Jun 08【每日活水】回转归向帮助我们的 SHEN

 

以赛亚书42:14~25

SHEN 应许帮助他的子民
14 我许久闭口不言,静默不语;
现在我要喊叫,像产难的妇人;
我要急气而喘哮。
15 我要使大山小冈变为荒场,
使其上的花草都枯干;
我要使江河变为洲岛,
使水池都干涸。
16 我要引瞎子行不认识的道,
领他们走不知道的路;
在他们面前使黑暗变为光明,
使弯曲变为平直。
这些事我都要行,
并不离弃他们。
17 倚靠雕刻的偶像,
对铸造的偶像说:
你是我们的 SHEN ;
这等人要退后,全然蒙羞。
以色列人不受教益
18 你们这耳聋的,听吧!
你们这眼瞎的,看吧!
使你们能看见。
19 谁比我的仆人眼瞎呢?
谁比我差遣的使者耳聋呢?
谁瞎眼像那与我和好的?
谁瞎眼像耶/和/华的仆人呢?
20 你看见许多事却不领会,
耳朵开通却不听见。
21 耶/和/华因自己公义的缘故,
喜欢使律/法为大,为尊。
22 但这百姓是被抢被夺的,
都牢笼在坑中,隐藏在狱里;
他们作掠物,无人拯救,
作掳物,无人说交还。
23 你们中间谁肯侧耳听此,
谁肯留心而听,以防将来呢?
24 谁将雅各交出当作掳物,
以色列交给抢夺的呢?
岂不是耶/和/华吗?
就是我们所得罪的那位。
他们不肯遵行他的道,
也不听从他的训诲。
25 所以,他将猛烈的怒气和争战的勇力
倾倒在以色列的身上。
在他四围如火着起,他还不知道,
烧着他,他也不介意。
14 “For a long time I have kept silent,
I have been quiet and held myself back.
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
I cry out, I gasp and pant.
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up the pools.
16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them
and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do;
I will not forsake them.
17 But those who trust in idols,
who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’
will be turned back in utter shame.
Israel Blind and Deaf
18 “Hear, you deaf;
look, you blind, and see!
19 Who is blind but my servant,
and deaf like the messenger I send?
Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,
blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;
your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 It pleased the Lord
for the sake of his righteousness
to make his law great and glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in pits
or hidden away in prisons.
They have become plunder,
with no one to rescue them;
they have been made loot,
with no one to say, “Send them back.”
23 Which of you will listen to this
or pay close attention in time to come?
24 Who handed Jacob over to become loot,
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord,
against whom we have sinned?
For they would not follow his ways;
they did not obey his law.
25 So he poured out on them his burning anger,
the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand;
it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
 

内容观察

1.以赛亚将以色列人比作什么? (18节)

2.以色列人知道自己得罪 SHEN 之后,作何反应?(24—25 节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.为什么 SHEN 临到以色列时,会像临产的妇人一样呼吸急促而喘气?
 

个人感受

4.看到 SHEN 因为爱 TA 的子民而管教他们,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我最近在哪些事上受到 SHEN 的管教?

6.为了侧耳倾听 SHEN 的话,回转归向帮助我的 SHEN ,我决定要怎么做?

灵/修指南

SHEN 将以色列人比作“耳聋的”、“眼瞎的”(18节),因为 SHEN 就像临产的妇人一样喊叫,他们却毫无反应。以色列人本是蒙 SHEN 拣选的“ SHEN 的仆人”、“使者”、“献身给 SHEN 的人” (19节),然而他们却离弃 SHEN ,走上拜偶像的道路,因而蒙受羞辱,遭到外邦人的掠夺、俘虏和囚禁。但另一方面,以色列人虽然知道自己在 SHEN 面前犯了罪,也知道 SHEN 在管教他们,却仍然一意孤行,不顺服 SHEN ,也不在意 TA (24—25节)。因此, SHEN 将火焰般的烈怒倾倒在以色列人身上,以管教来使 TA 的百姓回转,这是 SHEN 对 TA 子民的爱的表达。如果我们正在生活中经历 SHEN 的管教,盼望我们都能明白这是 SHEN 对我们殷切的呼唤,以致能够回转归向 TA 。
 

内室dao告

愿我快快回转归向 SHEN ,明白 SHEN 的管教是对我爱的呼唤。

 

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