06月01日 一年的第153天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:箴04-07章
第04章主要在講:「智慧之執=持定訓誨.箴4:13」。
一.要聽父親的教訓,留心得知聰明。4:1
1.因我所給你們的是好教訓;不可離棄我的法則。4:2
2.我在父親面前為孝子,在母親眼中為獨一的嬌兒。4:3
3.父親教訓我說:你心要存記我的言語,遵守我的命令,便得存活。4:4
二.要得智慧,要得聰明,不可忘記,也不可偏離我口中的言語。4:5
1.不可離棄智慧,智慧就護衛你;要愛她,她就保守你。4:6
智慧為首;所以,要得智慧。在你一切所得之內必得聰明。4:7
2.高舉智慧,她就使你高升;懷抱智慧,她就使你尊榮。4:8
她必將華冠加在你頭上,把榮冕交給你。4:9
3.我兒,你要聽受我的言語,就必延年益壽。4:10
A.我已指教你走智慧的道,引導你行正直的路。4:11
B.你行走,腳步必不致狹窄;你奔跑,也不致跌倒。4:12
三.要持定訓誨,不可放鬆;必當謹守,因為她是你的生命。4:13
1.不可行惡人的路;不要走壞人的道。4:14
A.要躲避,不可經過;要轉身而去。4:15
B.這等人若不行惡,不得睡覺;不使人跌倒,睡臥不安;4:16
C.因為他們以奸惡吃餅,以強暴喝酒。4:17
2.但義人的路好像黎明的光,越照越明,直到日午。4:18
惡人的道好像幽暗,自己不知因甚麼跌倒。4:19
3.我兒,要留心聽我的言詞,側耳聽我的話語,4:20
A.都不可離你的眼目,要存記在你心中。4:21
B.因為得著它的,就得了生命,又得了醫全體的良藥。4:22
四.要保守你心,勝過保守一切,因為一生的果效是由心發出。4:23
1.你要除掉邪僻的口,棄絕乖謬的嘴。4:24
2.你的眼目要向前正看;你的眼睛當向前直觀。4:25
3.要修平你腳下的路,堅定你一切的道。4:26
不可偏向左右;要使你的腳離開邪惡。4:27
◎心得分享:本篇是論到得「智慧」的四個方法,重點是在「神的話」,第一是「要聽教訓」,第二是「不可忘記上帝的話」,第三是「堅持不可放鬆持定訓誨」,第四是「保守自己的心勝過保守一切」。堅持就是一種固執,有人說「太過固執是不好的」,但是問題不是「固執」不好,而是你是「擇善固執」,或是「擇惡固執」?當然智慧的人是「擇善固執」的人,求神幫助我們在對神的話語上能持定永不放鬆堅持到底。
第05章主要在講:「智慧之戒=遠離淫婦(忠於婚姻)5:8」。
一.要留心側耳聽我智慧的話語,我聰明的言詞,5:1
為要使你謹守謀略,嘴唇保存知識。5:2
二.要遠離淫婦
1.因為淫婦的嘴滴下蜂蜜;她的口比油更滑,5:3
A.至終卻苦似茵蔯,快如兩刃的刀。5:4
B.她的腳下入死地;她腳步踏住陰間,5:5
C.以致她找不著生命平坦的道。她的路變遷不定,自己還不知道。5:6
2.眾子啊,現在要聽從我;不可離棄我口中的話。5:7
3.你所行的道要離她遠,不可就近她的房門,5:8
A.恐怕將你的尊榮給別人,將你的歲月給殘忍的人;5:9
B.恐怕外人滿得你的力量,你勞碌得來的,歸入外人的家;5:10
C.終久,你皮肉和身體消毀,你就悲歎,5:11
a.說:我怎麼恨惡訓誨,心中藐視責備,5:12
b.也不聽從我師傅的話,又不側耳聽那教訓我的人?5:13
D.我在聖會裏,幾乎落在諸般惡中。5:14
三.要喝你自己池中的水,飲自己井裏的活水。5:15
1.你的泉源豈可漲溢在外?你的河水豈可流在街上?5:16
惟獨歸你一人,不可與外人同用。5:17
2.要使你的泉源蒙福;要喜悅你幼年所娶的妻。5:18
