認識屬靈爭戰(二):生活的難處 (卓爾君牧師)

12 Sep

認識屬靈爭戰(二):生活的難處 (卓爾君牧師)

基督徒在不同的信仰階段會面臨不同的挑戰,有經驗的基督徒也許很快可以處理很多的問題,很快地完成很多出色精彩的事奉,但也因為這樣,經驗很容易會成為基督徒的偶像,我們很習慣用經驗去取代敬拜神的態度。有時候經驗也會成為一道厚實的隔音牆,使有經驗的基督徒會聽不見或拒絕別人的建議而固執己見。而剛剛信主或者剛剛事奉的基督徒通常不會有這樣的問題,但是會面臨另外一種挑戰,遇到困難可能就退縮了。困難的環境也可能會消磨我們跟隨主的熱情,逐漸冷淡、黯然退場。



你或許會覺得魔鬼的勢力猖狂、等著你的失敗,但是不要忘記,我們的神永遠高於魔鬼,要相信神的作為,就像對亞伯蘭一樣,祂要透過你給這個世界祝福,你的身分超過這個世界,因為你是神的兒女。


 創世記 12:1-20 (和合本)

  1. 耶和華對亞伯蘭說:你要離開本地、本族、父家,往我所要指示你的地去。
  2. 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你,叫你的名為大;你也要叫別人得福。
  3. 為你祝福的,我必賜福與他;那咒詛你的,我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。
  4. 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了;羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。
  5. 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得,連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口,都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。
  6. 亞伯蘭經過那地,到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裡。那時迦南人住在那地。
  7. 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現,說:我要把這地賜給你的後裔。亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。
  8. 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山,支搭帳棚;西邊是伯特利,東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇,求告耶和華的名。
  9. 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。
  10. 那地遭遇饑荒。因饑荒甚大,亞伯蘭就下埃及去,要在那裡暫居。
  11. 將近埃及,就對他妻子撒萊說:我知道你是容貌俊美的婦人。
  12. 埃及人看見你必說:這是他的妻子,他們就要殺我,卻叫你存活。
  13. 求你說,你是我的妹子,使我因你得平安,我的命也因你存活。
  14. 及至亞伯蘭到了埃及,埃及人看見那婦人極其美貌。
  15. 法老的臣宰看見了他,就在法老面前誇獎他。那婦人就被帶進法老的宮去。
  16. 法老因這婦人就厚待亞伯蘭,亞伯蘭得了許多牛、羊、駱駝、公驢、母驢、僕婢。
  17. 耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故,降大災與法老和他的全家。
  18. 法老就召了亞伯蘭來,說:你這向我作的是甚麼事呢?為甚麼沒有告訴我他是你的妻子?
  19. 為甚麼說他是你的妹子,以致我把他取來要作我的妻子?現在你的妻子在這裡,可以帶他走罷。
  20. 於是法老吩咐人將亞伯蘭和他妻子,並他所有的都送走了。
Genesis 12:1-20 (NIV)

  1.  The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
  2. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
  3.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
  4. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
  5. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
  6. Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
  7. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  8. From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
  9. Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
  10. Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
  11. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
  12. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
  13. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
  14. When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
  15. And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.
  16. He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
  17. But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
  18. So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
  19. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
  20. Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.