07月12日 一年的第194天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:賽10-12章
第10章主要在講:「亞述的重担軛必離開撐斷。」。
一.禍哉!那些設立不義之律例的和記錄奸詐之判語的,
1.為要屈枉窮乏人,奪去我民中困苦人的理,以寡婦當作擄物,以孤兒當作掠物。
2.到降罰的日子,有災禍從遠方臨到,那時,你們怎樣行呢?你們向誰逃奔求救呢?你們的榮耀存留何處呢?
3.他們只得屈身在被擄的人以下,仆倒在被殺的人以下。雖然如此,耶和華的怒氣還未轉消;他的手仍伸不縮。
二.亞述是我怒氣的棍,手中拿我惱恨的杖。
1.我要打發他攻擊褻瀆的國民,吩咐他攻擊我所惱怒的百姓,搶財為擄物,奪貨為掠物,將他們踐踏,像街上的泥土一樣。
2.然而,他不是這樣的意思;他心也不這樣打算。他心裏倒想毀滅,剪除不少的國。
A.他說:我的臣僕豈不都是王嗎?
迦勒挪豈不像迦基米施嗎?哈馬豈不像亞珥拔嗎?撒馬利亞豈不像大馬士革嗎?
B.我手已經搆到有偶像的國;這些國雕刻的偶像過於耶路撒冷和撒馬利亞的偶像。
3.我怎樣待撒馬利亞和其中的偶像,豈不照樣待耶路撒冷和其中的偶像嗎?
三.主在錫安山和耶路撒冷成就他一切工作的時候,主說:「我必罰亞述王自大的心和他高傲眼目的榮耀。」
1.因為他說:
A.我所成就的事是靠我手的能力和我的智慧,我本有聰明。我挪移列國的地界,搶奪他們所積畜的財寶;並且我像勇士,使坐寶座的降為卑。
B.我的手搆到列國的財寶,好像人搆到鳥窩;我也得了全地,好像人拾起所棄的雀蛋。沒有動翅膀的;沒有張嘴的,也沒有鳴叫的。
2.斧豈可向用斧砍木的自誇呢?鋸豈可向用鋸的自大呢?好比棍掄起那舉棍的,好比杖舉起那非木的人。
3.因此,主─萬軍之耶和華必使亞述王的肥壯人變為瘦弱,在他的榮華之下必有火著起,如同焚燒一樣。
4.以色列的光必如火;他的聖者必如火焰。在一日之間,將亞述王的荊棘和蒺藜焚燒淨盡;
A.又將他樹林和肥田的榮耀全然燒盡,好像拿軍旗的昏過去一樣。
B.他林中剩下的樹必稀少,就是孩子也能寫其數。
四.到那日,以色列所剩下的和雅各家所逃脫的,不再倚靠那擊打他們的,卻要誠實倚靠耶和華─以色列的聖者。
1.所剩下的,就是雅各家所剩下的,必歸回全能的 神。
A.以色列啊,你的百姓雖多如海沙,惟有剩下的歸回。原來滅絕的事已定,必有公義施行,如水漲溢。
B.因為主─萬軍之耶和華在全地之中必成就所定規的結局。
2.所以,主─萬軍之耶和華如此說:「住錫安我的百姓啊,亞述王雖然用棍擊打你,又照埃及的樣子舉杖攻擊你,你卻不要怕他。
A.因為還有一點點時候,向你們發的忿恨就要完畢,我的怒氣要向他發作,使他滅亡。
B.萬軍之耶和華要興起鞭來攻擊他,好像在俄立磐石那裏殺戮米甸人一樣。耶和華的杖要向海伸出,把杖舉起,像在埃及一樣。
五.到那日,亞述王的重擔必離開你的肩頭;他的軛必離開你的頸項;那軛也必因肥壯的緣故斷。
1.亞述王來到亞葉,經過米磯崙,在密抹安放輜重。
A.他們過了隘口,在迦巴住宿。拉瑪人戰兢;掃羅的基比亞人逃跑。
B.迦琳的居民哪,要高聲呼喊!萊煞人哪,須聽!哀哉!困苦的亞拿突啊。
C.瑪得米那人躲避;基柄的居民逃遁。
2.當那日,亞述王要在挪伯歇兵,向錫安女子的山─就是耶路撒冷的山─掄手攻他。
3.看哪,主─萬軍之耶和華以驚嚇削去樹枝;長高的必被砍下,高大的必被伐倒。
稠密的樹林,他要用鐵器砍下;黎巴嫩的樹木必被大能者伐倒。
