六年流离有感。

找寻预备的筵席

Psalm 23:5

在我敌人面前，你为我摆设筵席；你用油膏了我的头，使我的福杯满溢。

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

1 Corinthians 2:9

正如经上所记：“神为爱他的人所预备的，是眼睛未曾看见，耳朵未曾听见，人心也未曾想到的。”

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – the things God has prepared for those who love him”

简单相信

Matthew 18:3

耶稣说：“我实在告诉你们：你们若不回转，变成小孩子的样式，断不得进天国。”

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Proverbs 3:5-6

你要专心仰赖耶和华，不可倚靠自己的聪明，在你一切所行的事上都要认定他，他必指引你的路。

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

离开故土

Genesis 12:1-2

耶和华对亚伯兰说：“你要离开地、亲族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。我必叫你成为大国。我必赐福给你，叫你的名为大；你也要叫别人得福。”

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”

筑坛

Genesis 12:7

耶和华向亚伯兰显现，说：“我要把这地赐给你的后裔。”亚伯兰就在那里为向他显现的耶和华筑了一座坛。

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:18

亚伯兰就搬了帐棚，来到希伯仑幔利的橡树那里居住，在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛。

So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.

所行所得的一切来自于主的安排

• 领受恩典
• 不可自夸
• 也没有必要自夸
• 这是礼物，而非自己得来的

2 Corinthians 3:5

并不是我们凭自己能承担什么事；我们所能承担的，乃是出于神。

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

1 Corinthians 4:7

使你与人不同的是谁呢？你有什么不是领受的呢？若是领受的，为何自夸，仿佛不是领受的呢？

For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

要做的事情得荣耀

要做的事情得荣耀。

人受试探与人的伪善

1 Corinthians 10:13

你们所遇见的试探，无非是人所能受的。神是信实的，必不叫你们受试探过于所能受的；在受试探的时候，总要给你们开一条出路，叫你们能忍受得住。

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Matthew 23:27

你们这假冒为善的文士和法利赛人有祸了！因为你们好像粉饰的坟墓，外面好看，里面却装满了死人的骨头和一切的污秽。

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Psalm 51:6

你所喜爱的，是内里诚实；你在我隐密处，必使我得智慧。

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

时刻儆醒

Matthew 26:41

总要儆醒祷告，免得入了试探。你们心灵固然愿意，肉体却软弱了。

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

笨拙与软弱

人不可与人相比。每个人都是独一无二的，也都是主的创造。

拒绝偶像崇拜

• 世俗的比较

以前

以为人的品味、理解、智慧是有高低的。

现在

顶多可以说：我不参与令人难以安静、“多余的”讨论，减少注意力的消散，而非否定。不可争论、自以为义。

林前 1:20-21

智慧人在那里？文士在那里？这世上的辩士在那里？神岂不是叫这世上的智慧变成愚拙么。

Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

世人凭自己的智慧，既不认识神，神就乐意用人所当作愚拙的道理拯救那些信的人；这就是神的智慧了。

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.