08月08日 一年的第221天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:耶09-12章
第10章主要在講:「當聽耶和華所說的話,不要效法列國的行為」。
一.以色列家阿,要聽耶和華對你們所說的話。耶10:1
1.耶和華如此說:你們不要效法列國的行為,也不要為天象驚惶,因列國為此事驚惶。耶10:2
2.眾民的風俗是虛空的;他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹,匠人用手工造成偶像。耶10:3
A.他們用金銀妝飾他,用釘子和錘子釘穩,使他不動搖。耶10:4
B.他好像棕樹,是鏇成的,不能說話,不能行走,必須有人抬著。你們不要怕他;他不能降禍,也無力降福。耶10:5
3.耶和華阿,沒有能比你的!你本為大,有大能大力的名。耶10:6
4.萬國的王阿,誰不敬畏你?敬畏你本是合宜的;因為在列國的智慧人中,雖有政權的尊榮,也不能比你。耶10:7
5. 他們盡都是畜類,是愚昧的。偶像的訓誨算甚麼呢?偶像不過是木頭。耶10:8
有銀子打成片,是從他施帶來的,並有從烏法來的金子,都是匠人和銀匠的手工,又有藍色紫色料的衣服,都是巧匠的工作。耶10:9
二.惟耶和華是真神,是活神,是永遠的王。他一發怒,大地震動;他一惱恨,列國都擔當不起。耶10:10
1.你們要對他們如此說:不是那創造天地的神,必從地上從天下被除滅!耶10:11
2.耶和華用能力創造大地,用智慧建立世界,用聰明鋪張穹蒼。耶10:12
3.他一發聲,空中便有多水激動;他使雲霧從地極上騰;他造電隨雨而閃,從他府庫中帶出風來。耶10:13
A.各人都成了畜類,毫無知識;各銀匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的,其中並無氣息,耶10:14
B.都是虛無的,是迷惑人的工作;到追討的時候必被除滅。耶10:15
4.雅各的分不像這些,因他是造作萬有的主。以色列也是他產業的支派,萬軍之耶和華是他的名。耶10:16
5.受圍困的人哪,當收拾你的財物,從國中帶出去。耶10:17
三.因為耶和華如此說:這時候,我必將此地的居民,好像用機弦甩出去,又必加害在他們身上,使他們覺悟。耶10:18
1.民說:禍哉!我受損傷;我的傷痕極其重大。我卻說:這真是我的痛苦,必須忍受。耶10:19
2.我的帳棚毀壞;我的繩索折斷。我的兒女離我出去,沒有了。無人再支搭我的帳棚,挂起我的幔子。耶10:20
A.因為牧人都成為畜類,沒有求問耶和華,所以不得順利;他們的羊群也都分散。耶10:21
B.有風聲!看哪,敵人來了!有大擾亂從北方出來,要使猶大城邑變為荒涼,成為野狗的住處。耶10:22
3.耶和華阿,我曉得人的道路不由自己,行路的人也不能定自己的腳步。耶10:23
A.耶和華阿,求你從寬懲治我,不要在你的怒中懲治我,恐怕使我歸於無有。耶10:24
B.願你將忿怒傾在不認識你的列國中,和不求告你名的各族上;因為他們吞了雅各,不但吞了,而且滅絕,把他的住處變為荒場。耶10:25
◎心得分享:耶和華是真神,是活神,是永遠的王。他一發怒,大地震動;他一惱恨,列國都擔當不起,以色列家阿,要聽耶和華對你們所說的話,不要效法列國的行為,也不要為天象驚惶,因列國為此事驚惶,眾民的風俗是虛空的;他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹,匠人用手工造成偶像,偶像不能降禍,也無力降福,因為牧人都成為畜類,沒有求問耶和華,所以不得順利;他們的羊群也都分散,有風聲!看哪,敵人來了!有大擾亂從北方出來,要使猶大城邑變為荒涼,成為野狗的住處。接著耶利米就禱告:耶和華阿,求你從寬懲治我,不要在你的怒中懲治我,恐怕使我歸於無有。整章從提醒耶和華是真神,是全能的,偶像是無能的,不能降禍,也無力降福,而最大的問題是牧人不聽耶和華的話,也不求問耶和華,所以上帝的的刑罰臨到,耶利米在當中的代禱,求上帝從寬懲治,希望我們也能成為代禱者,為別人禱告。
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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。