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这一生最美的祝福

约翰壹书5:4   因为凡从神生的,就胜过世界;使我们胜了世界的,就是我们的信心。

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今年的四月15 号,我16岁的儿子早上起来,吃好早餐、换好衣服,准备去学校上课,出门前突然断气,没有任何理由的离开了世界。我的心破碎,无法接受,心里埋怨神,觉得受委屈,好长的一段时间无法面对神,不想祷告,感觉圣经里给的应许只是好听,却没有实质的意义。感谢神!我最近慢慢的找回了我对神的感觉,愿我能继续找回对神更强大的信心…。(@peiwenberniceli6948/4年前)

这6年我因工作受伤,至111年7月19日开脑10次,命危3次(骨灰坛都准备好了),1/3的头盖骨是人工的,虽然由正常人变中度残障,至少生活还能自理。主耶稣请求医治我,我因着…信,才得着医治,感谢主耶稣基督!(@峰正苏-v3p/2年前)

God uses the one who…

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Mark 15:42-47.  With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.  Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?  After you’ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

Mark 15:42-47 (NIV)
42  It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
43  Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

On verses 42-43:  According to scholars, usually crucified criminals were not buried.  Rather their bodies were left to rot on the cross.  However, in Jewish culture, giving a dead person a proper burial was the right thing to do.

不可少的只有一件

诗篇27:4  有一件事,我曾求耶和华,我仍要寻求:就是一生一世住在耶和华的殿中,瞻仰祂的荣美,在祂的殿里求问。

路加福音10:38-42   他们走路的时候,耶稣进了一个村庄。有一个女人名叫马大,接他到自己家里。 39 她有一个妹子名叫马利亚,在耶稣脚前坐着听他的道。 40 马大伺候的事多,心里忙乱,就进前来说:「主啊,我的妹子留下我一个人伺候,你不在意吗?请吩咐她来帮助我。」 41 耶稣回答说:「马大,马大,你为许多的事思虑烦扰, 42 但是不可少的只有一件。马利亚已经选择那上好的福分,是不能夺去的。」

路加福音10:38-42记载耶稣进了一个村庄,有一个女人,名叫马大,接祂到自己家里。马大的妹妹马利亚,在耶稣脚前坐着听祂的道。马大伺候的事多,心里忙乱,就进前来,说:「主啊,我的妹子留下我一个人伺候,你不在意吗?请吩咐她来帮助我。」

耶稣回答说:「马大!马大!你为许多的事思虑烦扰,但是不可少的只有一件;马利亚已经选择那上好的福分,是不能夺去的。」

耶稣来了!接待祂到自己家里,马大当然忙着殷勤款待,贵客临门,我们一定也会如此忙碌。然而,耶稣看重的不是被款待,而是被接纳、被接受,愿意听祂的道,与祂谈话。

Hope in the Darkness

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Mark 15:33-41.  With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.  Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?  After you’ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!
 
Mark 15:33 (NIV)
33  At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
 
On verse 33:  The sixth hour to the ninth hour would be from 12pm to 3pm.  Mark describes how darkness came over the whole land as Jesus hung on the cross and neared death.  Truly these were three of the darkest hours in human history.  One can only imagine what was going on in heaven when Jesus, heaven’s darling, was hanging on the cross.

缺少一件 / 一件美事

有一个人跑来问耶稣说:「良善的夫子,我当做甚么事才可以承受永生?」这人说他从小就遵守一切的诫命。耶稣看着他,就爱他,对他说:「你还缺少一件:去变卖你所有的,分给穷人,就必有财宝在天上;你还要来跟从我。」他听见这话,脸上就变了色,忧忧愁愁地走了,因为他的产业很多。(马可福音10:17-22)

《一件美事》耶稣被钉十架前两天,在伯大尼长大痲疯的西门家里坐席,有一个女人拿着一玉瓶至贵的真哪哒香膏来,打破玉瓶,把膏浇在耶稣的头上。门徒看见就不喜悦,认为香膏可以卖许多钱来赒济穷人。耶稣对他们说:「由她吧!为甚么难为她呢?她在我身上做的是一件美事。因为常有穷人和你们同在,要向他们行善随时都可以;只是你们不常有我。她所做的,是尽她所能的;她是为我安葬的事把香膏预先浇在我身上。…」(马可福音14:1-9)

