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」。
一.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」。
第104章主要在講:「我的心哪你要稱頌耶和華v1:神為至大」。
一.我的心那,你要稱頌耶和華!耶和華─我的神阿,你為至大!你以尊榮威嚴為衣服,104:1
1.披上亮光,如披外袍,鋪張穹蒼,如鋪幔子,104:2
2.在水中立樓閣的棟梁,用雲彩為車輦,藉著風的翅膀而行,104:3
A.以風為使者,以火燄為僕役,104:4
B.將地立在根基上,使地永不動搖。104:5
3.你用深水遮蓋地面,猶如衣裳;諸水高過山嶺。104:6
A.你的斥責一發,水便奔逃;你的雷聲一發,水便奔流。104:7諸山升上,諸谷沉下,歸你為他所安定之地。104:8
B.你定了界限,使水不能過去,不再轉回遮蓋地面。104:9
C.耶和華使泉源湧在山谷,流在山間,104:10
a.使野地的走獸有水喝,野驢得解其渴。104:11
b.天上的飛鳥在水旁住宿,在樹枝上啼叫。104:12
c.他從樓閣中澆灌山嶺;因他作為的功效,地就豐足。104:13
D.他使草生長,給六畜喫,使菜蔬發長,供給人用,使人從地裏能得食物,104:14
a.又得酒能悅人心,得油能潤人面,得糧能養人心。104:15
b.佳美的樹木,就是利巴嫩的香柏樹,是耶和華所栽種的,都滿了汁漿。104:16
c.雀鳥在其上搭窩;至於鶴,松樹是他的房屋。104:17
d.高山為野山羊的住所;巖石為沙番的藏處。104:18
E.你安置月亮為定節令;日頭自知沉落。104:19
4.你造黑暗為夜,林中的百獸就都爬出來。104:20
A.少壯獅子吼叫,要抓食,向神尋求食物。104:21
B.日頭一出,獸便躲避,臥在洞裏。104:22
C.人出去作工,勞碌直到晚上。104:23
D.耶和華阿,你所造的何其多!都是你用智慧造成的;遍地滿了你的豐富。104:24
a.那裏有海,又大又廣;其中有無數的動物,大小活物都有。104:25
b.那裏有船行走,有你所造的鱷魚游泳在其中。104:26
c.這都仰望你按時給他食物。104:27
E.你給他們,他們便拾起來;你張手,他們飽得美食。104:28
a.你掩面,他們便驚惶;你收回他們的氣,他們就死亡,歸於塵土。104:29
b.你發出你的靈,他們便受造;你使地面更換為新。104:30
5.願耶和華的榮耀存到永遠!願耶和華喜悅自己所造的!104:31他看地,地便震動;他摸山,山就冒煙。104:32
二.我要一生向耶和華唱詩!我還活的時候,要向我神歌頌!104:33
1.願他以我的默念為甘甜!我要因耶和華歡喜!104:34
2.願罪人從世上消滅!願惡人歸於無有!我的心那,要稱頌耶和華!你們要讚美耶和華!104:35
◎心得分享:本篇分為二段,第一段稱頌耶和華為至大的作為,第二段是具體對神至大的回應,一生向耶和華唱詩,還活著的時候。神給我們的「口」,是用來禱告唱詩讚美,不是用來罵人的,正如雅各書3章9-12節「我們用舌頭頌讚那為主、為父的,又用舌頭咒詛那照著神形像被造的人;頌讚和咒詛從一個口裏出來!我的弟兄們,這是不應當的!泉源從一個眼裏能發出甜苦兩樣的水麼?我的弟兄們,無花果樹能生橄欖麼?葡萄樹能結無花果麼?鹹水裏也不能發出甜水來。」,我們多一點讚美神,就少一點咒詛人。
第105章主要在講:「唱詩談論祂的一切奇妙作為v2」。
一.你們要稱謝耶和華,求告他的名,在萬民中傳揚他的作為!105:1
1.要向他唱詩歌頌,談論他一切奇妙的作為!105:2
2.要以他的聖名誇耀!尋求耶和華的人,心中應當歡喜!105:3
3.要尋求耶和華與他的能力,時常尋求他的面。105:4
4.他僕人亞伯拉罕的後裔,他所揀選雅各的子孫那,你們要記念他奇妙的作為和他的奇事,並他口中的判語。105:5-6
二.他是耶和華─我們的神;全地都有他的判斷。105:7
1.他記念他的約,直到永遠;他所吩咐的話,直到千代─105:8
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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。