箴言24:23-34

24:23 以下也是智慧人的箴言：審判時看人情面是不好的。
24:24 對惡人說「你是義人」的，這人萬民必咒詛，列邦必憎惡。
24:25 責備惡人的，必得喜悅；美好的福也必臨到他。
24:26 應對正直的，猶如與人親嘴。
24:27 你要在外頭預備工料，在田間辦理整齊，然後建造房屋。
24:28 不可無故作見證陷害鄰舍，也不可用嘴欺騙人。
24:29 不可說：人怎樣待我，我也怎樣待他；我必照他所行的報復他。
24:30 我經過懶惰人的田地、無知人的葡萄園，
24:31 荊棘長滿了地皮，刺草遮蓋了田面，石牆也坍塌了。
24:32 我看見就留心思想；我看著就領了訓誨。
24:33 再睡片時，打盹片時，抱著手躺臥片時，
24:34 你的貧窮就必如強盜速來，你的缺乏彷彿拿兵器的人來到。

²³ These also are sayings of the wise:

To show partiality in judging is not good:
²⁴ Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent,”
    will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.
²⁵ But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
    and rich blessing will come on them.

²⁶ An honest answer
    is like a kiss on the lips.

²⁷ Put your outdoor work in order
    and get your fields ready;
    after that, build your house.

²⁸ Do not testify against your neighbor without cause—
    would you use your lips to mislead?
²⁹ Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me;
    I’ll pay them back for what they did.”

³⁰ I went past the field of a sluggard,
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
³¹ thorns had come up everywhere,
    the ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone wall was in ruins.
³² I applied my heart to what I observed
    and learned a lesson from what I saw:
³³ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest—
³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

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    讀到這段箴言，讓我們認識到智慧的人不僅是敬畏上帝，更要學會為自己的生命品質負責，讓自己的財力豐富，如此不盡可以見證主的同在，更可以使人對信靠上帝有興趣。

    所以在這段經文中，充滿怎樣成為一個富有的人的教導，讓人學習成為一個有成就的人。雖然「成功神學」讓人詬病，但是我們也不要讓自己窮苦潦倒，我們要殷勤的工作，要享受我們勞碌所得的，這就是上帝的恩惠了！

    親愛弟兄姐妹，讓我們好好為我們的人生的成就努力吧！這是上帝給我們的恩召，我們絕對不能輕忽這事！

創世記28:16-22

28:16 雅各睡醒了，說：「耶和華真在這裡，我竟不知道！」
28:17 就懼怕，說：「這地方何等可畏！這不是別的，乃是上帝的殿，也是天的門。」
28:18 雅各清早起來，把所枕的石頭立作柱子，澆油在上面。
28:19 他就給那地方起名叫伯特利（就是上帝殿的意思）；但那地方起先名叫路斯。
28:20 雅各許願說：「上帝若與我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又給我食物吃，衣服穿，
28:21 使我平平安安地回到我父親的家，我就必以耶和華為我的上帝。
28:22 我所立為柱子的石頭也必作上帝的殿；凡你所賜給我的，我必將十分之一獻給你。」

¹⁶ When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” ¹⁷ He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
¹⁸ Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. ¹⁹ He called that place Bethel,^[e] though the city used to be called Luz.
²⁰ Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear ²¹ so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord^[f] will be my God ²² and^[g] this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”

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    雅各是因為上帝向他顯現、向他啟示，他才真正認識上帝，敬拜上帝、遵上帝為大，並且向上帝許願：「上帝若與我同在，在我所行的路上保佑我，又給我食物吃，衣服穿，使我平平安安地回到我父親的家，我就必以耶和華為我的上帝。我所立為柱子的石頭也必作上帝的殿；凡你所賜給我的，我必將十分之一獻給你。」

   可見信仰是人被上帝所引導與賜福所產生的，不是人主動要信靠上帝！也因此，若沒有上帝的恩典，人是無法經歷到上帝在他身上做為！也因為這樣，不是高舉人的良善、也不是高舉人的信心，而是要高舉上帝的憐憫與恩典！

