05月15日 一年的第136天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩103-105篇
第103章主要在講:「大衛:我的心你要稱頌耶和華,祂赦免你一切罪孽」。
我的心那,你要稱頌耶和華!103:1
1.凡在我裏面的,也要稱頌他的聖名!103:1
2.不可忘記他的一切恩惠!103:2
3.他赦免你的一切罪孽,醫治你的一切疾病。103:3
4.他救贖你的命脫離死亡,以仁愛和慈悲為你的冠冕。103:4
5.他用美物使你所願的得以知足,以致你如鷹返老還童。103:5
二.耶和華施行公義,為一切受屈的人伸冤。103:6
1.他使摩西知道他的法則,叫以色列人曉得他的作為。103:7
2.耶和華有憐憫,有恩典,不輕易發怒,且有豐盛的慈愛。103:8
A.他不長久責備,也不永遠懷怒。103:9
B.他沒有按我們的罪過待我們,也沒有照我們的罪孽報應我們。103:10
C.天離地何等的高,他的慈愛向敬畏他的人也是何等的大!103:11
東離西有多遠,他叫我們的過犯離我們也有多遠!103:12
3.父親怎樣憐恤他的兒女,耶和華也怎樣憐恤敬畏他的人!103:13
A.因為他知道我們的本體,思念我們不過是塵土。103:14
B.至於世人,他的年日如草一樣。他發旺如野地的花,103:15
C.經風一吹,便歸無有;他的原處也不再認識他。103:16
D.但耶和華的慈愛歸於敬畏他的人,從亙古到永遠;他的公義也歸於子子孫孫103:17
就是那些遵守他的約、記念他的訓詞而遵行的人。103:18
三.耶和華在天上立定寶座;他的權柄統管萬有。103:19
1.聽從他命令、成全他旨意、有大能的天使,都要稱頌耶和華!103:20
2.你們作他的諸軍,作他的僕役,行他所喜悅的,都要稱頌耶和華!103:21
3.你們一切被他造的,在他所治理的各處,都要稱頌耶和華!我的心那,你要稱頌耶和華!103:22
◎心得分享:(大衛的詩)本篇分為三段,第一段是大衛對他自己心裡說話,第二段是上帝在地上行公義、信實、慈愛,憐憫我們,第三段是上帝在天上立定寶座,權柄統管萬有。上帝的憐憫恩典中,1.有豐盛慈,沒有按我們的罪過待我們,2.叫過犯離我們很遠,3.像父親一樣憐恤我們,所以我們要不斷的自我提醒自己,1.要稱頌祂的名,2.要記住神的恩惠,3.要記住神赦免我們的罪,醫治一切疾病,4.要記住神救贖我們脫離死亡,5.要記住神用美物,使我們如鷹返老還童。有人說:「人是健忘的動物」,不過比較大的問題不是「健忘」,而是「應該忘的忘不了,應該記的記不得」,當然人給我們的傷害要遺忘,神的恩典卻要記住,雖然有一點難,但事實上人心裡的空間是有限,不是裝這個,就是裝那個,不是裝「神的愛」,就是裝「對人的恨」,「不是裝資源,就是裝垃圾」,求神幫助我們,心裡只要裝「上帝的愛與憐憫」。
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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。