04月26日 一年的第117天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩046-048篇
第46章主要在講:「可拉後裔:地震災難的祈禱詞」
一.神是我們的避難所,是我們的力量,是我們在患難中隨時的幫助。詩46:1
1.所以,地雖改變,山雖搖動到海心,詩46:2
其中的水雖匉訇翻騰,山雖因海漲而戰抖,我們也不害怕。(細拉)詩46:3
2.有一道河,這河的分汊使神的城歡喜;這城就是至高者居住的聖所。詩46:4
3.神在其中,城必不動搖;到天一亮,神必幫助這城。詩46:5
4.外邦喧嚷,列國動搖;神發聲,地便鎔化。詩46:6
二.萬軍之耶和華與我們同在;雅各的神是我們的避難所!詩46:7
1.你們來看耶和華的作為,看他使地怎樣荒涼。詩46:8
2.他止息刀兵,直到地極;他折弓、斷槍,把戰車焚燒在火中。詩46:9
3.你們要休息,要知道我是神!我必在外邦中被尊崇,在遍地上也被尊崇。詩46:10
三.萬軍之耶和華與我們同在;雅各的神是我們的避難所!。詩46:11
◎心得分享:(可拉後裔的詩歌,交與伶長。調用女音。)「天災人禍」是每個世代都有,不只是以前的世代,我們應該如何面對這些「天災人禍」呢?這一章再一次告訴我們,上帝才是我們依靠,神是我們避難所、力量、隨時的幫助,神與我們同在,在新約馬太福音二十四章,我們的主耶穌在論到我們在面對災難時,最好的是要謹慎,不要被迷惑驚慌,應當禱告,惟有忍耐到底的必然得救。
第47章主要在講:「可拉後裔:讚美神至高掌權」。
一.萬民哪,你們都要拍掌!要用誇勝的聲音向神呼喊!詩47:1
1.因為耶和華至高者是可畏的;他是治理全地的大君王。詩47:2
2.他叫萬民服在我們以下,又叫列邦服在我們腳下。詩47:3
3.他為我們選擇產業,就是他所愛之雅各的榮耀。詩47:4
二.神上升,有喊聲相送;耶和華上升,有角聲相送。詩47:5
1.你們要向神歌頌,歌頌!向我們王歌頌,歌頌!詩47:6
2.因為神是全地的王;你們要用悟性歌頌。詩47:7
三.神作王治理萬國;神坐在他的聖寶座上。詩47:8
列邦的君王聚集要作亞伯拉罕之神的民。因為世界的盾牌是屬神的;他為至高! 詩47:9
◎心得分享:(可拉後裔的詩,交與伶長。)讚美神是上帝給我們的最好的禮物,透過讚美我們心就得著釋放,正如保羅在以弗所書5章18-19節提到,「不要醉酒,酒能使人放蕩;乃要被聖靈充滿。當用詩章、頌詞、靈歌、彼此對說,口唱心和的讚美主」。
第48章主要在講:「可拉後裔:讚美神本為大」。
一.神在聖城聖山中,受大讚美,受全地所喜悅(1-3),
二.眾王會合見聖城聖殿就(4-7):
1.驚奇
2.喪膽
3.逃跑
4.被戰兢疼痛抓住
5.船隻被打破,
三.神的城永遠堅立:
1.我們在殿中,想念你的慈愛、公義、判斷(8-11),
2.我們當周遊數點細看察看神的宮殿(12),
3.傳給後代說,神永遠為我們的神,引路的(13-14)
◎心得分享:作者:可拉的後裔,這是一篇讚美詩,在平順中的讚美宣告,上帝榮耀的同在,是超過列邦,萬軍之耶和華的城必堅立直到永遠,是的神本為大,該受極大的讚美,上帝必會引導我們,我們應當要常常唱詩讚美神,無論心情好或是心情不好,都要讚美神。
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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。