Sep 12【每日活水】 在患难中坚持敬/拜

 

出埃及记 5:1~14

摩西和亚伦见埃及王
1 后来摩西、亚伦去对法老说:「耶/和/华-以色列的  SHEN 这样说:『容我的百姓去,在旷野向我守节。』」
2 法老说:「耶/和/华是谁,使我听他的话,容以色列人去呢?我不认识耶/和/华,也不容以色列人去!」
3 他们说:「希伯来人的  SHEN 遇见了我们。求你容我们往旷野去,走三天的路程,祭祀耶/和/华-我们的  SHEN ,免得他用瘟疫、刀兵攻击我们。」
4 埃及王对他们说:「摩西、亚伦!你们为什么叫百姓旷工呢?你们去担你们的担子吧!」
5 又说:「看哪,这地的以色列人如今众多,你们竟叫他们歇下担子!」
6 当天,法老吩咐督工的和官长说:
7「你们不可照常把草给百姓做砖,叫他们自己去捡草。
8 他们素常做砖的数目,你们仍旧向他们要,一点不可减少;因为他们是懒惰的,所以呼求说:『容我们去祭祀我们的  SHEN 。』
9 你们要把更重的工夫加在这些人身上,叫他们劳碌,不听虚谎的言语。」
10 督工的和官长出来对百姓说:「法老这样说:『我不给你们草。
11 你们自己在哪里能找草,就往那里去找吧!但你们的工一点不可减少。』」
12 于是百姓散在埃及遍地,捡碎秸当作草。
13 督工的催着说:「你们一天当完一天的工,与先前有草一样。」
14 法老督工的,责打他所派以色列人的官长,说:「你们昨天今天为什么没有照向来的数目做砖、完你们的工作呢?」
Bricks Without Straw
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’ ”
2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”
3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
4 But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!”
5 Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.”
6 That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people:
7 “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.
8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
9 Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”
10 Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.
11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”
12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
13 The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”
14 And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”
 

内容观察

1.法老对于摩西要求放以色列人走,有何反应?(2节)

2.法老吩咐监工和工头怎么做?(7~8a节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.法老为什么要加重以色列人的劳役?
 

个人感受

4.看到法老不认识 SHEN 、藐视以色列人对 SHEN 的敬/拜,又加重他们的劳役,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾因信靠 SHEN 而遭受困难和挫折?

6.为了在患难中也能信靠 SHEN 、坚持敬/拜 TA ,我决定要怎么做?

守节(1节):以色列人守节是为了向 SHEN 献上敬/拜。
走三天的路程,向耶/和/华我们的 SHEN 献/祭(3节):三天的路程约有100公里,这是为了分别为圣所需的距离。
监工和工头(6节):监工是管理以色列人的埃及人,工头是以色列人中间的领班。

灵/修指南

摩西和亚伦对法老传讲 SHEN 的信息,说“放我的百姓走”,让以色列人在旷野向 TA 守节(1节)。法老却不认识 SHEN ,因此不同意放以色列人走(2节)。摩西和亚伦又请求法老让以色列人到旷野去,走三天的路程,向 SHEN 献/祭(3节):法老仍旧不许,反而加增以色列人的劳役(7-8a节)。法老这样做,是要让以色列人忙到没有心思想别的事。虽然不认识 SHEN 的人可能会让 SHEN 的子民多受苦楚,但是因信心而受苦是蒙 SHEN 悦纳的。因此,我们遭遇患难时要坚定信靠 SHEN ,知道 TA 必将我们从患难中拯救出来。盼望我们在患难中存心忍耐,并在敬/拜之地成为得胜的MEN TU。
 

内室dao告

愿我在患难中单单仰望 SHEN ,靠着信心忍耐,在敬/拜中得胜。

 

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