Sep17【每日活水】寻求耶和华就必寻见

 

申命记4:25~31

25「你们在那地住久了,生子生孙,就雕刻偶像,仿佛什么形像,败坏自己,行耶和华-你 神眼中看为恶的事,惹他发怒。
26我今日呼天唤地向你们作见证,你们必在过约旦河得为业的地上速速灭尽!你们不能在那地上长久,必尽行除灭。
27耶和华必使你们分散在万民中;在他所领你们到的万国里,你们剩下的人数稀少。
28在那里,你们必事奉人手所造的神,就是用木石造成,不能看、不能听、不能吃、不能闻的神。
29但你们在那里必寻求耶和华-你的 神。你尽心尽性寻求他的时候,就必寻见。
30日后你遭遇一切患难的时候,你必归回耶和华-你的 神,听从他的话。
31耶和华-你 神原是有怜悯的 神;他总不撇下你,不灭绝你,也不忘记他起誓与你列祖所立的约。
25After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,
26I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.
27The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.
28There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
29But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.
31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

内容观察

1.摩西说,如果以色列人行神眼中看为恶的事,将会有何后果?(26~28节)
2.然而,面临这后果的以色列百姓,若想重新回到神面前,需要做什么?(29~31节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.为什么摩西说,以色列百姓承受行神眼中看为恶事的后果,却会因此开始寻求神?
 

个人感受

4.看到以色列百姓若尽心寻求神,就必寻见祂,你有何感想?
 

决心与应用

5.如今,你也渴望寻见神吗?你为了遵守与慈爱之神的约定,需要做什么?

呼天唤地向你们作见证(26节):指对着天和地作证,倘若以色列百姓不顺从,将会被逐出应许地。此有漠视律法,将会承受审判与灾难的寓意。不撇下你,不灭绝你(31节):这是神对自己百姓出于爱和真诚的表达。“不撇下”意味神不会让自己的百姓走上灭亡之路;“不灭绝”也意指神不会任由祂的百姓被毁灭却视而不见。

灵修指南

摩西说,以色列百姓进迦南后,若在那地背弃神、雕刻与跪拜偶像,激起神的怒火,神将会使他们蒙受审判,使他们分散在万民中,只能事奉那些人手所造的偶像(26~28节)。然而,他们若在经历这样的过程后,会再次寻求神。因为生命经历过失败或苦况的人,能够真正了解神对生命的意义与不可或缺。以色列百姓是仰赖神恩典得蒙拯救的民族,尽管他们仍会忘恩负义。但神却满有慈爱,不计算他们的罪恶,等待他们回转。所以要记住,没有比回转到耶和华面前、每天聆听神的话语而得着更大的福气了。求主使我们把眼目单单仰望耶和华,成为完全敬拜神的百姓。
 

内室祷告

求神使我专心倾听神的话语,一生在祢面前寻求。

 

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