11:8 「所以,你們要守我今日所吩咐的一切誡命,使你們膽壯,能以進去,得你們所要得的那地,
11:9 並使你們的日子在耶和華向你們列祖起誓、應許給他們和他們後裔的地上得以長久;那是流奶與蜜之地。
11:10 你要進去得為業的那地,本不像你出來的埃及地。你在那裡撒種,用腳澆灌,像澆灌菜園一樣。
11:11 你們要過去得為業的那地乃是有山有谷、雨水滋潤之地,
11:12 是耶和華─你上帝所眷顧的;從歲首到年終,耶和華─你上帝的眼目時常看顧那地。
8 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 9 and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. 12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
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摩西將「應許之地」的啟示向以色列人宣告。雖然他未曾進入應許之地,但是從派十二探子的回報中,更加肯定上帝的啟示:「並使你們的日子在耶和華向你們列祖起誓、應許給他們和他們後裔的地上得以長久;那是流奶與蜜之地。你要進去得為業的那地,本不像你出來的埃及地。你在那裡撒種,用腳澆灌,像澆灌菜園一樣。你們要過去得為業的那地乃是有山有谷、雨水滋潤之地,是耶和華─你上帝所眷顧的;從歲首到年終,耶和華─你上帝的眼目時常看顧那地。」
這是一個多麼充滿福分之地,上帝是用雨水、朝露、雪水、…等等天然的方式使植物成長並結豐美的果子,使人不用努力耕作就可以享受一切的豐盛!因為「汗流滿面才能餬口」是上帝的咒詛,上帝不願意人忙到如此,以至於無法享受上帝所賜的安息!
上帝不斷的提醒人要安息,缺乏的上帝會補足!但是人卻受罪性的驅使,寧可賺錢圖富有,卻不願意敬拜上帝!摩西這段話也提醒我們,真正的豐盛是要靠上帝的保守,不是人汲汲營營,最後是一無所有,只能餬口!
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