德国│2月15日 文森佐．葛莱拿（Salvina Gallina），29岁

德国IT专家文森佐葛莱拿无法理解所发生的事情。在一场全球性危机后，紧接着是9 1 1 事件、欧洲金融风暴、克里米亚事件（Crimea）和移民的危机。

事情似乎不太对劲，文森佐在想世界末日是否要来临了。他努力地去理解政治家们看起来不合逻辑的决策。他在YouTube （一个视频网站）上寻找答案，也为此回到了自己童年去的教堂。

文森佐不但参加每周日的聚会，也参与周三和周六的教会事工。教会领袖对文森佐在宗教上的热忱印象深刻，于是，他们试图说服他成为一名神父。但是文森佐谢绝了他们的提议。他只想找出这些全球性事件发生的原因，然后过敬虔的生活。

当他在找答案的时候，他在心里给自己设下三个重要原则：第一，不论怎样都要遵循真理；第二，真诚地待人待己；第三，言行一致。

然而在读《圣经》的时候，文森佐感到很挫败，因为他不能明白所读的是什么意思。

有天晚上，他迫切地祷告上帝，希望他能差遣人来给他解释《圣经》。

「天父，孩子是愚钝的，无法明白祢话语的意思，请祢宽恕我。」他向上帝祈祷道。

就在文森佐再浏览YouTube频道时， 他偶然点开了一位复临牧师的讲道视频。当他听的时候，他豁然开朗，似乎明白了什么。文森佐非常欣赏这位讲道者引用《圣经》来证实他所说的一切话。

他如饥似渴，像海绵一样吸收新的信息，一天就听完了YouTube上的五篇讲道。

在接受第七日是《圣经》所指的安息日后，文森佐就开始到家乡的科隆

（Cologne）复临教会聚会。因为他想敬拜这位创造主，并只顺从上帝，遵循真理，成为完全正直的人，以此向撒但证明，他所宣称的关于「上帝诫命是守不住的」的言论大错特错。

因为与父母一起住的关系，文森佐发现自己很难保持虔敬的生活。他的父母饭前不做祷告，在安息日时他也会听到电视的声音。于是，文森佐开始渐渐怀疑遵守安息日是否真的有那么重要。

他默想着在马太福音2：27里耶稣说的话：「安息日是为人设立的，人不是为安息日设立的。」他也记得保罗在罗马书6： 14中说：「罪必不能做你们的主，因你们不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。」于是， 文森佐决定不再遵守安息日。

在某个星期五晚上，他正在电脑前工作，他感觉到有个声音对他说：「你知道吗，你没有遵守我的诫命。」

文森佐想起了过去自己设定的其中一个原则：真诚地待人待己。

「是的，我没有遵守安息日，」他说。「但这真的有那么重要吗？」

于是文森佐又开始继续工作。

「你知道吗，你没有遵守律法，」那声音说道。「你现在所做的事是不对的。」

「但遵守安息日真的有那么重要吗？」文森佐说道，并从桌子上拿起了他深绿色封面的《圣经》。「耶稣没有说，人是为安息日设立的吧？我们不是不再受法律约束了吗？」

然而，那个声音依然没有停止。

最后，文森佐向上帝祷告祈求指引。他手拿《圣经》，跪下祷告，祈求上帝给出一个明确的答案。

「祢想让我遵守安息日吗？」他祷告道。「这一天对祢很重要吗？求你帮我做决定。」

文森佐认为他需要制造机会让上帝回答，于是，他低头看着自己手上的《圣经》，决定随意翻开《圣经》，然后接受上帝给予的任何答案。

文森佐闭上眼，翻开《圣经》。他读到以赛亚书58：13-14的经文：「你若在安息日掉转你的脚步，在我圣日不以操作为喜乐，称安息日为可喜乐的，称耶和华的圣日为可尊重的，而且尊敬这日，不办自己的私事，不随自己的私意，不说自己的私话，你就以耶和华为乐，耶和华要使你乘驾地的高处，又以你祖雅各的产业养育你。」

读完后，文森佐开始哭了起来。收到了上帝的回答，他明白不能在安息日做私事。于是，文森佐关掉计算机并打开了《圣经》。

从那以后，文森佐对遵守安息日再没有疑惑。在安息日的清晨，他重回教堂， 一直到现在，他仍然每周六早上就到教堂聚会。

German IT specialist Vincenzo Gallina couldn’t comprehend what was happening.

One global crisis seemed to be followed by another — 9/11, European financial turmoil, Crimea, and a migrant crisis.

Something was wrong. Vincenzo wondered whether the world was ending. He struggled to understand politicians’ seemingly illogical decisions. He looked for answers on YouTube. He returned to the church of his childhood.

Vincenzo didn’t attend only the usual Sunday worship services. He also went to services on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Church leaders were so impressed with the his interest in religion that they tried to convince him to become a priest. Vincenzo declined. He only wanted answers to global events and to live a holy life.

As he searched, he embraced three important principles in his heart: to follow the truth no matter where it led; to be honest with others and especially to himself; and to act the way that he spoke.

Reading the Bible, he became frustrated. He didn’t understand what he read.

One night, he prayed desperately for God to send someone to explain the Bible.

“God forgive me for I am too stupid to understand Your Word,” he prayed.

The next time he browsed YouTube, he stumbled across a sermon by a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist. Something clicked in his mind as he listened. He liked that the evangelist used the Bible to back up everything that he said.

Soon he was watching five YouTube sermons a day, his mind like a dry sponge, absorbing new knowledge.

Convinced that the seventh day is the biblical Sabbath, he began to attend an Adventist church in his hometown, Cologne, on Saturdays. He wanted to worship the Creator God. He wanted to prove the devil wrong in saying that it is impossible to keep God’s commandments. He wanted to be honest and to follow the truth wherever it led.

Because he was still living with his parents, he found it difficult to live a holy life. His parents did not pray before meals, and he heard the television playing on Sabbath. Doubts crept into his mind about the importance of keeping the Sabbath. He pondered Jesus’ words in Matthew 2:27, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” He remembered Paul saying, “You are not under the law but under grace” in Romans 6:14. He stopped keeping the Sabbath.

One Friday evening after sunset, Vincenzo was working on his computer when he sensed a voice say, “You know, you are not keeping one of My commandments.”

Vincenzo remembered his principle about being honest to others and himself.

“Yes, I am not keeping the Sabbath,” Vincenzo said. “But is it really that important?”

He returned to his work.

“You know, you are not keeping the law,” the voice said. “What you are doing is not right.”

“But is it really so important to keep this day?” Vincenzo said, picking up his dark-green Bible from the table. “Didn’t Jesus say that man is made for the Sabbath? Aren’t we no longer under the law?”

The voice wouldn’t stop.

Finally, Vincenzo prayed for guidance. He knelt and, with the Bible in his hand, asked God for a clear answer.

“Do You want me to keep the Sabbath?” he prayed. “Is this day important to You? I need help in making this decision.”

He thought that he needed to create an opportunity for God to answer. Looking down at the Bible in his hand, he decided to open it at random and accept whatever answer God gave. Vincenzo closed his eyes and opened the Bible. Looking into the Bible, he read Isaiah 58:13, 14, which says, “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the Lord.”

Vincenzo started to cry. He could not work after receiving an answer like that. He turned off the computer and opened the Bible.

Since then, Vincenzo has had no doubt about keeping the Sabbath. He returned to church on Sabbath morning and, now 29, has kept going ever since.