渴慕上帝的律法Longing for God’s Law
[每日靈修]11/24/2018,
駱鴻銘編譯
小喬治•蓋洛普（George Gallup Jr.）的一項調查揭露了我們文化的一個驚人趨勢。根據蓋洛普的調查，證據似乎表明，在我們的社會中沒有明確的行為模式可以區分誰是基督徒、誰是非基督徒。我們似乎都被同樣的聲音所吸引，都在當代文化不斷變化的標準中尋找可接受之行為的基礎。其他人在做什麼，似乎是我們唯一的道德規範。
這種模式只能出現在上帝的律法黯然失色的社會或教會中。在我們福音派的圈子裏，「律法」這個詞聽起來並不順耳。
我們來作個實驗。請閱讀詩篇一一九篇中伴隨著這種信念的段落。嘗試進入作者的內心世界，與他感同身受。試著感受幾千年前他寫這些詩句時的心情。
這聽起來像是個現代基督徒嗎？我們是否聽見人們談到對上帝的律法充滿熱情？我們是否聽見我們的朋友表達對上帝誡命的欣喜和愉悅嗎？
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
你是否熱切渴望上帝的律法？你是否對祂的誡命表達欣喜和愉悅？
進一步研讀：
詩一一九97 我何等愛慕你的律法，終日不住地思想。
詩一一九11～12 我將你的話藏在心裡，免得我得罪你。耶和華啊，你是應當稱頌的！求你將你的律例教訓我！
詩一一九131 我張口而氣喘，因我切慕你的命令。
Longing
for God’s Law
A
survey by George Gallup Jr. revealed a startling trend in our culture.
According to Gallup, the evidence seems to indicate that there are no clear
behavioral patterns that distinguish Christians from non-Christians in our
society. We all seem to be marching to the same drummer, looking to the
shifting standards of contemporary culture for the basis of what is acceptable
conduct. What everybody else is doing seems to be our only ethical norm.
This
pattern can emerge only in a society or a church wherein the law of God is
eclipsed. The very word law seems to have an unpleasant ring to it in our
evangelical circles.
Let’s
try an experiment. Read the passages from Psalm 119 that accompany this
devotion. Try to crawl into the skin of the writer and experience empathy. Try
to feel what he felt when he wrote these lines thousands of years ago.
Does
this sound like a modern Christian? Do we hear people talk about longing
passionately for the law of God? Do we hear our friends expressing joy and delight
in God’s commandments?
Coram
Deo
Do
you long passionately for God’s law? Do you express joy and delight in His
commandments?
Passages
for Further Study
Psalm
119:97
Psalm
119:11–12
Psalm
119:131