11:13 「你們若留意聽從我今日所吩咐的誡命,愛耶和華─你們的上帝,盡心盡性事奉他,
11:14 他(原文是我)必按時降秋雨春雨在你們的地上,使你們可以收藏五穀、新酒,和油,
11:15 也必使你吃得飽足,並使田野為你的牲畜長草。
11:16 你們要謹慎,免得心中受迷惑,就偏離正路,去事奉敬拜別神。
11:17 耶和華的怒氣向你們發作,就使天閉塞不下雨,地也不出產,使你們在耶和華所賜給你們的美地上速速滅亡。
13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving
you today—to love the Lord your
God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14 then
I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so
that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15 I
will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be
satisfied.
16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship
other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and
he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield
no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.
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「與上帝和好」和「惹上帝的怒氣」是兩種不同的命運:一個是「按時降秋雨春雨在你們的地上,使你們可以收藏五穀、新酒,和油,也必使你吃得飽足,並使田野為你的牲畜長草」;另一個是「就使天閉塞不下雨,地也不出產,使你們在耶和華所賜給你們的美地上速速滅亡」。
既有如此大的差別,豈可以輕忽呢?豈可以不「與上帝和好」?也因此,我們要靠主耶穌與上帝和好,才能享受上帝在基督裡所要賜給屬祂的人之各樣的福氣!我們絕對不可以輕忽這樣的關係,因為「惹上帝的怒氣」代價太大了!
求主保守我們,讓我們珍惜上帝透過主耶穌所賜下的豐盛恩典!因為這樣的福分,是出於上帝莫大的恩典!上帝既然揀選我們,必定透過聖靈讓我們清楚,且樂意來跟隨主耶穌!