Aug 05【每日活水】不要倚靠人,只要倚靠 SHEN

 

以赛亚书 2:5~22

5  雅各家啊,来吧!
我们在耶/和/华的光明中行走。
骄者必败
6 耶/和/华,你离弃了你百姓雅各家,
是因他们充满了东方的风俗
作观兆的,像非利士人一样,
并与外邦人击掌。
7 他们的国满了金银,
财宝也无穷;
他们的地满了马匹,
车辆也无数。
8 他们的地满了偶像;
他们跪拜自己手所造的,
就是自己指头所做的。
9 卑贱人屈膝;
尊贵人下跪;
所以不可饶恕他们。
10 你当进入岩穴,藏在土中,
躲避耶/和/华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。
11 到那日,眼目高傲的必降为卑;
性情狂傲的都必屈膝;
惟独耶/和/华被尊崇。
12 必有万军耶/和/华降罚的一个日子,
要临到骄傲狂妄的;
一切自高的都必降为卑;
13 又临到黎巴嫩高大的香柏树和巴珊的橡树;
14 又临到一切高山的峻岭;
15 又临到高台和坚固城墙;
16 又临到他施的船只并一切可爱的美物。
17 骄傲的必屈膝;
狂妄的必降卑。
在那日,惟独耶/和/华被尊崇;
18 偶像必全然废弃。
19 耶/和/华兴起,使地大震动的时候,
人就进入石洞,进入土穴,
躲避耶/和/华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。
20 到那日,人必将为拜而造的金偶像、银偶像
抛给田鼠和蝙蝠。
21 到耶/和/华兴起,使地大震动的时候,
人好进入磐石洞中和岩石穴里,
躲避耶/和/华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。
22 你们休要倚靠世人。
他鼻孔里不过有气息;
他在一切事上可算什么呢?
5 Come, descendants of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The Day of theLord
6 You, Lord, have abandoned your people,
the descendants of Jacob.
They are full of superstitions from the East;
they practice divination like the Philistines
and embrace pagan customs.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is full of horses;
there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
9 So people will be brought low
and everyone humbled—
do not forgive them.
10 Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty!
11 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
and human pride brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 The Lord Almighty has a day in store
for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
(and they will be humbled),
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
and all the oaks of Bashan,
14  for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,
15 for every lofty tower
and every fortified wall,
16 for every trading ship
and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low
and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18 and the idols will totally disappear.
19 People will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
20 In that day people will throw away
to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
which they made to worship.
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
22 Stop trusting in mere humans,
who have but a breath in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?
 

内容观察

1.犹大被 SHEN 遗弃的原因是什么?(6~9

2.以赛亚说,犹大百姓所倚靠的偶像会面临怎样的结局?(18~21 节)

 

思考与默想

 

3. SHEN 的百姓为什么不应倚靠人,而应倚靠 SHEN ?(参创2:7)
 

个人感受

4.在审判的日子,人们所夸耀的属世事物都将消失,唯独耶/和/华将被尊崇,对此我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.最近我喜爱什么事物超过爱 SHEN ?

6.为了将财物、权力、成功、爱情、名誉等夺去我们眼目的事物钉在十/字/架上,我决定要怎么做?

有人屈膝,有人下跪 (9节): 本该治理万物的人类,却自甘堕落,向偶像屈膝下跪。
他施一切的船只(16节):犹大透过海上贸易积累了大量财富,最终这些又成了他们骄傲的原由。
创2:7 “耶/和/华 SHEN 用地上的尘土造人,将生命之气吹进他的鼻孔,这人就成了有灵的活人。

灵/修指南

犹大被 SHEN 遗弃,在于他们中间出现了外邦民族的习俗 (6节),他们本该单单仰望 SHEN ,却追随了周边国家迷信和拜偶像的习俗,而拜偶像是 SHEN 最憎恶的行为。此外,他们还陶醉于自己的经济实力和军事能力 (7~8,15节),忘记了自己作为祭司国度的身份 (9节)。比起倚靠 SHEN ,更倚靠金钱、权力、名誉等事物,这是藐视 SHEN 的傲慢行为 (11节),足以构成被 SHEN 遗弃的理由。讽刺的是,富足是从 SHEN 而来的赐福,可犹大百姓为了守住这一富足,却去跪拜外邦的 SHEN ,而不去倚靠赐福的耶/和/华 SHEN 。信/徒不应倚靠偶像、经济实力、军事能力和软弱的人,而应单单倚靠 SHEN ,活出高举 SHEN 的人生(11,17节)。盼望我们放下那些看似比 SHEN 更宝贵的事物单单仰望 SHEN 。
 

内室dao告

求 SHEN 使我不去倚靠那些靠不住的事物,单单倚靠 SHEN 。

 

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