Sep 10【每日活水】神赐使命,也赐能力

 

出埃及记 4:1~17

神赐摩西行神迹的权能
1 摩西回答说:「他们必不信我,也不听我的话,必说:『耶和华并没有向你显现。』」
2 耶和华对摩西说:「你手里是什么?」他说:「是杖。」
3 耶和华说:「丢在地上。」他一丢下去,就变作蛇;摩西便跑开。
4 耶和华对摩西说:「伸出手来,拿住它的尾巴,它必在你手中仍变为杖;
5 如此好叫他们信耶和华-他们祖宗的 神,就是亚伯拉罕的 神,以撒的 神,雅各的 神,是向你显现了。」
6耶和华又对他说:「把手放在怀里。」他就把手放在怀里,及至抽出来,不料,手长了大麻风,有雪那样白。
7 耶和华说:「再把手放在怀里。」他就再把手放在怀里,及至从怀里抽出来,不料,手已经复原,与周身的肉一样;
8 又说:「倘或他们不听你的话,也不信头一个神迹,他们必信第二个神迹。
9 这两个神迹若都不信,也不听你的话,你就从河里取些水,倒在旱地上,你从河里取的水必在旱地上变作血。」
10 摩西对耶和华说:「主啊,我素日不是能言的人,就是从你对仆人说话以后,也是这样。我本是拙口笨舌的。」
11 耶和华对他说:「谁造人的口呢?谁使人口哑、耳聋、目明、眼瞎呢?岂不是我-耶和华吗?
12 现在去吧,我必赐你口才,指教你所当说的话。」
13 摩西说:「主啊,你愿意打发谁,就打发谁去吧!」
14 耶和华向摩西发怒说:「不是有你的哥哥利未人亚伦吗?我知道他是能言的;现在他出来迎接你,他一见你,心里就欢喜。
15 你要将当说的话传给他;我也要赐你和他口才,又要指教你们所当行的事。
16 他要替你对百姓说话;你要以他当作口,他要以你当作 神。
17 你手里要拿这杖,好行神迹。」
Signs for Moses
1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
5 “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
6 Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
8 Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.
9 But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”
10 Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
13 But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”
14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.
15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.
16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.
17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”
 

内容观察

1.神在摩西眼前显了哪两个神迹?(2~3,6~7节)

2.当摩西看到神所显的神迹,他有何反应?(10节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.摩西看见了神施行的神迹,却依旧犹豫、推脱的原因是什么?
 

个人感受

4.虽然摩西在神的呼召面前犹豫不决,又找借口推辞,神却仍然耐心引导他,对此我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾找借口推脱家庭、职场或教会的需要?

6.为了信靠神的应许和能力,勇敢回应神的呼召,我决定要怎么做?

伸出手来,拿住它的尾巴(4节):一般来说,要抓住蛇的脖子才不会被咬到,神却吩咐摩西拿住蛇的尾巴,这是为了试验他是否顺从神、对神有信心。
你要借着谁的手,就差派谁去吧(13节):字面上的意思是指“差派有能力的人去担当使命”。你要当他的神(16节):如同先知只传讲神所指示的事项,亚伦也只传讲摩西所指示的事项。

灵修指南

摩西在神的呼召面前犹豫不决,于是神向他显了两个神迹。第一个神迹是让摩西的杖变成蛇,又变回为杖(3节),这个杖后来也让红海分开(17节)。第二个神迹是让摩西的手长出麻疯,后来又复原(6节)。并且神还应许了第三个神迹,就是让尼罗河的水倒在干地上变成血(9节)。神向摩西显出这些神迹,除了是要让他对带领以色列人出埃及怀抱坚定的意志和足够的勇气,也表明了神对祂百姓的慈爱和信实。然而,摩西以自己拙口笨舌,能力不足为理由,拒绝了神的呼召(10~13节);尽管如此,神指示要让摩西的哥哥亚伦作他的代言人,借此终于说服了摩西(12,14~15节)。盼望我们不找借口推托神所托付的使命,而是信靠祂并靠着祂所赐的能力来担当使命。
 

内室祷告

愿我勇于承担神所托付的使命,并且靠着祂所赐的能力来担当使命。

 

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