Sep 03【每日活水】敬畏 SHEN 胜过世界

 

出埃及记1:15~22

15 有希伯来的两个收生婆,一名施弗拉,一名普阿;埃及王对她们说:

16 「你们为希伯来妇人收生,看她们临盆的时候,若是男孩,就把他杀了;若是女孩,就留她存活。」

17 但是收生婆敬畏  SHEN ,不照埃及王的吩咐行,竟存留男孩的性命。

18 埃及王召了收生婆来,说:「你们为什么做这事,存留男孩的性命呢?」

19 收生婆对法老说:「因为希伯来妇人与埃及妇人不同;希伯来妇人本是健壮的,收生婆还没有到,她们已经生产了。」

20   SHEN 厚待收生婆。以色列人多起来,极其强盛。

21 收生婆因为敬畏  SHEN ,  SHEN 便叫她们成立家室。

22 法老吩咐他的众民说:「以色列人所生的男孩,你们都要丢在河里;一切的女孩,你们要存留她的性命。」

15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.

21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

 

内容观察

1.法老命令希伯来的接生婆做什么事?(16节)

2.面对法老的追究,接生婆如何机智应对?(19节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.接生婆为什么违背法老的命令?
 

个人感受

4.接生婆选择敬畏 SHEN 胜过世界,并且最终蒙福,对此我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾因受到权势的逼迫,而无法按照 SHEN 的话语行?

6.看到接生婆因为敬畏 SHEN 而使自己的家庭蒙福,我决定要怎么做?

施弗拉、普阿(15节):应是众接生婆中的两位代表,法老想借她们来控制所有希伯来的接生婆。

灵/修指南

法老为了遏制以色列人继续繁衍昌盛,竟然采取了令人昨舌的手段(16节)。虽然希伯来的接生婆也畏惧法老,她们却更敬畏在法老之上的 SHEN (17节),于是就没有按照法老的吩咐去做。面对法老的追究,她们也做出机智的回应,最终也因着敬畏 SHEN 而得蒙 SHEN 的赐福(21节)。希伯来的接生婆冒着生命危险做出的决定,以及她们所展现的机智,使得法老企图杀死所有以色列男婴的计划化为泡影。在遭受“不是男婴死、就是自己死”的威胁之下,接生婆选择敬畏 SHEN ,最终使自己和男婴都得救。盼望我们能够效法接生婆的信心和智慧,不畏惧世界,而是单单敬畏 SHEN ,活出对 SHEN 的信心。
 

内室dao告

求 SHEN 赐给我敬畏 TA 胜过世界的信心,因而得蒙从而来的赐福。

 

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