02月16日 一年的第047天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:利24-27章
第24章主要在講:「點燈、餅、神聖名的條例」。
神說:1.金燈台的燈,從晚上到早上,世世代代都要點著v1-4,2.陳設餅:要有12個餅,擺例2行,每行6個,這餅是給亞倫和他子孫吃的v5-9,3.褻瀆咒詛神的聖名,會眾要用石頭打死他v10-16,打死牲畜,必賠牲畜,以傷還傷、以眼還眼、以牙還牙」,有人褻瀆咒詛神的聖名,會眾就用石頭打死他。
◎心得分享:金燈台點著:表示神的光照與同在,陳設餅:表示神供應服事人的身體與靈命的需要,這章有人褻瀆咒詛神的聖名,摩西在求問上帝之後,按著神的吩咐,會眾用石頭打死那人,外邦人咒詛神的聖名,也就算了,但是以色列人神的百姓,膽敢這樣作,是惹動上帝的忿怒,我們千萬不要這樣作。
第25章主要在講:「應當守安息年、禧年、贖地贖宅條例」。
神說:1.要守安息年,6年耕種,第7年要守聖安息,讓地休耕,不可收成,要給寄居外人當食物,土產也要給牲畜走獸當食物,2.禧年:7年x7年=49年,後的隔年,第50年為禧年,A.各人歸自己的地,B.彼此不能虧負,地不可以永賣,要准人將地贖回,C.幫助弟兄不可取利,D.奴隸在禧年的時候,要歸回自己的家,E.要把弟兄賣給外人的地贖回。
◎心得分享:安息年是要讓地休耕,回歸最自然的情況,要照顧到寄居外人,禧年也是一樣,不同的是禧年,不只是地「重新還原」,人的一切借貸、買賣,也都要「重新還原」,讓一切「重新開始」,解開人一切的重擔,不只欠人錢的勞苦,借人錢的也勞苦,但是在安息年、禧年,人可以得到安息,不用那麼勞苦。
第26章主要在講:「遵命蒙福、逆命遭災」。
神說:1.遵命蒙福:A.必豐收飽足v1-5,B.必安然居住v6,C.必追趕仇敵,五人追趕一百人,一百人追趕一萬人,仇敵必倒刀下,D.必生養眾多,我的心不厭惡你,我要在你們中間行走,作你們的神,2.逆命遭災:A.恐懼、疾病、仇敵喫你撒的種,B.你們必敗在敵人面前、逃跑、被轄管,C.白白勞力、地不出土產、不結果,D.我要使刀劍攻擊你,在仇敵之地被消滅v23-39,E.若承認自己的罪,謙卑服了罪罰,我要紀念我與雅各、以撒、亞伯拉罕立的約,在荒廢無人之地,享受安息,不將他們盡行滅絕,不背棄我的約。
◎心得分享:這一章有三種情況:1.遵命就蒙福,2.逆命就遭災,3.在災難中悔改,神就拯救施恩。這提醒我們,許多發生在我們周遭的情況,關鍵是在於我們的選擇,不是上帝不祝福我們,而是我們不願意順服遵行上帝的話。
第27章主要在講:「估價的條例」。
神說:1.許願還願的估價:A.20到60歲:男人估價50舍客勒,女人30舍客勒,B.5到20歲:男子估價20舍客勒,女子估價10舍客勒,C.1月到5歲估價:男孩5舍客勒,女孩3舍客勒,D.60歲以上:男子估價15舍客勒,E.貧窮不能照你所估定的價,祭司要按許願人的力量估定他的價,2.所許的與所換的都要成為聖,不可更換,還願牲畜是好是壞,由祭司估定,3.禧年估價:要贖地 若不贖回那地,或是將地賣給別人,就再不能贖了,4.地上所有的,十分之一都歸耶和華v30,是歸給耶和華為聖的。
◎心得分享:「許願還願」是有估價,這估價是要給神,上帝要人「不要自私、貪得無厭」,不要什麼都是我的,什麼都想要,什麼都不肯給,如果這樣,我們就失去了上帝的祝福,1.上帝是透過我們的奉獻,來祝福我們,2.透過奉獻,可以讓我們表達我們對神的愛,3. 透過奉獻,表明我們已經砍斷「物質」的貪慾。
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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。