04月14日 一年的第105天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩010-012篇
第10章主要在講:「大衛患難時祈禱文:神永遠為王,外邦人已經滅絕」(16)。
耶和華你為甚麼站在遠處,在患難隱藏?一.惡人:1.惡人驕橫把困苦人追得火急;願他們陷自己所設計謀,2.惡人以心願自誇;貪財背棄耶和華,輕慢耶和華。3.惡人驕傲說:A.耶和華不追究;B,他所想的都以為沒有神。C.所做時常穩固;神審判超過他的眼界。至於他一切的敵人,他都向他們噴氣。D.我必不動搖,世世代代不遭災難。4.他滿口是咒罵、詭詐、欺壓,毒害、奸惡。埋伏在隱密處殺害無辜人。眼睛窺探無倚靠的人;擄去困苦人;無倚無靠的人就倒在他爪牙。5.心裏說神忘記了永不觀看。二.禱告:1.耶和華啊,求你起來!2.神啊求你舉手,不要忘記困苦人!A.惡人輕慢神,心裏說神必不追究?B.神已經觀看奸惡毒害,要以手施行報應。C.無倚無靠的人把自己交託你;你向來是幫助孤兒的。3.願你打斷惡人膀臂,追究壞人惡,直到淨盡。A.耶和華永遠為王;外邦人從他的地已經滅絕了。B.謙卑人的心願,神知道必預備他們的心,也必側耳聽他們的祈求,C.要給孤兒和受欺壓的人伸冤,使強橫的人不再威嚇他們。
◎心得分享:大衛自認自己是「無辜的人」但卻遇到「患難」,他的敵人,埋伏在隱密處等著要殺害他,他除了上帝以外,沒有任何人可以幫助他,他像是孤兒和受欺壓的人,他相信上帝是幫助軟弱的人,他求神替他伸冤,把敵人滅絕。
第11章主要在講:「大衛面對惡人要射暗箭:神察看世人,我是投靠耶和華」(4,1)。
一.我是:投靠耶和華,人對我說,你當像鳥飛往山上,二.惡人:1.把箭搭在弦上,2.要暗中射心裡正直的人,三.根基:根基若毀壞,義人還能作什麼?四.耶和華:1.耶和華慧眼察看世人,2.耶和華試驗義人,耶和華恨惡人,向惡人密布網羅,3.耶和華喜愛公義,正直人必得見祂的面。
◎心得分享:大衛知道他所遇到的困境,是耶和華給他的「試驗」,他求神保守他「根基」不要毀壞,「根基」是什麼呢?上帝就是大衛的「根基」,惡人射箭的目的,就是要讓義人失去對上帝的信心,失去上帝的同在,沒有上帝就等於是沒有根基,沒有上帝就不能作什麼?正如主耶穌說:「我是葡萄樹,你們是枝子,離了我,你們就不能作什麼」。
第12章主要在講:「大衛面對說謊人的:耶和華的言語,煉淨人的言語」(6)。
一.耶和華求你幫助v1-4:1.因虔誠人斷絕,忠信人沒有,2.人人向鄰舍說謊:是嘴唇油滑,心中不一,A.油滑嘴唇,誇大舌頭,耶和華必要剪除,B.他們說嘴唇是我們自己的,我們必能以舌頭得勝,二.耶和華說v5-6:1.困苦人冤情歎息,我現在要起來,2.我要把困苦人安置在他所切慕穩妥之地,3.耶和華的言語是純淨的言語,如同銀子在泥爐中煉過七次,三.耶和華必v7-8:必保護保佑他們脫離這世代的人,四.下流人在世上升高,就有惡人到處遊行。
◎心得分享:這一篇大衛試著把兩稱語言,放在一起比較,一種是「說謊的言語」,另一種是「耶和華的言語」,「說謊的言語」,帶給人的是困苦、冤情、歎息,而「耶和華的言語」是能把人安置在穩妥之地,而且能把我們身上的沙土除淨,煉淨呈現出純度高的「銀子」。
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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。