箴言29:22 好气的人挑起争端，暴怒的人多多犯罪。
阅读经文：箴言 29:22
22好气的人挑起争端，暴怒的人多多犯罪。
有一个显而易见的事实：不是你学会控制你的脾气，就是任凭你的脾气控制你。有多少人在关键时刻本应保持沉默，然而却情绪失控，勃然大怒，过后又后悔不当初。
我们都知道愤怒是一种非常强烈的情绪。它既可以表现美善也可以表现罪恶。愤怒，并不总是错的，比如我们知道愤怒是上帝的属性之一，你是否知道《圣经》中记载了一百多次上帝的愤怒？我们确信上帝绝对不会犯罪，虽然圣经一再讲到他对罪和悖逆的愤怒，我们也懂得在某些时候愤怒是正当甚至是公义的。〈以弗所书〉4:26“生气却不要犯罪。”
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Daniel 10:1-21. Let’s go!
Daniel 10:1-3 (NIV)
1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war. The understanding of the message came to him in a vision.
2 At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.
3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
On verses 1-3: The third year of Cyrus king of Persia would be approximately 536 B.C. By this point, it would have been about a couple years since King Cyrus first started allowing Jewish exiles, starting with Ezra and other Jews, to return to Jerusalem. For some reason, Daniel didn’t go back, maybe because Daniel was now an old man (about 85 years old) or maybe because he thought he would be of better service by staying.
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Daniel 9:15-27. Let’s go!
Daniel 9:15-18 (NIV)
15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong.
16 O Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our fathers have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.
17 “Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, O Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary.
18 Give ear, O God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.
On verses 15-18: Why is Daniel not afraid to bring His requests before God? It’s because though Daniel is acutely aware of God’s holiness as well as his and his people’s sin, Daniel also knows that God is full of mercy. I love Daniel’s statement in verse 18: “We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.”
箴言29:21 人将仆人从小娇养，这仆人终久必成了他的儿子。
阅读经文：箴言 29:21
21人将仆人从小娇养，这仆人终久必成了他的儿子。
在旧约和新约时代里，奴隶制度是一直存在的社会结构。作者在这里阐明主仆应有的界限。例如在第19节里说：“只用言语，仆人不肯受管教，他虽然明白，也不留意”。仆人的职份原是听命于主人，按著主人的命令去行事；倘若一个仆人不肯听命，处处违抗主人的命令，甚至辖制主人。这样的仆人就成了主人的祸患。
保罗在〈以弗所书〉六章5-9节里说：“你们做仆人的，要惧怕战兢，用诚实的心听从你们肉身的主人，好像听从基督一般。不要只在眼前侍奉，像是讨人喜欢的，要像基督的仆人，从心里遵行神的旨意，甘心侍奉，好像服侍主，不像服侍人。因为晓得各人所行的善事，不论是为奴的，是自主的，都必按所行的得主的赏赐。你们做主人的，待仆人也是一理，不要威吓他们。因为知道，他们和你们同有一位主在天上，祂并不偏待人”。
箴言29:20 你见言语急躁的人吗？愚昧人比他更有指望。
阅读经文：箴言 29:20
20你见言语急躁的人吗？愚昧人比他更有指望。
行事急燥的都必缺乏
有一次某政党提名县市议员候选人的前夕，某有意参选者不知从何处得到消息，说他未被提名，极为生气，于是召开记者会，声明退出该党，并当众撕毁党证。但次日发现他的名字仍在被提名名单中，未被提名的消息是错误的。这下子麻烦大了，真是后悔，如果能稍等一下，在次日名单发表后，如确未被提名，再召开记者会亦不迟嘛。
圣经箴言书说：「你见言语急躁的人么，愚昧人比他更有指望。」意思是说，言语急躁的人比愚昧的人还不如。言语急躁的人，常常语急不能清楚传达意思；语急思考时间不够，易生错误，说错话收不回来；语急态度就差，容易产生误会。这些都会造成沟通不良，常会惹出许多不必要的困扰。说错一句有时会难过一辈子，往往花千百倍的口舌，都不能收回一句令人伤心的话，所谓祸从口出就是这个意思。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Daniel 9:1-14. Let’s go!
