05月01日 一年的第122天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩061-063篇
第61章主要在講:「大衛作王面對仇敵心裡發昏禱告詞」。
一.神啊,求你聽我的呼求,側耳聽我的禱告!詩61:1
1.我心裏發昏的時候,我要從地極求告你。求你領我到那比我更高的磐石!詩61:2
因為你作過我的避難所,作過我的堅固臺,脫離仇敵。詩61:3
2.我要永遠住在你的帳幕裏!我要投靠在你翅膀下的隱密處!詩61:4
二.神啊,你原是聽了我所許的願;你將產業賜給敬畏你名的人。詩61:5
1.你要加添王的壽數;他的年歲必存到世世。詩61:6
2.他必永遠坐在神面前;願你豫備慈愛和誠實保佑他!詩61:7
3.這樣,我要歌頌你的名,直到永遠,好天天還我所許的願。詩61:8
◎心得分享:(大衛的詩,交與伶長。用絲弦的樂器)大衛作王向神禱告,因為仇敵的攻擊使他心裡發昏,失去了方向,他向神禱告,求神作他的堅固臺,使他能脫離仇敵,永遠住在神的帳幕,他知道上帝是他的幫助會聽他所許的願,仇敵無法傷害他,是的「投靠在神的翅膀下」,我們常想投靠在人的翅膀下,要人來為我們伸冤,到頭來我們冤伸了,別人同樣也冤伸,弄得兩敗俱傷,說真的,神若究查罪孽,誰能站立在祂的面前呢?羅馬書12:19「親愛的弟兄,不要自己伸冤,寧可讓步,聽憑主怒;因為經上記著:「主說:『伸冤在我;我必報應。』」
第62章主要在講:「大衛面對大家攻擊,他默默無聲等候神」。
一.我的心默默無聲,專等候神;我的救恩是從他而來。詩62:1
1.惟獨他是我的磐石,我的拯救;他是我的高臺,我必不很動搖。詩62:2
2.你們大家攻擊一人,把他毀壞,如同毀壞歪斜的牆、將倒的壁,要到幾時呢?詩62:3
3.他們彼此商議,專要從他的尊位上把他推下;他們喜愛謊話,口雖祝福,心卻咒詛。詩62:4
二.我的心哪,你當默默無聲,專等候神,因為我的盼望是從他而來。詩62:5
1.惟獨他是我的磐石,我的拯救;他是我的高臺,我必不動搖。詩62:6
我的拯救、我的榮耀都在乎神;我力量的磐石、我的避難所都在乎神。詩62:7
2.你們眾民當時時倚靠他,在他面前傾心吐意;神是我們的避難所。(細拉)詩62:8
A.下流人真是虛空;上流人也是虛假;放在天平裏就必浮起;他們一共比空氣還輕。詩62:9
B.不要仗勢欺人,也不要因搶奪而驕傲;若財寶加增,不要放在心上。詩62:10
3.神說了一次、兩次,我都聽見:就是能力都屬乎神。詩62:11
4. 主啊,慈愛也是屬乎你,因為你照著各人所行的報應他。詩62:12
◎心得分享:(大衛的詩,照耶杜頓的作法,交與伶長。)人常常假冒正義之名,喜愛講誇大的謊話,常常對人口說祝福,心裡卻是在咒詛v4,仇敵要聯合大家,打群架來專門攻擊針對他,要把他推下,大衛說:「神是我的磐石拯救高臺」,他默默無聲,專等候神,多麼真實的一句話:「下流人真是虛空;上流人也是虛假;放在天平裏就必浮起;他們一共比空氣還輕」v9,不要仗勢欺人,主是慈愛的,必要照著各人所行的報應他v11,誠如加拉太書6:8「不要自欺,神是輕慢不得的。人種的是甚麼,收的也是甚麼」。
第63章主要在講:「大衛心裡渴想切切尋神祈禱詩」。
一.神啊,詩63:1
1.你是我的神,我要切切地尋求你,在乾旱疲乏無水之地,
2.我渴想你;我的心切慕你。
二.我。
1.我在聖所中曾如此瞻仰你,為要見你的能力和你的榮耀。詩63:2
因你的慈愛比生命更好,我的嘴唇要頌讚你。詩63:3
2.我還活的時候要這樣稱頌你;我要奉你的名舉手。詩63:4
3.我在床上記念你,在夜更的時候思想你;我的心就像飽足了骨髓肥油,我也要以歡樂的嘴唇讚美你。詩63:5
A.因為你曾幫助我,我就在你翅膀的蔭下歡呼。詩63:7
B.我心緊緊地跟隨你;你的右手扶持我。詩63:8
4.但那些尋索要滅我命的人必往地底下去;詩63:9
他們必被刀劍所殺,被野狗所喫。詩63:10
5.但是王必因神歡喜。凡指著他發誓的必要誇口,因為說謊之人的口必被塞住。詩63:11
◎心得分享:(大衛在猶大曠野的時候,作了這詩)大衛知道,有人要尋索滅他的命,但這不是真正的問題所在,真正的問題,在於他跟上帝的關係,所以在這一章中,我們看到他對上帝的渴慕,是很深切的,要見到神,要在神翅膀蔭下,要緊緊跟隨神,他知道只要有神,他的問題就能解決,尋索他命的,必往地底下被刀劍所殺,被野狗所吃,正如我們主告訴我們的,在約翰福音16:33「我將這些事告訴你們,是要叫你們在我裏面有平安。在世上,你們有苦難;但你們可以放心,我已經勝了世界。」,是的只要我們在祂裡面就有平安。
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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。