成為挪亞或是成為? (張仕儒牧師)
上週卓牧師用挪亞的故事告訴我們,在世上我們或許有很多追求,但是神真正的心意要我們做一個屬於祂的人,我們今天要繼續往下面看,看看挪亞在回應主的呼召之後,他會面對什麼樣的事情,他又怎樣活出神對他的恩召。有時候我們會看到新聞中的報導,種種的社會、治安、政治等的敗壞,但是在今天的經文中,我們看到原來世界的敗壞早在挪亞的時代就已經有了,難免會問,為什麼神的公義會允許這些不公義的事情發生呢?因為人的盡頭尚未來到,神的心意並不是要消滅世界,而是希望跟人有美好的親密關係。我們必須抓住機會,去做神要我們做的事情。
我們都有神所託付的使命,都有神所賜給的能力,也都有神所安排的平台,讓我們可以活出鹽和光的生命來,但是如果我們不讀經、不禱告,不去聆聽神要告訴我們的話,我們就無法與神連結,無法享受與主的連結。
創世記 6:11-22 (和合本)
- 世界在神面前敗壞,地上滿了強暴。
- 神觀看世界,見是敗壞了,凡有血氣的人,在地上都敗壞了行為。
神命挪亞造方舟- 神就對挪亞說:「凡有血氣的人,他的盡頭已經來到我面前,因為地上滿了他們的強暴。我要把他們和地一併毀滅。
- 你要用歌斐木造一隻方舟,分一間一間地造,裡外抹上松香。
- 方舟的造法乃是這樣:要長三百肘,寬五十肘,高三十肘。
- 方舟上邊要留透光處,高一肘。方舟的門要開在旁邊。方舟要分上、中、下三層。
- 看哪,我要使洪水氾濫在地上,毀滅天下,凡地上有血肉、有氣息的活物,無一不死。
- 我卻要與你立約,你同你的妻,與兒子、兒婦,都要進入方舟。
- 凡有血肉的活物,每樣兩個,一公一母,你要帶進方舟,好在你那裡保全生命。
- 飛鳥各從其類,牲畜各從其類,地上的昆蟲各從其類,每樣兩個,要到你那裡,好保全生命。
- 你要拿各樣食物積蓄起來,好做你和牠們的食物。」
- 挪亞就這樣行。凡神所吩咐的,他都照樣行了。
Genesis 6:11-22 (NIV)
- Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
- God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
- So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
- So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
- This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
- Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
- I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
- But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
- You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
- Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
- You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
- Noah did everything just as God commanded him.