Sep 06【每日活水】信靠 SHEN 的信实,追求行善

 

出埃及记2:16~25

16 一日,他在井旁坐下。米甸的祭司有七个女儿;她们来打水,打满了槽,要饮父亲的群羊。

17 有牧羊的人来,把她们赶走了,摩西却起来帮助她们,又饮了她们的群羊。

18 她们来到父亲流珥那里;他说:「今日你们为何来得这么快呢?」

19 她们说:「有一个埃及人救我们脱离牧羊人的手,并且为我们打水饮了群羊。」

20 他对女儿们说:「那个人在哪里?你们为什么撇下他呢?你们去请他来吃饭。」

21 摩西甘心和那人同住;那人把他的女儿西坡拉给摩西为妻。

22 西坡拉生了一个儿子,摩西给他起名叫革舜,意思说:「因我在外邦作了寄居的。」

23 过了多年,埃及王死了。以色列人因做苦工,就叹息哀求,他们的哀声达于  SHEN 。

24   SHEN 听见他们的哀声,就记念他与亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的约。

25   SHEN 看顾以色列人,也知道他们的苦情。

16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”

21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.

24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

 

内容观察

1.当摩西看见他人遭遇困难,他如何反应?(16~17节)

2.摩西定居米甸时,埃及发生了什么事?(23节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.摩西为什么在逃亡之际,仍然愿意帮助陌生人?
 

个人感受

4.摩西在帮助同胞之后而逃亡,却仍然乐意伸手帮助他人,对此我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾因做了正确的事而陷入困境?

6.为了相信人手所做的必蒙 SHEN 记念与报答,我决定要怎么做?

米甸(16节):米甸后裔所生活的土地。米甸是亚伯拉罕和基土拉所生的儿子(参创25:1~2)。
流珥(18节):意为“ SHEN 的朋友”,指米甸祭司叶特罗。
他与亚伯拉军、以撒、雅各所立的约(24节): SHEN 与亚伯拉罕立约, TA 将带领以色列人进入迦南美地。
SHEN 是知道的(25节): 代表 SHEN 在意,直到成就 TA 的应许。此节经/文的“知道”,意思是“放在心上”。

灵/修指南

摩西从埃及逃到了米甸,在井旁看见米甸祭司流珥的七个女儿被牧羊人欺负,不让她们给自己的羊群喝水。虽然摩西尚在逃亡,却还是起来帮助她们,取水给她们的羊群喝(16~17节)。后来,这件事成为摩西和祭司的女儿结婚的契机。摩西在米甸定居下来的时候,那位曾经追杀摩西的埃及王死了,而以色列人因为做苦工,就呼求 SHEN 帮助他们脱离苦役;他们的哀声到了 SHEN 那里, SHEN 就开始了的拯救事工(23~25节)。摩西在米甸的生活,是预备他将来成为民族领袖一个必要的过程,而这一切都是从摩西怜悯弱者的心开始的。摩西虽然因为帮助同胞而被迫逃亡,看似逐渐走向失败的结局:但是,他乐意帮助弱者的态度和行为蒙 SHEN 悦纳,并为他开启了人生新的篇章。盼望我们也能时刻记得、并信靠 SHEN 的信实和怜世人的心肠,竭力追求行善。
 

内室dao告

求主帮助我无论如何都坚定行善,单单仰望从信实的 SHEN 而来的报答。

 

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