05月07日 一年的第128天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩079-081篇
第79章主要在講:「亞薩:願神使外邦人知道你伸你僕人流血的冤」。
一.神啊,外邦人進入你的產業,污穢你的聖殿,使耶路撒冷變成荒堆,79:1
1.把你僕人的屍首交與天空的飛鳥為食,把你聖民的肉交與地上的野獸,79:2
2.在耶路撒冷周圍流他們的血如水,無人葬埋。79:3
3.我們成為鄰國的羞辱,成為我們四圍人的嗤笑譏刺。79:4
二.耶和華啊,這到幾時呢?你要動怒到永遠嗎?你的憤恨要如火焚燒嗎?79:5
1.願你將你的忿怒倒在那不認識你的外邦和那不求告你名的國度。79:6
因為他們吞了雅各,把他的住處變為荒場。79:7
2.求你不要記念我們先祖的罪孽,向我們追討;願你的慈悲快迎著我們,因為我們落到極卑微的地步。79:8
三.拯救我們的神啊,求你因你名的榮耀幫助我們!為你名的緣故搭救我們,赦免我們的罪。79:9
1.為何容外邦人說「他們的 神在哪裏」呢?願你使外邦人知道你在我們眼前伸你僕人流血的冤。79:10
2.願被囚之人的歎息達到你面前;願你按你的大能力存留那些將要死的人。79:11
3.主啊,願你將我們鄰邦所羞辱你的羞辱加七倍歸到他們身上。79:12
4.這樣,你的民,你草場的羊,要稱謝你,直到永遠;要述說讚美你的話,直到萬代。79:13
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的詩〕本篇分為三段,第一段是對悲慘的情況加以描述,第二段是作者對上帝的發問,到幾時呢?求神不要記念先祖的罪孽,第三段求神拯救,並把鄰邦給的羞辱加七倍歸還給他們,這樣神的百姓才能稱謝神。對作者來說「聖殿被污穢」,是非常難以忍受的,他知道是先祖的罪,才導致這樣的結果,他求神為他伸冤,痛苦除了禱告,就是禱告,正如我們主耶穌告訴我們的在,路加福音18章1節「耶穌設一個比喻,是要人常常禱告,不可灰心」,是的!我們要常常禱告,不可灰心。
第80章主要在講:「亞薩:神啊,求你回轉!從天上垂看,眷顧這葡萄樹」。
一.領約瑟如領羊群之以色列的牧者啊,80:1
1.求你留心聽!坐在二基路伯上的啊,求你發出光來!80:1
2.在以法蓮、便雅憫、瑪拿西前面施展你的大能,來救我們。80:2
3.神啊,求你使我們回轉,使你的臉發光,我們便要得救!80:3
二.耶和華─萬軍之 神啊,你向你百姓的禱告發怒,要到幾時呢?80:4
1.你以眼淚當食物給他們吃,又多量出眼淚給他們喝。80:5
2.你使鄰邦因我們紛爭;我們的仇敵彼此戲笑。80:6
三.萬軍之神啊,求你使我們回轉,使你的臉發光,我們便要得救!80:7
1.你從埃及挪出一棵葡萄樹,趕出外邦人,把這樹栽上。80:8
A.你在這樹根前預備了地方,它就深深扎根,爬滿了地。80:9
B.它的影子遮滿了山,枝子好像佳美的香柏樹。80:10
C.它發出枝子,長到大海,發出蔓子,延到大河。80:11
2.你為何拆毀這樹的籬笆,任憑一切過路的人摘取?80:12
3.林中出來的野豬把它糟踏;野地的走獸拿它當食物。80:13
四.萬軍之 神啊,求你回轉!從天上垂看,眷顧這葡萄樹,80:14
1.保護你右手所栽的和你為自已所堅固的枝子。80:15
2.這樹已經被火焚燒,被刀砍伐;他們因你臉上的怒容就滅亡了。80:16
3.願你的手扶持你右邊的人,就是你為自已所堅固的人子。80:17
4.這樣,我們便不退後離開你;求你救活我們,我們就要求告你的名。80:18
5.耶和華─萬軍之 神啊,求你使我們回轉,使你的臉發光,我們便要得救!80:19
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的詩,交與伶長。調用為證的百合花〕本篇分為四段,第一段作者宣告「神是以色列的牧者」,第二段向上帝提問「以眼淚當水吃,當水喝要到幾時?」,第三段求神回轉光照使我們得救,第四段求神垂看眷顧我們。作者以葡萄樹來比喻是以色列這個國家,我們主耶穌也用葡萄樹來比喻是自己,而真正的「葡萄樹」,是主耶穌,因為沒有連結在主裡面的葡萄樹必會枯乾,正如我們主耶穌在約翰福音15章4節說「你們要常在我裏面,我也常在你們裏面。枝子若不常在葡萄樹上,自己就不能結果子;你們若不常在我裏面,也是這樣」以色列人的失敗就是不聽神的話離棄離開神,導致這樣的結果,求神幫助我們要常常連結在主的裡面。
第81章主要在講:「亞薩的詩:我是耶和華,你要大大張口,我就給你充滿」。
一.你們當向 神─我們的力量大聲歡呼,向雅各的 神發聲歡樂!81:1
1.唱起詩歌,打手鼓,彈美琴與瑟。81:2
2.當在月朔並月望─我們過節的日期吹角,81:3
因這是為以色列定的律例,是雅各 神的典章。81:4
二.他去攻擊埃及地的時候,在約瑟中間立此為證。我在那裏聽見我所不明白的言語:81:5
1.神說:我使你的肩得脫重擔,你的手放下筐子。81:6
A.你在急難中呼求,我就搭救你;我在雷的隱密處應允你,在米利巴水那裏試驗你。81:7
B.我的民哪,你當聽,我要勸戒你;以色列啊,甚願你肯聽從我。81:8
C.在你當中,不可有別的神;外邦的神,你也不可下拜。81:9
2.我是耶和華─你的 神,曾把你從埃及地領上來;你要大大張口,我就給你充滿。81:10
A.無奈,我的民不聽我的聲音;以色列全不理我。81:11
我便任憑他們心裏剛硬,隨自己的計謀而行。81:12
B.甚願我的民肯聽從我,以色列肯行我的道,81:13
C.我便速速治服他們的仇敵,反手攻擊他們的敵人。81:14
D.恨耶和華的人必來投降,但他的百姓必永久長存。81:15
E.他也必拿上好的麥子給他們吃,又拿從磐石出的蜂蜜叫他們飽足。81:16
◎心得分享:〔亞薩的詩,交與伶長。用迦特樂器〕本章的主題是「我是耶和華,你要大大張口,我就給你充滿」,無奈,我的民不聽我的聲音;以色列全不理我,有時我們也是這樣,不聽上帝的話,「大大張口」,不是「暴飲暴食」,從上下文得知,是指「在急難中呼求神,大聲向神禱告」,禱告使我們的心軟,能肯聽從神的話,相對的也就願意聽從神的話,我們主耶穌也是教導我們,路加福音11章8節說到禱告是「情詞迫切的直求」,求神幫助我們大大張口,情詞迫切的直求禱告。
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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。