约翰一书 5:1 凡信耶稣是基督的，都是从神而生；凡爱生他之神的，也必爱从神生的。
哥林多后书 4:18 原来我们不是顾念所见的，乃是顾念所不见的，因为所见的是暂时的，所不见的是永远的。
约翰福音 20:29 耶稣对他说：「你因看见了我才信，那没有看见就信的有福了！」
「爱」让我们看见（经历）那不能看见的神。做在最小的弟兄身上，就是做在主身上，「爱人」可以让我们观察、体验那看不见的神；在无助、穷乏的时候，「那双看不见的手」是我们的安慰、满足，「被爱」也可以让我们观察、体验那看不见的神。
「凡信耶稣是基督的，都是从神而生，凡爱生他之神的，也必爱从神生的。（约壹5:1）」
神奇妙的恩典不仅让「看得见的」能看见「那不能看见的」，也让「看不见的」同样能看见「那不能看见的」；且让我们领受视障者的心灵分享：
多数人依赖视觉的经验习惯，或许唯有黑夜才能体会何谓「看不见」；但对一群视障者来说，却在看不见中「看见」不同黑夜的风景。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 22:11-23. 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!
For context, let’s start at verse 9.
1 Samuel 22:9-23 (NIV)
9 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
10 Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and his father’s whole family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.
On verses 9-23: To understand what led to the murder of Ahimelech the priest, his family, 84 other priests as well as the entire town of Nob, we must first go back to verses 9-10 and understand who Doeg was and his role in this situation.
On paper Doeg was Saul’s head shepherd (v7), but his real role was as Saul’s personal assassin, his “closer”. To me Doeg fits the mold of a classic James Bond henchman, a heartless killer who speaks few words and flexes a lot of muscle, a one-man wrecking crew.
罗马书 4:4-8
4 做工的得工价，不算恩典，乃是该得的。 5 唯有不做工的，只信称罪人为义的神，他的信就算为义。 6 正如大卫称那在行为以外蒙神算为义的人是有福的， 7 他说：「得赦免其过、遮盖其罪的，这人是有福的！ 8 主不算为有罪的，这人是有福的！」
在美国读书的时候，每个月倚靠指导教授给的九百美金奖学金过活，扣掉学费、房租，所剩有限，仅可维持日常生活所需。博士班第一年时，向指导教授请假返乡结婚，很意外的，指导教授欣然同意，还给了我一个一千元美金的大红包（超出我一个月的薪水）。对一个住在储藏室、睡在一张床垫的穷留学生而言，一千元美金是无以言喻的惊喜；那天晚上，睡到一半，我从床垫爬起来，兴奋的感谢神！
祂让我体会领受恩典的感觉，在我做工所得工价以外，我白白获得的额外祝福。保罗提醒我们，我们的过得赦免、罪蒙遮盖，我们是有福的！不在于我们的行为，不在于我们的服事，而是白白得来的因信称义。
约翰福音 15:13 人为朋友舍命，人的爱心没有比这个大的。
哥林多前书 13:4-7 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈，爱是不嫉妒，爱是不自夸，不张狂， 5 不做害羞的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易发怒，不计算人的恶， 6 不喜欢不义，只喜欢真理； 7 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。 8 爱是永不止息。
一位年轻弟兄分享他们小组的讨论：爱有很多种，将你想像中的爱画出来会是甚么样子呢？什么是你心目中的爱呢？对你来说甚么是爱？
小组讨论中，有几位的分享令我印象深刻。一位身心症的女孩说，爱是在黑暗中的光，因为爱，她可以站在这边跟大家分享，正常的生活。耶稣说：「我是世界的光。跟从我的，就不在黑暗里走，必要得着生命的光。」（约8:12）
另外一位女孩说爱有很多种，有许许多多的色彩，但中间都包含着神无形的爱。「爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒；爱是不自夸，不张狂，不做害羞的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易发怒…」（林前13:4-5）
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 22:1-10. 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!
1 Samuel 22:1-2 (NIV)
1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
On verses 1-2: David was at the lowest point of his life so far. His hiding in a cave symbolized the darkness, loneliness and distress David was experiencing as he ran from Saul. Yet it was in this cave that God took David’s leadership to another level, from being a military leader that led well trained soldiers who were commanded to follow him, to becoming a leader of people who were not as well trained or experienced but who wanted and chose to follow him.
