05月09日 一年的第130天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩085-087篇
第085章主要在講:「可拉後裔:求你使我們得見你的慈愛,救回被擄的雅各」。
一.耶和華啊,你已經向你的地施恩,救回被擄的雅各。85:1
1.你赦免了你百姓的罪孽,遮蓋了他們一切的過犯。85:2
2.你收轉了所發的忿怒和你猛烈的怒氣。85:3
拯救我們的 神啊,求你使我們回轉,叫你的惱恨向我們止息。85:4
3.你要向我們發怒到永遠嗎?你要將你的怒氣延留到萬代嗎?85:5
4.你不再將我們救活,使你的百姓靠你歡喜嗎?85:6
二.耶和華啊,求你使我們得見你的慈愛,又將你的救恩賜給我們。85:7
1.我要聽 神─耶和華所說的話;因為他必應許將平安賜給他的百姓─他的聖民;他們卻不可再轉去妄行。85:8
2.他的救恩誠然與敬畏他的人相近,叫榮耀住在我們的地上。85:9
A.慈愛和誠實彼此相遇;公義和平安彼此相親。85:10
B.誠實從地而生;公義從天而現。85:11
三.耶和華必將好處賜給我們;我們的地也要多出土產。85:12
公義要行在他面前,叫他的腳蹤成為可走的路。85:13
◎心得分享:〔可拉後裔的詩,交與伶長〕從文中可以看得出來,這篇詩大概是在被擄之後寫的,北國以色列曾被亞述擄走滅國,南國猶大也被巴比倫擄走滅國,面對這樣情況,作者向神禱告,第一段他求神赦免百姓的罪孽,第二段他求神容許他們見到神的慈愛得到救恩,第三段他宣告,神必將好處賜給我們,是的!正如約翰壹書1章9節「我們若認自己的罪,神是信實的,是公義的,必要赦免我們的罪,洗淨我們一切的不義。」。
第86章主要在講:「大衛祈禱:求你轉臉憐恤我,賜力量顯出恩待我的憑據」。
一.耶和華啊,求你側耳應允我,因我是困苦窮乏的。86:1
1.求你保存我的性命,因我是虔誠人。我的 神啊,求你拯救這倚靠你的僕人!86:2
2.主啊,求你憐憫我,因我終日求告你。86:3
3.主啊,求你使僕人心裏歡喜,因為我的心仰望你。86:4
4.主啊,你本為良善,樂意饒恕人,有豐盛的慈愛賜給凡求告你的人。86:5
二.耶和華啊,求你留心聽我的禱告,垂聽我懇求的聲音。86:6
1.我在患難之日要求告你,因為你必應允我。86:7
2.主啊,諸神之中沒有可比你的;你的作為也無可比。86:8
3.主啊,你所造的萬民都要來敬拜你;他們也要榮耀你的名。86:9
因你為大,且行奇妙的事;惟獨你是 神。86:10
三.耶和華啊,求你將你的道指教我;我要照你的真理行;求你使我專心敬畏你的名!86:11
1.主─我的 神啊,我要一心稱讚你;我要榮耀你的名,直到永遠。86:12
因為,你向我發的慈愛是大的;你救了我的靈魂免入極深的陰間。86:13
2.神啊,驕傲的人起來攻擊我,又有一黨強橫的人尋索我的命;他們沒有將你放在眼中。86:14
3.主啊,你是有憐憫有恩典的 神,不輕易發怒,並有豐盛的慈愛和誠實。86:15
A.求你向我轉臉,憐恤我,將你的力量賜給僕人,救你婢女的兒子。86:16
B.求你向我顯出恩待我的憑據,叫恨我的人看見便羞愧,因為你─耶和華幫助我,安慰我。6:17
◎心得分享:〔大衛的祈禱〕這一篇的禱告詞充滿著「條件式」的禱告,我要照你的真理行,求你將你的道指教我,求你使我專心敬畏你的名,其中有很多求你..因為..,大衛把禱告的理由和原因,放入單純的祈求中,其中隱含著「在禱告中,要說服上帝聽他的禱告」,他想上帝憑什麼要聽他禱告,他知道上帝可以不聽他的禱告,但是他「據理力爭」強迫上帝一定要聽他的禱告,我們禱告就是要這樣有強烈企圖心的禱告,正如我們主耶穌在馬太福音7章7節說的「你們祈求,就給你們;尋找,就尋見;叩門,就給你們開門」。
第87章主要在講:「可拉後裔:高者必親自堅立這城,泉源都在神裏面」。
一.耶和華所立的根基在聖山上。87:1
1.他愛錫安的門,勝於愛雅各一切的住處。87:2
2.神的城啊,有榮耀的事乃指著你說的。87:3
二.我要提起拉哈伯和巴比倫人,是在認識我之中的;看哪,非利士和泰爾並古實人,個個生在那裏。87:4
1.論到錫安,必說:這一個、那一個都生在其中,而且至高者必親自堅立這城。87:5
2.當耶和華記錄萬民的時候,他要點出這一個生在那裏。87:6
3.歌唱的,跳舞的,都要說:我的泉源都在你裏面。87:7
◎心得分享:〔可拉後裔的詩歌。〕這一篇是讚美詩,神的城是有榮耀的,神的百姓也是有榮耀,神的選民來自萬民,上帝知道他們出生在那裡,他們共同的特點就是,認為上帝是他們的泉源,是的!我們要常常讚美神,以弗所書5章19節說「當用詩章、頌詞、靈歌、彼此對說,口唱心和的讚美主。」。
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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。