Our clumsy hands我们笨拙的手

Our clumsy hands!
我们笨拙的手！

(J. R. Miller, “Miller’s Year Book — a Year’s Daily Readings”)
(J. R. Miller著，”米勒年鉴 — 每日灵修读物”)

“I know that You can do all things; no plan of Yours can be thwarted!” Job 42:2
“我知道你凡事都能做；你的旨意不能被拦阻！”约伯记42:2

We cannot do what we desire to do. Many of our purposes are thwarted. We desire to do good and beautiful things, and we try — but our actual achievements fall far below our desires. Our clumsy hands cannot fashion the loveliness which our hearts dream of. Our faltering weakness cannot do the brave things our souls aspire to do. No artist ever paints on his canvas — all the beauty of his ideal. No singer ever expresses — all the music which burns within him as he sings. No eloquent orator ever utters — all that he feels as he pleads for truth or for justice.
我们无法做到我们想做的事。我们的许多目标都受到阻碍。我们渴望做美善的事，我们也尝试了—但实际成就远低于我们的期望。我们笨拙的手无法塑造出我们内心梦想的美。我们摇摆不定的软弱无法完成我们灵魂渴望做的勇敢之事。没有艺术家能在画布上画出他理想中的所有美。没有歌手能完全表达出他唱歌时内心燃烧的所有音乐。没有雄辩家能完全说出他为真理或正义辩护时所感受的一切。

So in all our life — we do only a little of what we strive to do. We set out in the morning with purposes of usefulness, of true living, of gentle-heartedness, of patience, of victoriousness; but in the evening we find only little fragments of these good intentions actually wrought out!
因此在我们的整个人生中—我们只完成了我们努力要做的事中的一小部分。我们早晨出发时怀着要有用、要真实生活、要温柔、要忍耐、要得胜的目标；但到了晚上，我们发现这些美好的意图只实现了一小部分！

But God’s plans and intentions are all carried out! No power can withstand Him — or frustrate His will. It was in this thought, that Job found peace in his long, sore trial: all things were in God’s hands, and nothing could hinder His designs of love! Our God is infinitely strong. In all earthly confusions, strifes, and troubles — His hand moves, bringing good out of evil for those who trust in Him. He executes all His purposes of good. He is never hindered in blessing His children.
但神的计划和旨意都会实现！没有力量能抵挡祂—或阻挠祂的旨意。约伯就是凭着这个想法，在他漫长痛苦的试炼中找到平安：一切都在神的手中，没有什么能阻挡祂爱的计划！我们的神是无限强大的。在所有世上的混乱、争斗和困境中—祂的手在运行，为信靠祂的人从邪恶中带出美善。祂成就祂一切美善的旨意。祂祝福祂儿女的事从不受阻。

“I know that You can do all things; no plan of Yours can be thwarted!” Job 42:2
“我知道你凡事都能做；你的旨意不能被拦阻！”约伯记42:2