04月24日 一年的第115天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩040-042篇
第40章主要在講:「大衛在困苦窮乏祈禱文」。
一.我曾耐性等候耶和華;他垂聽我的呼求。詩40:1
1.他從禍坑裏,從淤泥中,把我拉上來,使我的腳立在磐石上,使我腳步穩當。詩40:2
2.他使我口唱新歌,就是讚美我們神的話。許多人必看見而懼怕,並要倚靠耶和華。詩40:3
3.那倚靠耶和華、不理會狂傲和偏向虛假之輩的,這人便為有福!詩40:4
4.耶和華我的神啊,你所行的奇事,並你向我們所懷的意念甚多,不能向你陳明;若要陳明,其事不可勝數。詩40:5
5.祭物和禮物,你不喜悅;你已經開通我的耳朵。燔祭和贖罪祭非你所要。詩40:6
二.那時我說:看哪,我來了!我的事在經卷上已經記載了。詩40:7
三.我的神啊,我樂意照你的旨意行;你的律法在我心裏。詩40:8
四.我在大會中宣傳公義的佳音;我必不止住我的嘴唇。耶和華啊,這是你所知道的。詩40:9
1. 我未曾把你的公義藏在心裏;我已陳明你的信實和你的救恩;我在大會中未曾隱瞞你的慈愛和誠實。詩40:10
2.耶和華啊,求你不要向我止住你的慈悲!願你的慈愛和誠實常常保佑我!詩40:11
3.因有無數的禍患圍困我,我的罪孽追上了我,使我不能昂首;這罪孽比我的頭髮還多,我就心寒膽戰。詩40:12
4.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。詩35:13
◎心得分享:這章是大衛在困苦窮乏,被無數禍患圍困,不能昂首,他向神讚美,他數算神的恩典,他知道過去,上帝曾經垂聽他的呼求,現在的問題,只要他禱告,上帝必同樣會拯救他因為神是慈愛誠實的。
第41章主要在講:「大衛在生怪病時的禱告詞」。
一.眷顧貧窮的有福了!他遭難的日子,耶和華必搭救他。詩41:1
1.耶和華必保全他,使他存活;他必在地上享福。求你不要把他交給仇敵,遂其所願。詩41:2
2.他病重在榻,耶和華必扶持他;他在病中,你必給他鋪床。詩41:3
二.我曾說:耶和華啊,求你憐恤我,醫治我!因為我得罪了你。詩41:4
三.我的仇敵用惡言議論我說:他幾時死,他的名纔滅亡呢?詩41:5
1.他來看我就說假話;他心存奸惡,走到外邊纔說出來。詩41:6
2.一切恨我的,都交頭接耳地議論我;他們設計要害我。詩41:7
3.他們說:有怪病貼在他身上;他已躺臥,必不能再起來。詩41:8
4.連我知己的朋友,我所倚靠、喫過我飯的也用腳踢我。詩41:9
四.耶和華啊,求你憐恤我,使我起來,好報復他們!詩41:10
1.因我的仇敵不得向我誇勝,我從此便知道你喜愛我。詩41:11
2.你因我純正就扶持我,使我永遠站在你的面前。詩41:12
3.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。詩35:13
◎心得分享:大衛生怪病,他向神禱告,別人都趁機要害他,說他會病死在床上,特別是他知己的朋友,跟他吃過飯的人,竟然用腳踢他,他整個人幾乎「身、心」都疲憊,但是他沒有氣餒,他向神禱告,因為他知道,上帝會為他施行報復。
第42章主要在講:「心裡憂悶煩躁的禱告詞」
一.我的心
1神啊,我的心切慕你,如鹿切慕溪水。.詩42:1
2.我的心渴想神,就是永生神;我幾時得朝見神呢?詩42:2
3.我晝夜以眼淚當飲食;人不住地對我說:你的神在那裏呢?詩42:3
4.我從前與眾人同往,用歡呼稱讚的聲音領他們到神的殿裏,大家守節。我追想這些事,我的心極其悲傷。詩42:4
5.我的心哪,你為何憂悶?為何在我裏面煩躁?應當仰望神,因他笑臉幫助我;我還要稱讚他。詩42:5
二.我的神啊,我的心在我裏面憂悶,所以我從約但地,從黑門嶺,從米薩山記念你。詩42:6
1.你的瀑布發聲,深淵就與深淵響應;你的波浪洪濤漫過我身。詩42:7
2.白晝,耶和華必向我施慈愛;黑夜,我要歌頌禱告賜我生命的神。詩42:8
3.我要對神我的磐石說:你為何忘記我呢?我為何因仇敵的欺壓時常哀痛呢?詩42:9
4.我的敵人辱罵我,好像打碎我的骨頭,不住地對我說:你的神在那裏呢?詩42:10
5.我的心哪,你為何憂悶?為何在我裏面煩躁?應當仰望神,因我還要稱讚他。他是我臉上的光榮(原文是幫助),是我的神。詩42:11
◎心得分享:(可拉後裔的訓誨詩,交與伶長。)憂悶煩躁是人之常情,只要是人都會有這些臨到,在這樣的光景中,作者提醒我們,應當仰望神,稱讚神,因神用笑臉幫助我們,人不會幫助我們,不會給我笑臉沒關係,但是神會用笑臉幫助我們,是我們的榮光。
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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。