04月22日 一年的第113天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩034-036篇
第34章主要在講:「大衛裝瘋被趕出讚美詩」。
一.我要時時稱頌讚美神的話必常在我口中。.
我的心因耶和華誇耀;喜樂謙卑人聽見就要。
二.你們和我當稱耶和華為大,一同高舉他的名。
1.我曾尋求耶和華,他就應允我,救我脫離了一切的恐懼。
2.凡仰望他的,便有光榮;臉必不蒙羞。
3.我這困苦人呼求,耶和華便垂聽,救我脫離一切患難。
4.耶和華的使者在敬畏他的人四圍安營,搭救他們。
三.你們要嘗嘗主恩的滋味,便知道他是美善;投靠他的人有福了!
四.耶和華的聖民哪,你們當敬畏他,因敬畏他的一無所缺。
1.少壯獅子還缺食忍餓,但尋求耶和華的甚麼好處都不缺。
2.你們當來聽我的話!我要將敬畏耶和華的道教訓你們。
3.禁止舌頭不出惡言,不說詭詐的話,有何人喜好存活,愛慕長壽,得享美福,
五.要離惡行善,尋求和睦,一心追趕。
1.耶和華的眼目看顧義人;聽他們的呼求。
2.耶和華向行惡的人變臉,除滅他們的名號。
3.義人呼求,耶和華聽見了,便救他們脫離一切患難。
4.耶和華靠近傷心的人,拯救靈性痛悔的人。
5.義人多有苦難,但耶和華救他脫離這一切,
A.保全他一身的骨頭,連一根也不折斷。
B.惡必害死惡人;恨惡義人的,必被定罪。
C.耶和華救贖他僕人的靈魂;凡投靠他的,必不致定罪。
◎心得分享:這一章是大衛在亞比米勒面前裝瘋,被他趕出去,之後作這詩。他整人好像經歷了從「三溫暖、酸甜苦辣、七上八下、不安的情緒」,到「安全降落」的轉折,實在是很難形容,要裝瘋裝的像,騙得過別人,這何嚐是容易,但是他成功了,1.他心裡充滿了對上帝的感恩與讚美,2.他鼓勵大家來嘗主恩的滋味,3.他肯定說敬畏尋求耶和華的一樣好處都不缺,4.他要求自己和別人,要離惡行善。是的!義人多有苦難,但耶和華救他脫離這一切,無論我們苦難是否比人多,只要我們尋求神,神必救贖我們。
第35章主要在講:「大衛面對爭戰的祈禱詩」。
一.耶和華與我相爭相戰的,求你與他們相爭相戰!
1.拿著大小的盾牌,起來幫助我。
A.抽出槍來,擋住那追趕我的;
B.求你對我的靈魂說:我是拯救你的。
2.願那尋索我命的,蒙羞受辱!願那謀害我的,退後羞愧!
3.願他們像風前的糠,有耶和華的使者趕逐他們。
4.願他們的道路又暗又滑,有耶和華的使者追趕他們。
因他們無故地為我暗設網羅,無故地挖坑,要害我的性命。
5.願災禍忽然臨到他身上!願他暗設的網纏住自己!願他落在其中遭災禍!
二.我的心必靠耶和華快樂,靠他的救恩高興。
1.我的骨頭都要說:耶和華啊,誰能像你救護困苦人脫離那比他強壯的,救護困苦窮乏人脫離那搶奪他的?
三.凶惡的見證人起來,盤問我所不知道的事。
1.他們向我以惡報善,使我的靈魂孤苦。詩35:12
2.至於我,當他們有病的時候,我便穿麻衣,禁食,刻苦己心;我所求的都歸到自己的懷中。
3.我這樣行,好像他是我的朋友,我的弟兄;我屈身悲哀,如同人為母親哀痛。詩35:14
4.我在患難中,他們卻歡喜,大家聚集。我所不認識的那些下流人聚集攻擊我;他們不住地把我撕裂。詩35:15
5.他們如同席上好嬉笑的狂妄人向我咬牙。詩35:16
四.主啊求你!
1.求你救我的靈魂脫離他們的殘害!救我的生命脫離少壯獅子!主啊,你看著不理要到幾時呢?詩35:17
我在大會中要稱謝你,在眾民中要讚美你。詩35:18
2.求你不容那無理與我為仇的向我誇耀!不容那無故恨我的向我擠眼!詩35:19
A.因為他們不說和平話,倒想出詭詐的言語害地上的安靜人。詩35:20
B.他們大大張口攻擊我,說:阿哈,阿哈,我們的眼已經看見了!詩35:21
3.耶和華啊,你已經看見了,求你不要閉口!主啊,求你不要遠離我!詩35:22
4.我的神我的主啊,求你奮興醒起,判清我的事,伸明我的冤!詩35:23
5.耶和華我的神啊,求你按你的公義判斷我,詩35:24
A.不容他們向我誇耀!
B.不容他們心裏說:阿哈,遂我們的心願了!詩35:25
C.不容他們說:我們已經把他吞了!詩35:25
D.願那喜歡我遭難的一同抱愧蒙羞!願那向我妄自尊大的披慚愧,蒙羞辱!詩35:26
E. 願那喜悅我冤屈得伸的歡呼快樂;願他們常說:當尊耶和華為大!耶和華喜悅他的僕人平安。詩35:27
五.我的舌頭要終日論說你的公義,時常讚美你。詩35:28
1.地上一切豐肥的人必喫喝而敬拜;詩22:29
2.凡下到塵土中不能存活自己性命的人都要在他面前下拜。詩22:29
◎心得分享:有人說「人生如戰場」,隨時都面對「未知的恐懼」,而又必須「時時作抉擇」,是好是壞又都必須去接受,大衛面對「爭戰」,他用禱告讚美,來面對這些,他用更積極的心「我的舌頭要將日論說神的公義,讚美神」,求神也幫助我們有這樣積極的態度,來面對自己的問題。
第36章主要在講:「大衛面對作惡人祈禱詩」。
一.惡人。
1.惡人的罪過在他心裏說:我眼中不怕神!詩36:1
2.他自誇自媚,以為他的罪孽終不顯露,不被恨惡。詩36:2
3.他口中的言語盡是罪孽詭詐;他與智慧善行已經斷絕。詩36:3
4.他在床上圖謀罪孽,定意行不善的道,不憎惡惡事。詩36:4
二. 耶和華啊
1.耶和華啊,你的慈愛上及諸天;你的信實達到穹蒼。詩36:5
2.你的公義好像高山;你的判斷如同深淵。耶和華啊,人民、牲畜,你都救護。詩36:6
3.神啊,你的慈愛何其寶貴!世人投靠在你翅膀的蔭下。詩36:7
A.他們必因你殿裏的肥甘得以飽足;你也必叫他們喝你樂河的水。詩36:8
B.因為,在你那裏有生命的源頭;在你的光中,我們必得見光。詩36:9
4.願你常施慈愛給認識你的人,常以公義待心裏正直的人。詩36:10
A.不容驕傲人的腳踐踏我;不容凶惡人的手趕逐我。詩36:11
B.在那裏,作孽的人已經仆倒;他們被推倒,不能再起來。詩36:12
◎心得分享:這一章分成二部份,第一部份是惡人的惡行,第二部份是講耶和華的慈愛信實拯救,以及上帝必會審判惡人驕傲的人,使作孽的人仆倒;被推倒,不能再起來,因為我們是投靠耶和華的,神必讓我們飽中,喝樂河的水。
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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。