03月08日 一年的第068天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:申26-28章
第26章主要在講:「你們進應許地:獻初熟土產的條例」。
1.要拿所收初熟土產,見祭司說:「我今日明確來到神應許地」,2.祭司取來放在上帝的壇前,你要說:「我祖原是將亡的亞蘭人,人稀少後來卻成為強大的國民,我們受惡待,哀求上帝,祂用大能手行神蹟,領我們出埃及,把這流奶與蜜之地賜我們,現在我把初熟土產奉了來,向你下拜」,你要和利未人、寄居的歡樂,4.每逢三年,就是十分取一之年,要分給利未人、寄居的、孤兒寡婦,要向神說:「我聽從了上帝的話,求你從天上垂看,賜福給我們」。
◎心得分享:這章在教導我們,用一顆感恩的心,去回應上帝的祝福,特別是已經在迦南地,也有收成的時候,要將初熟的土產,是最好的,是獻給神,一方面承認不是因自己的好行為,而得到這恩典,而是自己原來是不配的,但是因為上帝的恩典,才有現今的收成,不只是不將榮耀歸給自己,而是把榮耀歸給神,也是要學會分享,去幫助弱勢的寄居的、孤兒寡婦。
第27章主要在講:「你們進應許地:宣誓祝福的條例」。
一.到應許地,當天要立起大石頭,墁上石灰,把律法的一切話寫在石頭上,要用沒鑿過的石頭築一座石壇,在壇上獻上燔祭給神,獻平安祭歡樂,二.過約旦河後6支派:西緬、利未、猶大、以薩迦、約瑟、便雅憫支派,要在以巴路山上,為百姓祝福,1.利未人說:「製造雕刻鑄造偶像,必受咒詛」,百姓都要答應說:「阿們」,2.「輕慢父母的,必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,3.「挪移鄰舍地界,必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,4.「使瞎子走差路的,必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,5.「向寄居孤兒寡婦,屈枉正直的,必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,6.「與繼母行淫、與獸淫合、與同父異母同母異父行淫、與岳母行淫必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,7.「暗中殺人、受賄賂害死無辜的人、不堅守遵行律法的,必受咒詛」,百姓要說:「阿們」,
◎心得分享:這章再一次提醒,律法的重,不只是要寫在大石頭上,也是大家要用「呼口號」的方式,用一唱一和的「立約」方式,強調不順服神的話的人,要受咒詛,百姓說:「阿們」,表示大家認同,也接受「不順服神的人,要受到咒詛的結果」,就好像是間接再一次宣告,大家要順服神的話。
第28章主要在講:「聽從神的話與不聽從神的話的結果」。
一.你若留心聽從上帝的話:1.在城裡田間必蒙福、地的出產、牲畜蒙福、出也蒙福,入也蒙福,2.仇敵必被你殺敗,從一條路攻擊你,必從七條路逃跑,3.你手所辦的事,神必賜福,為你開天上的府庫賜福給你,你必作首不作尾,居上不居下,二.你若不聽從上帝的話:1.你在城裡田間必受咒詛,上帝必因你行惡離棄你,責罰你,必使瘟疫貼在你身上,直到你在地上被滅絕,2.你頭上的天,要變為銅,腳上的地為鐵,3.你必敗在仇敵面前,你從一路去攻擊,必從七條路逃跑,必在萬國中拋來拋去,你的屍首必被空中飛鳥作食物...。
◎心得分享:聽從神的話,就蒙福,不聽從神的話,就受咒詛,人的「選擇決定權」,影響了「一生幸不幸福」的結果,順服就蒙福,上帝不是一位「虐待狂」,只想「管教人」,其實大部份的時候,受苦的原因,都是因為我們不聽從神的話。
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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。