04月18日 一年的第109天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩022-024篇
第22章主要在講:「大衛遭神離棄的禱告詩」。
一.我的神!為甚麼離棄我?遠離不救我?不聽我唉哼的言語?
1.我的神啊,我白日呼求,你不應允,
2.夜間呼求,並不住聲。
二.但你是聖潔的,是用以色列的讚美為寶座。
1.我們的祖宗倚靠你;你便解救他們;
2.他們倚靠你,就不羞愧。
三.但我:
1. 我是蟲,不是人,被眾人羞辱,被百姓藐視。
A.看見我的都嗤笑我;B.但神使我有倚靠的心,神就是我的神。
2.求你不要遠離我!因為急難臨近了,沒有人幫助我。
A.有許多公牛圍繞我,四面困住我。
B.向我張口,好像抓撕吼叫的獅子。
C.我如水被倒出來;骨頭都脫了節;心如蠟鎔化。精力枯乾,舌頭貼在我牙床上。在死地的塵土中。
D.犬類惡黨環繞我;扎了我的手,我的腳。
E.他們瞪著眼看我。分我的外衣,為我的裏衣拈鬮。
3.求你不要遠離我!求你快來幫助我!
4.求你救我的靈魂脫離刀劍,救我的生命脫離犬類,
5.救我脫離獅子的口;你已經應允我,使我脫離野牛的角。
四.我要將你的名傳與我的弟兄,在會中我要讚美你。
1.敬畏耶和華的人要讚美他!要榮耀他!要懼怕他!
2.神沒有藐視憎惡受苦的人,那受苦之人呼籲的時候,他就垂聽。
3.我要在敬畏耶和華的人面前還我的願。
4.尋求耶和華的人必讚美他。願你們的心永遠活著!
◎心得分享:這一章是大衛內心遭到羞辱藐視嗤笑,外在被犬類惡黨困住,他的禱告,得不到上帝的回應,他問上帝提問:「為什麼不應允禱告?」,他內心的掙扎,可以從字裡行間,詳細的看到他的痛苦,但是他沒有因為這樣,就放棄信仰,他仍然向上帝禱告,他知道神會應允他,他向神承諾要傳福音、讚美神、敬畏神、尋求神,求神幫助我們在「痛苦」中,能學習像大衛一樣,不是被惡所勝,反而堅持依靠神、服事神。
第23章主要在講:「大衛詩:耶和華是我牧者」。
一.耶和華是:我的牧者,我必不至缺乏,
二.耶和華使我:
1.躺臥在青草地,在可安歇的水邊,2.使我靈魂甦醒,引導我走義路,
三.我雖行過死蔭幽谷,也不怕遭害:
1.因神與我同在,神的杖神的竿都安慰我,
2.在我敵人面前,擺設筵席,
3.神用油膏我的頭,使我福杯滿溢,
四.我一生一生必有恩惠慈隨著我,我且要住在神的殿中到永遠。
◎心得分享:這一章是大衛在描述「他跟神的關係」,上帝的手一直在他身上,無論是青草地、或是死蔭幽谷,亦或是面對仇敵,上帝的恩典,從來沒有離開他,而他嚮往一生一生住在神的殿中,這讓我們看到,為什麼大衛是「合神心意」呢?因為他看重他與神的關係,更勝於一切,上帝是他生命,不可或缺的。
第24章主要在講:「大衛進入聖殿的讚美詩」。
一.都屬耶和華:
1.地和海世界都屬耶和華,2.神把地建立在海和大水之上。
二.誰能豋耶和華的山,站在神的聖所:
1.手潔心清、不向虛妄、起誓不懷詭詐,
2.蒙耶和華賜福拯救成義,
3.尋求耶和華的族類,
三.眾城門:
1.要抬起來,被舉起,
2.榮耀君王要進來:
A.是有能有力,B.是在戰場有能的,C.是萬軍的耶和華。
◎心得分享:這一章是大衛進入聖殿的讚美詩,這一章分成三個部份,第一個部份,他讚美神至高掌權,全地都屬耶和華,第二部份是他強調要站立在偉大的聖潔耶和華面前的人,必須是尋求耶和華的義人,而他也先省察自己的行為,存著無虧的良心,到神面前,第三部份他對上帝的讚美,神是榮耀的君王,是有能的,眾城門要抬起來被舉起,是在另一種隱喻,大衛他自己就像是「城門」,他要向神抬開頭來,神要進到他裡面,賜給他能力。
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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。