Mar01【每日活水】让God作王

撒母耳记上 8:13~9

以色列人要求立王
1 撒母耳年纪老迈,就立他儿子作以色列的士师。
2 长子名叫约珥,次子名叫亚比亚;他们在别是巴作士师。
3 他儿子不行他的道,贪图财利,收受贿赂,屈枉正直。
4 以色列的长老都聚集,来到拉玛见撒母耳,
5 对他说:「你年纪老迈了,你儿子不行你的道。现在求你为我们立一个王治理我们,像列国一样。」
6 撒母耳不喜悦他们说「立一个王治理我们」,他就dao告耶/和/华。
7 耶/和/华对撒母耳说:「百姓向你说的一切话,你只管依从;因为他们不是厌弃你,乃是厌弃我,不要我作他们的王。
8 自从我领他们出埃及到如今,他们常常离弃我,侍奉别 SHEN 。现在他们向你所行的,是照他们素来所行的。
9 故此你要依从他们的话,只是当警戒他们,告诉他们将来那王怎样管辖他们。」
Israel Asks for a King
1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.
2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.
3 But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”
6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord.
7 And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”
 

内容观察

1.以色列的长老向撒母耳要求什么事情?(5节)
2.以色列人要求立王的原因是什么?(7~8节)
 

思考与默想

 

3. SHEN 为什么吩咐撒母耳听从以色列人的要求?
 

个人感受

4.看到 SHEN 应允悖逆的以色列人所要求的事,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾跟随世上的方法,而非顺从 SHEN 的心意来作决定?
6.即使我时常得罪 SHEN , SHEN 却仍然保守我,为了回转信靠这位怜悯人的 SHEN ,我决定要怎么做?
 
他们不是厌弃你,而是厌弃我(7节):这显示以色列人要求立王,在政治及道德层面来说并无不妥,但却是在信/仰层面得罪 SHEN 。

灵/修指南

随着时间的流逝,撒母耳年纪也大了,他立儿子约珥和亚比亚作以色列人的士师。然而,与撒母耳正直的为人不同,约珥和亚比亚在为人民仲裁时,竟收受贿赂,不按公道判案,因而失去人民的信任。对此,以色列人要求撒母耳仿效周边其他国家的模式,为他们设立一个王,替代由士师治理的制度。当时,以色列的政治制度,是由 SHEN 透过士师来施行治理。但以色列人却羡慕邻国的国势,以为邻国的强盛是因为有王来统治,所以他们要求“像列国一样”设立一个王(5节)。不过, SHEN 看透他们的心思,因而说以色列人是“厌弃我,不要我作他们的王”(7节)。虽然 SHEN 一方面要撒母耳告诉以色列人王权统治的弊病,但也仍接受他们要立王的要求,因为 TA 知道他们的软弱。即使面对以色列人的悖逆与不信, SHEN 也仍然引领 TA 的子民。愿我们体会 SHEN 如牧人般怜悯羊群的心,回转跟随 TA 的心意,在面对人生的挑战时,不是跟随世界的方式,而是信靠 SHEN 的引领,让 SHEN 作王。
 

内室祷/告

愿我在人生旅途中无论境遇如何,都能活出信靠主、让主作王的蒙福人生。

 

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