05月14日 一年的第135天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩100-102篇
第100章主要在講:「稱謝進入祂的門,讚美進入祂的院v4」。
一.普天下當向耶和華歡呼!100:1
二.你們當樂意事奉耶和華,當來向他歌唱!100:2
三.你們當曉得耶和華是 神!100:3
1.我們是他造的,也是屬他的;
2.我們是他的民,也是他草場的羊。
四.當稱謝進入他的門;當讚美進入他的院。當感謝他,稱頌他的名!100:4
因為耶和華本為善。他的慈愛存到永遠;他的信實直到萬代。100:5
◎心得分享:〔稱謝詩〕本篇有四個「當」,是1.當向神歡呼2.當事奉神3.當曉得耶和華是神4.當進入祂的門祂的院,「當」是一種命令、要求,而背後的原因是因我們1.是祂造的2.是屬祂的3.是他的民4.是祂草場的羊 5.耶和本為善、慈愛、信實。是的!我們當樂意事事祂 正如羅馬書12章1-2節「所以弟兄們,我以神的慈悲勸你們,將身體獻上,當作活祭,是聖潔的,是神所喜悅的;你們如此事奉乃是理所當然的。不要效法這個世界,只要心意更新而變化,叫你們察驗何為神的善良、純全、可喜悅的旨意。」
第101章主要在講:「大衛的詩:我要歌唱慈愛公平耶和華v1」。
一.我要歌唱慈愛和公平;耶和華啊,我要向你歌頌!101:1
二.我要用智慧行完全的道。你幾時到我這裏來呢?101:2
三.我要存完全的心行在我家中。101:2
1.邪僻的事,我都不擺在我眼前; 101:3
悖逆人所做的事,我甚恨惡,不容沾在我身上。
2.彎曲的心思,我必遠離;一切的惡人,我不認識。101:4
3.在暗中讒謗他鄰居的,我必將他滅絕;眼目高傲、心裏驕縱的,我必不容他。101:5
四.我眼要看國中的誠實人,叫他們與我同住;行為完全的,他要伺候我。101:6
行詭詐的,必不得住在我家裏;說謊話的,必不得立在我眼前。101:7
五.我每日早晨要滅絕國中所有的惡人,好把一切作孽的從耶和華的城裏剪除。101:8
◎心得分享:〔大衛的詩〕本篇有五個「我」,1.我要歌唱慈愛和公平2.我要用智慧行完全的道3.我要存完全的心行在我家中4.我眼要看國中的誠實人5.我每日早晨要滅絕國中所有的惡人,大衛用五個「我」,來表示自己的「立志與決心」,這實在很重要,雖然「有決心,不一定作得到,但是沒有決心一定作不到」,我們主耶穌也告訴我們,約翰福音7章17節「人若立志遵著他的旨意行,就必曉得這教訓或是出於神,或是我憑著自己說的。」
第102章主要在講:「困苦人發昏急難日子的禱告詞v1,2」。
耶和華啊,求你聽我的禱告,容我的呼求達到你面前!102:1
一.我
1.我在急難的日子,求你向我側耳;求你快快應允我!102:2
因為,我的年日如煙雲消滅;我的骨頭如火把燒著。102:3
2.我的心被傷,如草枯乾,甚至我忘記吃飯。102:4
A.因我唉哼的聲音,我的肉緊貼骨頭。102:5
B.我如同曠野的鵜鶘;我好像荒場的鴞鳥。102:6
C.我警醒不睡;我像房頂上孤單的麻雀。102:7
3.我的仇敵終日辱罵我;向我猖狂的人指著我賭咒。102:8
4.我吃過爐灰,如同吃飯;我所喝的與眼淚攙雜。102:9
這都因你的惱恨和忿怒;你把我拾起來,又把我摔下去。102:10
5.我的年日如日影偏斜;我也如草枯乾。102:11
二.惟你─耶和華必存到永遠;你可記念的名也存到萬代。102:12
1.你必起來憐恤錫安,因現在是可憐她的時候,日期已經到了。102:13
A.你的僕人原來喜悅她的石頭,可憐她的塵土。102:14
B.列國要敬畏耶和華的名;世上諸王都敬畏你的榮耀。102:15
C.因為耶和華建造了錫安,在他榮耀裏顯現。102:16
2.他垂聽窮人的禱告,並不藐視他們的祈求。102:17
A.這必為後代的人記下,將來受造的民要讚美耶和華。102:18
B.因為,他從至高的聖所垂看;耶和華從天向地觀察,102:19
a.要垂聽被囚之人的歎息,要釋放將要死的人,102:20
b.使人在錫安傳揚耶和華的名,在耶路撒冷傳揚讚美他的話,102:21
c.就是在萬民和列國聚會事奉耶和華的時候。102:22
3.他使我的力量中道衰弱,使我的年日短少。102:23
A.我說:我的神啊,不要使我中年去世。你的年數世世無窮!102:24
B.你起初立了地的根基;天也是你手所造的。102:25
C.天地都要滅沒,你卻要長存;天地都要如外衣漸漸舊了。你要將天地如裏衣更換,天地就改變了。102:26
4.惟有你永不改變;你的年數沒有窮盡。102:27
你僕人的子孫要長存;他們的後裔要堅立在你面前。102:28
◎心得分享:〔困苦人發昏的時候,在耶和華面前吐露苦情的禱告〕本篇分成兩段,第一段是「我」:1.我在急難的日子2.我的心被傷3.我的仇敵終日辱罵賭咒我4.我吃過爐灰,如同吃飯5.我的年日如日影偏斜,第二段是你耶和華:1.你必起來憐恤錫安2.垂聽窮人的禱告3.使我的力量中道衰弱4.你永不改變,人在世上,走的時候,什麼都帶不走,但有一個可以帶走的,就是「我跟上帝的關係」,大衛之所以「合神心意」,主要是因為他看重這樣的關係,更勝於一切,主耶穌也提醒我們要看重這樣關係,在約翰福音15章4-5節說到「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。我是葡萄樹,你們是枝子。常在我裏面的,我也常在他裏面,這人就多結果子;因為離了我,你們就不能作甚麼。」,求神幫助我們,看重我們跟上帝的關係。
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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。