04月13日 一年的第104天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩007-009篇
第07章主要在講:「大衛被追趕祈禱文:神是盾牌,我心裡正直」(10)[四求]。
一.求你救我脫離追趕我的人,因:1.我投靠你,2.恐怕他們撕裂撕碎我,無人搭救,3.若我有罪,就任憑仇敵追趕,使我歸於塵土,4.我曾救無故與我為敵的人,二.求你在怒中起來,挺身抵擋我敵人的暴怒,三.求你為我興起,施行審判,四.求你按我的公義和心中的純正判斷我,1.願惡人的惡斷絕,堅立義人,2.神察驗人心、是我的盾牌,拯救心裡正直,公義審判者,向惡人發怒,3.若有人不回頭,神的刀磨快、弓上弦,預備殺人器械,射火箭,4.惡人奸惡劬勞,懷毒害,生虛假,掘了深抗,掉在自己所挖陷阱,毒害必臨他頭上,強暴必落在他腦袋,5.我要照耶和華公義稱謝歌頌他至高的名,
◎心得分享:這一篇是「流離歌」,指的是沒有一定住處,一直在變換住處的光景中,而這個背後流離的原因,是因為仇敵一直不停在追殺大衛,大衛無法勝過仇敵,只有逃跑,他知道這樣在敵人面前逃跑,不是因為他的罪導致的結果,所以他求神來判斷他的公義與心中的純正,按這情形來看,應該是在大衛殺了歌利亞,掃羅在追殺他,他又不能殺掃羅,他求神讓惡人受到報應。
第08章主要在講:「大衛對神眷顧讚美詩:神的顧念,我算什麼」(4)。
一.耶和華我們的主你的名,在全地何其美,榮耀彰顯於天,二.你使仇敵和報仇的閉口無言:因敵人緣故,從嬰兒和吃奶口中,建立能力,三.你顧念眷顧世人,1.從天月亮星宿看,人算什麼?2.你叫他比天使微小,賜他榮耀尊貴冠冕,四.你派他管理你手所造的,使萬物服在他腳下,耶和華,我們的主!你名在全地何其美。
◎心得分享:大衛讚美神的名,何其美有四個原因:1.是神榮耀彰顯於天,2.神使仇敵閉口,3.神顧念眷顧卑微的大衛,4.神揀選大衛作王,管理神所造的一切,他知道自己原是不配的,不夠資格,但是上帝高舉使用他,他向神獻上讚美。
第09章主要在講:「大衛求神伸冤祈禱文:神奇妙作為:我要傳揚」(1)。
一.我要:1.我要一心稱謝耶和華,2.我要傳揚你奇妙作為,3.我要因你歡喜快樂,二.我的仇敵:1.仇敵轉身見神的面,就跌倒,A.因神已經為我伸冤,坐在寶座按公義審判,B.神曾斥責外邦、滅絕惡人、塗抹他們的名,2.仇敵到了盡頭,被毀壞直到永遠,3.神坐著為王著為王,要按公義審判世界,按正直判斷萬民,4.耶和華要給受欺壓的人作高台,三.認識你名的人:1.要倚靠神,因神沒有離棄尋求他的人,2.應當歌頌神,將神所行的傳揚在眾民中,A.神是追討人罪的,B.神是記念受屈的人,C.神是不忘記困苦人的哀求,D.神是從死門把我提拔起來,四.三「求」:1.求你憐憫我,A.看那恨我的人,加給我的苦難,B.好叫我述說你的美德,因你救恩歡樂,a.外邦人陷自己所掘的坑中,腳在網羅裡,b.神顯明施行審判,惡人被自己手做的纏住了c.惡人都必歸到陰間,d.窮乏人必不永久被忘,困苦人指望必不永遠落空,2.求你起來,不容人得勝,願外邦人受審判,3.求你使外邦人恐懼,知道自己不過是人。
◎心得分享:這篇是「慕拉便」調,「慕拉便」是指「兒子死」,不確定是不是指大衛兒子死的事,「慕拉便」可能是指一種常用「非常悲哀」的調式,大衛遇到冤屈,仇敵不斷攻擊他,這時候大衛用很悲哀的調式,把他受的委屈,向神唱詩禱告,求神幫助我們,學習像大衛一樣,用禱告唱詩,來處理我們受傷的心境。
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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。