02月06日讀經 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
經文:出32-34章(山下的失敗)
第32章主要在講:「造金牛犢,摩西怒碎法版」。
1.造金牛犢:百姓見摩西遲延不下山,就叫亞倫作神像,於是他們用百姓的妻子、兒女的金環,鑄造了一隻金牛犢,說是:這是領你出埃及地的神,宣告向耶和華守節、獻燔祭、平安祭,就坐下喫喝,起來玩耍。2.神對摩西說:「百姓在拜牛犢,硬著頸項,我要向他們發怒,將他們滅絕,使你的後裔成為大國」,摩西向神禱告代求,神就不降災,摩西與約書亞下山,3.摩西看見他們拜牛犢,A.把兩個石版摔碎,B.將金牛犢,用火焚燒,磨得粉碎,叫以色列人喝,C.叫屬神的利未人,拿刀殺同伴與鄰舍,被殺的約有3千人,D.摩西吩付百姓自潔,上山為百姓代求,上帝贖罪。
◎心得分享:上帝寫好了「十誡」,魔鬼也動工,引誘以色列人,拜金牛犢,「金牛犢」所代表的是,「人以自己的努力,當成上帝」,換句話說,以色列人忘了是上帝帶他們出埃及,卻指著金牛犢,驕傲的把榮耀歸給自己,說:「我們能出埃及,是靠著我們自己努力的結果」,這在提醒我們也像以色列人一樣,信主久了,就靠著人的努力,而忘了過去到現在,都是神在帶領著我們。
第33章主要在講:「上帝在會幕中與摩西對話」。
上帝對摩西說:「我曾起誓應許你們,領你們到流奶與蜜之地,我自己不同你們上去,因為你們是硬著頸項的百姓,恐怕我在路上,把你們滅絕,你們要把身上的妝飾摘下來,使我知道怎樣待你」,以色列人就把身上的妝飾摘得乾淨。摩西進到會幕,雲柱降下來,約書亞離開會幕,摩西對神說:「你吩咐我將百姓領上去,沒有叫我知道誰與我同去,1.求你將你的道指示我,好使我在你眼前蒙恩,2.求你想到這民是你的民,3.你若不與我同去,就不要領我們上去,3.我們能夠蒙恩,與地上萬民有分別,豈不是你與我們同去麼?」。神對摩西說:「我必親自與你們去,我要叫你在我眼前蒙恩,你要站在磐石上,我榮耀經過時,要將你放在石穴中,用我的手遮蓋你,我過去,就將手收回,你就見我的背,卻不得見我的面」。
◎心得分享:這一章讓我們看到「上帝很窩心的一番話」,上帝「很可愛的耍了一點小脾氣」,祂說:「我不跟你們去,因為你們心很硬,一不小心會被我全殺了」。但是藉著摩西的禱告,上帝回心轉意,答應了與摩西同行,上帝不是在開玩笑,以色列人心硬,神真的是會把他們殺了,摩西沒有否定人們是心裡剛硬,硬著頸項,但是他抓住了重點:「人根本沒有辦法靠自己,來完全體會上帝的心意,活在上帝面前,只有人謙卑的,求神幫助,我們才可能按神的心意,站立在神的面前」。
第34章主要在講:「摩西再造石版上山四十畫夜」。
上帝對摩西說:「你要鑿出兩塊石版,和先前摔碎的一樣,我要在上寫在版上,你要站在山頂上我的面前,遍山不可有人、羊群、牛群喫草」,摩西照上帝的吩咐站在山上宣告神的名,上帝說:「耶和華是有憐憫的神,不輕易發怒、並有豐盛的慈愛和誠實,斷不以有罪的為無罪,必追討他的罪,自父及子,直到三代」。摩西伏地下拜,神對摩西說:「我要與你立約,你要將這些話寫上」,摩西40天,不吃不喝之後,拿兩個法版下山,摩西臉上發光,以色列眾人怕光,摩西與會眾說話,用帕子蒙上臉,他去與上帝說話就揭去帕子。
◎心得分享:摩西發怒把石版摔碎,上帝沒有因這事,責備摩西,反而叫摩西,再作兩塊石版,上山,這一次摩西山上40天的禁食,摩西下山,臉上發光,以色列人怕見光,所以摩西只好用帕子蒙臉,讓我們看到,屬神的人蒙神光照,是平常人很難親近 。
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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。