Jun 03【每日活水】不义的世界中, SHEN 仍掌权

 

以斯帖记2:1~7

以斯帖被立为王后
这事以后,亚哈随鲁王的忿怒止息,就想念瓦实提和她所行的,并怎样降旨办她。 
于是王的侍臣对王说:「不如为王寻找美貌的处女。 
王可以派官在国中的各省招聚美貌的处女到书珊的女院,交给掌管女子的太监希该,给她们当用的香品。 
王所喜爱的女子可以立为王后,代替瓦实提。」王以这事为美,就如此行。
5  书珊城有一个犹大人,名叫末底改,是便雅悯基士的曾孙,示每的孙子,睚珥的儿子。 
从前巴比伦尼布甲尼撒犹大耶哥尼雅和百姓从耶路撒冷掳去,末底改也在其内。 
末底改抚养他叔叔的女儿哈大沙(后名以斯帖),因为她没有父母。这女子又容貌俊美;她父母死了,末底改就收她为自己的女儿。
Esther Made Queen
Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 
Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 
Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. 
Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.
Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, 
who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah. 
Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
 

内容观察

1.亚哈随鲁王的愤怒平息之后,他想起了什么?(3节)

2.侍臣建议如何解决王后之位的空缺问题?(4节)

 

思考与默想

 

3. Bible 为什么在以斯帖登场之前,先记述了亚哈随鲁王废后的故事?
 

个人感受

4.看到亚哈随鲁王不义的统治,为以斯帖登上王后之位创造了机会,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.最近有哪些事情让我的内心感到不安?

6.即使不义的世界中, SHEN 仍掌权,为了信靠 SHEN 胜过我所面临的困难,我决定要怎么做?

想起(1节):包含了对过往的后悔之心。
请派人为王寻找美貌的少女(2节):瓦实提违抗王命是亚哈随鲁王在位第三年的事,而选拔新王后则是四年之后。
哈大沙(7节):以斯帖的犹太名字。

灵/修指南

情绪的风暴过去之后,留给亚哈随鲁王的是迟来的后悔,只是,过去的事情无法挽回。
侍臣捕捉到王的心意,便建议在国中各省招聚所有美貌的少女到书珊城堡的女院,并在其中选拔新王后(1~3节)。经/文虽未强调,但事实上,这些少女都不是自愿入宫,而是无奈被迫,并且,如果没有被选为王后,她们就要终生留在宫中。为了取悦王一个人,却让诸多百姓遭受痛苦。这时, Bible 的描述转向了一个住在书珊城的犹太人,他是便雅悯支派的后裔,被巴比伦王从耶路撒冷掳来,他的名字叫末底改。末底改收了自己的堂妹以斯帖作女儿,以斯帖的出现让我们看到,在不义的世界中,未来仍有一丝希望。
世上权力看似支配一切,但 SHEN 才是真正统管万有的那一位。因此,我们必须等候 SHEN 的时间,作一个凭信心生活的主儿女。
 

内室dao告

求 SHEN 帮助我在前路茫茫、绝望的情况下,仍信靠 SHEN 的作为,活出满有信心的人生。

 

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