诗篇 130 上行之诗。
1 耶和华啊，我从深处向祢求告。
2 主啊，求祢听我的声音！愿祢侧耳听我恳求的声音！
3 主耶和华啊，祢若究察罪孽，谁能站得住呢？
那是个不平安的下午，指导教授再度找我去谈：「今年暑假我转换教职到加州大学戴维斯分校，研究室成员都会随我转学到加州，你考虑的结果如何呢？」几次跟指导教授据理力争，我的回复一直是否定的，因为我想要留在西北大学完成博士学位。离开指导教授的办公室，他留下一句话给我：「那你今年硕士论文口试就排在最后一个…。」
带着惶恐不安的心情走回住宿的地方，心想不顺从老板（穷留学生出国读书，称指导教授为老板，因为他是衣食父母，掌管生杀大权），麻烦可大了，我的硕士论文口试大概要砸锅，毕不了业了！蹒跚地走进我的蜗居（跟同学合租房子，分配住在储物间），坐在摆在地面孤零零的一片床垫，心中百感交集；眼睛长针眼，用针戳破，好了，肚子痛，吞万金油，也好了，上台报告，So what! I am nobody!也完成了…困难虽有，总是可以克服。但是，这一刻我深深觉得，我毫无办法能面对这个难题，没有人可以帮助我！
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Acts 7:44-60. As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
Acts 7:44-50 (NIV)
44 “Our forefathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the desert. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
45 Having received the tabernacle, our fathers under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David,
46 who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
On verses 44-50: After talking about how the Israelites rejected Moses’ leadership and worshiped idols instead (v30-43), Stephen turns his attention to the way the temple in Jerusalem was built. Stephen recounts how God originally gave Moses specific designs for a tabernacle, which was a portable tent where His people could worship Him as they journeyed from place to place (v44). The Israelites would use this portable tabernacle to worship Him throughout the days of Joshua until the reign of King David (v45-46).
创世记 1:26-27
26 神说：「我们要照着我们的形象，按着我们的样式造人，使他们管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟、地上的牲畜和全地，并地上所爬的一切昆虫。」 27 神就照着自己的形象造人，乃是照着祂的形象，造男造女。
为自己谱一曲、唱一首「上帝爱我」的诗歌！
花了1年3个月，柯俊杰与基督教中华循理会三和教会青年弟兄妹合力将《上帝爱原住民》专辑完成，这一条恩典与梦想之路，柯俊杰与教会走了10年…。「10年前我们为耶稣怀抱梦想，10年后这个梦想成真！」回忆浇灌梦想发芽的动机，是因为部落年轻人外移现象严重，让柯俊杰开始思考要用音乐抓住他们的心，把青年留在教会中服事神。
当时半工半读的他，在骑机车赶往下一个目的地的路程中哼唱、完成这首诗歌，主要传达不管世人对原住民抱有何种眼光，但他相信神造每一个人和族群，都有祂独特的计画，这也是柯俊杰献给上帝的歌。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Acts 7:30-43. As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
Acts 7:30-43 (NIV)
30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord’s voice:
32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
On verses 30-43: Here Stephen recounts how Moses obeyed the call of God and how God performed incredible signs and wonders through Moses to deliver the Israelites from slavery in Egypt (v30-38). Yet despite all this, the Israelites rejected Moses and chose to worship idols instead of the LORD (v39-43). Stephen is connecting the way the Israelites in Moses’ time rejected Moses, God’s chosen servant, with the way many of Israelites’ opponents were now rejecting Jesus, God’s Son.
诗篇 23:4 我虽然行过死荫的幽谷，也不怕遭害，因为祢与我同在，祢的杖、祢的竿都安慰我。
诗27:1-3 耶和华是我的亮光，是我的拯救，我还怕谁呢？耶和华是我性命的保障，我还惧谁呢？
2 那作恶的，就是我的仇敌，前来吃我肉的时候，就绊跌仆倒。
3 虽有军兵安营攻击我，我的心也不害怕；虽然兴起刀兵攻击我，我必仍旧安稳。
大卫躲避扫罗、四处逃窜（诗23:4），面对仇敌兴起刀兵攻击（诗27:1-3），在非利士人迦特王亚吉面前装疯（撒上21:10-15，诗34:4，诗56:3-4）…；危难时，大卫在诗歌里宣告：我不怕遭害，因为你与我同在！我还怕谁呢？我还惧谁呢？血气之辈能把我怎么样呢？人能把我怎么样呢？
初到美国读书，最大的惶恐是上台报告，虽然复习多次，总会担心英语不轮转(台语:意思是不顺畅)。两句简单且洒脱的话语，“I am nobody!”和“So what!”（我是无名小卒！讲不好，那又怎样！），常带给我上台的勇气，看着台下老美同学一愣一愣的听完我的报告，我知道：我倚靠神！我不害怕，我尽力完成了我的报告。
在人面前，我一无挂虑，我是无名小卒，我承认I am nobody，我学习谦卑，谦卑释放压力；在神里面，我是蒙爱的，我是个人物，我宣告I am somebody，我得着倚靠，倚靠带出能力。让我们亲近神，将压力转变成能力，因此得胜。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Acts 7:1-16. As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
Acts 7:1-16 (NIV)
1 Then the high priest asked him, “Are these charges true?”
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’
4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.
