喊阿利路亚！我们喜爱赐生命的话；不是那死的字句，乃是那是灵的话。主不过说了赐生命的话，那垂死的孩子便得了医治。主今天还在说医治的话。当垂死的人藉信接受这话，他们便得到生命的医治。赐生命的话一传输到我们里面，不管我们是否觉得，我们绝不会一样了。赐生命的话带给我们生命真正的改变。

　　大臣的儿子得医治的事例，表征我们无须在肉身上接触主；只要我们有主的话就够了。即使我们没有得到主肉身的同在，只要我们有祂的话和祂的作为就够了；此外不需要什么。我们有主的话，便要得救并被主充满。祂的话足能医治并拯救我们。

Enlightenment:

Although the royal official begged the Lord to come down and heal his son (4:47, 49), the Lord simply spoke the word, and the boy was healed. “Jesus said to him, Go, your son is living. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way” (4:50). The royal official believed the word out of the mouth of the Lord. When he learned from his slaves that the boy was living, he and his whole household believed (4:51-53). Hallelujah for the life-giving word! We love the life-giving word, not the word in dead letters, but the word that is the Spirit. The Lord simply spoke the life-giving word, and the dying boy was healed. Today the Lord is still sending forth His healing word. When the dying people receive this word through believing, they are healed with life. Once the life-giving word has been transfused into us, whether or not we are conscious of it, we can never be the same. The life-giving word brings about a real change in our life.

The case of the healing of the son of the royal official signifies that there is no need for us to contact the Lord physically. As long as we have the Lord’s word, it is sufficient. Even though we do not have the Lord’s physical presence, as long as we have His word and work, it is good enough, and nothing more is needed. When we have the word of the Lord, we shall be saved and filled with the Lord. Just His word is enough to heal and save us.