詩篇68:4-5

 

68:4 你們當向上帝唱詩，歌頌他的名；為那坐車行過曠野的修平大路。他的名是耶和華，要在他面前歡樂！

68:5 上帝在他的聖所作孤兒的父，作寡婦的伸冤者。

⁴ Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. ⁵ A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

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    在這個世代太強調人的能力，以至於人沒有有想到人當初受造時，上帝有一個重要的法則在人的身上，就是人要倚靠上帝而活。這不是教人懶惰不做事，而是要學會支取上帝的力量，努力完成上帝所託付的使命，然後歸榮耀給上帝！

    然而有人會問上帝在哪裡﹖我們可以怎樣倚靠他呢﹖詩人告訴我們，祂是「坐車行過曠野的修平大路」，其實原文的意義是說「坐著雲彩」的那一位。也就是說，無論在哪裡，我們望著雲彩就知道上帝的同在！祂是眷顧人的上帝，就連無依無靠的孤兒寡婦，上帝都保守！

    所以，無論怎樣的狀況，我們只要望見空中的雲彩，我們就知道上帝是與我們同在的，祂的眼目遍察全地的，更相信祂是幫助我們的！也因為這樣，力量由心中油然而生，相信上帝必保守到永遠！

出埃及記4章

          出埃及記4:1-17   ,

          出埃及記4:18-31  , 出埃及記4:21-23  ,

出埃及記4:1-17

4:1 摩西回答說：「他們必不信我，也不聽我的話，必說：『耶和華並沒有向你顯現。』」
4:2 耶和華對摩西說：「你手裡是甚麼？」他說：「是杖。」
4:3 耶和華說：「丟在地上。」他一丟下去，就變作蛇；摩西便跑開。
4:4 耶和華對摩西說：「伸出手來，拿住牠的尾巴，牠必在你手中仍變為杖；
4:5 如此好叫他們信耶和華─他們祖宗的上帝，就是亞伯拉罕的上帝，以撒的上帝，雅各的上帝，是向你顯現了。」
4:6 耶和華又對他說：「把手放在懷裡。」他就把手放在懷裡，及至抽出來，不料，手長了大痲瘋，有雪那樣白。
4:7 耶和華說：「再把手放在懷裡。」他就再把手放在懷裡，及至從懷裡抽出來，不料，手已經復原，與周身的肉一樣；
4:8 又說：「倘或他們不聽你的話，也不信頭一個神蹟，他們必信第二個神蹟。
4:9 這兩個神蹟若都不信，也不聽你的話，你就從河裡取些水，倒在旱地上，你從河裡取的水必在旱地上變作血。」
4:10 摩西對耶和華說：「主啊，我素日不是能言的人，就是從你對僕人說話以後，也是這樣。我本是拙口笨舌的。」
4:11 耶和華對他說：「誰造人的口呢？誰使人口啞、耳聾、目明、眼瞎呢？豈不是我─耶和華嗎？
4:12 現在去吧，我必賜你口才，指教你所當說的話。」
4:13 摩西說：「主啊，你願意打發誰，就打發誰去吧！」
4:14 耶和華向摩西發怒說：「不是有你的哥哥利未人亞倫嗎？我知道他是能言的；現在他出來迎接你，他一見你，心裡就歡喜。
4:15 你要將當說的話傳給他；我也要賜你和他口才，又要指教你們所當行的事。
4:16 他要替你對百姓說話；你要以他當作口，他要以你當作上帝。
4:17 你手裡要拿這杖，好行神蹟。」

Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

² Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
³ The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. ⁴ Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. ⁵ “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
⁶ Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous^[a]—it had become as white as snow.
⁷ “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
⁸ Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. ⁹ But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”
¹⁰ Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ¹² Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
¹³ But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”
¹⁴ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. ¹⁵ You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. ¹⁶ He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. ¹⁷ But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

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    摩西真正面對上帝要給他任務的時候，卻是推三阻四，為自己的膽卻與軟弱找了許多理由，想拒絕上帝給他的任務。但是上帝卻一一化解，給他行神蹟的能力，和讓他的哥哥亞倫來幫助他。

    上帝呼召一個人來與祂同工的時候，不會讓他單獨的去面對，一定會賜下當給他的能力和同工，更重要的是上帝必定與他同在！因為上帝是「以馬內利」的上帝，「以馬內利」的意思就是上帝與我們同在！

    我們既然知道上帝不會讓我們單獨面對，我們就要與感來承擔上帝給我們的使命，相信上帝必定透過我們張顯祂的榮耀與能力，只要我們來投靠祂，我們必定完成祂所託付的！

箴言26:20-22

26:20 火缺了柴就必熄滅；無人傳舌，爭競便止息。
26:21 好爭競的人煽惑爭端，就如餘火加炭，火上加柴一樣。
26:22 傳舌人的言語，如同美食，深入人的心腹。

²⁰ Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
²¹ As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
²² The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
    they go down to the inmost parts.

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    雅各書說到：「看哪，船隻雖然甚大，又被大風催逼，只用小小的舵，就隨著掌舵的意思轉動。這樣，舌頭在百體裡也是最小的，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點著最大的樹林。」（3:4-5）

    可見一個人要控制他的舌頭，以免為自己惹來大禍！然而，問題不在於舌頭，而是嘴巴說出來的話。然而人話語的源頭來自他的心，正如主耶穌所說：「毒蛇的種類！你們既是惡人，怎能說出好話來呢？因為心裡所充滿的，口裡就說出來。」（馬太福音12:34）

    求主保守我們，讓我們心裡被聖靈所充滿，就會說出上帝的話！而心裡被聖靈所充滿的人，就是被聖靈引導的人！被聖靈引導的人，必定會尊主耶穌為上帝兒子，願意照耶穌基督的命令而行，成為耶穌基督的門徒(學生)！

 

箴言26:18-19

人欺凌鄰舍，卻說：我豈不是戲耍嗎？他就像瘋狂的人拋擲火把、利箭，與殺人的兵器（原文是死亡）。

¹⁸ Like a maniac shooting
    flaming arrows of death
¹⁹ is one who deceives their neighbor
    and says, “I was only joking!”

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    「開玩笑」好像是親密的行動，但是有些人確以這樣的藉口來傷害人，甚至沒有悔意！這樣的人，我們還是遠離的好，以免受到傷害！對這樣的鄰舍，更是要遠離，不然自己會受到無妄的災害！

    當然「開玩笑」也是對我們自己的提醒，我們不要做一個喜歡「開玩笑」的人，因為「開玩笑」常常是將是將痛苦加諸在人的身上，讓人不知所措，然後大家哈哈大笑，似乎很歡樂，卻也常常樂極生悲！

    感謝主！《箴言》像生命和生活的說明書，常常提醒我們生活中的一些細節的事情，讓我們小心遵行，不傷害別人和自己，讓上帝得榮耀！