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希伯来书：11:1-3：1信就是所望之事的实底:，是未见之事的确据。2古人在这信上得了美好的证据。3我们因着信，就知道诸世界是藉神话造成的。这样，所看见的，并不是从显然之物造出来的。
在第10章末后的经文里，我们知道“义人因信得生。”在第11章，希伯来书的作者向我们展示了一个公义的基督徒的他的公义的生命是怎样的。他首先对信心给出一个优美的定义。信就是所望之事的实底，是未见之事的实据，和合本修订本，“信就是对所盼望之事有把握，对未见之事有确据”。藉着信心，我们明白世界是藉着上帝的话语形成的，而不是从可见的事物造出来的。这种认识和明白，无关经验，更不是通过科学实验。
相信世界是上帝的创造对基督教信仰是非常重要的，因为它从头讲述了我们救恩的故事。上帝创造了完美的世界，也创造了两个完美的人，但他们悖逆上帝，犯了罪。上帝应许会有一位救主来拯救和救赎他们。圣经的其他部分延续了这个故事，直到我们看到上帝的儿子死在十字架上，又在得胜中复活。
如果上帝没有创造世界，没有创造我们完美的祖先，如何才能解决罪的问题？如果我们是靠进化存在的，就没有犯罪堕落这个说法，人类只是一直在渐渐改变，会变得更好。只是这些不是真的。难道我们比建造金字塔的埃及人更聪明？难道我们比制定出200万年日历的玛雅人更聪明？难道我们比这个章节提到的犹太祖先有更多的美德？有人曾经告诉我圣经是一本可怕的书，里面充满了战争和暴行。当我听到人们这样说，我只是简单的回答：“你认为比大屠杀还糟糕？比原子弹还糟糕？”
我们这一代人比以往任何时候都更需要一个造物主和一个救主。因着信，我们确信我们的将来，确信我们未曾看见的事情。
祷告：亲爱的圣灵，神圣的光，请照亮我的内心！请赐给我信心，使我确信我们所盼望的，确信我们所没有看见的。我相信自己永远是上帝的孩子。让我活出自己的信心，在这个充满罪恶的世界里发光。阿们。
Hebrews 11: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
In the last verses of chapter 10, we learned that the “righteous will live by faith.” In chapter 11, the writer to the Hebrews shows us what the righteous life of a righteous believer looks like. But he starts with a beautiful definition of faith. Faith is being confident in what we hope for. Faith is being sure of what we don’t see. Faith is understanding, not by experience and by test-tube tests, that God made the universe by simply commanding it into existence from nothing.
Believing that God created the world is so important in our Christian faith, because it tells the story of our salvation from the beginning. God made a perfect world with two perfect people who rebelled and sinned. Then God promised a Savior who would redeem them and save them. The rest of the Bible carries out that story until we see God’s Son dying on a cross and rising again in victory.
But if God didn’t create the world or our perfect parents, then what of sin? If evolution is the way we came to be, there was no fall. Man is only getting better all the time. Only, that’s not true. Are we smarter than Egyptians who built the pyramids? Or the Mayans who had a calendar figured out for two million years? Are we more moral than the people whom we find in this chapter? I have had people tell me the Bible is a horrible book filled with all kinds of war and atrocities. When they say this, I simply respond by saying, “You mean, worse than the Holocaust? Worse than a nuclear bomb?”
Our generation needs a Creator God and a Savior God as much as and even more so than ever before. And by faith, we have confidence in our future and are sure of those things we cannot see.
Prayer: Holy Spirit, Light devine, shine within this heart of mine! Give me a faith that is sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see! Then, confident that I am God’s child forever, let me live my faith and shine as a light in this sinful world. Amen.