◎心得分享:「亞述是上帝怒氣的棍,惱恨的杖」。當雅各家誠實依靠耶和華不再依靠「擊打他們的」,上帝就要把亞述的重擔折斷,我們總是看眼前,依靠眼前的,人是被「棍、杖」打,所以依靠「棍、杖」,如果我們願意放下依靠眼前的,全心依靠上帝,上帝必會把面前的問題解決,讓我們像剩餘逃脫歸回的人。
第11章主要在講:「彌賽亞(耶西的根)公義和平統治」。
一.從耶西的本必發一條;從他根生的枝子必結果實。
1.耶和華的靈必住在他身上,就是使他有智慧和聰明的靈,謀略和能力的靈,知識和敬畏耶和華的靈。
2.他必以敬畏耶和華為樂;行審判不憑眼見,斷是非也不憑耳聞;
3.卻要以公義審判貧窮人,以正直判斷世上的謙卑人,以口中的杖擊打世界,以嘴裏的氣殺戮惡人。
4.公義必當他的腰帶;信實必當他脅下的帶子。
A.豺狼必與綿羊羔同居,豹子與山羊羔同臥;少壯獅子與牛犢並肥畜同群;小孩子要牽引牠們。
B.牛必與熊同食;牛犢必與小熊同臥;獅子必吃草,與牛一樣。
C.吃奶的孩子必玩耍在虺蛇的洞口;斷奶的嬰兒必按手在毒蛇的穴上。
二.在我聖山的遍處,這一切都不傷人,不害物;因為認識耶和華的知識要充滿遍地,好像水充滿洋海一般。
三.到那日,耶西的根立作萬民的大旗;外邦人必尋求他,他安息之所大有榮耀。
四.當那日,主必二次伸手救回自己百姓中所餘剩的,就是在亞述、埃及、巴忒羅、古實、以攔、示拿、哈馬,並眾海島所剩下的。
1.他必向列國豎立大旗,招回以色列被趕散的人,又從地的四方聚集分散的猶大人。
2.以法蓮的嫉妒就必消散;擾害猶大的必被剪除。以法蓮必不嫉妒猶大,猶大也不擾害以法蓮。
五.他們要向西飛,撲在非利士人的肩頭上,一同擄掠東方人,伸手按住以東和摩押;亞捫人也必順服他們。
1.耶和華必使埃及海汊枯乾,掄手用暴熱的風使大河分為七條,令人過去不致濕腳。
2.為主餘剩的百姓,就是從亞述剩下回來的,必有一條大道,如當日以色列從埃及地上來一樣。
◎心得分享:「在艱難的時候,就是勝利將要來臨的時候」,我們的主耶穌就是彌賽亞,祂要將祂的百姓,從罪惡中拯救出來,成為我們在苦難中惟一的盼望,外邦人也必尋求祂,以法蓮的嫉妒被消散,猶大的擾害被剪除,主剩餘百姓回來,必有一條大路,是的!感謝神在我們受試探的時候,總是為我們開一條出路。
第12章主要在講:「稱謝耶和華救恩的歌。」。
一.到那日,你必說:耶和華啊,我要稱謝你!因為你雖然向我發怒,你的怒氣卻已轉消;你又安慰了我。
二.看哪!神是我的拯救;我要倚靠他,並不懼怕。因為主耶和華是我的力量,是我的詩歌,他也成了我的拯救。
所以,你們必從救恩的泉源歡然取水。
三.在那日,你們要說:當稱謝耶和華,求告他的名;將他所行的傳揚在萬民中,提說他的名已被尊崇。
四.你們要向耶和華唱歌,因他所行的甚是美好;但願這事普傳天下。
錫安的居民哪,當揚聲歡呼,因為在你們中間的以色列聖者乃為至大。
◎心得分享:這章是讚美的詩,神是我的拯救、我的倚靠、我的力量、我的詩歌,我們必從救恩的泉源歡然取水,我們要常常讚美,無論得時或不得時,當我們讚美的時候,就是對上帝的依靠,上帝是坐在以色列讚美的寶座中,當我們讚美,我們就是歸向神,神也必拯救我們。
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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。