Feb02【每日活水】关心、恩待 SHEN 托付我的邻人

 

路得记1:6~14

拿俄米和路得回伯利恒
6 她就与两个儿妇起身,要从摩押地归回,因为她在摩押地听见耶/和/华眷顾自己的百姓,赐粮食与他们。
7 于是她和两个儿妇起行离开所住的地方,要回犹大地去。
8 拿俄米对两个儿妇说:「你们各人回娘家去吧。愿耶/和/华恩待你们,像你们恩待已死的人与我一样!
9 愿耶/和/华使你们各在新夫家中得平安!」于是拿俄米与她们亲嘴。她们就放声而哭,
10 说:「不然,我们必与你一同回你本国去。」
11 拿俄米说:「我女儿们哪,回去吧!为何要跟我去呢?我还能生子作你们的丈夫吗?
12 我女儿们哪,回去吧!我年纪老迈,不能再有丈夫;即或说,我还有指望,今夜有丈夫可以生子,
13 你们岂能等着他们长大呢?你们岂能等着他们不嫁别人呢?我女儿们哪,不要这样。我为你们的缘故甚是愁苦,因为耶/和/华伸手攻击我。」
14 两个儿妇又放声而哭,俄珥巴与婆婆亲嘴而别,只是路得舍不得拿俄米
Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem

6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

7 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.

8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me.
9 May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud
10 and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”
11 But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?
12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—
13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”
14 At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. 
 

内容观察

1.拿娥米离开摩押地,返回犹大的理由为何?(6节)

2.拿娥米如何劝说紧跟着她的儿媳们回娘家去?(11~13节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.拿娥米屡次对两个媳妇说,要他们回到娘家去的理由为何?
 

个人感受

4.看到为了媳妇们的幸福,不断劝说他们返回娘家的拿娥米,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我曾因着自己的利益,而没有为其着想的人是谁?

6.为了按 SHEN 的心意用爱来关心需要帮助和鼓励的人,我决心要怎么做?

 
愿耶/和/华恩待你们,像你们待已故的人和我一样(8 节):可见两个媳妇对丈夫和婆婆都很好。紧跟着拿娥米(14节):希伯来文作“紧抓着她不放”,路得用行动展现对拿娥米的爱与忠诚。

灵/修指南

在失去了一切之后,拿娥米听说 SHEN 赐粮食给以色列人,因此决定要返回犹大地。拿娥米在绝望的处境中仍没有放弃生命,主动寻求 God 的恩典。离开摩押地时,拿娥米劝说两个媳妇返回娘家,因为拿娥米认为让她们留在摩押地另组家庭,对两个媳妇来说是最好的决定。然而,两个媳妇却在拿娥米面前放声大哭,说要跟她一起回到以色列人当中。从这样的场面可以看出,她们是真心相爱的一家人。最后,拿娥米说之以理,要媳妇们看清此刻的现实,好不容易才说服了俄耳巴离开,但路得仍不愿离去,依然紧紧跟着拿娥米 (11~14节)。老实说,如果媳妇们全都离开,拿娥米的处境必定更加孤独和绝望,但她没有为了自己的利益而忽视媳妇们的福祉,仍为着她们着想。愿我们谨记,为着他人着想,甘心付出、牺牲,是实践爱的最佳方式,也是 JI DU 曾为我们所做、并要我们效法的榜样。
 

内室祷/告

愿我为着他人着想,甘心付出、牺牲,以此活出 YS JI DU 爱的样式。

 

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