05月24日 一年的第145天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩130-132篇
第130章主要在講:「我從深處向你求告」。
一.耶和華啊,我從深處向你求告!130:1
1.主啊,求你聽我的聲音!願你側耳聽我懇求的聲音!130:2
2.主─耶和華啊,你若究察罪孽,誰能站得住呢?130:3
3.但在你有赦免之恩,要叫人敬畏你。130:4
二.我等候耶和華,我的心等候;我也仰望他的話。130:5
1.我的心等候主,勝於守夜的,等候天亮,勝於守夜的,等候天亮。130:6
2.以色列啊,你當仰望耶和華!因他有慈愛,有豐盛的救恩。130:7
3.他必救贖以色列脫離一切的罪孽。130:8
◎心得分享:〔上行之詩〕本篇分為兩段,第一段從深處求告神,求神赦免罪孽,第二段是等候耶和華,仰望祂的話,祂必救贖。上帝若究察罪孽,誰能站得住呢?是的!沒有人能站得住,我們只能求神憐憫,一方面等候上帝,另一方面仰望上帝的話,正如雅各書5章7-8節「弟兄們哪,你們要忍耐,直到主來。看哪,農夫忍耐等候地裏寶貴的出產,直到得了秋雨春雨。你們也當忍耐,堅固你們的心;因為主來的日子近了。」。
第131章主要在講:「大衛;以色列當仰望耶和華」。
一.耶和華啊,我的心不狂傲,我的眼不高大;重大和測不透的事,我也不敢行。131:1
我的心平穩安靜,好像斷過奶的孩子在他母親的懷中;我的心在我裏面真像斷過奶的孩子。131:2
二.以色列啊,你當仰望耶和華,從今時直到永遠!131:3
◎心得分享:〔大衛上行之詩〕本章的作者是大衛,本篇分為兩個部份,第一個部份大衛提到他自己是怎樣的人,1.他是說話不狂傲,不高抬自己,2.他看人的態度,是不高看不起別人的人,3.他是謹慎小心的人,重大和測不透的事,我也不敢行,3.心裡像斷過奶的孩子,單純平穩安靜的人。仰望神對我們來說很重要,正如希伯來書12章2節「仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌。他因那擺在前面的喜樂,就輕看羞辱,忍受了十字架的苦難,便坐在神寶座的右邊。」
第132章主要在講:「求耶和華記念大衛所受的一切苦難」。
一.耶和華啊,求你記念大衛所受的一切苦難!132:1
1.他怎樣向耶和華起誓,向雅各的大能者許願,132:2
說:我必不進我的帳幕,也不上我的榻;132:3
2.我不容我的眼睛睡覺,也不容我的眼目打盹;132:4
直等我為耶和華尋得所在,為雅各的大能者尋得居所。132:5
3.我們聽說約櫃在以法他,我們在基列‧耶琳就尋見了。132:6
我們要進他的居所,在他腳凳前下拜。132:7
二.耶和華啊,求你興起,和你有能力的約櫃同入安息之所!132:8
1.願你的祭司披上公義!願你的聖民歡呼!132:9
2.求你因你僕人大衛的緣故,不要厭棄你的受膏者!132:10
三.耶和華向大衛、憑誠實起了誓,必不反覆,說:我要使你所生的坐在你的寶座上。132:11
1.你的眾子若守我的約和我所教訓他們的法度,他們的子孫必永遠坐在你的寶座上。132:12
A.因為耶和華揀選了錫安,願意當作自己的居所,132:13
B.說:這是我永遠安息之所;我要住在這裏,因為是我所願意的。132:14
2.我要使其中的糧食豐滿,使其中的窮人飽足。132:15
3.我要使祭司披上救恩,聖民大聲歡呼!132:16
4.我要叫大衛的角在那裏發生;我為我的受膏者預備明燈。132:17
5.我要使他的仇敵披上羞恥;但他的冠冕要在頭上發光。132:18
◎心得分享:〔上行之詩〕本篇分為三段:第一段是求神記念大衛所受的苦,他對上帝全然獻上的心,第二段是求神興起,同約櫃進入聖殿安息之所,第三段是求神記念向大衛所起的誓。本篇作者是不是大衛,我們不確定,但是作者若不是大衛,應該是大衛的後代,他求神記念「大衛愛上帝,為上帝耶和華尋得所在,不容眼睛睡覺,也不容眼目打盹」,求神興起,進入聖殿與祂的百姓同在,求神把這種渴慕上帝同在的心,放在我們的心。
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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。