她如可愛的麀鹿,可喜的母鹿;願她的胸懷使你時時知足,她的愛情使你常常戀慕。5:19
3.我兒,你為何戀慕淫婦?為何抱外女的胸懷?5:20
因為,人所行的道都在耶和華眼前;他也修平人一切的路。5:21
4.惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住;他必被自己的罪惡如繩索纏繞。5:22
他因不受訓誨就必死亡;又因愚昧過甚,必走差了路。5:23
◎心得分享:淫亂的致命傷對一個男人來說遠勝對女人,因為「男追女隔一層山,女追男隔一層紗」,我們常聽「英雄難過美人關」,卻少聽到「美人難過英雄關」,當然無論是男人或是女人,兩性關係的問題,已成為人與人之間的很重要的課題,哥林多前書6章18節說到「你們要逃避淫行。人所犯的,無論甚麼罪,都在身子以外,惟有行淫的,是得罪自己的身子」,這說明所有罪的裡頭,影響最深的就是淫亂的罪,當然我們無法避免腦袋閃過淫念,但是我們一定要逃避讓這個淫念成形變成罪,本章在告訴我們避免淫亂的三個方法,第一是「把神的話語存記在心」,第二是「遠離淫亂」,第三是「要喜悅幼年所娶的妻」,求神幫助我們遠離淫亂。
第06章主要在講:「智慧之法=與智慧談論.箴6:21」。
一.要救自己 不要容眼睛睡覺打盹,為朋友作保。6:1-5
1.我兒,你若為朋友作保,替外人擊掌,6:1
1.你就被口中的話語纏住,被嘴裏的言語捉住。6:2
2.我兒,你既落在朋友手中,就當這樣行才可救自己:你要自卑,去懇求你的朋友。6:3
3.不要容你的眼睛睡覺;不要容你的眼皮打盹。6:4
4.要救自己,如鹿脫離獵戶的手,如鳥脫離捕鳥人的手。6:5
二.懶惰人哪,你去察看螞蟻的動作就可得智慧。6:6
1.螞蟻沒有元帥,沒有官長,沒有君王,6:7
尚且在夏天預備食物,在收割時聚斂糧食。6:8
2.懶惰人哪,你要睡到幾時呢?你何時睡醒呢?6:9
A.再睡片時,打盹片時,抱著手躺臥片時,6:10
B.你的貧窮就必如強盜速來,你的缺乏彷彿拿兵器的人來到。6:11
3.無賴的惡徒,行動就用乖僻的口,6:12
A.用眼傳神,用腳示意,用指點劃,6:13
B.心中乖僻,常設惡謀,布散紛爭。6:14
C.所以,災難必忽然臨到他身;他必頃刻敗壞,無法可治。6:15
4.耶和華所恨惡的有六樣,連他心所憎惡的共有七樣:6:16
A.就是高傲的眼,撒謊的舌,流無辜人血的手,6:17
B.圖謀惡計的心,飛跑行惡的腳,6:18
C.吐謊言的假見證,並弟兄中布散紛爭的人。6:19
三.要謹守不可離棄你父親的誡命;你母親的法則.6:20
1.要常繫在你心上,掛在你項上。6:21
2.你行走,它必引導你;你躺臥,它必保守你;你睡醒,它必與你談論。6:22
3.因為誡命是燈,法則〔或譯:指教〕是光,訓誨的責備是生命的道,6:23
4.能保你遠離惡婦,遠離外女諂媚的舌頭。6:24
四.心中不要戀慕、不要被妓女美色,眼皮被勾引。6:25
1.因為,妓女能使人只剩一塊餅;淫婦獵取人寶貴的生命。6:26
A.人若懷裏搋火,衣服豈能不燒呢?6:27
B.人若在火炭上走,腳豈能不燙呢?6:28
2.親近鄰舍之妻的,也是如此;凡挨近她的,不免受罰。6:29
3.賊因飢餓偷竊充飢,人不藐視他,6:30
若被找著,他必賠還七倍,必將家中所有的盡都償還。6:31
4.與婦人行淫的,便是無知;行這事的,必喪掉生命。6:32
A.他必受傷損,必被凌辱;他的羞恥不得塗抹。6:33
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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。