05月15日 一年的第136天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩103-105篇第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
就是與亞伯拉罕所立的約,向以撒所起的誓。105:9
2.他又將這約向雅各定為律例,向以色列定為永遠的約,105:10
A.說:我必將迦南地賜給你,作你產業的分。105:11
三.當時,他們人丁有限,數目稀少,並且在那地為寄居的。105:12
1.他們從這邦遊到那邦,從這國行到那國。105:13
A.他不容甚麼人欺負他們,為他們的緣故責備君王,105:14
B.說:不可難為我受膏的人,也不可惡待我的先知。105:15
C.他命饑荒降在那地上,將所倚靠的糧食全行斷絕,105:16
2.在他們以先打發一個人去─約瑟被賣為奴僕。105:17
A.人用腳鐐傷他的腳;他被鐵鍊捆拘。105:18
B.耶和華的話試煉他,直等到他所說的應驗了。105:19
C.王打發人把他解開,就是治理眾民的,把他釋放,105:20
a.立他作王家之主,掌管他一切所有的,105:21
b.使他隨意捆綁他的臣宰,將智慧教導他的長老。105:22
3.以色列也到了埃及;雅各在含地寄居。105:23
A.耶和華使他的百姓生養眾多,使他們比敵人強盛,105:24
B.使敵人的心轉去恨他的百姓,並用詭計待他的僕人。105:25
4.他打發他的僕人摩西和他所揀選的亞倫,105:26
A.在敵人中間顯他的神蹟,在含地顯他的奇事。105:27
a.他命黑暗,就有黑暗;沒有違背他話的。105:28
b.他叫埃及的水變為血,叫他們的魚死了。105:29
B.在他們的地上以及王宮的內室,青蛙多多滋生。105:30
他說一聲,蒼蠅就成群而來,並有虱子進入他們四境。105:31
C.他給他們降下冰雹為雨,在他們的地上降下火焰。105:32
他也擊打他們的葡萄樹和無花果樹,毀壞他們境內的樹木。105:33
D.他說一聲,就有蝗蟲螞蚱上來,不計其數,105:34
吃盡了他們地上各樣的菜蔬和田地的出產。105:35
E.他又擊殺他們國內一切的長子,就是他們強壯時頭生的。105:36
5.他領自己的百姓帶銀子金子出來;他支派中沒有一個軟弱的。105:37
A.他們出來的時候,埃及人便歡喜;原來埃及人懼怕他們。105:38
B.他鋪張雲彩當遮蓋,夜間使火光照。105:39
他們一求,他就使鵪鶉飛來,並用天上的糧食叫他們飽足。105:40
C.他打開磐石,水就湧出;在乾旱之處,水流成河。105:41
這都因他記念他的聖言和他的僕人亞伯拉罕。105:42
D.他帶領百姓歡樂而出,帶領選民歡呼前往。105:43
E.他將列國的地賜給他們,他們便承受眾民勞碌得來的,105:44
好使他們遵他的律例,守他的律法。你們要讚美耶和華! 105:45
◎心得分享:本篇分為三段,第一段是五個「要」,1.要稱頌求告傳揚神的作為,2.要向他唱詩歌頌,3.要以他的聖名誇耀!應當歡喜,4.要尋求神的能力與他的面,5.要記念他奇妙的作為,二.神記念祂的約,三.神履行祂的約在以色人的歷史中。是的!神是守約施慈愛,所以我們要常常尋求神的面,傳揚神的作為,正如使徒行傳1章8節「但聖靈降臨在你們身上,你們就必得著能力,並要在耶路撒冷、猶太全地,和撒瑪利亞,直到地極,作我的見證。」。
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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。