01月02日讀經 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
經文:創世記3-5章
第03章主要在講:「亞當和夏娃犯罪喫分別善惡果」。這一天亞當不在,可能出去「工作」,只剩下夏娃和蛇,蛇就引誘夏娃喫「分別善惡」的果子,夏娃就喫了果子,這時候亞當回來了,夏娃就拿果子給他喫,之後他們就發現自已赤身露體,於是他們躲避起來,上帝呼喚那人,上帝在涼風溫柔中呼召了他們,之後神就對亞當、夏娃、蛇宣判了罪的結果,1.亞當要汗流滿面才得餬口,2.夏娃要受懷胎的苦楚,3.蛇要終身喫土,並要與女人後裔為仇,蛇要傷女人後裔的腳跟,女人後裔要傷蛇的頭,4.亞當和夏娃被趕出伊甸園,終身不能再喫生命樹上的果子。
◎心得分享:許多人都在問我:「牧師有那麼嚴重嗎?只是喫一粒分別善惡的果子?上帝是不是太小題大作了呢?」,最主要的是我希望大家了解:「罪的行為當下並沒有什麼大不了,但是罪的結果是非常非常可怕的!所以要小心,一定不要犯罪」,水果我們大家都曾經喫過,問題不是「果子」,而是「神的命令:不能喫,就是不能喫」,就好比「吸毒」來說,對吸毒者而言,「吸一口、打一針」有這麼嚴重嗎?但是我們知道問題不是「吸一口、打一針」,而是「吸一口、打一針」的結果非常可怕的。再舉大衛的例子,他娶拔示巴並且下令暗殺了她的丈夫,導致他的兒子彼此相殺,甚至他的兒子押沙龍要殺他奪位,就一般世俗的眼光:「君王和那一個人發生關係,沒什麼大不了」,問題是在於「大衛內心貪得無厭」的心,以及藐視與輕看上帝對「道德」的要求,這個結果是非常可怕的。
第04章主要在講:「亞當兒子該隱與亞伯的獻祭」。亞當生了「該隱」,後又再生「亞伯」,「該隱」是種地的,「亞伯」是牧羊,有一天他們同時獻祭,要討神的喜悅,但是上帝喜悅亞伯的獻祭,不喜悅該隱的獻祭,於是該隱嫉妒亞伯,有一天他就在田裡殺了亞伯,結果地受咒詛,他被趕逐離開神的面,之後他就建了「以諾」城,他的後代都是對當代具影響力的人,但是他的後代之後就不再記載,之後來上帝又讓夏娃生了「塞特」,來代替「亞伯」,當塞特生了「以挪士」,人才開始求告耶和華的名。
◎心得分享:「獻祭」是一件很美的事,但是當它變成是一種「比較、競爭、嫉妒」的時候,就變成很「醜陋與可怕」,導致1.兄弟仇視.2.殺人:第一次殺人就是從「比較、競爭、嫉妒」開始.3.人的罪 導致人被趕逐,不能再見到神的面。這就好像我們在教會服事神一樣,要特別注意,「只要問自己對神是否是忠心」,至於別人服事好不好,那是他跟神的事,不要拿來跟自己比。
第05章主要在講:「亞當的後代」:第1種人是誰活了幾歲「生兒養女」就死了,第2種人是雖然生兒養女,但是「與神同行」的「以諾」,第3種是活得最久的「瑪土撒拉」,第4種是覺得人生是勞苦,期望上帝能安慰人勞苦的「拉麥」。5.義人挪亞。
◎心得分享:真正「與神同行」,不是跑到深山去修行,而是在很平常的「生兒養女」的「柴鹽油米醬醋茶」生活中,來經歷神。以諾的事蹟,讓我們知道,雖然許多人「醉生夢死」的過生活,但是我們仍然可以「獨樹一格」,努力的「與神同行」。
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"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."(Gal. 6:14)
THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world, and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him, and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions. They were hardly willing to follow Him so far, or to draw so night to Him. They had upon them an awe and fear, as Jacob at Bethel, or Eliphaz in the night visions, or as the apostles when they thought that they had seen a spirit, and knew not that it was Jesus. They could almost pray Him to depart from them, or to hide His awfulness. They found it easier to obey than to suffer, to do than to give up, to bear the cross than to hang upon it. But they cannot to back, for they have come too near the unseen cross, and its virtues have pierced too deeply within them. He is fulfilling to them His promise, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32).
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it. He has fastened on them His look of love, as He did on Mary and Peter, and they can but choose to follow.
