07月19日 一年的第201天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:賽31-33章
第31章主要在講:「斥責杖賴埃及,神應許保護耶路撒冷」。
一.禍哉!那些下埃及求幫助的,是因仗賴馬匹,倚靠甚多的車輛,並倚靠強壯的馬兵,卻不仰望以色列的聖者,也不求問耶和華。31:1
1.其實,耶和華有智慧;他必降災禍,並不反悔自己的話,卻要興起攻擊那作惡之家,又攻擊那作孽幫助人的。31:2
2.埃及人不過是人,並不是 神;他們的馬不過是血肉,並不是靈。耶和華一伸手,那幫助人的必絆跌,那受幫助的也必跌倒,都一同滅亡。31:3
3.耶和華對我如此說:獅子和少壯獅子護食咆哮,就是喊許多牧人來攻擊牠,牠總不因他們的聲音驚惶,也不因他們的喧嘩縮伏。如此,萬軍之耶和華也必降臨在錫安山岡上爭戰。31:4
4.雀鳥怎樣搧翅覆雛,萬軍之耶和華也要照樣保護耶路撒冷。他必保護拯救,要越門保守。31:5
二.以色列人哪,你們深深地悖逆耶和華,現今要歸向他。31:6
1.到那日,各人必將他金偶像銀偶像,就是親手所造、陷自己在罪中的,都拋棄了。31:7
2.亞述人必倒在刀下,並非人的刀;有刀要將他吞滅,並非人的刀。他必逃避這刀;他的少年人必成為服苦的。31:8
3.他的磐石必因驚嚇挪去;他的首領必因大旗驚惶。這是那有火在錫安、有爐在耶路撒冷的耶和華說的。31:9
◎心得分享:以色列人依靠埃及的馬匹,卻不願意仰望耶和華,向上帝求問,所以耶和華必降災,攻擊作惡作孽之神的百姓,埃及人不過是人,並不是神;他們的馬不過是血肉,並不是靈。耶和華一伸手,那幫助人的必絆跌,那受幫助的也必跌倒,都一同滅亡,只有全心歸向祂,才能受到上帝的保護,求神幫助我們仰望上帝的幫助,不要仰賴人的幫助。
第32章主要在講:「公義王的執政掌權」。
一.看哪,必有一王憑公義行政;必有首領藉公平掌權。32:1
1.必有一人像避風所和避暴雨的隱密處,又像河流在乾旱之地,像大磐石的影子在疲乏之地。32:2
2.那能看的人,眼不再昏迷;能聽的人,耳必得聽聞。32:3
3.冒失人的心必明白知識;結吧人的舌必說話通快。32:4
4.愚頑人不再稱為高明;吝嗇人不再稱為大方。32:5
A.因為愚頑人必說愚頑話,心裏想作罪孽,慣行褻瀆的事,說錯謬的話攻擊耶和華,使飢餓的人無食可吃,使口渴的人無水可喝。32:6
B.吝嗇人所用的法子是惡的;他圖謀惡計,用謊言毀滅謙卑人;窮乏人講公理的時候,他也是這樣行。32:7
5.高明人卻謀高明事,在高明事上也必永存。32:8
二.安逸的婦女啊,起來聽我的聲音!無慮的女子啊,側耳聽我的言語!32:9
1.無慮的女子啊,再過一年多,必受騷擾;因為無葡萄可摘,無果子〔或譯:禾稼〕可收。32:10
2.安逸的婦女啊,要戰兢;無慮的女子啊,要受騷擾。脫去衣服,赤著身體,腰束麻布。32:11
3.她們必為美好的田地和多結果的葡萄樹,搥胸哀哭。32:12
4.荊棘蒺藜必長在我百姓的地上,又長在歡樂的城中和一切快樂的房屋上。32:13
5.因為宮殿必被撇下,多民的城必被離棄;山岡望樓永為洞穴,作野驢所喜樂的,為羊群的草場。32:14
三.等到聖靈從上澆灌我們,曠野就變為肥田,肥田看如樹林。32:15
1.那時,公平要居在曠野;公義要居在肥田。32:16
2.公義的果效必是平安;公義的效驗必是平穩,直到永遠。32:17
3.我的百姓必住在平安的居所,安穩的住處,平靜的安歇所。32:18
