Opening Doors Within 敞开内心之门 September 23

【作者】Eileen Caddy

【翻译】熊倩涵

【编辑】颜士宝

You cannot play a game of tennis just by standing there with a racquet and ball in your hand. You have to raise the racquet and hit the ball over the net. You have to take action. So with faith. You have to do something to prove to yourself that it does work when you live by it. The more you try it and realise that it works, the more confident you become until you are willing to take any step in faith without hesitation because you know we are taking it together, and anything is possible when you are willing to do so. You have to have faith in your ability to swim before you jump into deep water with complete confidence; otherwise you will drown. You have to have faith in the ability to live by faith before you can do it. Faith begets faith. How can you tell whether you can trust Me unless you try it and see if it is so?

仅仅只是站在那，手里拿着球拍和球，我是无法打一场网球比赛的。我必须得举起球拍，将球打过网去。我必须得有所行动。

信念也是这样。当我以它为生时，我必须得做些什么来向我自己证明它确实有效。我越多地尝试它，并意识到它是有效的，我就会变得越自信，直到我愿意在信念中毫不犹豫地迈出任何一步，因为我知道我们一起在走这一步，而当我愿意这样做时，万事皆有可能。

在我完全自信地跳入深水中之前，我需要对我游泳的能力有信心；否则我会溺水。

我需要对我以信念为生的能力有信心，在我能够去这样做之前。信念会汇聚信念。

我怎么能够说，我是否信任上天，如果我不去尝试它，并看看它是否如此？