03月26日 一年的第086天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:撒上01-03章
第01章主要在講:「撒母耳的出生情形」。
以利加拿有兩個妻,哈拿與毘尼拿,哈拿不能生育,他的丈夫愛他,獻祭的禮物給他兩份,昆尼拿就激動她,要使她生氣。1.哈拿心裡痛痛哭泣不吃飯禱告,向神許願,若神給他一個兒子,他要將身獻給上帝,祭司以利在殿的門框旁邊坐,以為她喝醉了,就說:「妳不應該喝酒」,2.哈拿說:「我是被人激動愁苦太多,所以禱告到現在」,以利說:「願神允准你所求的」,3.哈拿說:「願婢女在你面前蒙恩」,她就走去吃飯,面上不帶愁容,隔天在神面前敬拜。4.神顧念哈拿,她就懷孕,生了一兒子,給他起名叫撒母耳,5.撒母耳斷奶的時候,他母親就把他帶到示羅耶和華的殿,帶了三隻公牛、細麵、酒,把他交給以利,將身歸與耶和華。
◎心得分享:哈拿的「信心」,不是建立在神的僕人以利的身上,事實上「以利」,是個沒有恩膏的僕人,神的話語,在他身上寡少不常有默示,但是因為哈拿「單純」的信心,神就成就她所要的,這就在提醒我們,如果神的僕人講道沒有恩膏像以利,若是我們有「哈拿」的信心,我們依然的可以從沒有恩膏的傳道人「以利」的口中,得到上帝祝福的話。
第02章主要在講:「撒母耳的孩童服事」。
1.哈拿禱告讚美神,感謝神替她伸冤,給她有孩子可以獻給神,之後就回去了,2.以利的兩個兒子是惡人,不認識耶和華,A.獻祭煮肉,他們拿叉子將肉取去,B.脂油要先燒烤,才可以取肉,還未燒烤,他就把生肉取去,C.他們的罪,在神的面前甚重,因藐視耶和華的祭物,3.以利為撒母耳的父母祝福說:願神再賜你後代,代替你從神求來的孩子,他們回鄉後撒母耳的母親就懷孕,生了三個兒子、兩個女兒,4.以利老邁,聽見他兩個兒子的事,又聽見他們與會幕門徒伺候的婦人苟合,就勸他們,但是他們不聽,因為耶和華要殺他,5.有神人來責備以利,對他說:「耶和華說A.你們踐踏祭物,尊重你的兒子,過於尊重我,B.我要折斷你和人父家的膀臂,你家中所生的,都必死在中年,C.你的兩個兒子,必一日同死,D.我要立忠心祭司,他必照我心意而行」。 。
◎心得分享:以利的家庭教育的失敗,在提醒我們這些神的僕人使女,千萬不要像他,「尊重兒子,過於尊重上帝」,把「兒子當成是上帝」,正如詩篇十六篇提醒我們的,「以別神代替耶和華的,他們的愁苦必加增」,作父母的有時也要,在使兒女不失去志氣下,適當的責備管教,使他走當行的路。
第03章主要在講:「撒母耳被召作先知」。
1.童子撒母耳在以利面前,耶和華的言語稀少、不常有默示,2.耶和華呼喚撒母耳,A.兩次撒母耳,都以為以利在叫他,第三次以利明白是耶和華呼喚,就告訴撒母耳說:「你若聽到呼喚,就說:耶和華請說,僕人敬聽」,B.耶和華說:「以利家的罪孽,永不得贖」,3.以利要求撒母耳,說上帝對他說的話,撒母耳就把一切話,告訴以利沒有隱瞞,4.撒母耳長大,耶和華與他同在,使他說的話,一句都不落空,以色列人都知道耶和華立撒母耳為先知,耶和華在示羅顯現,撒母耳就把神默示的話,傳遍以色列地。
◎心得分享:以利與撒母耳都是祭司,也都是先知,但是可惜的是耶和華的言語,在「以利」的身上是「稀少、不常有默示」,而撒母耳是直到死的時候,上帝都還是用他,關鍵在於「撒母耳」聽了上帝的話,不只有回應,而且完全是遵照神的指示去做,所以上帝可以用他,成為士師,帶領以色列人,在國王未出來之前,求神把撒母耳「僕人敬聽」的心,永遠放在我們心中。
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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。