05月05日 一年的第126天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩073-075篇
第73章主要在講:「亞薩的詩:我進入神的聖所,思想惡人的結局」。
一.神實在恩待以色列那些清心的人!73:1
二.至於我,我的腳幾乎失閃;我的腳險些滑跌。73:2
1.我見惡人和狂傲人享平安就心懷不平。73:3
A.他們死的時候沒有疼痛;他們的力氣卻也壯實。73:4
B.他們不像別人受苦,也不像別人遭災。73:5
所以,驕傲如鏈子戴在他們的項上;強暴像衣裳遮住他們的身體。73:6
C.他們的眼睛因體胖而凸出;他們所得的,過於心裏所想的。73:7
D.他們譏笑人,憑惡意說欺壓人的話;他們說話自高。73:8
E.他們的口褻瀆上天;他們的舌毀謗全地。73:9
2.所以 神的民歸到這裏,喝盡了滿杯的苦水。73:10
A.他們說: 神怎能曉得?至高者豈有知識呢?73:11
B.看哪,這就是惡人;他們既是常享安逸,財寶便加增。73:12
3.我實在徒然潔淨了我的心,徒然洗手表明無辜。73:13
A.因為,我終日遭災難;每早晨受懲治。73:14
B.我若說,我要這樣講,這就是以奸詐待你的眾子。73:15
4.我思索怎能明白這事,眼看實係為難,73:16
三.等我進了神的聖所,思想他們的結局。73:17
1.你實在把他們安在滑地,使他們掉在沉淪之中。73:18
A.他們轉眼之間成了何等的荒涼!他們被驚恐滅盡了。73:19
B.人睡醒了,怎樣看夢;主啊,你醒了也必照樣輕看他們的影像。73:20
C.因而,我心裏發酸,肺腑被刺。73:21
2.我這樣愚昧無知,在你面前如畜類一般。73:22
3.然而,我常與你同在;你攙著我的右手。73:23
你要以你的訓言引導我,以後必接我到榮耀裏。73:24
4.除你以外,在天上我有誰呢?除你以外,在地上我也沒有所愛慕的。73:25
A.我的肉體和我的心腸衰殘;但 神是我心裏的力量,又是我的福分,直到永遠。73:26
B.遠離你的,必要死亡;凡離棄你行邪淫的,你都滅絕了。73:27
5.但我親近神是與我有益;我以主耶和華為我的避難所,好叫我述說你一切的作為。73:28
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的詩〕整篇分為三段,第一段是神的原則,神恩待「清心」的人,第二段作者回到自己裡面,他發現自己不是一個「清心」的人,他腳險些滑跌,他為作惡的心懷不平,他思索後不明白,眼睛看很為難,第三段他進入神的聖所,思想惡人的結局,他才發現自己是愚昧無知,他發現「心懷不平」對他來說是「無益的」,只有親近神才是有益的,除神以外,沒有任何一件事能影響他,他真正看重愛慕的是上帝,雜事不公義的事,不是他的愛慕的重點,求神幫助我們成為清心親近神的人,正如主耶穌在馬太福章5章8節說「清心的人有福了!因為他們必得見神」。
第74章主要在講:「亞薩:神啊求你起來為自己伸訴!記念愚頑人辱罵你」。
一.神啊,你為何永遠丟棄我們呢?你為何向你草場的羊發怒,如煙冒出呢?74:1
1.求你記念你古時所得來的會眾,就是你所贖﹔作你產業支派的,並記念你向來所居住的錫安山。74:2
2.求你舉步去看那日久荒涼之地,仇敵在聖所中所行的一切惡事。74:3
A.你的敵人在你會中吼叫;他們豎了自己的旗為記號。74:4
B.他們好像人揚起斧子,砍伐林中的樹。74:5
C.聖所中一切雕刻的,他們現在用斧子錘子打壞了。74:6
D.他們用火焚燒你的聖所,褻瀆你名的居所,拆毀到地。74:7
E.他們心裏說:我們要盡行毀滅;他們就在遍地把 神的會所都燒毀了。74:8
3.我們不見我們的標幟,不再有先知;我們內中也沒有人知道這災禍要到幾時呢!74:9
二.神啊,敵人辱罵要到幾時呢?仇敵褻瀆你的名要到永遠嗎?74:10
1.你為甚麼縮回你的右手?求你從懷中伸出來,毀滅他們。74:11
2.神自古以來為我的王,在地上施行拯救。74:12
A.你曾用能力將海分開,將水中大魚的頭打破。74:13
B.你曾砸碎鱷魚的頭,把牠給曠野的禽獸〔禽獸:原文是民〕為食物。74:14
C.你曾分裂磐石,水便成了溪河;你使長流的江河乾了。74:15
3.白晝屬你,黑夜也屬你;亮光和日頭是你所預備的。74:16
地的一切疆界是你所立的;夏天和冬天是你所定的。74:17
三.耶和華啊,仇敵辱罵,愚頑民褻瀆了你的名,求你記念這事。74:18
1.不要將你斑鳩的性命交給野獸;不要永遠忘記你困苦人的性命。74:19
2.求你顧念所立的約,因為地上黑暗之處都滿了強暴的居所。74:20
3.不要叫受欺壓的人蒙羞回去;要叫困苦窮乏的人讚美你的名。74:21
四.神啊,求你起來為自己伸訴!要記念愚頑人怎樣終日辱罵你。74:22
不要忘記你敵人的聲音;那起來敵你之人的喧嘩時常上升。74:23
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的訓誨詩〕本篇分為四段,第一段他問上帝,為何離棄我們,讓他們遭遇到災禍,第二段他問上帝,敵人辱罵要到幾時?到永遠嗎?第三段他求神記念仇敵褻瀆辱罵神的事,第四段他求神起來為自己伸訴。有時受苦是有時間性,但是我們若在當中,我們總是會有問號?到底還有多久?要等到幾時?這些問題才會不見呢?然而作者,把這些問題化成一種禱告的力量,求神起來為自己伸訴,是的我們是神的僕人,我們應該求神為自己的緣故,彰顯榮耀。
第75章主要在講:「亞薩的詩歌:我們稱謝述說神你奇妙的作為」。
神啊,我們稱謝你,我們稱謝你!因為你的名相近,人都述說你奇妙的作為。75:1
一.我到了所定的日期,必按正直施行審判。75:2
地和其上的居民都消化了;我曾立了地的柱子。75:3
二.我對狂傲人說:不要行事狂傲!對凶惡人說:不要舉角!75:4
1.不要把你們的角高舉;不要挺著頸項說話。75:5
因為高舉非從東,非從西,也非從南而來。75:6
2.惟有 神斷定;他使這人降卑,使那人升高。75:7
3.耶和華手裏有杯,其中的酒起沫,杯內滿了攙雜的酒;他倒出來,地上的惡人必都喝這酒的渣滓,而且喝盡。75:8
三.但我要宣揚,直到永遠!我要歌頌雅各的 神!75:9
四.惡人一切的角,我要砍斷;惟有義人的角必被高舉。75:10
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的詩歌,交與伶長。調用休要毀壞〕傳福音是很重要的,作者強論述說神奇妙作為,神作事是有日期,神必定會按正直按行審判,雖然狂傲人暫時得逞,但是終究神要斷定這一切,審判惡人,他面對惡人惟一方式,是「傳福音怛揚神奇妙作為」,正如羅馬書10章15節「若沒有奉差遣,怎能傳道呢?如經上所記:「報福音、傳喜信的人,他們的腳蹤何等佳美。」。
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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。