〈箴言〉12:24 殷勤人的手必掌权，懒惰的人必服苦。
阅读经文：箴言12:21-25
21义人不遭灾害，恶人满受祸患。22说谎言的嘴为耶和华所憎恶，行事诚实的为他所喜悦。23通达人隐藏知识，愚昧人的心彰显愚昧。24殷勤人的手必掌权，懒惰的人必服苦。25人心忧虑屈而不伸，一句良言使心欢乐。
试炼与试探
「义人不遭灾害」(箴言12:21)，义人，是有主保守的人。「不遭灾害」是不遭试探与引诱。这如同耶稣教我们的祷告：「不叫我们遇见试探，救我们脱离凶恶」(马太福音六:13)。试炼与试探的本质不同，试炼是炼去杂质显出好，试探是落入网罗显出坏。我们会遇见试炼，求主让我们避去试探。
在箴言里，「试探」是人用力追求时，所发出的喘气声。这世界追求金钱、追求欲望、追求偶像等，都会使人发出喘气。
圣灵的禁止，与仇敌的控告，也有不同的本质。圣灵的禁止带我们回到主面前，重新仰望与交托。仇敌的控告让我们落入失败的人、事、物，缠在里面难挣脱。主啊，我愿凭信回到祢面前，相信祢的应许。虽然曾遭灾害，我不论断自己，只信我的救主不失败。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 28:17-31. Let’s go!
Acts 28:17-20 (NIV)
17 Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: “My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
18 They examined me and wanted to release me, because I was not guilty of any crime deserving death.
19 But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar–not that I had any charge to bring against my own people.
20 For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
On verses 17-20: Having received so much opposition in the past from certain Jews in the various cities where Paul had gone, Paul decides to take the initiative to reach out to the Jewish leaders in Rome and explain to them plainly where he is coming from. His hope was to avoid misunderstanding based on possible rumours and hearsay.
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 28:1-16. Let’s go!
Acts 28:1-10 (NIV)
1 Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta.
2 The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold.
3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.
4 When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”……
On verses 1-10: Has anyone ever judged you and jumped to conclusions about you because of your circumstances? In Acts 28:34, Paul is bitten by a snake and based on these unfortunate circumstances the residents of Malta assume he is guilty of murder. But when Paul shows no ill effects from the snake bite, those same people change their minds and call him a god (v6)! That’s how fickle public opinion can be.
〈箴言〉12:10 义人顾惜他牲畜的命，恶人的怜悯也是残忍。
阅读经文：箴言12:9-11
9 被人轻贱却有仆人，强如自尊缺少食物。 10 义人顾惜他牲畜的命，恶人的怜悯也是残忍。 11 耕种自己田地的必得饱食，追随虚浮的却是无知。
第9节： 被人轻贱却有仆人，强如自尊缺少食物。
《新译本》：被人轻看却有仆人的人，胜过自尊自大却缺少食物的人。
《吕振中译本》：地位轻微、而自己有农产物（传统︰仆人），胜过自尊自大、而缺少食粮。
《The Message》：Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.
这句话很像在形容没落的贵族，假如你喜欢看韩剧的话，里面有时也有一些没落的两班，因为好赌，赌到连自己的家谱都卖掉以维生。当我们这样对照几本不同的经文时，立刻有更清彻的明白。中文的翻译道出现实的残酷，为何时下有些大学生宁可放下身份去做出卖肉体的生意呢？因为想赚容易钱。因为这个世界笑贫不笑娼。大家都觉得钱很重要，可以让自己活得有体面。
但是信息圣经，也就是毕德生牧师的英文翻译有点不一样，他说，人最好活得平凡，为生活而工作，强如为了摆阔而饿死。这样我们就非常清楚这句经文的意思了。人要活得实实在在，不要为了面子害死自己。
〈箴言〉12:16 愚妄人的恼怒立时显露，通达人能忍辱藏羞。
阅读经文：箴言12:12-16
12恶人想得坏人的网罗，义人的根得以结实。13恶人嘴中的过错是自己的网罗，但义人必脱离患难。14人因口所结的果子必饱得美福，人手所做的必为自己的报应。15愚妄人所行的在自己眼中看为正直，唯智慧人肯听人的劝教。16愚妄人的恼怒立时显露，通达人能忍辱藏羞。
根部与结果
箴言12:12 恶人想得坏人的网罗，义人的根得以结实。
许多事情，我们祷告很久，仍未成就。上帝为什么让我们等待又等待、期盼又期盼？这里有一个答案，「义人的根，得以结实」(箴言12:12)，这是上帝做事的法则，先长树根，再结实。树根我们看不见，以致不知结实前的预备。等到有了结果，上帝早就在预备。
这节箴言，乍读之时，也许会想结果是在树上，怎么会是在根上呢？但是细想，植物结果营养分输自根部，水分却来自根部，支撑需要根部，稳定在乎根部，任何植物要结果，必须基盘稳固。
何等多次，我们期待结果，上帝却引导我们，先在根部的成长与修补。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 27:27-44. Let’s go!
Acts 27:27-32 (NIV)
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
28 They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.
29 Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.
30 In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow.
31 Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32 So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it fall away.
