03月10日 一年的第070天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:申32-34章
第32章主要在講:「在摩押地,摩西作歌唱詩讚美神」。
一.摩西作歌:1.願天地聽我說話,我要宣告耶和華的名v1-3,2.神是磐石、完全、公平,誠實、公義、正直,神的兒女是彎曲愚昧無知v4-9,3.神是慈愛看顧、保護祂的兒女,如同保護眼中瞳人,神的兒女漸漸肥胖,就離棄、輕看神,去敬拜別神v10-18,4.神的兒女惹動神的怒氣,神就厭棄他們,向他們掩面,將禍患堆在他們身上,將他們分散到遠方,他們就驚恐與失腳v19-35,神見祂的百姓被困住,毫無能力,就為祂的僕人後悔,為他們伸冤,救贖祂的百姓v36-43,二.約書亞將這歌說給百姓聽,摩西警戒教導百姓,三.神吩咐摩西上尼波山,遠遠觀看迦南地。
◎心得分享:摩西的詩歌很有意思,前面是引言,接著就是把上帝的作為與人的作為,作一個強烈的對比,「神是公義完全,人是愚昧無知」,「神是慈愛看顧保護人,人是富足了就去敬拜別神」,「神的怒氣是一時,慈愛卻是長久的」,見祂百姓被困住,就為祂的僕人的禱告,後悔不再處罰人,摩西對上帝的了解與感動,真是讓我們「心有戚戚焉」,上帝就是這麼慈愛的上帝。
第33章主要在講:「在摩押地,摩西祝福以色列人」。
在摩西未死以前,為以色列人祝福,說:神疼愛祂的百姓,在耶書崙作王(耶書崙是以色列名字的暱稱):1.願流:便存活,人數不稀少,2.猶大:求神聽他的聲音,引導他,他用手為自己爭戰,神必幫助祂,3.利未:虔誠人在他那裡,要遵行神的話,將典章律法教訓人,燒香獻燔祭在壇上,4.便雅憫:神所親愛的,必同耶和華居住,神終日遮蔽他,在神兩肩之中,5.約瑟:得天上、地上寶物,用角牴觸萬邦,A.以法蓮的角牴萬萬,B.瑪拿西的角牴千千,6.西布倫:出外可以歡喜,7.以薩迦:在帳棚可以快樂,吸取海裏豐富、沙中珍寶,召列邦到山上獻公義的祭,8.迦得:向外族擴張地界,施行耶和華的公義典章,9.但:像小獅子,滿有力量,10.拿弗他利:得到神的恩惠祝福,可以得到西方和南方為產業,11.亞設:享受多子的福樂,得到弟兄喜悅,門閂是銅的、鐵的,日子如何,力量就如何。永生上帝,是以色列居所、永遠膀臂,神要他們面前,攆出仇敵,他們要安然居住。
◎心得分享:摩西給12支派的祝福,就遠比「雅各」給他兒子們12支派的祝福更體切,因為有將近40多年的時間,摩西是跟他們在一起的,那一個支派,什麼樣子,沒有人比摩西更清楚,那一個支派,是比較背逆的,摩西都知道,但是摩西的祝福,讓我們看到沒有絲毫的「苦毒、埋怨」,而是「皆大歡喜,老少咸宜」,這提醒我們,無論別人過去作的怎麼不對,我們總要試著按我們主耶穌的命令去作,就是要「愛你的仇敵、要為你的仇敵禱告祝福」。
第34章主要在講:「摩西死了」。
摩西上摩押平原的尼波山,看到耶利哥的平原,神對他說:「我將這地賜給你的後裔,你眼睛看見了,卻不得過到那裡」,摩西死了,耶和華將他埋葬,沒有人知道他的墳墓,摩西死的時候120歲,眼目沒有昏花,精神沒有衰敗,以色列人為摩西哭了30日,約書亞被智慧的靈充滿,以色列人便聽從他,照神吩咐摩西的行,以色列中再也沒有興起先知像摩西。
◎心得分享:摩西的死是很特別的,沒有人知道他的墳墓,他死的時候,「眼目沒有昏花,精神沒有衰敗」,這是多麼難得的,我們也應許求神幫助我們,在我們走的時候,不是帶著病痛走的,而是像摩西一樣,能夠「眼目沒有昏花,精神沒有衰敗」的被主接走。
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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。