04月21日 一年的第112天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩031-033篇
第31章主要在講:「大衛遭毀謗驚嚇的祈禱詩」。耶和華啊,我投靠你;
一.求你使我永不羞愧;憑你的公義搭救我!
二.求你側耳而聽,快快救我!作我堅固的磐石拯救我的保障!因為你是我的巖石,我的山寨;
三.求你為你名的緣故引導我,指點我。
四.求你救我脫離人為我暗設的網羅,
1.因為你是我的保障。
2.我將我的靈魂交在你手裏;你救贖了我。
3.我恨惡那信奉虛無之神的人;我卻倚靠耶和華。
4.我要為你的慈愛高興歡喜;因為你見過我的困苦,知道我心中的艱難。
5.你未曾把我交在仇敵手裏;你使我的腳站在寬闊之處。
五.耶和華求你憐恤我,因為我在急難之中;
1.我的眼睛因憂愁而乾癟,連我的身心也不安舒。我的生命為愁苦所消耗;我的年歲為歎息所曠廢。我的力量因我的罪孽衰敗;我的骨頭也枯乾。
2.我因一切敵人成了羞辱,在我的鄰舍跟前更甚;那認識我的都懼怕我,在外頭看見我的都躲避我。
3.我被人忘記,如同死人,無人記念;我好像破碎的器皿。 我聽見了許多人的讒謗,四圍都是驚嚇;他們一同商議攻擊我的時候,就圖謀要害我的性命。
4.耶和華啊,我仍舊倚靠你;我說:你是我的神。
六.我終身的事在你手中;求你救我脫離仇敵的手和那些逼迫我的人。
七.求你使你的臉光照僕人,憑你的慈愛拯救我。
八.耶和華求你叫我不致羞愧,因為我曾呼籲你;
九.求你使惡人羞愧,使他們在陰間緘默無聲。
1.那撒謊、逞驕、傲輕慢、出狂妄的話攻擊義人的人,願他的嘴啞而無言。
2. 施行大恩惠,向敬畏投靠神的人!
3.神把義人藏在隱密處,地保守他們。
4.耶和華是應當稱頌的,因為他在堅固城裏向我施展奇妙的慈愛。
十.至於我,
1.我呼求你的時候,神聽我懇求的聲音。
2.耶和華的聖民要愛他!耶和華保護誠實人,足足報應行事驕傲的人。
3.凡仰望耶和華的人,你們都要壯膽,堅固你們的心!
4.我在大會中讚美你的話是從你而來的;我要在敬畏耶和華的人面前還我的願。
◎心得分享:這一章大衛遇到的問題是:1.羞愧、2.網羅、3.困苦、4.艱難、5.仇敵、6.憂愁、7.身心不安舒、8.生命愁苦、9.力量衰敗、10骨頭也枯乾、11驚嚇、12攻擊..等等,在這樣的景況下,大衛不灰心,對神說:1.我投靠神、2.求神拯救,3.求神引導指點,4.求神憐恤,5.求神光照,6.告訴自己要壯膽,堅固自己的心,求神幫助我們在遭難的時候,仍然堅持繼續尋求神的幫助。
第32章主要在講:「大衛認罪求神赦免祈禱詩」。
一.得赦免其過、遮蓋其罪的,這人是有福的!
1.凡心裏沒有詭詐、耶和華不算為有罪的,這人是有福的!
2.我閉口不認罪的時候,因終日唉哼而骨頭枯乾。
A.黑夜白日,你的手在我身上沉重;B.我的精液耗盡,如同夏天的乾旱。
3.我向你陳明我的罪承認我的過犯,不隱瞞我的惡,你就赦免我的罪惡。
4.為此,凡虔誠人都當趁你可尋找的時候禱告你;大水泛溢的時候,必不能到他那裏。
二.你是我藏身之處;你必保佑我脫離苦難,以得救的樂歌四面環繞我。(細拉)
1.我要教導你,指示你當行的路;我要定睛在你身上勸戒你。
2.你不可像那無知的騾馬,必用嚼環轡頭勒住他;不然,就不能馴服。
3.惡人必多受苦楚;惟獨倚靠耶和華的必有慈愛四面環繞他。
4.你們義人應當靠耶和華歡喜快樂;你們心裏正直的人都當歡呼。
◎心得分享:這一章是大衛認罪悔改的禱告,他向神承認自己的罪,並且立志要尋求神,他向神禱告,他知道上帝是他藏身之處,必教導指示人當行的路,他倚靠耶和華,有慈愛四圍環繞,義人應當靠耶和華歡喜快樂,求神幫肋我們不隱瞞我們自己的罪惡,求神赦免。
第33章主要在講:「義人歡樂讚美彈琴歌頌神」。
一.你們應當。
1.義人哪,你們應當靠耶和華歡樂;正直人的讚美是合宜的。詩33:1
2.你們應當彈琴稱謝耶和華,用十弦瑟歌頌他。詩33:2
3.應當向他唱新歌,彈得巧妙,聲音洪亮。詩33:3
二.耶和華。
1.因為耶和華的言語正直;凡他所作的盡都誠實。詩33:4
2.他喜愛仁義公平;遍地滿了耶和華的慈愛。詩33:5
3.諸天藉耶和華的命而造;萬象藉他口中的氣而成。詩33:6
A.他聚集海水如壘,收藏深洋在庫房。詩33:7
B.願全地都敬畏耶和華!願世上的居民都懼怕他!詩33:8
C.因為他說有,就有,命立,就立。詩33:9
4.耶和華使列國的籌算歸於無有,使眾民的思念無有功效。詩33:10
A.耶和華的籌算永遠立定;他心中的思念萬代常存。詩33:11
B.以耶和華為神的,那國是有福的!他所揀選為自己產業的,那民是有福的!詩33:12
C.耶和華從天上觀看;他看見一切的世人詩。33:13
a.從他的居所往外察看地上一切的居民,詩33:14
b.他是那造成他們眾人心的,留意他們一切作為的。詩33:15
c.君王不能因兵多得勝;勇士不能因力大得救。靠馬得救是枉然的;馬也不能因力大救人。詩33:16-17
D.耶和華的眼目看顧敬畏他的人和仰望他慈愛的人,要救他們的命脫離死亡,並使他們在饑荒中存活。詩33:18-19
三.我們的心。
1.我們的心向來等候耶和華;他是我們的幫助,我們的盾牌。詩33:20
2.我們的心必靠他歡喜,因為我們向來倚靠他的聖名。詩33:21
3.耶和華啊,求你照著我們所仰望你的,向我們施行慈愛!詩33:22
◎心得分享:這一章是歡樂讚美彈琴歌頌的詩篇,比較讓我有感動的是16-18節,君王不能因兵多得勝;勇士不能因力大得救。靠馬得救是枉然的;馬也不能因力大救人,耶和華的眼目看顧敬畏他的人和仰望他慈愛的人,是的!神看顧我們,我們不要靠人,神是我們的惟一可靠的。
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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。