11:3 我原教導以法蓮行走,用膀臂抱著他們,他們卻不知道是我醫治他們。
11:4 我用慈繩(慈:原文是人的)愛索牽引他們;我待他們如人放鬆牛的兩腮夾板,把糧食放在他們面前。
11:5 他們必不歸回埃及地,亞述人卻要作他們的王,因他們不肯歸向我。
11:6 刀劍必臨到他們的城邑,毀壞門閂,把人吞滅,都因他們隨從自己的計謀。
11:7 我的民偏要背道離開我;眾先知雖然招呼他們歸向至上的主,卻無人尊崇主。
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up by their arms,
but they did not know that I healed them.
4 I led them with cords of kindness,
with the bands of love,
and I became to them as one who eases the
yoke on their jaws,
and I bent down to them and fed them.
5 They shall not return to the land of
Egypt,
but Assyria shall be their king,
because they have refused to return to me.
6 The sword shall rage against their
cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them because of their own
counsels.
7 My people are bent on turning away from
me,
and though they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
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上帝藉由先知宣告祂對以色列人的感慨,因為他是以何等的慈愛來對待以色列人,可是以色列人卻是應著頸項、硬著心,不肯歸向以慈愛和豐盛恩典對待他們的上帝。也因此上帝也透過先知向以色列人發出重重的預言,說出他們的悖逆將使自己離開上帝的賜福而遭禍患!
其實這不僅對以色列人發的預言,也是對每一個願意隨主耶穌成為祂門徒的人說的,我們跟隨主不要是一時的熱心、一時的決定,而是要持續恆久的信靠,祂要賜給我們永恆的救恩,值得我們花一輩子的時間來跟隨,不要偏離,不要再悖逆,要讓基督在我們心中作主做王,到我們離世的時候!
我們知道我們的內心若沒有聖靈的開啟,我們是不會清楚自己是悖逆的,而聖靈是如何開啟呢?就是透過上帝的話語來感動我們,來警告我們,也因此您讀了這段經文,感覺到我們和先知所說的一樣,就要馬上認罪,求上帝給我們力量、勇氣來悔改歸向主耶穌,使主耶穌真的在我們心中作主做王,讓基督所成就的救恩,實現在我們身上,不再是悖逆上帝的兒女!
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