学了功课，知道神凡事负责，一切在神手中
在埃及的这次经历使亚伯拉罕学了功课，知道呼召他的神也是看顾他的神，并且一切都在祂的手中。以下我们要看见，下一章证明亚伯拉罕已经学了这个功课。藉着这次经历，亚伯拉罕受了管教，不但信靠神，更认识神是真实可信的。
只要你是一个神所呼召的人，不管你是否相信祂或信靠祂，祂都会看顾你。你留在高处，祂餧养你。你跌到低处，祂更餧养你。我们留在高处或跌到低处，对祂没有两样，祂都餧养我们。这是亚伯拉罕的故事，也是我们的故事。我能从经历中向你们作见证，神是真实可信的。我们的父是真实可信的，那呼召我们的是真实可信的。
我们这些蒙召的人能享受神。我们也许出卖妻子，神还是在看顾我们。当我们正计画怎样出卖妻子救自己性命的时候，神也在计画怎样保守我们的妻子，还叫我们得着许多东西，并且带着得来的财富，回到祂的地方。
在创世记十三章一节，我们看见亚伯拉罕“从埃及上南地去。”他回到高峰所在之处，“到了伯特利和艾的中间，就是从前支搭帐棚的地方，也是他起先筑坛的地方；他又在那里呼求耶和华的名。”（创十三3-4，另译）。亚伯拉罕回到他当初筑坛并支撘帐棚的地方。当亚伯拉罕在埃及计画出卖妻子的时候，他没有祭坛，没有帐棚，也没有呼求耶和华的名。在那里他没有宣告他向巴别作相反的见证。当他在埃及的时候，他失去了这一切。但亚伯拉罕回到了起初，回到了筑坛的地方，在那里他恢复呼求耶和华的名。
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The Trial of the Called Ones – Famine (4) – Gen 13:1-4
Learned a Lesson, Knowing God is Responsible for Everything and Everything is in God’s Hand
This experience in Egypt caused Abram to learn a lesson, knowing that the God who called him is also the God who cares for him, and that everything is in His hand. Below we will see that the next chapter proves Abram had learned this lesson. Through this experience, Abram was disciplined; he not only trusted in God but also knew God more as the One who is real and faithful.
As long as you are a person called by God, whether you believe Him or trust Him or not, He will care for you. You stay on the high place, He feeds you. You fall to the low place, He feeds you even more. Whether we stay on the high place or fall to the low place, it makes no difference to Him; He feeds us all the same. This is Abram’s story, and it is also our story. I can testify to you from experience that God is real and faithful. Our Father is real and faithful, and the One who called us is real and faithful.
We, these called ones, can enjoy God. We may sell our wives, yet God is still caring for us. While we are planning how to sell our wives to save our own lives, God is planning how to preserve our wives, and also causing us to gain many things, and to bring the gained wealth back to His place.
In Genesis 13:1, we see Abram “went up out of Egypt… into the Negev.” He returned to the place where the peak was, “to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai… to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first; and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah” (Gen. 13:3-4). Abram returned to the place where he originally built the altar and pitched the tent. When Abram was in Egypt planning to sell his wife, he had no altar, no tent, and did not call on the name of Jehovah. There, he did not proclaim a testimony contrary to Babel. When he was in Egypt, he lost all of this. But Abram returned to the beginning, returned to the place of the altar, and there he recovered calling on the name of Jehovah.