2019年7月29日 星期一

出埃及記17:8-16


17:8 那時,亞瑪力人來在利非訂,和以色列人爭戰。
17:9
摩西對約書亞說:「你為我們選出人來,出去和亞瑪力人爭戰。明天我手裡要拿著上帝的杖,站在山頂上。」
17:10
於是約書亞照著摩西對他所說的話行,和亞瑪力人爭戰。摩西、亞倫,與戶珥都上了山頂。
17:11
摩西何時舉手,以色列人就得勝,何時垂手,亞瑪力人就得勝。
17:12
但摩西的手發沉,他們就搬石頭來,放在他以下,他就坐在上面。亞倫與戶珥扶著他的手,一個在這邊,一個在那邊,他的手就穩住,直到日落的時候。
17:13
約書亞用刀殺了亞瑪力王和他的百姓。
17:14
耶和華對摩西說:「我要將亞瑪力的名號從天下全然塗抹了;你要將這話寫在書上作紀念,又念給約書亞聽。」
17:15
摩西築了一座壇,起名叫「耶和華尼西」(就是耶和華是我旌旗的意思),
17:16
又說:「耶和華已經起了誓,必世世代代和亞瑪力人爭戰。」

The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”
10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
15 Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. 16 He said, “Because hands were lifted up against[c] the throne of the Lord,[d] the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”

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   禱告本身沒有什麼力量,可是禱告發出來得力量可大了!因為能力是來自上帝,是上帝使約書亞的勝利,不是禱告使約書亞勝過亞瑪力人!這是我們要認識清楚,禱告的人才不會居功,才不會奪去上帝的榮耀!

    許多基督喜歡見證禱告很有效果,勸人要多多禱告!其是,不是勸人多多禱告,而是要勸人仰望上帝!人仰望與信靠上帝,就自然會禱告和尋求上帝,不必人的勸說!可見,禱告之前須要接受上帝所賜的信心,就知道當如何求、如何仰望上帝了!

    親愛的弟兄姐妹,要靠主耶穌的名,在聖靈的引導下,向天父上帝禱告,上帝必成就大事在我們中間!

出埃及記17章

                出埃及記17:1-7   ,

               出埃及記17:8-16  ,

出埃及記17:1-7


17:1 以色列全會眾都遵耶和華的吩咐,按著站口從汛的曠野往前行,在利非訂安營。百姓沒有水喝,
17:2
所以與摩西爭鬧,說:「給我們水喝吧!」摩西對他們說:「你們為甚麼與我爭鬧?為甚麼試探耶和華呢?」
17:3
百姓在那裡甚渴,要喝水,就向摩西發怨言,說:「你為甚麼將我們從埃及領出來,使我們和我們的兒女並牲畜都渴死呢?」
17:4
摩西就呼求耶和華說:「我向這百姓怎樣行呢?他們幾乎要拿石頭打死我。」
17:5
耶和華對摩西說:「你手裡拿著你先前擊打河水的杖,帶領以色列的幾個長老,從百姓面前走過去。
17:6
我必在何烈的磐石那裡,站在你面前。你要擊打磐石,從磐石裡必有水流出來,使百姓可以喝。」摩西就在以色列的長老眼前這樣行了。
17:7
他給那地方起名叫瑪撒(就是試探的意思),又叫米利巴(就是爭鬧的意思);因以色列人爭鬧,又因他們試探耶和華,說:「耶和華是在我們中間不是?」

The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”
But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah[a] and Meribah[b] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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    以生活需要為重的人,遇到沒有水可喝,沒有東西可以吃,他們的反應當然是爭鬧與發怨言;而不是大家一起來禱告,求主賞賜水源和糧食!

    當然我們不能批判摩西沒有牧養好這一群百姓,以致於他們只知道爭鬧,不知道要仰望上帝!牧者再怎樣屬靈或優秀,也不是馬上可以把一群剛被拯救的人教導得很好!這也是今日牧者在教會要面對的問題,每一位在教會出入的人,生命程度、信仰表現不盡相同,需要照每個人的程度和方式來引導,不是一年或兩年馬上可以看見成果的!

    願上帝的家中,有循循善意的良牧,使每個弟兄姊妹學習仰望上帝,而不是爭鬧與發怨言,這是上帝安排牧者的重要意義!




詩篇119:93


我永不忘記你的訓詞,因你用這訓詞將我救活了。

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

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    詩人在上帝話語的引導下深深感受到上帝的話語也就是上帝的默示是能夠帶給人生命和力量使人可以出死亡進入永生也因為如此詩人說:「因你用這訓詞將我救活了!」

    上帝的話與和人的話語最大的不同也在這裡!人的話語雖然好聽,卻無法給人生命和動力!只是讓人自我膨脹,沒有指向生命的泉源,沒有讓人感覺活水湧出的感覺!

    求主保守讓我們常常在基督裡享受上帝話語讓上帝所賜的永生如活水般在我們心中不斷湧流

2019年7月28日 星期日

箴言27:18


看守無花果樹的,必吃樹上的果子;敬奉主人的,必得尊榮。

The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and whoever protects their master will be honored.

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    敬業和樂業是我們在世上活得快樂和有尊嚴的秘訣!有許多人把工作當作是勞苦,認為有做必須有得,是理所當然!然而這些人沒有碰過有做沒有得的情形,所以不明白努力並不一定有收穫,而是要努力的正確、讓人覺得所做有價值、有益處才能有所得!

    曾經聽過美國安麗公司的創辦人說過,員工要讓老闆有賺錢,如此員工才可以領老闆的薪水,不然老闆沒有錢,也沒有必要發薪水給員工!

    然而員工要怎樣才能夠讓老闆賺到錢?員工本身就必須要有敬業與樂業的精神,才能使工做的結果有價值。敬業就會照產品該有的品質努力,製造出品質高的產品!樂業會使員工奮發向上,不會把工做當做苦差事,就不會做三等人(等下班、等吃飯、等領薪水)!

    求主保守我們,不論我們是受雇或受聘,讓我們本著精業和樂業的精神來工作,我們就會成為一位喜樂又有尊嚴的人了!就可以榮耀主的名了!