05月04日 一年的第125天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩070-072篇
第70章主要在講:「大衛的紀念詩:神是幫助搭救我的,求你不要耽延」。
一.神啊,求你快快搭救我!耶和華啊,求你速速幫助我!70:1
1.願那些尋索我命的,抱愧蒙羞;願那些喜悅我遭害的,退後受辱。70:2
2.願那些對我說阿哈、阿哈的,因羞愧退後。70:3
3.願一切尋求你的,因你高興歡喜;願那些喜愛你救恩的,常說:當尊 神為大!70:4
二.但我是困苦窮乏的; 神啊,求你速速到我這裏來!你是幫助我的,搭救我的。耶和華啊,求你不要耽延!70:5
◎心得分享:〔大衛的紀念詩,交與伶長〕大衛遇到的問題是有人要殺他,有人要看戲,看大衛遭到殺害的戲,他向神禱告,承認自己是困苦窮乏的人,他相信神是幫助搭救我的,求神不耽延,速速來拯救改變,雖然「神的心裡有藍圖,神的時間不會錯誤」,但是等候實在不是容易的事,腓立比書4章6-7節「應當一無罣慮,只要凡事藉著禱告、祈求,和感謝,將你們所要的告訴神,神所賜、出人意外的平安必在基督耶穌裏保守你們的心懷意念。」,「只要」是很重要,求神幫助我們不是什麼都要,而是「只要」,「只要」禱告交托給神。
第71章主要在講:「我投靠神,神是我的巖石山寨,已經命定要救我」。
一.耶和華啊,我投靠你;求你叫我永不羞愧!71:1
1.求你憑你的公義搭救我,救拔我;側耳聽我,拯救我!71:2
2.求你作我常住的磐石;你已經命定要救我,因為你是我的巖石,我的山寨。71:3
3.我的 神啊,求你救我脫離惡人的手,脫離不義和殘暴之人的手。71:4
4.主─耶和華啊,你是我所盼望的;從我年幼,你是我所倚靠的。71:5
二.我從出母胎被你扶持;使我出母腹的是你。我必常常讚美你!71:6
1.許多人以我為怪,但你是我堅固的避難所。71:7
2.你的讚美,你的榮耀終日必滿了我的口。71:8
三.我年老的時候,求你不要丟棄我!我力氣衰弱的時候,求你不要離棄我!71:9
1.我的仇敵議論我;那些窺探要害我命的彼此商議,71:10
說:神已經離棄他;我們追趕他,捉拿他吧!因為沒有人搭救。71:11
2.神啊,求你不要遠離我!我的 神啊,求你速速幫助我!71:12
願那與我性命為敵的,羞愧被滅;願那謀害我的,受辱蒙羞。71:13
3.我卻要常常盼望,並要越發讚美你。71:14
4.我的口終日要述說你的公義和你的救恩,因我不計其數。71:15
5.我要來說主─耶和華大能的事;我單要提說你的公義。71:16
四.神啊,自我年幼時,你就教訓我;直到如今,我傳揚你奇妙的作為。71:17
1.神啊,我到年老髮白的時候,求你不要離棄我!等我將你的能力指示下代,將你的大能指示後世的人。71:18
2.神啊,你的公義甚高;行過大事的 神啊,誰能像你!71:19
A.你是叫我們多經歷重大急難的,必使我們復活,從地的深處救上來。71:20
B.求你使我越發昌大,又轉來安慰我。71:21
3.我的神啊,我要鼓瑟稱讚你,稱讚你的誠實!以色列的聖者啊,我要彈琴歌頌你!71:22
A.我歌頌你的時候,我的嘴唇和你所贖我的靈魂都必歡呼;71:23
B.並且我的舌頭必終日講論你的公義,因為那些謀害我的人已經蒙羞受辱了。71:24
◎心得分享:這一篇主要是「對於自己一生的回顧與禱告」,從自出母胎開始講,自【出母胎】就「讚美神」,【年幼】就依靠神,傳福音傳揚神奇妙作為,【年輕】就經歷重大急難v20,【年老髮白】求神不要離棄。因為我投靠神,神是我的巖石山寨,已經命定要救我,「一生與主連結」是非常要緊的,誠如約翰壹書5章11-12節「這見證就是神賜給我們永生;這永生也是在他兒子裏面。人有了神的兒子就有生命,沒有神的兒子就沒有生命」。
第72章主要在講:「所羅門的詩:神是獨行奇事的耶和華,以色列的神」。
神啊,求你將判斷的權柄賜給王,將公義賜給王的兒子。72:1
一.他要按公義審判你的民,按公平審判你的困苦人。72:2
1.大山小山都要因公義使民得享平安。72:3
2.他必為民中的困苦人伸冤,拯救窮乏之輩,壓碎那欺壓人的。72:4
二.太陽還存,月亮還在,人要敬畏你,直到萬代!72:5
1.他必降臨,像雨降在已割的草地上,如甘霖滋潤田地。72:6
2.在他的日子,義人要發旺,大有平安,好像月亮長存。72:7
三.他要執掌權柄,從這海直到那海,從大河直到地極。72:8
1.住在曠野的,必在他面前下拜;他的仇敵必要舔土。72:9
A.他施和海島的王要進貢;示巴和西巴的王要獻禮物。72:10
B.諸王都要叩拜他;萬國都要事奉他。72:11
C.因為,窮乏人呼求的時候,他要搭救;沒有人幫助的困苦人,他也要搭救。72:12
2.他要憐恤貧寒和窮乏的人,拯救窮苦人的性命。72:13
他要救贖他們脫離欺壓和強暴;他們的血在他眼中看為寶貴。72:14
3.他們要存活。示巴的金子要奉給他;人要常常為他禱告,終日稱頌他。72:15
4.在地的山頂上,五穀必然茂盛;所結的穀實要響動,如黎巴嫩的樹林;城裏的人要發旺,如地上的草。72:16
5.他的名要存到永遠,要留傳如日之久。人要因他蒙福;萬國要稱他有福。72:17
四.獨行奇事的耶和華─以色列的 神是應當稱頌的!72:18
1.他榮耀的名也當稱頌,直到永遠。願他的榮耀充滿全地!阿們!阿們!72:19
2.耶西的兒子─大衛的祈禱完畢。72:20
◎心得分享:〔所羅門的詩〕在詩篇中所羅門王只寫了兩篇文章,分別是72章與127章,而這一章大概是在他「全盛時期」所寫的讚美詩,當中提到上帝賜智慧給他,所以他能有公義判斷的權柄,在民中為困苦人伸冤,拯救窮乏之輩,壓碎那欺壓人的,更提到示巴的金子,可能是是「示巴女王」來向他求智慧後,給他的金子,所以整篇所羅門的心得是「神是獨行奇事的神,願神的榮耀充滿全地」,正如帖撒羅尼迦前書5章16-18節「要常常喜樂,不住的禱告,凡事謝恩;因為這是神在基督耶穌裏向你們所定的旨意」。
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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。