2:1 耶和華的使者從吉甲上到波金,對以色列人說:「我使你們從埃及上來,領你們到我向你們列祖起誓應許之地。我又說:『我永不廢棄與你們所立的約。
2:2 你們也不可與這地的居民立約,要拆毀他們的祭壇。你們竟沒有聽從我的話!為何這樣行呢?』
2:3 因此我又說:『我必不將他們從你們面前趕出;他們必作你們肋下的荊棘。他們的上帝必作你們的網羅。』」
2:4 耶和華的使者向以色列眾人說這話的時候,百姓就放聲而哭;
2:5 於是給那地方起名叫波金(就是哭的意思)。眾人在那裡向耶和華獻祭。
The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.’ Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? 3 And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.’”
4 When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud, 5 and they called that place Bokim. There they offered sacrifices to the Lord.
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人生有許多的無奈與軟弱,正如以色列人雖然進了迦南地,因為沒有將原來的迦南人全部除掉,就成了以色列人的網羅,使他們的信仰路上有許多的絆腳石,正如我們的雖然是基督徒,肉體的軟弱也成為我們信仰的絆腳石。
雖然如此,我們不能假裝自己很剛強,也不能自已為義,反倒要承認自己的軟弱,靠著主的恩典,使自己清楚:不是自己能,而是上帝能!若不是上帝的「稱義」和耶穌基督的「代贖」,我們真的是不配稱為上帝兒女!
我們今日讀《士師記》,不可以自以為完全人,我們沒有資格說以色列人一再悖逆是可恥的,我們必須以謙卑的心承認我們沒有比當時的以色列人好,他們甚至為自己不能完全而哭泣,然而我們呢?
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