04月28日 一年的第119天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩052-054篇
第52章主要在講:「大衛面對抗惡人密告讚美詩」。
一.勇士啊,你為何以作惡自誇?神的慈愛是常存的。詩52:1
1.你的舌頭邪惡詭詐,好像剃頭刀,快利傷人。詩52:2
2.你愛惡勝似愛善,又愛說謊,不愛說公義。(細拉)詩52:3
3.詭詐的舌頭啊,你愛說一切毀滅的話!詩52:4
二.神也要毀滅你,直到永遠;詩52:5
1.他要把你拿去,從你的帳棚中抽出,
2.從活人之地將你拔出。
三.義人要看見而懼怕,並要笑他,詩52:6
1.說:看哪,這就是那不以神為他力量的人,詩52:7
2.只倚仗他豐富的財物,在邪惡上堅立自己。詩52:7
四.至於我,就像神殿中的青橄欖樹;我永永遠遠倚靠神的慈愛。詩52:8
我要稱謝你,直到永遠,因為你行了這事。我也要在你聖民面前仰望你的名;這名本為美好。詩52:9
◎心得分享:(以東人多益來告訴掃羅說:「大衛到了亞希米勒家。那時,大衛作這訓誨詩,交與伶長。)」。以東多益告訴掃羅,大衛到了祭司亞希米勒的家,大衛逃跑,事後掃羅叫臣子殺祭司亞希米勒,沒有人敢殺,多益就拿刀殺了亞希米勒全家八十五人(撒母耳記上22章),大衛面對這樣情況,他只有一個答案:「我永永遠遠倚靠神的慈愛」(詩52:8)。
第53章主要在講:「大衛面對敵人安營攻擊的禱告詞」。
一.愚頑人心裏說:沒有神。他們都是邪惡,行了可憎惡的罪孽;沒有一個人行善。詩53:1
二.神從天上垂看世人,要看有明白的沒有?有尋求他的沒有?詩53:2
1.他們各人都退後,一同變為污穢;並沒有行善的,連一個也沒有。詩53:3
2.作孽的沒有知識麼?他們吞喫我的百姓如同喫飯一樣,並不求告神。詩53:4
3.他們在無可懼怕之處就大大害怕,因為神把那安營攻擊你之人的骨頭散開了。你使他們蒙羞,因為神棄絕了他們。詩53:5
三.但願以色列的救恩從錫安而出。神救回他被擄的子民那時,雅各要快樂,以色列要歡喜。詩53:6
◎心得分享:(大衛的訓誨詩,交與伶長。調用麻哈拉。),對大衛的一生來說,戰事是常有,但是他最美最合神心意的關鍵在於他,「戰事是常有的,禱告是不斷的」,大衛不是靠他作戰經驗在打戰,他仍是靠著禱告在爭戰。
第54章主要在講:「大衛在急難中的禱告詞」。一.求你以你的名救我,憑你的大能為我伸冤,二.求你留心聽我的禱告言語:1.因外人攻擊我,強暴人尋索我的命,眼中沒有神,2.神是幫助我扶持我命,3.神要報應我仇敵的惡,憑誠實滅絕他們,4.我要把甘心祭獻給神稱讚神的名,本為美好,5.神從一切急難中救我,我的眼睛也看見仇敵遭報。
◎心得分享:這篇是西弗人來向掃羅密告,大衛藏身處,大衛害怕向神禱告,大衛好不容易有一個安身之處,卻又被迫的要逃亡,當時大衛並沒有犯罪,他只是接受了撒母耳的「恩膏」之後,就忠心的服事掃羅王,但是換來的卻是「居無定處」,到處逃亡,大衛很美的地方,是他的「不斷的禱告」,求神幫助我們,在任何景況,都要常常禱告。
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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。