4.(但要降冰雹打倒樹林;城必全然拆平。)32:19
5.你們在各水邊撒種、牧放牛驢的有福了! 32:20
◎心得分享:公義王執政掌權,帶來整個國家的改變,但是只有聖靈澆灌下來,公義的果效才就會是平安、平穩,直到永遠,我們都需要聖靈,聖靈是見證耶穌,耶穌是見證天父,我們是透過耶穌認識天父,我們也是透過聖靈,才能認識耶穌,求神用聖靈來澆灌我們。
第33章主要在講:「猶大脫離困境,神的國開展」。
一.禍哉!你這毀滅人的,自己倒不被毀滅;行事詭詐的,人倒不以詭詐待你。你毀滅罷休了,自己必被毀滅;你行完了詭詐,人必以詭詐待你。33:1
二.耶和華啊,求你施恩於我們;我們等候你。求你每早晨作我們的膀臂,遭難的時候為我們的拯救。33:2
1.喧嚷的響聲一發,眾民奔逃;你一興起,列國四散。33:3
2.你們所擄的必被斂盡,好像螞蚱吃〔原文是斂〕盡禾稼。人要蹦在其上,好像蝗蟲一樣。33:4
3.耶和華被尊崇,因他居在高處;他以公平公義充滿錫安。33:5
4.你一生一世必得安穩─有豐盛的救恩,並智慧和知識;你以敬畏耶和華為至寶。33:6
5.看哪,他們的豪傑在外頭哀號;求和的使臣痛痛哭泣。33:7
A.大路荒涼,行人止息;敵人背約,藐視城邑,不顧人民。33:8
B.地上悲哀衰殘;黎巴嫩羞愧枯乾;沙崙像曠野;巴珊和迦密的樹林凋殘。33:9
二.耶和華說:現在我要起來;我要興起;我要勃然而興。33:10
1.你們要懷的是糠,要生的是碎秸;你們的氣就是吞滅自己的火。33:11
2.列邦必像已燒的石灰,像已割的荊棘在火中焚燒。33:12
3.你們遠方的人當聽我所行的;你們近處的人當承認我的大能。33:13
4.錫安中的罪人都懼怕;不敬虔的人被戰兢抓住。我們中間誰能與吞滅的火同住?我們中間誰能與永火同住呢?33:14
5.行事公義、說話正直、憎惡欺壓的財利、擺手不受賄賂、塞耳不聽流血的話,閉眼不看邪惡事的,33:15
A.他必居高處;他的保障是磐石的堅壘;他的糧必不缺乏〔原文是賜給〕;他的水必不斷絕。33:16
B.你的眼必見王的榮美,必見遼闊之地。33:17
C.你的心必思想那驚嚇的事,自問說:記數目的在哪裏呢?平貢銀的在哪裏呢?數戍樓的在哪裏呢?33:18
D.你必不見那強暴的民,就是說話深奧,你不能明白,言語呢喃,你不能懂得的。33:19
三.你要看錫安─我們守聖節的城!你的眼必見耶路撒冷為安靜的居所,為不挪移的帳幕,橛子永不拔出,繩索一根也不折斷。33:20
1.在那裏,耶和華必顯威嚴與我們同在,當作江河寬闊之地;其中必沒有盪槳搖櫓的船來往,也沒有威武的船經過。33:21
2.因為,耶和華是審判我們的;耶和華是給我們設律法的;耶和華是我們的王;他必拯救我們。33:22
3.你的繩索鬆開:不能栽穩桅杆,也不能揚起篷來。那時許多擄來的物被分了;瘸腿的把掠物奪去了。33:23
4.城內居民必不說:我病了;其中居住的百姓,罪孽都赦免了。33:24
◎心得分享:這一章又是先知道的禱告,他向神禱告,求上帝施恩拯救,他讚美耶和華被尊崇,以敬畏耶和華為至寶,上帝就回應他的禱告,說祂要起來;興起勃然而興,耶和華必顯威嚴與祂的百姓同在,上帝要赦免他們的罪孽,禱告真的是很重要的,我們只要全心全意的禱告,上帝必會為我們起來彰顯祂的威嚴和同在。
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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。