05月21日 一年的第142天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩120-123篇
第120章主要在講:「在急難中禱告詞」。
一.我在急難中求告耶和華,他就應允我。120:1
1.耶和華啊,求你救我脫離說謊的嘴唇和詭詐的舌頭!120:2
2.詭詐的舌頭啊,要給你甚麼呢?要拿甚麼加給你呢?120:3
就是勇士的利箭和羅騰木的炭火。120:4
二.我寄居在米設,住在基達帳棚之中,有禍了!120:5
1.我與那恨惡和睦的人許久同住。120:6
2.我願和睦,但我發言,他們就要爭戰.120:7
◎心得分享:〔上行〔或作登階,下同〕之詩〕所謂「上行之詩」,是指以色列人要上到耶路撒冷的時候,所唱的詩歌,本篇分為兩段,第一段是數算上帝的恩典,急難中求告神,神就應允,第二段是講自己住在外邦人的中間禍患的經歷,希望和睦結果卻是爭戰。如今要到聖殿敬拜,過去的急難遭遇,現今卻成為一種強烈對上帝的感恩,所以受苦是與我們有益的。
第121章主要在講:「我要向山舉目」。
一.我要向山舉目;我的幫助從何而來?121:1
我的幫助從造天地的耶和華而來。121:2
二.他必不叫你的腳搖動;保護你的必不打盹!121:3
1.保護以色列的,也不打盹也不睡覺。121:4
2.保護你的是耶和華;耶和華在你右邊蔭庇你。121:5
三.白日,太陽必不傷你;夜間,月亮必不害你。121:6
耶和華要保護你,免受一切的災害;他要保護你的性命。121:7
四.你出你入,耶和華要保護你,從今時直到永遠。121:8
◎心得分享:〔上行之詩〕上聖殿除了感恩以外,就是仰望上帝,是的!上帝是我的幫助,也是我的保護,無論是白天或是夜間,無論是出或者是入,神都是保護我們,不叫我們的腳搖動,太陽不傷月亮不害,這就是信心,到神面前來的人,一定要有信心。
第122章主要在講:「我們歡喜往耶和華的殿去」。
一.人對我說:我們往耶和華的殿去,我就歡喜。122:1
二.耶路撒冷啊,我們的腳站在你的門內。122:2
1.耶路撒冷被建造,如同連絡整齊的一座城。122:3
2.眾支派,就是耶和華的支派,上那裏去,按以色列的常例稱讚耶和華的名。122:4
3.因為在那裏設立審判的寶座,就是大衛家的寶座。122:5
三.你們要為耶路撒冷求平安!耶路撒冷啊,愛你的人必然興旺!122:6
1.願你城中平安!願你宮內興旺!122:7
2.因我弟兄和同伴的緣故,我要說:願平安在你中間!122:8
3.因耶和華─我們 神殿的緣故,我要為你求福!122:9
◎心得分享:〔大衛上行之詩〕上到聖殿,另一個很重要的是「歡喜上聖殿,愛與禱告」,也就是愛上帝,為耶路撒冷求平安,是為了弟兄和同伴的緣故要祝福,願平安在你們中間,神的兒女,渴慕親近神,一聽到能上耶和華的殿,敬拜上帝,心裡就歡喜快樂,是的!詩篇84篇10節「在你的院宇住一日,勝似在別處住千日;寧可在我神殿中看門,不願住在惡人的帳棚裏」。
第123章主要在講:「我們的眼睛仰望的神,直到他憐憫我們」。
一.坐在天上的主啊,我向你舉目。123:1
看哪,僕人的眼睛怎樣望主人的手,使女的眼睛怎樣望主母的手,我們的眼睛也照樣望耶和華─我們的 神,直到他憐憫我們。123:2
二.耶和華啊,求你憐憫我們,憐憫我們!因為我們被藐視,已到極處。123:3
我們被那些安逸人的譏誚和驕傲人的藐視,已到極處。123:4
◎心得分享:〔上行之詩〕上聖殿親近神的人,也要懂得仰望神的憐憫,也就是對上帝有期待,正如來伯來書4章16節「所以,我們只管坦然無懼的來到施恩的寶座前,為要得憐恤,蒙恩惠,作隨時的幫助。」,主耶穌也告訴我們在馬太福11章28節「凡勞苦擔重擔的人可以到我這裏來,我就使你們得安息。」,到神面前就是要仰望神,把問題完完全全交托給神,渴望上帝能憐憫施恩釋放我們。
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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。