We can trust God to lead us through difficult times.

上帝会带领我们走过艰难险阻。

My Father’s house has many rooms; . . . I am going there to prepare a place for you. John 14:2

在我父的家里有许多住处；……我去原是为你们预备地方去。-约翰福音14章2节

A friend recently prepared to relocate to a city more than 1,000 miles from her current hometown. She and her husband divided the labor of moving to accommodate a short timeline. He secured new living arrangements, while she packed their belongings. I was astounded by her ability to move without previewing the area or participating in the house hunt, and asked how she could do so. She acknowledged the challenge but said she knew she could trust her husband because of his attention to her preferences and needs over their years together.

我有个朋友最近正准备搬家，而且是要搬到离现址1,600公里以外的地方。他们夫妻俩分工合作，以便在短时间内安顿下来。朋友负责将所有的物品分类装箱，她丈夫则要承担寻找新居的重责大任。令我感到惊讶的是，朋友没有事先察看那个社区，也没有参与寻找新房子，只是专心准备搬家！我问她是怎么办到的？她承认这的确不容易，但她完全相信她的丈夫。因为他们相处多年，她深信丈夫了解她的喜好和需求。

In the upper room, Jesus spoke with His disciples of His coming betrayal and death. The darkest hours of Jesus’s earthly life, and that of the disciples as well, lay ahead. He comforted them with the assurance that He would prepare a place for them in heaven, just as my friend’s husband prepared a new home for their family. When the disciples questioned Jesus, He pointed them to their mutual history and the miracles they’d witnessed Him perform. Though they would grieve Jesus’s death and absence, He reminded them He could be counted on to do as He’d said.

耶稣和门徒共进最后的晚餐时，对他们说，祂将要遭受背叛并要受死。耶稣即将面对祂在世上最黑暗的时刻，门徒也是一样。耶稣安慰并应许他们，祂将要到天上去为他们预备地方，就像朋友的丈夫先去为家人预备新的居所。当门徒心中存疑，耶稣就要他们思想昔日的教导，以及他们亲眼所见的神迹。虽然耶稣的死亡和离去会令门徒哀伤，但耶稣提醒门徒，祂的话语绝对信实可靠，祂所说的必定应验。

Even in the midst of our own dark hours, we can trust Him to lead us forward to a place of goodness. As we walk with Him, we too will learn to trust increasingly in His faithfulness.

即便是在我们生命中最黑暗的时刻，我们仍然可以信靠耶稣，祂会带领我们前往佳美之地。当我们与祂同行的时候，我们也将会学习越来越相信祂的信实。

Lord, help us to lean on You

when life feels so uncertain and hard.

You are trustworthy and good, Lord.

We can count on that.

You are so faithful in loving.

主，当我们对生命感到彷徨、艰辛时，

求祢帮助我们倚靠祢。

因祢本为良善，并且值得信靠！

祢的慈爱如此信实！

John 14:1-14 New International Version (NIV)

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

约翰福音 14:1-14

14 “你们心里不要忧愁，你们信神，也当信我。 2 在我父的家里有许多住处，若是没有，我就早已告诉你们了，我去原是为你们预备地方去。 3 我若去为你们预备了地方，就必再来接你们到我那里去，我在哪里，叫你们也在哪里。 4 我往哪里去你们知道，那条路你们也知道。” 5 多马对他说：“主啊，我们不知道你往哪里去，怎么知道那条路呢？” 6 耶稣说：“我就是道路、真理、生命。若不借着我，没有人能到父那里去。 7 你们若认识我，也就认识我的父。从今以后，你们认识他，并且已经看见他。” 8 腓力对他说：“求主将父显给我们看，我们就知足了。” 9 耶稣对他说：“腓力，我与你们同在这样长久，你还不认识我吗？人看见了我，就是看见了父，你怎么说‘将父显给我们看’呢？ 10 我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？我对你们所说的话，不是凭着自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父做他自己的事。 11 你们当信我，我在父里面，父在我里面；即或不信，也当因我所做的事信我。 12 我实实在在地告诉你们：我所做的事，信我的人也要做，并且要做比这更大的事，因为我往父那里去。 13 你们奉我的名无论求什么，我必成就，叫父因儿子得荣耀。 14 你们若奉我名求告什么，我必成就。

整理：于姊妹

John 14:1-14 New International Version (NIV)

约翰福音 14:1-14

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