    我們常常落入自我中心的迷思，以為上帝也是因為我們信靠與敬畏才賜福給我們。其實應該反過來，是上帝賜福我們、引導我們，讓我們透過在基督的恩典，我們才能夠信靠與敬畏上帝，才能成為義人！

創世記28:10-15

28:10 雅各出了別是巴，向哈蘭走去；
28:11 到了一個地方，因為太陽落了，就在那裡住宿，便拾起那地方的一塊石頭枕在頭下，在那裡躺臥睡了，
28:12 夢見一個梯子立在地上，梯子的頭頂著天，有上帝的使者在梯子上，上去下來。
28:13 耶和華站在梯子以上（或譯：站在他旁邊），說：「我是耶和華─你祖亞伯拉罕的上帝，也是以撒的上帝；我要將你現在所躺臥之地賜給你和你的後裔。
28:14 你的後裔必像地上的塵沙那樣多，必向東西南北開展；地上萬族必因你和你的後裔得福。
28:15 我也與你同在。你無論往哪裡去，我必保佑你，領你歸回這地，總不離棄你，直到我成全了向你所應許的。」

¹⁰ Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. ¹¹ When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. ¹² He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ There above it^[c] stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. ¹⁴ Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.^{[d] 15} I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

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    有許多人說上帝的應許不一定會成就，要看你努不努力，或是你相不相信！但是，這樣說起來好像上帝的做為是受人的限制，因為看人願不願意持守某些條件，如同上面說的！

    其實上帝的應許是必定成就，不在乎你有沒有努力、或是有沒有堅信，因為上帝有主動權，祂要施恩給誰就施恩給誰，是沒有條件的、沒有限制的！反倒是人受了恩惠之後，要想到上帝是如此的看重，我們必須活出與自己所蒙的恩相稱的生命！

    因此，是上帝的恩典改變我們、陶造我們；不是我們改變或努力來換取上帝的恩典。一切都是上帝慈愛與公義的做為，使我們的生命真正獲得改變！

創世記28:1-9

28:1 以撒叫了雅各來，給他祝福，並囑咐他說：「你不要娶迦南的女子為妻。
28:2 你起身往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到你外祖彼土利家裡，在你母舅拉班的女兒中娶一女為妻。
28:3 願全能的上帝賜福給你，使你生養眾多，成為多族，
28:4 將應許亞伯拉罕的福賜給你和你的後裔，使你承受你所寄居的地為業，就是上帝賜給亞伯拉罕的地。」
28:5 以撒打發雅各走了，他就往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到亞蘭人彼土利的兒子拉班那裡。拉班是雅各、以掃的母舅。
28:6 以掃見以撒已經給雅各祝福，而且打發他往巴旦‧亞蘭去，在那裡娶妻，並見祝福的時候囑咐他說：「不要娶迦南的女子為妻」，
28:7 又見雅各聽從父母的話往巴旦‧亞蘭去了，
28:8 以掃就曉得他父親以撒看不中迦南的女子，
28:9 便往以實瑪利那裡去，在他二妻之外又娶了瑪哈拉為妻。她是亞伯拉罕兒子以實瑪利的女兒，尼拜約的妹子。

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. ² Go at once to Paddan Aram,^[a] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. ³ May God Almighty^[b] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. ⁴ May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” ⁵ Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

⁶ Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. ⁸ Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; ⁹ so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

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    以掃雖然知道自己的父母親不喜歡自己和迦南女子結婚，但是他沒有好好尋求上帝，卻用自己的方法和以實瑪利的女兒結婚。而這一切，都是出於人的無知，以致於一錯再錯！

    由以掃的婚姻，我們知道人不可以無知，要努力認識真理，才會知道上帝是如何賜福，人要如何信靠祂，而不致於做了一些不該做的事。可是做了之後，又害怕會有不良的後果，就一再用其他方式來掩蓋，結果越來越糟！

    求主保守，讓我們不要落入這樣的景況，就要求上帝來啟示，用聖靈來引導我們明白上帝的話，使我們行在上帝的榮耀之中！