Apr 05【每日活水】以信仰的角度来看待挑战

 

撒母耳记上17:12~27

大卫在扫罗的营中
12  大卫犹大伯利恒以法他耶西的儿子。耶西有八个儿子。当扫罗的时候,耶西已经老迈。 
13  耶西的三个大儿子跟随扫罗出征。这出征的三个儿子:长子名叫以利押,次子名叫亚比拿达,三子名叫沙玛。 
14  大卫是最小的;那三个大儿子跟随扫罗。 
15  大卫有时离开扫罗,回伯利恒放他父亲的羊。 
16  非利士人早晚都出来站着,如此四十日。
17  一日,耶西对他儿子大卫说:「你拿一伊法烘了的穗子和十个饼,速速地送到营里去,交给你哥哥们; 
18  再拿这十块奶饼,送给他们的千夫长,且问你哥哥们好,向他们要一封信来。」 
19  扫罗大卫的三个哥哥和以色列众人,在以拉谷非利士人打仗。 
20  大卫早晨起来,将羊交托一个看守的人,照着他父亲所吩咐的话,带着食物去了。到了辎重营,军兵刚出到战场,呐喊要战。 
21  以色列人和非利士人都摆列队伍,彼此相对。 
22  大卫把他带来的食物留在看守物件人的手下,跑到战场,问他哥哥们安。 
23  与他们说话的时候,那讨战的,就是属迦特非利士歌利亚,从非利士队中出来,说从前所说的话;大卫都听见了。
24以色列众人看见那人,就逃跑,极其害怕。 
25  以色列人彼此说:「这上来的人你看见了吗?他上来是要向以色列人骂阵。若有能杀他的,王必赏赐他大财,将自己的女儿给他为妻,并在以色列人中免他父家纳粮当差。」 
26  大卫问站在旁边的人说:「有人杀这非利士人,除掉以色列人的耻辱,怎样待他呢?这未受割礼的非利士人是谁呢?竟敢向永生 神的军队骂阵吗?」 
27  百姓照先前的话回答他说:「有人能杀这非利士人,必如此如此待他。」
12  Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old. 
13  Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. 
14  David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, 
15  but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
16  For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
17  Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. 
18  Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them. 
19  They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”
20  Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 
21  Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. 
22  David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. 
23  As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 
24  Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.
25  Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”
26  David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
27  They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
 

内容观察

1.耶西吩咐大卫什么事情?(17~I8节)

2.杀掉歌利亚的人将会得到什么奖赏?(25节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.纵然能得到极丰厚的奖赏,仍没有人出来除掉歌利亚的原因为何?
 

个人感受

4.看到大卫不在意丰厚的奖赏,而是在意神的军队竟遭敌人藐视,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾在面对危机时,凭借信心的勇气获得好结果?

6.为了活出信靠至高神之人的样式,我今天决定怎么做?

灵修指南

大卫是耶西的儿子中年纪最小的一个,而他最年长的三个哥哥都在扫罗的军队之中(13-14节)。耶西为确认身在军中的三个儿子是否平安,便派大卫送食物去探视他们(17~18节)。当时。以色列人与非利士人在以拉谷对峙,且战况对以色列人不利。歌利亚已经向以色列人叫阵四十日,但以色列人仍旧毫无对策。尽管扫罗王许诺,除掉歌利亚的人将会获得令人称羡、极丰厚的奖赏,仍没有人愿意出来应战(25 节)。大卫从旁人口中听到这消息时,丰厚的奖赏并不使他感兴趣,他在意的是神的军队竟遭敌人藐视、羞辱,并因此感到不平。当其他人都因歌利亚而瑟瑟发抖时,只有大卫意识到这是一场属神的战争(26节)。信徒面对世间的困难与挑战时,必须懂得以信仰的角度来看待,而至高的神会帮助我们在这样的景况中荣耀祂的名。
 

内室祷告

愿我懂得以信仰的角度来看待困难与挑战,并倚靠至高神来获得胜利。

 

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