05月27日 一年的第148天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩139-141篇
第139章主要在講:「大衛:神是無所不在」。
一.耶和華啊,你已經鑒察我,認識我。139:1
1.我坐下,我起來,你都曉得;你從遠處知道我的意念。139:2
2.我行路,我躺臥,你都細察;你也深知我一切所行的。139:3
3.耶和華啊,我舌頭上的話,你沒有一句不知道的。139:4
二.你在我前後環繞我,按手在我身上。139:5
1.這樣的知識奇妙,是我不能測的,至高,是我不能及的。139:6
2.我往哪裏去躲避你的靈?我往哪裏逃、躲避你的面?139:7
A.我若升到天上,你在那裏;我若在陰間下榻,你也在那裏。139:8
B.我若展開清晨的翅膀,飛到海極居住,139:9
就是在那裏,你的手必引導我;你的右手也必扶持我。139:10
C.我若說:黑暗必定遮蔽我,我周圍的亮光必成為黑夜;139:11
3.黑暗也不能遮蔽我,使你不見,黑夜卻如白晝發亮。黑暗和光明,在你看都是一樣。139:12
三.我的肺腑是你所造的;我在母腹中,你已覆庇我。139:13
1.我要稱謝你,因我受造,奇妙可畏;你的作為奇妙,這是我心深知道的。139:14
2.我在暗中受造,在地的深處被聯絡;那時,我的形體並不向你隱藏。139:15
3.我未成形的體質,你的眼早已看見了;你所定的日子,我尚未度一日,你都寫在你的冊上了。139:16
四.神啊,你的意念向我何等寶貴!其數何等眾多!139:17
1.我若數點,比海沙更多;我睡醒的時候,仍和你同在。139:18
2.神啊,你必要殺戮惡人;所以,你們好流人血的,離開我去吧!139:19
因為他們說惡言頂撞你;你的仇敵也妄稱你的名。139:20
3.耶和華啊,恨惡你的,我豈不恨惡他們嗎?攻擊你的,我豈不憎嫌他們嗎?139:21
我切切地恨惡他們,以他們為仇敵。139:22
4.神啊,求你鑒察我,知道我的心思,試煉我,知道我的意念,139:23
看在我裏面有甚麼惡行沒有,引導我走永生的道路。139:24
◎心得分享:〔大衛的詩,交與伶長〕本篇分為四段,分別是大衛對上帝恩典的述說,第一段是「耶和華認識鑒察我」,第二段是「耶和華前後環繞我,按手身上」,第三段是「耶和華覆庇我,我在母腹中時」,第四段是「耶和華的意念,向我何等寶貴」。第一節是神鑒察我,到最後也是求神鑒察我,「求神鑒察」,不是說大衛自以為自己是個「完全」的人,而是他知道「神若究察罪孽」無人能站立在神的面前,他是盡心竭力要討神喜悅,他知道人看人,是看人外表,看對錯,而神看人是看人內心,看人是否真有愛神的心,是的!我們無法逃躲避神,無人我們往那裡去,總有一天我們要面對祂,當趁我們可以尋找神的時候尋求祂,相近的時候求告祂,不要等到最後一天到天堂門口,主卻對我們說「我不認識你」,那就悲慘了。
第140章主要在講:「大衛:面對強暴奸惡驕傲人的禱告詞」。
一.耶和華啊,求你拯救我脫離凶惡的人,保護我脫離強暴的人!140:1
1.他們心中圖謀奸惡,常常聚集要爭戰。140:2
他們使舌頭尖利如蛇,嘴裏有虺蛇的毒氣。140:3
2.耶和華啊,求你拯救我脫離惡人的手,保護我脫離強暴的人!他們圖謀推我跌倒。140:4
3.驕傲人為我暗設網羅和繩索;他們在路旁鋪下網,設下圈套。140:5
4.我曾對耶和華說:你是我的 神。耶和華啊,求你留心聽我懇求的聲音!140:6
二.主─耶和華、我救恩的力量啊,在爭戰的日子,你遮蔽了我的頭。140:7
1.耶和華啊,求你不要遂惡人的心願;不要成就他們的計謀,恐怕他們自高。140:8
A.至於那些昂首圍困我的人,願他們嘴唇的奸惡陷害自己!140:9
B.願火炭落在他們身上!願他們被丟在火中,拋在深坑裏,不能再起來。140:10
C.說惡言的人在地上必堅立不住;禍患必獵取強暴的人,將他打倒。140:11
2.我知道耶和華必為困苦人伸冤,必為窮乏人辨屈。140:12
義人必要稱讚你的名;正直人必住在你面前。140:13
◎心得分享:〔大衛的詩,交與伶長〕大衛面對與仇敵爭戰,他求神拯救,因為他知道上帝是1.我的上帝,2.我救恩的力量,3.必為困苦窮乏人伸冤辦屈。保羅勉勵我們,在提摩太後書3章12節「不但如此,凡立志在基督耶穌裏敬虔度日的也都要受逼迫。只是作惡的和迷惑人的,必越久越惡,他欺哄人,也被人欺哄。但你所學習的,所確信的,要存在心裏;因為你知道是跟誰學的」。
第141章主要在講:「大衛:面對作孽惡人的禱告詞」。
一.耶和華啊,我曾求告你,求你快快臨到我這裏!我求告你的時候,願你留心聽我的聲音!141:1
1.願我的禱告如香陳列在你面前!願我舉手祈求,如獻晚祭!141:2
2.耶和華啊,求你禁止我的口,把守我的嘴!141:3
3.求你不叫我的心偏向邪惡,以致我和作孽的人同行惡事;也不叫我吃他們的美食。141:4
4.任憑義人擊打我,這算為仁慈;任憑他責備我,這算為頭上的膏油;我的頭不要躲閃。正在他們行惡的時候,我仍要祈禱。141:5
A.他們的審判官被扔在巖下;眾人要聽我的話,因為這話甘甜。141:6
B.我們的骨頭散在墓旁,好像人耕田、刨地的土塊。141:7
二.主─耶和華啊,我的眼目仰望你;我投靠你,求你不要將我撇得孤苦!141:8
1.求你保護我脫離惡人為我設的網羅和作孽之人的圈套!141:9
2.願惡人落在自己的網裏,我卻得以逃脫。141:10
◎心得分享:〔大衛的詩〕本篇是大衛向上帝的祈求,1.求上帝快快臨到,2.禁止我的口、我的心偏向邪惡,3.求你不要將我撇得孤苦,4.求我脫離網羅和圈套。他面對困境的態度是1.向神舉手禱告,2.立志保守自己在的口,不說埋怨的話,偏向邪惡的心,3.在擊打責備中,頭不躲閃,4.眼目仰望投靠神。求神幫助我們,在困境中學會「三受」,接受、忍受、享受。
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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。