Apr 16【每日活水】常常祷告 不可灰心

 

路加福音18:1~8

寡妇和法官的比喻
1耶稣设一个比喻,是要人常常祷告,不可灰心。 
2说:「某城里有一个官,不惧怕 神,也不尊重世人。 
3那城里有个寡妇,常到他那里,说:『我有一个对头,求你给我伸冤。』 
4他多日不准,后来心里说:『我虽不惧怕 神,也不尊重世人, 
5只因这寡妇烦扰我,我就给她伸冤吧,免得她常来缠磨我!』」 
6主说:「你们听这不义之官所说的话。 
7  神的选民昼夜呼吁他,他纵然为他们忍了多时,岂不终久给他们伸冤吗? 
8我告诉你们,要快快地给他们伸冤了。然而,人子来的时候,遇得见世上有信德吗?」
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 
2He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.
3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,
5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ”
6And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.
7And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
8I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
 

内容观察

1.耶稣对门徒说比喻的目的是什么?(1节)
2.耶稣透过寡妇和法官的比喻教导门徒什么?(6—7节)
 

思考与默想

 

3.耶稣为什么要门徒常常祷告,不可灰心?
 

个人感受

4.看到耶稣要我们常常祷告,不可灰心,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾因为祷告未蒙应允而放弃祷告,并且灰心失望?

6.为了在生活中常常祷告,用祷告胜过灰心失望,我决定要怎么做?

灵修指南

耶稣用寡妇和法官的比喻教导门徒要常常祷告,不可灰心。法官的职责本应是做出公平公正的裁决,然而比喻中的法官却是个不义的法官,既不惧怕神,也不尊重人。结果这样的一位法官遇到了一个在社会上被欺压的寡妇,她常到他那里,要求为她伸冤。法官很久都没有受理寡妇的请求,却因为受不了寡妇的纠缠,最终受理了她的请求,为她伸冤。耶稣反问道,不义的法官尚且答应寡妇的请求,公义良善的神又岂会延迟给自己的选民伸冤呢?耶稣说这话,不单单是说我们要坚持祷告,不可灰心,而是说信的人要用祷告胜过灰心。然而,随着主再来的日子临近,带着如此信心祷告的人愈来愈少。请铭记,没有祷告不蒙垂听,靠着祷告,我们能够胜过灰心。盼望我们今天也倚靠时时垂听我们祷告的主耶稣,来到祂的面前,屈膝祷告,忍耐等候。
 

内室祷告

愿我以信心常常祷告,用祷告胜过灰心,并忍耐等候神的应允。

 

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