Mar14【每日活水】尊崇神做生命的王

 

撒母耳记上12:6~15

6 撒母耳对百姓说:「从前立摩西亚伦,又领你们列祖出埃及地的是耶和华。 

7 现在你们要站住,等我在耶和华面前对你们讲论耶和华向你们和你们列祖所行一切公义的事。 

8 从前雅各到了埃及,后来你们列祖呼求耶和华,耶和华就差遣摩西亚伦领你们列祖出埃及,使他们在这地方居住。

9 他们却忘记耶和华-他们的 神,他就把他们付与夏琐将军西西拉的手里,和非利士人并摩押王的手里。于是这些人常来攻击他们。 

10 他们就呼求耶和华说:『我们离弃耶和华,事奉巴力亚斯她录,是有罪了。现在求你救我们脱离仇敌的手,我们必事奉你。』

11 耶和华就差遣耶路‧巴力比但耶弗他撒母耳救你们脱离四围仇敌的手,你们才安然居住。

12 你们见亚扪人的王拿辖来攻击你们,就对我说:『我们定要一个王治理我们。』其实耶和华-你们的 神是你们的王。

13 现在,你们所求所选的王在这里。看哪,耶和华已经为你们立王了。 

14 你们若敬畏耶和华,事奉他,听从他的话,不违背他的命令,你们和治理你们的王也都顺从耶和华-你们的 神就好了。 

15 倘若不听从耶和华的话,违背他的命令,耶和华的手必攻击你们,像从前攻击你们列祖一样。

6 Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of Egypt.

7 Now then, stand here, because I am going to confront you with evidence before the Lord as to all the righteous acts performed by the Lord for you and your ancestors.

8 “After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the Lord for help, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

9 “But they forgot the Lord their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them. 
10 They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ 
11 Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.
12 “But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the Lord your God was your king. 
13 Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the Lord has set a king over you. 
14 If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God—good! 
15 But if you do not obey the Lord, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.
 

内容观察

1.撒母耳说,以色列人会遭受外邦侵略的原因是什么?(9节)

2.当亚扪人的王拿辖攻打以色列,以色列人有什么反应?(12节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.撒母耳向以色列人所强调的,为什么不是要顺服扫罗王,而是要顺从神?
 

个人感受

4.看到撒母耳借祖先的例子,提醒以色列人要顺从神,我有什么感想?决心与应用
 

决心与应用

5.最近一次,我在面对挑战时没有寻求神,而是寻求世间的方法,是什么时候?

6.为了尊崇神作生命中真正的王,单单顺从祂的话语,我具体决定怎么做?

灵修指南

撒母耳向以色列人强调,是神带领他们的祖先离开了埃及到应许之地。这是为了让他们记起神过去的作为,使他们明白如今所享有的一切都是神的恩典。而撒母耳也向以色列人提及祖先离弃神的下场,说他们因为转去事奉迦南当地的神明,得罪了神,因而导致神的审判,不断遭受外邦人的侵扰(9~10节)。最后,尽管以色列人已经有神作他们的王,他们却在面临亚扪人的入侵时,要求要另立一位王(12节)。其实,在面临亚扪人人侵时,以色列人只要信靠神,一切问题都会得着解决,实在没有必要立王,但神仍应允了他们的要求。这样,以色列人中有了一位君王,但撒母耳仍再三强调,真正作王掌权统管以色列的,还是那位至高的神,因此神的子民仍然必须顺从神。生活在现今的信徒也当明白神才是我们生命的主宰,我们必须让祂作主、尊祂为王,一生顺从祂的话语来事奉祂。
 

内室祷告

愿我明白自己活在万王之王的统管之下,一生敬畏、顺从祂。

 

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