04月25日 一年的第116天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩043-045篇
第43章主要在講:「求神伸冤的祈禱詞」。
一. 神啊,求你伸我的冤,向不虔誠的國為我辨屈;詩43:1
二. 求你救我脫離詭詐不義的人。詩43:1
1. 因為你是賜我力量的神,為何丟棄我呢?詩43:2
2. 我為何因仇敵的欺壓時常哀痛呢?詩43:2
三.求你發出你的亮光和真實,好引導我,帶我到你的聖山,到你的居所!詩43:3
1.我就走到神的祭壇,到我最喜樂的神那裏。詩43:4
2.神啊,我的神,我要彈琴稱讚你!詩43:4
3.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,是我的神。
我的心哪,你為何憂悶?詩43:5
◎心得分享:在這一章我最喜歡的是4到5節,我就走到神的祭壇,到我最喜樂的神那裏。.神啊,我的神,我要彈琴稱讚你!讚美使我們有力量,希來書10章23-25,提到「也要堅守我們所承認的指望,不至搖動,因為那應許我們的是信實的。又要彼此相顧,激發愛心,勉勵行善。你們不可停止聚會,好像那些停止慣了的人,倒要彼此勸勉,既知道那日子臨近,就更當如此。
第44章主要在講:「可拉後裔:遭苦難受欺壓的祈禱詞」。
一.神啊你在古時,我們列祖的日子所行的事,我們親耳聽見列祖也給我們述說過。詩44:1
1.你曾用手趕出外邦人,卻栽培了我們列祖;你苦待列邦,卻叫我們列祖發達。詩44:2
2.因為他們不是靠自己的刀劍得地土,也不是靠自己的膀臂得勝,乃是靠你的右手、你的膀臂,和你臉上的亮光,因為你喜悅他們。詩44:
二.神啊,你是我的王;求你出令使雅各得勝。詩44:4
1.我們靠你要推倒我們的敵人,靠你的名要踐踏那起來攻擊我們的人。詩44:5
A.因為,我必不靠我的弓;我的刀也不能使我得勝。詩44:6
B.惟你救了我們脫離敵人,使恨我們的人羞愧。詩44:7
C.我們終日因神誇耀,還要永遠稱謝你的名。詩44:8
2.但如今你丟棄了我們,使我們受辱,不和我們的軍兵同去。詩44:9
A.你使我們向敵人轉身退後;那恨我們的人任意搶奪。詩44:10
B.你使我們當作快要被喫的羊,把我們分散在列邦中。詩44:11
C.你賣了你的子民也不賺利,所得的價值並不加添你的資財。詩44:12
D.你使我們
a.你使我們受鄰國的羞辱,被四圍的人嗤笑譏刺。詩44:13
b.你使我們在列邦中作了笑談,使眾民向我們搖頭。詩44:14
E.我的凌辱終日在我面前,我臉上的羞愧將我遮蔽,詩44:15
都因那辱罵毀謗人的聲音,又因仇敵和報仇人的緣故。詩44:16
3.這都臨到我們身上,我們卻沒有忘記你,也沒有違背你的約。詩44:17
A.我們的心沒有退後;我們的腳也沒有偏離你的路。詩44:18
B.你在野狗之處壓傷我們,用死蔭遮蔽我們。詩44:19
C.倘若我們忘了神的名,或向別神舉手,詩44:20
D.神豈不鑒察這事麼?因為他曉得人心裏的隱秘。詩44:21
4.我們為你的緣故終日被殺;人看我們如將宰的羊。詩44:22
三.主啊,求你睡醒,為何儘睡呢?求你興起,不要永遠丟棄我們!詩44:23
1.你為何掩面,不顧我們所遭的苦難和所受的欺壓?詩44:24
2.我們的性命伏於塵土;我們的肚腹緊貼地面。詩44:25
3.求你起來幫助我們!憑你的慈愛救贖我們!詩44:26
◎心得分享:(可拉後裔的訓誨詩,交與伶長。)作者在受到仇敵的攻擊,帶領會眾一起向神禱告,求神興起,求神起來幫助我們!憑慈愛救贖我們!禱告真的是很重要,我們主耶穌要在路加福音18章1節,命令我們「常常禱告,不可灰心」。
第45章主要在講:「可拉後裔:君王婚禮上獻唱的詩」。
一.我心裏湧出美辭;我論到我為王作的事,我的舌頭是快手筆。詩45:1
1.你比世人更美;在你嘴裏滿有恩惠;所以神賜福給你,直到永遠。詩45:2
2.大能者啊,願你腰間佩刀,大有榮耀和威嚴!詩45:3
3.為真理、謙卑、公義赫然坐車前往,無不得勝;你的右手必顯明可畏的事。詩45:4
4.你的箭鋒快,射中王敵之心;萬民仆倒在你以下。詩45:5
二.神啊,你的寶座是永永遠遠的;你的國權是正直的。詩45:6
1.你喜愛公義,恨惡罪惡;所以神,就是你的神用喜樂油膏你,勝過膏你的同伴。詩45:7
A.你的衣服都有沒藥、沉香、肉桂的香氣;詩45:8
B.象牙宮中有絲弦樂器的聲音使你歡喜。詩45:8
C.有君王的女兒在你尊貴婦女之中;王后佩戴俄斐金飾站在你右邊。詩45:9
2.女子啊,你要聽,要想,要側耳而聽!不要記念你的民和你的父家,詩45:10
王就羨慕你的美貌;因為他是你的主,你當敬拜他。詩45:11
3.推羅的民必來送禮;民中的富足人也必向你求恩。詩45:12
4.王女在宮裏極其榮華;他的衣服是用金線繡的。詩45:13
A.他要穿錦繡的衣服,被引到王前;隨從他的陪伴童女也要被帶到你面前。詩45:14
B.他們要歡喜快樂被引導;他們要進入王宮。詩45:15
C.你的子孫要接續你的列祖;你要立他們在全地作王。詩45:16
D.我必叫你的名被萬代記念,所以萬民要永永遠遠稱謝你。詩45:17
◎心得分享:(可拉後裔的訓誨詩,又是愛慕歌,交與伶長。調用百合花。),這是君王婚禮上獻唱的詩,君王雖然高高在上的,但是真正讓他居高位的是上帝,這時讓我們想起,尼布甲尼撒王高傲的說:「這大巴比倫不是我用大能大力建為京都,要顯為威嚴的榮耀麼」(但4:30),結果就像牛吃7年,這在提醒我們有多麼位高權重,不要忘了要把榮耀歸給神,不要歸給自己。
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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。