On verses 1-16: Why is Stephen giving a speech to the Sanhedrin, Israel’s ruling council of elders, about the history of Israel? Remember that the Sanhedrin had accused Stephen of making false, blasphemous statements about Moses, about God (6:11), about the temple (6:13) and about the law of Moses (6:13). They accused Stephen of trying to subvert Judaism and advocate for a new religion, saying that Jesus would change the customs which the Jews had received from Moses (Acts 6:14).
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Acts 7:1-16. As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
Acts 7:1-16 (NIV)
1 Then the high priest asked him, “Are these charges true?”
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’
4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.
On verses 1-16: Why is Stephen giving a speech to the Sanhedrin, Israel’s ruling council of elders, about the history of Israel? Remember that the Sanhedrin had accused Stephen of making false, blasphemous statements about Moses, about God (6:11), about the temple (6:13) and about the law of Moses (6:13). They accused Stephen of trying to subvert Judaism and advocate for a new religion, saying that Jesus would change the customs which the Jews had received from Moses (Acts 6:14).
哥林多前书 12:4-11
4 恩赐原有分别，圣灵却是一位； 5 职事也有分别，主却是一位； 6 功用也有分别，神却是一位，在众人里面运行一切的事。 7 圣灵显在各人身上，是叫人得益处。 8 这人蒙圣灵赐他智慧的言语，那人也蒙这位圣灵赐他知识的言语， 9 又有一人蒙这位圣灵赐他信心，还有一人蒙这位圣灵赐他医病的恩赐， 10 又叫一人能行异能，又叫一人能做先知，又叫一人能辨别诸灵，又叫一人能说方言，又叫一人能翻方言。 11 这一切都是这位圣灵所运行，随己意分给各人的。
我喜欢唱诗歌，诗歌带着神的话语，常不自主地由心中涌出，带给我安慰和鼓励，帮助我亲近神。
我是自由派（失控派）的歌者，抓不住五线谱上的蝌蚪，掉拍和抢拍是常见的事，女儿给我评价：音色还好，音拍不准，肚子虽大，气却不长。我惊艳于鼓钹上方飞舞的鼓槌，羡慕在黑白琴键和吉他弦线来回飘移的指头，这是我想拥有，但神从未应许的恩赐。
我很喜欢「如果我能唱」这首诗歌，神用黄美廉博士 的诗歌来提醒我，拍不准续唱，气不长再吸，只要能开口唱，那就是恩典，那就是真诚的敬拜。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Acts 6:1-15. As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
Acts 6:1 (NIV)
1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
On verse 1: In the Old Testament God shows His heart to care for orphans and widows (see for example Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18; and Psalm 146:9). This concern for orphans and widows is also found in the New Testament in verses like James 1:27, 1 Timothy 5, and here in Acts 6 where the growing Christian community has a ministry to care for widows in Jerusalem.
希伯来书 12:1-2
我们既有这许多的见证人，如同云彩围着我们，就当放下各样的重担，脱去容易缠累我们的罪，存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程， 2 仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣[a]。他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在神宝座的右边。
年少时向神祷告：「亲爱的天父！明天我们主日学将在教会开始一个礼拜的儿童夏令营，我们都准备好了，孩子们也兴奋地期待着；但是，台风来了，我们需要祢的恩典，求祢保守我们一个礼拜的平安…」上帝听了少年人和孩子们的祷告，台风在台湾周围整整绕了一个礼拜，等到夏令营结束，孩子们平安回家，它才狂暴地吹了进来。
年长时向神祷告：「亲爱的天父！明天我们主日学将到长荣大学开始两天一夜的儿童夏令营，我们都准备好了，孩子们也兴奋地期待着；但是，台风来了，考虑孩子们的出入平安和我的职责，我需要做明智的决定，很遗憾地取消这次夏令营…」上帝听了孩子们的祷告，台风没进来，还帮忙扫掉了所有的乌云，留下灿烂的阳光；只是，孩子们叹息著：今天如果有夏令营该多好！那天，全台湾只有那位年长者在抱怨：今天为何没有狂风暴雨！
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