2017年3月14日 星期二

耶利米書4:27-31



4:27 耶和華如此說:全地必然荒涼,我卻不毀滅淨盡。
4:28 因此,地要悲哀,在上的天也必黑暗;因為我言已出,我意已定,必不後悔,也不轉意不做。
4:29 各城的人因馬兵和弓箭手的響聲就都逃跑,進入密林,爬上磐石;各城被撇下,無人住在其中。
4:30 你淒涼的時候要怎樣行呢?你雖穿上朱紅衣服,佩戴黃金裝飾,用顏料修飾眼目,這樣標緻是枉然的!戀愛你的藐視你,並且尋索你的性命。
4:31 我聽見有聲音,彷彿婦人產難的聲音,好像生頭胎疼痛的聲音,是錫安女子(就是指民的意思)的聲音;她喘著氣、挓挲手,說:我有禍了!在殺人的跟前,我的心發昏了。

27 For thus says the Lord, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
28 "For this the earth shall mourn,
 and the heavens above be dark;
for I have spoken; I have purposed;
 I have not relented, nor will I turn back."
29 At the noise of horseman and archer
every city takes to flight;
they enter thickets; they climb among rocks;
all the cities are forsaken,
and no man dwells in them.
30 And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in scarlet,
 that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
 that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
Your lovers despise you;
they seek your life.
31 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
 stretching out her hands,
"Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers."

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    這裡先知要猶大人不要自以為美麗,以為靠著外交的方式可以保全自己。這些討好的國家是不會領情,反而是來攻擊猶大國的!

    這也警告我們,不要靠人的力量,人不僅靠不住,甚至是有害的!因此,屬上帝的人要對人的作為有所保留和防範,因為人受到罪性的影響是靠不住的!個人如此,群體性更是如此!

    也因此,人必須先被聖靈重生,才能被上帝所使用,求主幫助我們,讓我們真正成為重生的可用之才

耶利米書4:19-26



4:19 我的肺腑啊,我的肺腑啊,我心疼痛!我心在我裡面煩躁不安。我不能靜默不言,因為我已經聽見角聲和打仗的喊聲。
4:20 毀壞的信息連絡不絕,因為全地荒廢。我的帳棚忽然毀壞;我的幔子頃刻破裂。
4:21 我看見大旗,聽見角聲,要到幾時呢?
4:22 耶和華說:我的百姓愚頑,不認識我;他們是愚昧無知的兒女,有智慧行惡,沒有知識行善。
4:23 先知說:我觀看地,不料,地是空虛混沌;我觀看天,天也無光。
4:24 我觀看大山,不料,盡都震動,小山也都搖來搖去。
4:25 我觀看,不料,無人;空中的飛鳥也都躲避。
4:26 我觀看,不料,肥田變為荒地;一切城邑在耶和華面前,因他的烈怒都被拆毀。

19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
20 Crash follows hard on crash;
the whole land is laid waste.
 Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the standard
and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 "For my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
 They are 'wise'—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not."
23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void;
 and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 I looked, and behold, there was no man,
and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

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    這裡讓我們看見上帝對祂的子民責難:「我的百姓愚頑,不認識我;他們是愚昧無知的兒女,有智慧行惡,沒有知識行善。」

    之所以如此,是因為人不願意悔改,導致人不願意追求真理,以至於對上帝、對真理、對自己是無知,甚至是愚昧:有智慧行惡,沒有知識行善。也因為如此,上帝的憤怒出滿天地之間,到處都是充滿著震動與破壞

    求主幫助,讓我們因著信靠耶穌督,並賜下聖靈,引導我們進入真理,並且悔改歸向上帝,使我們不要遭受到上帝永遠的憤怒

以賽亞書25:4



因為當強暴人催逼人的時候,如同暴風直吹牆壁,你就作貧窮人的保障,作困乏人急難中的保障,作躲暴風之處,作避炎熱的陰涼。

For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
 a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
 for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

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    先知在此說明上帝是如何的保護受到逼迫的人。首先形容強暴人對人的催逼,如同暴風直吹牆壁讓人感受到強暴人給人的壓力和迫害,是何等的急切和難受,使人感到受不了

    但是,在這種狀態時,上帝卻成了我們的避難所,成了我們的保障,使我們不會受到這些迫害但是,我們要如何經歷這樣的幫助呢我們要奉主耶穌的名來求告上帝,將一切的困難和人的壓迫,仰望在上帝的手中,他必保守我們十分平安

    上帝的保護是可以經歷的只要我們肯勇敢地舉起禱告的手奉主耶穌的名求祂做我們隨時的幫助就必經歷上帝奇妙的保護讓我們一起來禱告仰望上帝吧

2017年3月12日 星期日

耶利米書4:11-18



4:11 那時,必有話對這百姓和耶路撒冷說:「有一陣熱風從曠野淨光的高處向我的眾民(原文是民女)颳來,不是為簸揚,也不是為揚淨。
4:12 必有一陣更大的風從這些地方為我颳來;現在我又必發出判語,攻擊他們。」
4:13 看哪,仇敵必如雲上來;他的戰車如旋風,他的馬匹比鷹更快。我們有禍了!我們敗落了!
4:14 耶路撒冷啊,你當洗去心中的惡,使你可以得救。惡念存在你心裡要到幾時呢?
4:15 有聲音從但傳揚,從以法蓮山報禍患。
4:16 你們當傳給列國,報告攻擊耶路撒冷的事說:有探望的人從遠方來到,向猶大的城邑大聲吶喊。
4:17 他們周圍攻擊耶路撒冷,好像看守田園的,因為她背叛了我。這是耶和華說的。
4:18 你的行動,你的作為,招惹這事;這是你罪惡的結果,實在是苦,是害及你心了!

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,  a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them.”
  Behold, he comes up like clouds;
his chariots like the whirlwind;
his horses are swifter than eagles—
woe to us, for we are ruined!
  O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?
  For a voice declares from Dan
and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.
  Warn the nations that he is coming;
announce to Jerusalem,
Besiegers come from a distant land;
they shout against the cities of Judah.
  Like keepers of a field are they against her all around,
because she has rebelled against me,
declares the Lord.
  Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and it is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”

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    先知在此說明以色列和由大會造受到外敵的侵入而幾乎要滅亡的原因是來自於他們犯罪,因為他們離開上帝,在各大小山岡的山上敬拜迦南地的別神,並為這些偶像設立邱壇。

    其實我們的生命會有許多的破口與虧損,也是來自我們的罪!雖然主已經使我們不用為罪的緣故受到永遠的刑罰。但是,罪惡帶給我們生活的影響力仍然是在發生,使我們面對到這些失敗,體會出我們的軟弱,進而產生敬畏上帝的心

    我們要勇敢來面對這些軟弱,更要求上帝使我們在這樣的時候,不要忘記耶穌督已經得勝了,我們也與他同得勝了但是,我們更要為自己的失敗來求主給我們勇氣承認,並仰望主的勝利來向自己的軟弱誇勝,不要被罪惡打敗