04月12日 一年的第103天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩004-006篇
第04章主要在講:「大衛困苦的祈禱文:神的憐恤,我向神禱告」(1)。
一.顯我為義的神(1):1.求你應允我困苦的呼籲,2.你曾使我寬廣,3.求你憐恤聽我的禱告,二.你們上流人要到幾時?(2-5):1.將尊榮變羞辱2.喜愛尋找虛妄虛假,3.你們要知道神分別虔誠人歸祂,4.應當畏懼,不可犯罪,在牀上安靜思想,5.當獻上公義祭,倚靠耶和華,三.我要求告耶和華(6-8):1.求神仰起臉光照我們,指示我們好處,2.神使我心裡快樂,3.我必安然躺下睡覺,安然居住。
◎心得分享:這章的作者是大衛,大衛感受到「困苦」,是因為周遭的環境,有許多「是非不明」的事,上流有錢人,在找在作虛假的事,將尊榮變成羞辱,導致要過敬虔人,沒有辦法過虔誠的生活,在這樣的景況中,大衛把「困苦」轉成「禱告」的力量,這時候他的困苦心境不見了,他可以安然躺下居住,這是大衛面對困苦的方式,他把他的眼光,從困苦轉向神,環境沒有改變,但是心情改變,求神幫助我們,在困苦中學習像大衛,向神禱告,仍然可以處之泰然面對困苦。
第05章主要在講:「大衛面對狂傲的惡人祈禱文:神的公義,我要投靠你」(8,10)。
一.耶和華求你(1-3):1.留心聽我的言語,顧念我心思,2.早晨你必聽我的聲音,我必警醒向你陳明我的心意,二.神不悅(4-6):1.惡人不能與神同居,因神不喜悅惡事,2.狂傲人不能站在神面前,3.作孽的,都是神所恨惡,4.說謊的,神必滅絕,5.好流人血弄詭詐,為耶和華所憎惡,三.至於我(7-12):1.我必進入你的居所,2.存敬畏心向你聖殿下拜,3.求你憑公義引導我,走你的道路,4.神阿求你定他們的罪,A.他們口中沒有誠實,B.心裡滿有邪惡,C.喉嚨是敞開墳墓,D.用舌頭諂媚人,願你把他們逐出,因為他們背叛你,5.凡投靠你的:A.願他們喜樂歡呼,因你護庇他們,B.願那愛你的名的歡欣,因你賜福與義人,C.你必用恩惠如同盾牌,四面護衛他。
◎心得分享:這章的作者是大衛,大衛面對的惡人是:作孽的、作惡的、沒有誠實、滿有邪惡..等等,來攻擊大衛,這些惡人讓大衛很痛苦,大衛面對狂傲的惡人的方式,就是禱告,他用晨禱來處理他自己內心的痛苦,之後他就把這些痛苦放在一旁,他存敬畏的心,向神敬拜,求神引導,也求神護庇,他相信上帝「必用」恩惠如同盾牌,四面護衛他,是的上帝「必」護衛尋求神的人,他的信心是源自於「神應許的話語」,求神幫助我們,要有好的「晨禱」,因為這是蒙福的第一步。
第06章主要在講:「大衛求神醫治祈禱文:神的慈愛,我懇求禱告」(4,9)。
一.四「求」耶和華:1.求你不要在怒中責備懲罰我,2.求你可憐我,因為我軟弱,3.求你醫治我,因為我骨頭發戰,心驚惶,神要到幾時?4.求你轉回搭救我,因你慈愛拯救我,因死地無人記念稱頌你,二.四「因」:1.因唉啍困乏,每夜流淚,把牀漂起,褥子濕透,2.因憂愁眼睛乾癟,3.因敵人眼睛昏花,4.因耶和華聽我的哀哭懇求:A.作孽的人,離開我吧,B.我的一切仇敵都必羞愧驚惶退後,忽然羞辱。
◎心得分享:這章的作者是大衛,大衛可能生病了,因為骨頭發戰,他求神不要責備懲罰,求神能醫治,因為他快要死了,他死了就不能讚美神,他每夜流淚的禱告,眼睛乾癟昏花,在痛苦中他宣告:「和華聽他的哀哭懇求」,從這一篇在提醒我們,生病的時候,一定要流淚禱告,因為流淚撒種的,必歡呼收割。
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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。