Little by little, from time to time, by fitting gleams, the mystery of His cross shines out upon them. They behold Him lifted up, they gaze on the glory which rays from the wounds of His holy passion; and as they gaze they advance, and are changed into His likeness, and His name shines out throught them, for He dwells in them. They live alone with Him above, in unspeakable fellowship; willing to lack what others own (and what they might have had), and to be unlike all, so that they are only like Him.
Such, are they in all ages, "who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Had they chosen for themselves, or their friends chosen for them, they would have chosen otherwise. They would have been brighter here, but less glorious in His Kingdom. They would have had Lot's portion, not Abraham's. If they had halted anywhere-if God had taken off His hand and let them stray back-what would they not have lost? What forfeits in the resurrection?
But He stayed them up, even against themselves. Many a time their foot had well night slipped; but He in mercy held them up. Now, even in this life, they know that all He did was done well. It was good to suffer here, that they might reign hereafter; to bear the cross below, for they shall wear the crown above; and that not their will but His was done on them and in them.
-Anonymous.
基督曾說過:「我心柔和謙卑,你們當學我的樣式,這樣你們心裏就必得享安息。」這兒有雙重的真理,有忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的美德,這與傚法基督或信靠祂有相同的意義;同時因著你有這些美德,可以完全脫離亞當墮落的本性而有信靠主高尚的行為。
連帶而有的福份,是因著脫離罪惡和對基督初步信仰、期望,受基督忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的靈引導並管理;當你具有這些德性,你的生命就有目的,是真理和生命的基督才會在你裏面,你不再掌權,而是基督在你裏面活著。除非你願在忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好裏治死老我,否則神聖愛的靈,因無立足之地而不能在你裏面產生;而當你又為不忍耐、驕傲所困擾之際,馬上完全捨己,求神施恩幫助。當你遇到難處就促使與神親近,最能使你忍耐接受神的幫助,我們對神有多少信心和期望就可得多少的啟示。
「這些雖然很簡短,但是真正確的教義,使我們因賜下的救恩而真正完全順服神的啟示下,也真正宣告承認三而一的真神。」現在願你有個思想:完全將我的心靈獻上,單單尋求救恩,直接藉著溫柔、謙卑、忍耐和與神和好的力量,使我的生命有屬天的德性。
「並且要作這更大的事,因為我往父那裡去。」約翰福音十四章12節
祈禱不是叫我們適於那偉大的工作;祈禱本身就是偉大的工作。我們以為祈禱,是叫我們得到較高的能力,去應付神的工作。但按照耶穌基督的眼光看,祈禱是我本已救贖的奇蹟,藉著神的能力,同時也是別人救贖的奇蹟。結果子之方法,是祈禱,但須記取的,這種祈禱是建立在救贖的痛苦,不是建立於我的痛苦。一個小孩能獲得祈禱的答覆,一個聰明人反而得不著。
你無論在那裡祈禱總是一種戰爭。不管神製造環境的方法怎樣,本分就是祈禱。切不可如此作想──「我所在的地方,不見得有用;」因為你不在的地方,你必沒有有用。無論神安排你在那裡,祈禱,常常向祂祈禱。「你們若奉我的名求甚麼,我必成就。」(約十四13)我們不肯祈禱,我們得不著奮興,就不肯祈禱,那就是靈性自私的極度形態。我們要依照神的指導而勞動,但祂指導我們的是祈禱,「所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收祂的莊稼。
通常的工人對於工作,是沒有興奮的,但是成功通常是工作勞作出來的;同樣基督的概念,沒有那些勞苦的聖徒是不會發現的。你慇勤祈禱,從神的立場看,是無時不發生效果的。當帕子揭開,一種說不出的驚奇必然發現,你可以看出你是慣於接受耶穌基督的命令的,已經為祂收穫了不少的靈魂。
「……亞伯拉罕信神……」羅馬書四章3節
亞伯拉罕的信心是向著神本身的,他認識帶領他的神,所以他對神有絕對的信心。
亞伯拉罕一生的秘訣在於他與神的友誼。他所認識的神是一位偉大、良善、信實的朋友。無怪乎他能聽神的話,從他自身所愛的本家本族出來,走向一條未知的道路。
除了信靠神的話語,我們是否已學會把自己全然交給神呢?神有無限的愛及力量,祂是與我們立約的主並永遠的好朋友。
經上告訴我們,亞伯拉罕因著信心而榮耀了神。最能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓世人看見神是誰,以及祂的大能力。神並不希望藉著我們所能做的事,讓世人知道祂能做什麼;神也不用那些有乖謬性格的器皿。相反的,祂一直在找尋那些謙卑的人,並用這些人在世世代代中榮耀祂。