Daniel 9:1-2 (NIV)
1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom–
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
On verses 1-2: Daniel had been reading the book of Jeremiah where Jeremiah predicts that the Jews of Jerusalem would be exiles and would only return to Jerusalem after 70 years. See Jeremiah 25:11-12 and 29:10. Jeremiah had given this prophecy found in Jeremiah 25:11-12 back in approximately 605 B.C. when Daniel would still have been a teenager. Cyrus, king of Persia, would let the Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem in 538/537 B.C., which is approximately 68 years later. How remarkable it is that Jeremiah’s prophecy was right.
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Daniel 8:15-27. Let’s go!
Daniel 8:15-27 (NIV)
15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man.
16 And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”
17 As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
18 While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.
19 He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.
20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
On verses 15-27: Yesterday in discussing verses 1-14 we addressed the meaning of the visions that Daniel had seen about the two-horned ram, the shaggy goat, the large horn on the goat’s head as well as the little horn that would later rise up in power. What strikes me here is WHO tells Daniel the meaning of these visions. It was the angel Gabriel, who goes to Daniel, at the instructions of a voice from the Ulai River (presumably, the voice of the LORD).
箴言29:18 没有异象，民就放肆；唯遵守律法的，便为有福。
阅读经文：箴言 29:18-19
18没有异象，民就放肆；唯遵守律法的，便为有福。19只用言语，仆人不肯受管教，他虽然明白也不留意。
异象与使命
「没有异象，民就放肆。」(箴言二十九：18)
「异象」是看见的意思，「放肆」是军事用词，表示作战时军队松懈、管理一盘散沙，容易在危险中暴露行踪。
领袖若没有美好的看见，没有到道德的持守，没有做事的原则，百姓就会乱，会悖逆、会叛变。单单给予太多的自由，百姓将是无所适从。没有要求，就没有跟从。 太多的意见，就没有看法。没有选择的法则，选择将是虚掷。讲一切都是相对，是拒绝真理的教导。若没有好的看见，任何团体、组织、学校、班级、公司、家庭， 都会放肆。
放肆之时，不要责怪领袖，自己要为自己的行为负责。因此，我们需要读圣经。求主耶稣给我们亮光，明白祂的旨意。否则我们的思想、行为、话语、决定也会放肆、茫无所从。就像一个人在踩油门、开快车，却不知道要往哪里去。或像荒野上的小草，风往哪里吹，就向那边倒。
不要把年轻的日子，交给放肆，回头一场乱。交给上帝，按真理而行。在教会里学习与人配搭，在社会里努力尽职，在家里有见证。我们至今仍坚持真理，期待不让放肆来掌权。
箴言29:15 杖打和责备能加增智慧，放纵的儿子使母亲羞愧。
阅读经文：箴言 29:14-17
14君王凭诚实判断穷人，他的国位必永远坚立。15杖打和责备能加增智慧，放纵的儿子使母亲羞愧。16恶人加多，过犯也加多，义人必看见他们跌倒。17管教你的儿子，他就使你得安息，也必使你心里喜乐。
上帝要我们体罚孩子吗？
「杖打和责备，能加增智慧。」(箴言二十九：15)。
上帝教导我们，要用智慧引导孩子，使他们有智慧。有些孩子缺乏认识智慧的智慧，就用责备，使他们归向智慧。有些顽强的孩子，听不懂责备，就用责打，使他们知道错。
上帝不是要我们用体罚教导孩子，体罚的目的不在发泄自己的怒气，不是打了的孩子才会乖，不是用打使孩子就范，不是用打加强孩子的记忆，而是使孩子的智慧增加。所以杖打不在伤害孩子，之后是要解释，并给孩子再思的空间，等待孩子智慧生长的时间。
我们在怒气之下，就没有教育孩子的权力。上帝要我们知道，关键不在体罚，而是有智慧的教导孩子，才使孩子有智慧。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Daniel 8:1-14. Let’s go!
Daniel 8:1-8 (NIV)
1 In the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me.
2 In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.
3 I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later.
4 I watched the ram as he charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and none could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
On verses 1-8: While King Belshazzar was still king of the Babylonians, Daniel receives another vision, this time of an aggressive two-horned ram (representing two kings of Medo-Persia – v20) who is defeated by a large-horned goat (representing Greece – v21). Some scholars equate the large horn with Alexander the Great.
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