05月18日 一年的第139天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩112-114篇
第112章主要在講:「敬畏喜愛耶和華命令的正直人」。
一.你們要讚美耶和華!敬畏耶和華,甚喜愛他命令的,這人便為有福!112:1
二.他的後裔在世必強盛;正直人的後代必要蒙福。112:2
他家中有貨物,有錢財;他的公義存到永遠。112:3
三.正直人在黑暗中,有光向他發現;他有恩惠,有憐憫,有公義。112:4
施恩與人、借貸與人的,這人事情順利;他被審判的時候要訴明自己的冤。112:5
他永不動搖;義人被記念,直到永遠。112:6
四.他必不怕凶惡的信息;他心堅定,倚靠耶和華。112:7
他心確定,總不懼怕,直到他看見敵人遭報。112:8
五.他施捨錢財,賙濟貧窮;他的仁義存到永遠。他的角必被高舉,大有榮耀。112:9
惡人看見便惱恨,必咬牙而消化;惡人的心願要歸滅絕。112:10
◎心得分享:本篇在講「敬畏喜愛耶和華命令的正直人」,分成五段,第一段是講正直人是有福的,第二段正直人後裔強盛存到永遠,第三段正直人永不動搖,第四段正直人心總不懼怕,第五段正直人施捨錢財,賙濟貧窮。「正直人」是指對人、對神很真誠沒有自私與虛假,事實上沒有一個人是正直的,都是虛假的,但因為人願意1.讚美耶和華,2.敬畏耶和華,3.喜愛耶和華的命令,漸漸神就引導他成為正直的人,求神幫助我們成為「正直的人」。
第113章主要在講:「日出之地到日落之處當讚美神的名」。
一.你們要讚美耶和華!耶和華的僕人哪,你們要讚美,讚美耶和華的名!113:1
1.耶和華的名是應當稱頌的,從今時直到永遠!113:2
從日出之地到日落之處,耶和華的名是應當讚美的!113:3
2.耶和華超乎萬民之上;他的榮耀高過諸天。113:4
誰像耶和華─我們的 神呢?他坐在至高之處,113:5
二.自己謙卑,觀看天上地下的事。113:6
1.他從灰塵裏抬舉貧寒人,從糞堆中提拔窮乏人,113:7
使他們與王子同坐,就是與本國的王子同坐。113:8
3.他使不能生育的婦人安居家中,為多子的樂母。你們要讚美耶和華!113:9
◎心得分享:本篇分成二段,第一段是講神的榮耀,全地要讚美祂,第二段是講神的慈愛:1.祂謙卑觀看天上地下的事,2.從從灰塵裏抬舉貧寒人,從糞堆中提拔窮乏人,使他們與王子同坐,3.他使不能生有的,為多子的樂母。對我特別有感受的是,第7-8節「神從灰塵裏抬舉貧寒人,從糞堆中提拔窮乏人,使他們與王子同坐,就是與本國的王子同坐」,作者覺得自己是非常不配,但是神卻是給他這麼多的恩典,我自己成為神的僕人服事主將近廿年,心有同感,論背景、能力..沒有一樣是能跟人比的,但是服事主之後,就體會到常常有機會跟有名望的人接觸吃飯,這就是「神從灰塵裏抬舉貧寒人,從糞堆中提拔窮乏人」。
第114章主要在講:「出埃及的喜樂與讚美」。
一.以色列出了埃及,雅各家離開說異言之民;114:1
二.那時,猶大為主的聖所,以色列為他所治理的國度。114:2
1.滄海看見就奔逃;約旦河也倒流。114:3
2.大山踴躍,如公羊;小山跳舞,如羊羔。114:4
3.滄海啊,你為何奔逃?約旦哪,你為何倒流?114:5
4.大山哪,你為何踴躍,如公羊?小山哪,你為何跳舞,如羊羔?114:6
5.大地啊,你因見主的面,就是雅各 神的面,便要震動。114:7
三.他叫磐石變為水池,叫堅石變為泉源。114:8
◎心得分享:本篇分為三段:第一段是神的拯救,使以色列出埃及,第二段是神治理以色列的國度,猶大為主的聖所,第三段是上帝改變一切環境,使磐石堅石變為水池泉源。整篇就好像在述說一個人信主的經歷,「從神的拯救,到神的帶領,再到神的改變」,大山踴躍,小山跳舞,是表示一個人真正信主,經歷神的恩典後,就有說不出來的喜樂在他的心中。
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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。