On verses 27-32: Knowing that the ship was soon going to crash into land, some sailors try to secretly let a lifeboat down into the sea to save themselves. But for the sake of everyone’s safety including the sailors trying to escape, Paul warns the centurion and soldiers that everyone needs to stay with the ship if they want any hope of being saved.
〈箴言〉12:10 义人顾惜他牲畜的命，恶人的怜悯也是残忍。
阅读经文：箴言12:9-11
9 被人轻贱却有仆人，强如自尊缺少食物。 10 义人顾惜他牲畜的命，恶人的怜悯也是残忍。 11 耕种自己田地的必得饱食，追随虚浮的却是无知。
第9节： 被人轻贱却有仆人，强如自尊缺少食物。
《新译本》：被人轻看却有仆人的人，胜过自尊自大却缺少食物的人。
《吕振中译本》：地位轻微、而自己有农产物（传统︰仆人），胜过自尊自大、而缺少食粮。
《The Message》：Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.
这句话很像在形容没落的贵族，假如你喜欢看韩剧的话，里面有时也有一些没落的两班，因为好赌，赌到连自己的家谱都卖掉以维生。当我们这样对照几本不同的经文时，立刻有更清彻的明白。中文的翻译道出现实的残酷，为何时下有些大学生宁可放下身份去做出卖肉体的生意呢？因为想赚容易钱。因为这个世界笑贫不笑娼。大家都觉得钱很重要，可以让自己活得有体面。
但是信息圣经，也就是毕德生牧师的英文翻译有点不一样，他说，人最好活得平凡，为生活而工作，强如为了摆阔而饿死。这样我们就非常清楚这句经文的意思了。人要活得实实在在，不要为了面子害死自己。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 27:13-26. Let’s go!
Acts 27:13-26 (NIV)
13 When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had obtained what they wanted; so they weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete.
14 Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the “northeaster,” swept down from the island.
15 The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind; so we gave way to it and were driven along.
16 As we passed to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were hardly able to make the lifeboat secure.
17 When the men had hoisted it aboard, they passed ropes under the ship itself to hold it together. Fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and let the ship be driven along…..
On verses 13-26: As Paul and about 270 others sail to Rome, their ship is caught in the middle of a storm of hurricane proportions called a northeaster. After many days of fearing for their lives, Paul stands up and addresses everyone on the ship, telling them that to keep up their courage, because God spoke to Paul and assured him that he would go to Rome to testify before Caesar and that not one person on this ship would be lost.
〈箴言〉12:5 义人的思念是公平，恶人的计谋是诡诈。
阅读经文：箴言12:5-8
5 义人的思念是公平，恶人的计谋是诡诈。 6 恶人的言论是埋伏流人的血，正直人的口必拯救人。 7 恶人倾覆归于无有，义人的家必站得住。 8 人必按自己的智慧被称赞，心中乖谬的必被藐视。
5-6节：义人的思念是公平，恶人的计谋是诡诈。 恶人的言论是埋伏流人的血，正直人的口必拯救人。
《新译本》：义人的筹算是公平，恶人的计谋却是诡诈。恶人的言语等着要流人的血，正直人的口能拯救人。
《The Message》：The thinking of principled people makes for justice; the plots of degenerates corrupt. The words of the wicked kill; the speech of the upright saves.
这两句经文点出人心里的黑暗，有时明明心里有鬼，表面却说得冠冕堂堂，头头是道。例如买卖房子为何需要律师呢？因为有的人借的房债没还清，但是不讲就把房子卖了。若没有律师代查，买者很容易被骗。译经家James Moffatt翻译得相当清楚：「好人的目标是可尊敬的；坏人的计画是卑鄙的」。
美国奥运游泳健将Ryan Lochte在巴西比赛后喝醉闹事，结果谎称被劫。他闹事的过程都有摄影为证，最后只好承认自己做了很不成熟的行为。结果所有支持他的一些公司，全都撤消对他的支持。什么是筹算，何谓计谋？当他想说谎嫁祸于人时，没想到却有录影暴露他的诡诈。这就是在最后的审判时，我们所要面对的情形。
所有的事都要像影片在我们眼前经过，使我们无可推诿。若不是有录影为证，他的谎言很可能会害到一些无辜的人。因为他的好成绩会让人以为他说的都是真的。不管是诡诈或正直，假如人都能借着录影而明辨，那么，何况神呢？祂岂不明白我们的所作所为吗？
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 27:1-12. Let’s go!
Acts 27:1-12 (NIV)
1 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3 The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs.
4 From there we put out to sea again and passed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
5 When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.
6 There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board…..
On verses 1-12: Paul and other prisoners are heading for Rome and these verses detail the first stages of their voyage. Notice that when the winds were especially strong, Paul’s ship would head toward the “lee” of a nearby island, in one case the “lee” of Cyprus (v4), in another case the “lee” of Crete (v7). What is a “lee”? A “lee” is the sheltered side of something, the side that is away from the wind. When the winds were strong, Paul’s shipmates would look for a lee and go to it for shelter from the storm. In fact, we see a contrast here between the lees that provided shelter for Paul’s ship (v4, 7) and a harbor in Crete that was not suitable for Paul’s ship to stay in (v12).
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