同样是财富的运用,富人很可惜的《缺少一件》:变卖所有的,分给穷人,女人却完成了《一件美事》:尽她所能的,膏抹耶稣。

耶稣用绵羊和山羊的比喻说:「…我饿了,你们给我吃,渴了,你们给我喝;我作客旅,你们留我住;我赤身露体,你们给我穿;我病了,你们看顾我;我在监里,你们来看我。…我实在告诉你们,这些事你们既做在我这弟兄中一个最小的身上,就是做在我身上了。…」(马太福音25:31-46)

Torture

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Mark 15:16-32.  With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.  Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?  After you’ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!
 
Mark 15:16-20 (NIV)
16  The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
17  They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
18  And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”
19  Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
20  And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
 
On verses 16-20:  After enduring the extreme physical torture of flogging (v15), Jesus is brought into the palace to be abused psychologically and emotionally by the soldiers.

亲近神

希伯来书11:6人非有信,就不能得神的喜悦;因为到神面前来的人必须信有神,且信祂赏赐那寻求祂的人。

神在西乃山上向摩西颁布律法和诫命,以色列人花了一年多建造完会幕,为的是突显出神对祂的百姓的心意,「圣洁」。「圣洁」贯穿整本利未记,意思是「分别」,将人或物分别出来,归给神,为神专有。

耶和华从会幕中呼叫摩西,对他说:「你晓谕以色列人说:你们中间若有人献供物给耶和华,要从牛群羊群中献牲畜为供物。」(利未记1:1-2)

上面经文:若有人…,指的是献供物是心甘情愿,且是个人的行为,也循着古人的经验,如:亚伯、该隐、挪亚、亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各…,他们知道应向神献祭,献上无瑕疵的供物。

现今的我们,因着神已将耶稣作为无瑕羔羊献祭,在灵性上通往神的路已经开通了,我们不再在有形的会幕里亲近神,而是随时随地用心灵直接亲近神!

Barabbas and The Flogging

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Mark 15:1-15.  With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.  Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?  After you’ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

Mark 15:1-5 (NIV)
1  Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2  “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
3  The chief priests accused him of many things.

On verses 1-5:  “As a lamb before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).  That’s Jesus for you.  In the face of so many accusations, Jesus remained silent.  Why? 

Jesus Identifies with You

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Mark 14:66-72.  With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.  Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?  After you’ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

Mark 14:66-72 (NIV)
66  While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by.
67  When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him. “You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus,” she said.

On verses 66-72: Earlier that day, Peter said to Jesus in front of the other disciples, “Even if all fall away, I will not…Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” (Mark 14:29, 31)  Yet hours later, that very night, Peter finds himself disowning Jesus three times.

读祢、想祂

诗篇63:1  神啊,祢是我的神,我要切切地寻求祢,在干旱疲乏无水之地,我渴想祢;我的心切慕祢。

「读你」是蔡琴唱的、脍炙人口的一首老歌,歌词这样写着:读你千遍也不厌倦,读你的感觉像三月,浪漫的季节,醉人的诗篇,唔…;读你千遍也不厌倦,读你的感觉像春天,喜悦的经典,美丽的句点,唔…。

将歌词中的「你」换成「祢」,世人渴慕情感的歌词表达,不也正是神的儿女渴慕与天父关系的内心写照。读祢千遍也不厌倦?读祢的感觉像三月、像春天,是吗?

过去有段时间,牧师回德国省亲,请我帮忙站主日讲台。我是平信徒,没受过神学教育,深怕错言真理,站讲台不适当,只能说是分享,也因如此,我会提早准备要分享的主题和内容。在那段时间,我爱上了台铁的区间车,我搭着它到不远的高雄或嘉义开会,区间车的座位蛮舒服的,冷气够强,行驶速度慢,沿途我呆望车窗外掠影,脑子里却默想着即将到来的主日分享,那是一段难得的,身心灵都舒畅、好棒的时刻。