阅读经文 

当我刚刚十几岁的时候，我父亲因为手术并发症而生命垂危。他让学校把我叫出教室，给他画了一张墙报，上面写着：“振作起来！我已经胜了世界！”

当时，我并没有意识到父亲的病情有多严重，只是努力画出最漂亮的空心字，涂上闪粉。后来他活了下来，那张墙报在他的书房里挂了好几年。

当耶稣要交出自己生命时，祂努力让门徒们为将来要经历的悲痛做好准备，并以他们将要见证最后的胜利来鼓励他们。耶稣会胜过罪和死亡，从坟墓里复活，回到天父上帝的右边，最终战胜这个堕落的世界。

这句经文安慰了生命危在旦夕时的父亲。如今在我三年癌症治疗接近尾声，知道医生说我有50%机会再活五年时，这句话也安慰了我。我心中有深深的平安，因为神掌管我的生命和这个世界。在祂叫我回家之前，我将继续尽心、尽性、尽意、尽力地爱祂，侍奉祂。祂的预后诊断是永生！

When I was a young teen, my father was critically ill with complications from a surgery. He asked the school to call me out of class and make him a poster saying, “Be of good cheer! I have overcome the world!”

At the time, I didn’t realize how sick my dad was, but I tried to make the most beautiful bubble letters ever and fill them with glitter. He survived, and that poster hung in his study for years afterward.

When Jesus was about to submit himself to death, he tried to prepare his disciples for the grief they would experience, and to encourage them with the final victory they would witness. Jesus would defeat sin and death, rise from the grave, return to the right hand of God the Father in heaven, and ultimately overcome this fallen world.

This verse comforted my father as his life hung on the edge. It comforts me today as I near the end of a three-year cancer-treatment plan, knowing that the doctors give me a 50-percent chance of making it to five years. But I have deep peace in my heart because God controls my life and this world. Until he calls me home, I will continue to love and serve him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. His prognosis is eternal life!