列王紀下8:1-6

 

8:1 以利沙曾對所救活之子的那婦人說：「你和你的全家要起身往你可住的地方去住，因為耶和華命饑荒降在這地七年。」
8:2 婦人就起身，照神人的話帶著全家往非利士地去，住了七年。
8:3 七年完了，那婦人從非利士地回來，就出去為自己的房屋田地哀告王。
8:4 那時王正與神人的僕人基哈西說：「請你將以利沙所行的一切大事告訴我。」
8:5 基哈西告訴王以利沙如何使死人復活，恰巧以利沙所救活、她兒子的那婦人為自己的房屋田地來哀告王。基哈西說：「我主我王，這就是那婦人，這是她的兒子，就是以利沙所救活的。」
8:6 王問那婦人，她就把那事告訴王。於是王為她派一個太監，說：「凡屬這婦人的都還給她，自從她離開本地直到今日，她田地的出產也都還給她。」

 

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.” ² The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land. ⁴ The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.” ⁵ Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land.

Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” ⁶ The king asked the woman about it, and she told him.

Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.”

 

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    這是一個失而復得的事件，正如上帝的救贖，我們對上帝而言是失而復得，上帝對我們而言也是失而復得。

 

    感謝上帝，在上星期六公所辦送春聯的時候，市長揮毫，請市長寫了「大地回春」讓我聯想到上帝的救贖，我們失去的一切，將來在上帝國實現的時候，上帝都會幫我們贖回來的！

 

    也因為這樣，信靠主耶穌是非常有盼望，而且是充滿恩典的！