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 21:1-15. 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!
1 Samuel 21:1-9 (NIV)
1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 David answered Ahimelech the priest, “The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
On verses 1-9: When David runs away from Saul, the first place David flees to is Nob, “the town of the priests” (see 1 Samuel 22:19). There David meets Ahimelek the priest, who gives David bread and a sword:
– The bread which Ahimelek gave David was known as “the bread of the presence” (or the “showbread”) and was supposed to be eaten by the priests (Leviticus 24:9). Ahimelek saw that David needed the bread more than he did, so out of compassion for David, Ahimelek gave his bread to David. In a way, this points to Jesus our high priest who saw our need and in compassion gave us what He had.
彼得前书 5:7 你们要将一切的忧虑卸给神，因为祂顾念你们。
路加福音 18:1 耶稣设一个比喻，是要人常常祷告，不可灰心。
马太福音6:32 你们需用的这一切东西，你们的天父是知道的。
「信靠耶稣真是甜美」的作者史戴德(Louis M. R. Stead, 1850-1917)出生于英国，少女时有蒙召做宣教士的心愿，期望能去中国传道，但因体弱不能成行。她21岁时迁居美国俄亥俄州，4年后结婚，育有一女莉莉。
当莉莉4岁时，那年夏天他们全家去纽约长岛海滩野餐，史戴德看着丈夫和女儿挖沙戏水，其乐融融，不禁对自己说：「我的福杯满溢，拥有虔诚的丈夫和可爱的女儿。」正在此时，她看到一个男孩在巨浪中挣扎呼救，她丈夫毫不犹豫跳下去救那男孩，可是两人不幸一同被海浪卷去，史戴德抱着女儿莉莉在海边声嘶力竭的呼唤，也无济于事，眼看着他们两人遭受灭顶之灾。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Samuel 20:24-42. 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!
1 Samuel 20:24-29 (NIV)
24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon festival came, the king sat down to eat.
25 He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan, and Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty.
26 Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean–surely he is unclean.”
27 But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
28 Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.
On verses 24-29: Here we see Jonathan protecting David as he had promised and speaking to his father on David’s behalf. Jesus does the same for us (see 1 John 2:1).
雅各书 2:15-18
15 若是弟兄或是姐妹赤身露体，又缺了日用的饮食， 16 你们中间有人对他们说「平平安安地去吧，愿你们穿得暖、吃得饱」，却不给他们身体所需用的，这有什么益处呢？ 17 这样，信心若没有行为就是死的。 18 必有人说：「你有信心，我有行为。」你将你没有行为的信心指给我看，我便借着我的行为，将我的信心指给你看。
这是一个小孩子写的祷词：「主啊，请帮助我们做个好孩子，又帮助我们能够去帮助别人。」这是一个值得学习「求主帮助」的祷告。
祷词中并不是说「使我们」，而是说「帮助我们」。这个孩子懂得祷告的真正含义，不是「神蹟改变」，而是「与主同工」。
要是祷告时能尽量少说「我」，多说「我们」，那么我们所得到的力量会大得多。
这一个祷告所祈求的只是帮助做个「好孩子」。没错，只要生命的主体是好的，其他部分也都会跟着好。我们缺少的东西很多，但好的人格是最重要、最不可或缺的。一个人如果为人正直，就不会有其他大的缺点。
创世记 1:27 神就照着自己的形象造人，乃是照着祂的形象，造男造女。
马太福音 5:14 你们是世上的光。城造在山上，是不能隐藏的。
加拉太书2:20 我已经与基督同钉十字架，现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着。并且我如今在肉身活着，是因信神的儿子而活，祂是爱我，为我舍己。
一位年轻弟兄的分享：
神就照着自己的形象造人，乃是照着祂的形象，造男造女。（创1:27）
我们都是天父最完美的杰作，要好好看待自己的恩赐，结出三十、六十、百倍的果实。你们是世界的光。建在山上的城是不能隐藏的（太5:14）。要学着活出基督的样式。
也许有些人早已找到自己的命定，而有些人还在寻找，但不管如何，在小事上忠心，必然能够结出果子，活出荣耀神的生活。So let go my soul and trust in him.-It is Well。
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