02月18日 一年的第049天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:民05-07章
第05章主要在講:「不潔淨與懷疑妻子處理方法」。
神說:1.不潔淨的人要住在營外v1-4,2.有罪的人:A.承認自己的過錯,B.把所虧欠的全數還給他所得罪的人,C.另外再加上五分之一。D.若那人已經死了,又沒有近親,要把錢獻給神,歸祭司使用,3.懷疑妻子行淫試驗方法:A.要帶妻子到祭司面前,同時要帶為妻子獻上的祭物1公斤大麥粉。不可在上面倒橄欖油或加上乳香(因為這素祭,是要使真相顯明的),B.祭司要在祭壇前面,倒一點聖水在碗裏,把會幕地上的塵土撒些在水裏面,C.女人頭髮鬆開,手中拿著獻上的素祭,祭司要說:「如果你沒有跟人通姦,就不致遭受這苦水所帶來的咒詛。如果你曾經跟人通姦,願神使你的肚子脹大,子宮萎縮。女人要回答:「阿們!阿們」,D.祭司要把這把咒詛的話寫在卷上,又把所寫的字洗在苦水裏,然後才叫婦人喝這水,E.如果她喝咒詛的水、引起痛苦、肚腹腫脹、大腿消瘦,婦人便要在她的族人中成為咒詛,如果她是無辜的,就不致遭受傷害,仍然能夠生育。
◎心得分享:這章提到「咒詛的苦水」,主要的目的是在解決「人的疑心病」,這是一個很可怕的病,一旦有了害怕懷疑,再怎麼跟他解釋,他總是不信,繼續懷疑過日子,透過這「咒詛的苦水」,丈夫不能再用懷疑的方式對待妻子,這種處理方式,對夫妻二人來說,都是一種解脫。
第06章主要在講:「作拿細耳人條例」。
神說:「拿細耳人的願:就是指特別許了要離俗歸主的願,叫做拿細耳人的願。一.他要:1.遠離清酒、濃酒、醋、葡萄汁、葡萄乾、2.不可:用剃頭刀剃頭,不可挨近死屍,若沾死屍,A.要剃頭7日,第8日要獻贖罪祭作燔祭,另選離俗歸主的日子,獻贖愆祭,4.滿了離俗的日子,要獻贖罪祭、燔祭、素祭,5.要在會幕門口剃離俗的頭,頭髮要放在平安祭下的火上,二.祭司要作搖祭搖胸舉腿,聖物歸給祭司,然後拿細耳人,可以喝酒。」,神說:摩西要為以色列人祝福,說:願耶和華賜福給你保謢你,祂的臉光照你,賜恩給你。
◎心得分享:祭司是服事神的人,拿細耳人也是服事神的人,不同的是,祭司不是人人,都可以想作就可以做,不是亞倫的子孫,是沒有辦法,但是拿細耳人,是給願意服事神的人,有機會來服事神,但是相同的是,無論是祭司或是拿細耳人,都是歸耶和華的人,都必須聖潔,這是上帝對服事人的要求。
第07章主要在講:「會幕建立,族長獻禮」。
1.摩西立完了帳幕,用膏抹帳幕,2.首領族長來奉獻,第1天獻的是猶大支派,第2天獻的是以薩迦支派,第3天獻的是西布倫支派,第4天獻的是流便支派,第5天獻的是西緬支派,第5天獻的是迦得支派,第7天獻的是以法蓮支派,第8天獻的是瑪拿西支派,第9天獻的是便雅憫支派,第10天獻的是但支派,第11天獻的是亞設支派,第12天獻的是拿弗他利支派,3.摩西進會幕,神在法櫃施恩座上,基路伯中間,與摩西說話。
◎心得分享:會幕的建造,歷時一年才完成,這章讓我們看見會幕很重要的三件事,1.帳幕一定要有膏抹,2.要有人奉獻,3.要有上帝的話,我們各人,也像是會幕一樣,我們的心一定要有上帝恩膏分別為,也要把我們的心奉獻給上帝,我們的心也要常常聽到神向我們說話。
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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。