看不到目标比死还可怕

希伯来书9:27-28  按着定命,人人都有一死,死后且有审判; 28 像这样,基督既然一次被献,担当了多人的罪,将来要向那等候他的人第二次显现,并与罪无关,乃是为拯救他们。

有一位军阀每次处决死刑犯时,都会留给犯人最后的机会,选择一枪毙命,或是选择进入侧墙的一扇门。从来没有人知道进入那扇门的命运将如何?因为所有死刑犯都宁可选择一枪毙命,也不愿进入里面不知有何光景的那扇门。

一天,酒酣耳热后,军阀显得很开心。旁人大胆地问他:「大帅,您可不可以告诉我们,从那扇门走进去究竟会有什么结果?」

「没什么啦!其实走进那扇门的人只要踏上几个台阶,便可以顺利地自由离开了。人们不想走进去,只是不敢面对不可知的未来罢了。」军阀回答。

世人大多知道善有善报、恶有恶报,世上宗教也都有提到最后的审判;但是,世人面对死亡时,往往就只知道仅有一条路,有如死刑犯选择一枪毙命,而不愿意选择进入未知的那扇门,因为不清楚目标比死亡还可怕。

This Is For You to Pick Up

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 2:13-25.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Kings 2:13-14 (NIV) 
13 He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 

On verse 13:  From their earliest interactions with one another, it was always Elijah’s intent to give Elisha his cloak, that is, his mantle as Israel’s prophet (see 1 Kings 19:19).  And now as Elijah is taken up to heaven, the cloak falls back on earth for Elisha to pick up.  It’s because his cloak fell that Elisha had assurance that Elijah had not been taken to some other place on earth but had gone to heaven.  That’s because Elijah’s cloak represented Elijah’s calling, anointing and gifting.  The fact that it fell back down to earth for Elisha to pick up shows two simultaneously: first, Elijah had finished his task on earth and, second, it was Elisha’s turn to be Israel’s prophet.