Spiritual Thought for the Week 2009/6/28

DATE: 2009/6/28
本周默想分享
朋友你是否有感到灰心失望，徬惶無告的時候？ 每當我感到凄涼失敗，孤單喪志的時候，我會用聖經的說話，得著安慰。“我的心哪，你曾對耶和華說，你是我的主，我的好處，不在你以外。”（詩16：2）
世人都願意得到好處。並且竭力追求要得到好處。但甚麼是真正的好處呢？有人以吃喝玩樂享受為好處；有人以知識，友誼，愛情為好處；有人以名利地位為好處；有人以家庭，事業，成功為好處。但這一切有時是好處，有時卻成為害處。許多人為這一切終日奔忙，思慮，煩惱，這已經先受了害處。同時有這些情慾，愛好，渴望，就沒有平安和喜樂，這又是先得了害處。也許得了所想望，所追求的東西，但又怕失去，也是害處。其實得著了，心中仍不會滿足，得著還要再得，反而感到更加饑渴，否則會感到極為空虛，所以它的結果又是害處。何況就是真覺得快樂，但想到不久世界要改變，自己壽命也不長，一切終要歸於無有，這更能引起悲傷，痛苦，失望，哪裏會有什麼好處呢？
真正的好處，必須是使內心有長久的平安喜樂，沒有失去的危險。並且能永久的享受，那轉眼就消逝的好處都不是真正的好處。神愛我們，祂不會留下好處，不給我們（詩84：11），尋求神的甚麼好處都不缺（詩4：10）。若想在神旨意之外找好處，只是捕風捉影而已，毫無所得，得著了也是損失，將要為之後悔。我們當滿足於神所指定的，別無所求，這就是我們的好處。總之我們的好處不在神以外，如保羅所說的：“我將萬事都當作有損的”（腓3：7）。
其實有神就夠了，一切福分，快樂，好處都在神里面。在祂以外的確沒有甚麼好處，也不應當在神以外想有所得。凡在神以外，與神不合的東西都是有害的，我們當以神自己為中心，以神的旨意為範圍，以神的命令為衣歸。
Spiritual Thought for the Week
Have you ever felt despair and resignation? When I feel bad and sad, I turn to the Bible and seek consolation. “I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.””(Psalm 16:2)
People in the world want to have good thing. They try hard to get good thing. But what is good thing? Some think eat drink and be merry are good things. Others think knowledge, friendship and love are good things. Still some others think to have fame and prestige are good things. Still some others think family, career and success are good things. Although these good things bring good feelings nevertheless they bring bad feelings and bad results. For instance people pursuit these things so eagerly they cause them anxiety and stress. This is bad thing. The desire to get these things expel peace and joy in a person’s heart. Even if you get what you desire. The fear of losing it causes you worry. Even if you can secure it, you won’t be satisfied. You want some more. The feeling of empties still exists. And that is bad thing. Even if you can get all you can get, your limited life span will remind you all is vanity. So what good can these good things bring you?
The real good thing has to be one that gives eternal peace and joy. It should be one that no one can take away from you. It should be one that you can enjoy for ever. The temporal thing can never be the good thing. “For the Lord is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he with holed from those whose walk is blameless.” (Psalm 84:11) Only those who seek the Lord will have nothing to lose in their pursuit. Outside of God all our pursuit is like catching the wind and chasing after shadows. Let us be satisfied with what God has prepared for us. All the others are trash. Like what Paul said, “But whatever was to my profit I now consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him.”(Philippians 3:7-8)
It is sufficient to just have God. All blessings and joy are found in God. Apart from Him we can find nothing good. We should not think of things outside of God. Let us put God in the center. We live inside the bound of His good will. We take orders from Him alone.

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