2019年3月24日 星期日

創世記26:12-22


26:12 以撒在那地耕種,那一年有百倍的收成。耶和華賜福給他,
26:13
他就昌大,日增月盛,成了大富戶。
26:14
他有羊群牛群,又有許多僕人,非利士人就嫉妒他。
26:15
當他父親亞伯拉罕在世的日子,他父親的僕人所挖的井,非利士人全都塞住,填滿了土。
26:16
亞比米勒對以撒說:「你離開我們去吧。因為你比我們強盛得多。」
26:17
以撒就離開那裡,在基拉耳谷支搭帳棚,住在那裡。
26:18
當他父親亞伯拉罕在世之日所挖的水井因非利士人在亞伯拉罕死後塞住了,以撒就重新挖出來,仍照他父親所叫的叫那些井的名字。
26:19
以撒的僕人在谷中挖井,便得了一口活水井。
26:20
基拉耳的牧人與以撒的牧人爭競,說:「這水是我們的。」以撒就給那井起名叫埃色(就是相敵的意思),因為他們和他相爭。
26:21
以撒的僕人又挖了一口井,他們又為這井爭競,因此以撒給這井起名叫西提拿(就是為敵的意思)。
26:22
以撒離開那裡,又挖了一口井,他們不為這井爭競了,他就給那井起名叫利河伯(就是寬闊的意思)。他說:「耶和華現在給我們寬闊之地,我們必在這地昌盛。」

12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. 14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. 15 So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. 20 But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him. 21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

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    以撒和父親亞伯拉罕不同之處就是「挖井」,但是每挖一口井就有人來相爭,以致於他一直在挖井,可能也因為這樣練就一身挖井的工夫!

    然而這一段記載不在於以撒的挖井或鑿井技術,而是在於他處理衝突的態度,他是退讓、不去爭吵或爭戰,有人認為他很懦弱,可是對於一位生活在外族人當中的人,他必須與人相安無事,這是免不了的,而且上帝喜悅他如此行,已如主耶穌所說:「所以,無論何事,你們願意人怎樣待你們,你們也要怎樣待人,因為這就是律法和先知的道理。」(馬太福音7:12

    然而這樣一次一次的退讓,最後終於沒有人來和他相爭了,正如他鑿最後一口井稱為利河伯」,自己說明了用意:「耶和華現在給我們寬闊之地,我們必在這地昌盛。

    我們也當求上帝讓我們在世上有寬闊之地」,又不違背上帝的命令。讓我們可以不僅得人喜悅,更得上帝的喜悅!

2019年3月22日 星期五

創世記26:7-11


26:7 那地方的人問到他的妻子,他便說:「那是我的妹子。」原來他怕說:「是我的妻子」;他心裡想:「恐怕這地方的人為利百加的緣故殺我」,因為她容貌俊美。
26:8
他在那裡住了許久。有一天,非利士人的王亞比米勒從窗戶裡往外觀看,見以撒和他的妻子利百加戲玩。
26:9
亞比米勒召了以撒來,對他說:「她實在是你的妻子,你怎麼說她是你的妹子?」以撒說:「我心裡想,恐怕我因她而死。」
26:10
亞比米勒說:「你向我們做的是甚麼事呢?民中險些有人和你的妻同寢,把我們陷在罪裡。」
26:11
於是亞比米勒曉諭眾民說:「凡沾著這個人,或是他妻子的,定要把他治死。」

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
10 Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
11 So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

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    以撒和父親亞伯拉罕也有些相似的地方,正如他們怕老婆太漂亮而喪命,常常要假裝是兄妹。還好亞比米勒上次吃了一次虧,現在他可小心了,他有注意去觀察以撒和利百家之間的互動,以致沒有鑄下大錯。

    上帝也透過亞比米勒保護了以掃夫婦,因為他下命令:凡沾著這個人,或是他妻子的,定要把他治死。

    這真是上帝的恩典,可以保守以撒夫妻,可以好好的享受上帝所賜的婚姻!上帝也是這樣恩待我們,讓我們有美好的婚姻生活!

創世記26章

          創世記26:1-6  , 創世記26:3    ,

          創世記26:7-11 ,

          創世記26:12-22  , 創世記26:22 ,

          創世記26:23-35   , 

       

創世記26:1-6


26:1 在亞伯拉罕的日子,那地有一次饑荒;這時又有饑荒,以撒就往基拉耳去,到非利士人的王亞比米勒那裡。
26:2
耶和華向以撒顯現,說:「你不要下埃及去,要住在我所指示你的地。
26:3
你寄居在這地,我必與你同在,賜福給你,因為我要將這些地都賜給你和你的後裔。我必堅定我向你父亞伯拉罕所起的誓。
26:4
我要加增你的後裔,像天上的星那樣多,又要將這些地都賜給你的後裔。並且地上萬國必因你的後裔得福
26:5
都因亞伯拉罕聽從我的話,遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、法度。」
26:6
以撒就住在基拉耳。

Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b] because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.” So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

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    亞伯拉罕雖然過世了,上帝的福份就臨到以撒,祂也向以撒顯現,向他啟示永生之福:「你不要下埃及去,要住在我所指示你的地。你寄居在這地,我必與你同在,賜福給你,因為我要將這些地都賜給你和你的後裔。我必堅定我向你父亞伯拉罕所起的誓。我要加增你的後裔,像天上的星那樣多,又要將這些地都賜給你的後裔。並且地上萬國必因你的後裔得福都因亞伯拉罕聽從我的話,遵守我的吩咐和我的命令、律例、法度。

    上帝給以撒這樣的啟示,不是在他平順的時候,而是在他遇見飢荒的時候。這也告訴我們,我們的人生雖然常常有許多苦難和不如意的事情,但是上帝卻為我們預備永遠的福份,超越世上得一切狀況!

    因此,我們要常常來思考上帝給我們永恆的應許,祂透過耶穌基督來呼召我們,使我們成為上帝的兒女!也因為這樣,我們人生的目的就是:榮耀上帝,永遠以上帝為我們的喜樂與滿足!

2019年3月20日 星期三

以弗所書4:7


我們各人蒙恩,都是照基督所量給各人的恩賜。

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

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    這裡的「蒙恩」是「蒙恩惠」,這是比較屬於物質性或看得見的好處,與永恆性的「恩典」有些許的不同。然而恩惠卻是讓我們感受到自己上帝看重,沒有丟棄與忽略,覺得內心舒暢。

    然而這樣的恩惠仍然是主耶穌給人的禮物因為祂不只讓我們生命得救贖祂也關心我們生活所需要的祂不是無情或高高在上的主祂更是願意與我們同在的上帝因為祂名為以馬內利」!

    既然如此我們當感謝與讚美祂更相信祂必關心我們永恆的得救我們要放心將自己的生命交託在他手中讓祂來帶領我們走人生的路途直到我們完全得贖的時候也就是上帝國完全實現時我們必與祂一同在榮耀中