Jul 24【每日活水】拯救群体的代祷者

 

以赛亚书64:1~12

愿你裂天而降;
愿山在你面前震动-
好像火烧干柴,
又像火将水烧开,
使你敌人知道你的名,
使列国在你面前发颤!
你曾行我们不能逆料可畏的事。
那时你降临,山岭在你面前震动。
从古以来,人未曾听见、未曾耳闻、未曾眼见
在你以外有什么 SHEN 为等候他的人行事。
你迎接那欢喜行义、记念你道的人;
你曾发怒,我们犯罪;
这景况已久,我们还能得救吗?
我们都像不洁净的人;
所有的义都像污秽的衣服。
我们都像叶子渐渐枯干;
我们的罪孽好像风把我们吹去。
并且无人求告你的名;
无人奋力抓住你。
原来你掩面不顾我们,
使我们因罪孽消化。
耶/和/华啊,现在你仍是我们的父!
我们是泥,你是窑匠;
我们都是你手的工作。
耶/和/华啊,求你不要大发震怒,
也不要永远记念罪孽。
求你垂顾我们,
我们都是你的百姓。
10  你的圣邑变为旷野。
锡安变为旷野;
耶路撒冷成为荒场。
11  我们圣洁华美的殿-
就是我们列祖赞美你的所在被火焚烧;
我们所羡慕的美地尽都荒废。
12  耶/和/华啊,有这些事,你还忍得住吗?
你仍静默使我们深受苦难吗?
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before you!
As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake before you!
For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
You come to the help of those who gladly do right,
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.
How then can we be saved?
All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
No one calls on your name
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us
and have given us over to our sins.
Yet you, Lord, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.
10  Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
11  Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
12  After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?
Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
 

内容观察

1.以赛亚如何描述以色列人犯罪后的样子?(6-7a节)

2.以色列人的犯罪招致了怎样的结果?(7b,10-11节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.以赛亚在为以色列人向 SHEN 作悔罪的祈祷时,为什么是以“我们”作主词来表达?
 

个人感受

4.看到以赛亚为着以色列人的罪向 SHEN dao告时,就像是悔改自己的罪一样,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾为了群体,代表他人的过犯向 SHEN 悔改?

6.为了透过代祷来拯救我所属的群体,我决定要怎么做?

灵/修指南

以赛亚承认以色列人的罪恶和堕落,并恳求 SHEN 的饶恕。他说 SHEN 的百姓就像是不洁净的人,他们的所作所为在 SHEN 眼中都像是污秽的衣服(6节),然而,他们当中没有人求告 SHEN 的名,也没有人奋力抓住 SHEN (7节)。因为以色列人犯罪, SHEN 掩面不听他们,于是他们也放弃寻求 SHEN ,陷人更深的罪恶,最终灭亡。耶路撒冷变为旷野和废墟,就连敬/拜 SHEN 的圣殿也被火焚烧,成为荒芜。以赛亚希望打破这种罪的恶性循环,于是他为了百姓的罪悔改,并恳求 SHEN 的介入,求 SHEN 赐下怜悯。以赛亚知道唯有 SHEN 有能力施行怜悯和恩典,因此他dao告祈求 SHEN 裂天而降,让所有的敌人都知道 SHEN 的名,都在 SHEN 面前发颤(1~2节)。愿我们成为像以赛亚一样的代祷者,透过悔改来拯救我们所属的群体,也为陷入罪恶之中的国家和民族祈求 SHEN 的饶恕和拯救。
 

内室dao告

愿我以群体的罪为我的罪,并向 SHEN 献上悔改的dao告。

 

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