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如果你现在手里拿着纸质版的《每日箴言》小册子，你会注意到这些纸是透过钉书钉钉在一起的，这本小册子才不至于散架。如果你读的是电子书，想像一下每本书都是钉在一起的。这就是这里的基督的画面，祂正托住万有。    

这个礼拜早些时候，我们集中谈到基督是万有的创造主，这里强调祂正托住万有。这个画面很有力量，神在基督里创造了万物，并透过基督托住了一切。神并不是创造了万有之后，就不管了。透过基督，神托住万有，维系一切。    

这一点有力地提醒我们神在掌管。《海德堡要理问答》教导我们该如何回应这个真理：我们可以在患难中忍耐，在顺境中感恩；对于将来临到我们的一切， 能坚定地信靠信实的天父上帝，任何受造物都不能使我们与祂的爱隔绝。因为万物都在祂的手中，祂若不许，它们动也不能动（《海德堡要理问答》第28问）。    

无论事情看起来是多么失控，我们都能确信说：神正托住万有。让我们在这个真理中平静安稳吧，因为基督正“常用祂权能的命令托住万有”。

If you are holding the printed booklet of these Today devotions in your hands, notice that the pages are all held together by a couple of staples so that the booklet doesn’t fall apart. If you are reading digitally, imagine a book held together by its binding. This is the image we have of Christ; he is holding all things together.

Earlier this week we focused on Christ as the maker of all things. And here we note that he is holding it all together.This image is powerful. In Christ all things were made, and through Christ all things are sustained and held together. God did not create all things and then leave them be. Through Christ, all things are being sustained and held together.

This serves as a powerful reminder that God is in control. The Heidelberg Catechism helps us see how we can respond to this: “We can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing in creation will separate us from his love” (Q&A 28).

Whenever life seems to be going out of control, we have this assurance that God is holding everything together. Find rest and peace in knowing that Christ is “sustaining all things by his powerful Word.”