2019年2月22日 星期五

箴言23:29-35


23:29 誰有禍患?誰有憂愁?誰有爭鬥?誰有哀歎(或譯:怨言)?誰無故受傷?誰眼目紅赤?
23:30
就是那流連飲酒、常去尋找調和酒的人。
23:31
酒發紅,在杯中閃爍,你不可觀看,雖然下咽舒暢,終久是咬你如蛇,刺你如毒蛇。
23:32
【併於上節】
23:33
你眼必看見異怪的事(或譯:淫婦);你心必發出乖謬的話。
23:34
你必像躺在海中,或像臥在桅杆上。
23:35
你必說:人打我,我卻未受傷;人鞭打我,我竟不覺得。我幾時清醒,我仍去尋酒。

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaints?
    Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine,
    who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup,
    when it goes down smoothly!
32 In the end it bites like a snake
    and poisons like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange sights,
    and your mind will imagine confusing things.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
    lying on top of the rigging.
35 “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!
    They beat me, but I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
    so I can find another drink?”

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    酒不僅是穿腸毒藥,更是使麻醉忘記自己。雖然讓人暫時忘卻一切,卻無法使人真正解決人生的問題。因此,人若想用酒來麻醉自己,只有增加問題得複雜度,是毫無益處!

    有些人喝酒就鬧事,更是破壞了自己的人際關係,使人更看不起。還有人喝了酒就亂性,就像動物一般,真的是有損自己的身分!而且喝到最後,不僅上癮還會酒精中毒,身體大大的損傷!

    因此,我們要避免被酒來控制,要遠離酒做一個正常的人。這才是明智的人,才可以不被人輕看,才能榮耀上帝!

2019年2月20日 星期三

箴言23:26-28


23:26 我兒,要將你的心歸我;你的眼目也要喜悅我的道路。
23:27
妓女是深坑;外女是窄阱。
23:28
她埋伏好像強盜;她使人中多有奸詐的。

26 My son, give me your heart
    and let your eyes delight in my ways,
27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Like a bandit she lies in wait
    and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

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    「性」在聖經中不看為惡,只是限制於夫妻的關係之內,不是性解放者認為可以跨越許多狀態和關係的。然而,在不同的文化中都有「妓女」提供性來使男人陶醉、忘我!以致於造成許多的社會和家庭的問題,在以色列人中是被上帝禁止的。以致於在以色列人當中的妓女大多是外邦女子!

    《箴言》的作者勸誡:「我兒,要將你的心歸我;你的眼目也要喜悅我的道路。之所以這樣說,是因為在性的誘惑上,對男人而眼是從眼目來的,男人喜歡看女人的身體,然後想到要發生關係,進而可能產生行動。而妓女以這種方式來影響男人,以致男人陷入如陷阱之中,無法自拔,以致人財兩失,家庭破碎!一時的快樂,帶來永遠的痛苦。

    男人的個性上比較自我中心,受到這樣的誘惑與糾纏,通常會亂了人生方向,更可怕的是把自己辛辛苦苦建立家庭給毀了!不僅如此,還影響到下一代,這是非常嚴重的事情,是不榮耀上帝的!

2019年2月19日 星期二

創世記20:8-18


20:8 亞比米勒清早起來,召了眾臣僕來,將這些事都說給他們聽,他們都甚懼怕。
20:9
亞比米勒召了亞伯拉罕來,對他說:「你怎麼向我這樣行呢?我在甚麼事上得罪了你,你竟使我和我國裡的人陷在大罪裡?你向我行不當行的事了!」
20:10
亞比米勒又對亞伯拉罕說:「你見了甚麼才做這事呢?」
20:11
亞伯拉罕說:「我以為這地方的人總不懼怕上帝,必為我妻子的緣故殺我。
20:12
況且她也實在是我的妹子;她與我是同父異母,後來作了我的妻子。
20:13
當上帝叫我離開父家、飄流在外的時候,我對她說:『我們無論走到甚麼地方,你可以對人說:他是我的哥哥;這就是你待我的恩典了。』」
20:14
亞比米勒把牛、羊、僕婢賜給亞伯拉罕,又把他的妻子撒拉歸還他。
20:15
亞比米勒又說:「看哪,我的地都在你面前,你可以隨意居住」;
20:16
又對撒拉說:「我給你哥哥一千銀子,作為你在閤家人面前遮羞的(羞:原文是眼),你就在眾人面前沒有不是了。」
20:17
亞伯拉罕禱告上帝,上帝就醫好了亞比米勒和他的妻子,並他的眾女僕,她們便能生育。
20:18
因耶和華為亞伯拉罕的妻子撒拉的緣故,已經使亞比米勒家中的婦人不能生育。

 Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid. Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.” 10 And Abimelek asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
11 Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’ 12 Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him. 15 And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”
16 To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[a] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, 18 for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

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    上帝對亞伯拉罕真的是充滿恩寵,雖然他一再犯錯,但是上帝卻藉由錯事來成就祂的目地這樣的說法,可能讓你無法接受。但是,亞伯拉罕的確在這事上有錯,亞比米勒才是真正的受害者,因為他在無知之下犯罪了,還使災禍發生家人身上,「因耶和華為亞伯拉罕的妻子撒拉的緣故,已經使亞比米勒家中的婦人不能生育

    但是,上帝卻用圓滿的方式讓這件事情落幕。就是上帝讓亞比米勒花了一千銀子遮羞,亞伯拉罕禱告上帝,上帝就醫好了亞比米勒和他的妻子,並他的眾女僕,她們便能生育。

    這也告訴我們,為了和好,人必須付出代價,但是這代價是值得的,因為從此以後仇人變朋友!同樣上帝也是為了與人和好,付上耶穌基督為代價。雖然錯不在上帝,但是上帝卻願意像人顯明祂的拯救!祂樂意使人得救恩,得著祂所賜的公義,使人站在意的地位,享受祂的恩寵,如同亞伯拉罕所享受的!因為,他是公義且慈愛的上帝,祂樂意將祂的公義賜給人,使人透過耶穌基督被稱為義,好使人可以得著祂在基督裡所預備的獎賞,也就是祂自己,也就是認識祂和祂所差來的耶穌基督,這就是永生了!


2019年2月18日 星期一

創世記20章

             創世記20:1-7     ,

             創世記20:8-18     ,

創世記20:1-7


20:1 亞伯拉罕從那裡向南地遷去,寄居在加低斯和書珥中間的基拉耳。
20:2
亞伯拉罕稱他的妻撒拉為妹子,基拉耳王亞比米勒差人把撒拉取了去。
20:3
但夜間,上帝來,在夢中對亞比米勒說:「你是個死人哪!因為你取了那女人來;她原是別人的妻子。」
20:4
亞比米勒卻還沒有親近撒拉;他說:「主啊,連有義的國,你也要毀滅嗎?
20:5
那人豈不是自己對我說『她是我的妹子』嗎?就是女人也自己說:『他是我的哥哥。』我做這事是心正手潔的。」
20:6
上帝在夢中對他說:「我知道你做這事是心中正直;我也攔阻了你,免得你得罪我,所以我不容你沾著她。
20:7
現在你把這人的妻子歸還他;因為他是先知,他要為你禱告,使你存活。你若不歸還他,你當知道,你和你所有的人都必要死。」

 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”

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    亞伯拉罕雖然是在異邦,但是卻在的這樣的環境中有敬畏耶和華上帝的君王!雖然他為了保命又出賣了撒拉,但是上帝卻拯救了他們,沒有讓亞伯拉罕和亞比米勒犯下大錯。

    在這裡看見上帝的保守,這是很重要的,上帝不會虧負自己的子民,必保守得十分平安!相信現在的景況只是一時的,上帝必定會開一條又新又活的路,使屬於祂的僕人平安度過!

    求主保守大家,因為我們在人生的路上,總是有許多的艱難,但是我們相信上帝的保守,必定讓我們平安渡過的,哈利路亞!