《召命人生》Day 02
超越一切 (亞伯拉罕)
1 耶和華對亞伯蘭說:「你要離開本地、本族、父家,往我所要指示你的地去。2 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你,叫你的名為大;你也要叫別人得福。3 為你祝福的,我必賜福與他;那咒詛你的,我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。」4 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了;羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。5 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得,連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口,都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。(創世記十二1-5)
29 耶穌說:我實在告訴你們,人為我和福音撇下房屋,或是弟兄、姊妹、父母、兒女、田地,30 沒有不在今世得百倍的,就是房屋、弟兄、姊妹、母親、兒女、田地,並且要受逼迫,在來世必得永生。(馬可福音十29-30)
1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. (Genesis 12:1-5)
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)
分享:對於「召命」,或許之前我們仍沒敢多去想像,亦很少去深思這與我們的關係。但神要告訴我們,召命就是祂向你發出獨特的呼喚,人們應要努力去經驗呼召時刻,認清這是神在自己身上的工作,並順服跟隨神,由祂帶領你走一條事奉之路!召命是一件很遠很大的事,也是信徒的一個最基本、最重要的生活課題。
在《創世紀》,亞伯拉罕領受神對他獨特的呼召,作出常人不能理解的事情 ── 離開本地本族,去一個陌生卻又充滿祝福的地方。亞伯拉罕聽到這個召命後,沒有向神抱怨什麼,而是立即行動,對眼前的生活沒有任何留戀,便全家執拾細軟,一同前往神所指向的地。為什麼亞伯拉罕會有如此的決心和勇氣?只因為在他心裡,以神的一切超越自己所擁有的一切。
在《希伯來書十一8-9》如此形容他:「8 亞伯拉罕因著信,蒙召的時候就遵命出去,往將來要得為業的地方去;出去的時候,還不知往哪裏去。9 他因著信,就在所應許之地作客,好像在異地居住帳棚,與那同蒙一個應許的以撒、雅各一樣。」
其實,神在我們各人的生命裡都有獨特的計劃,自創造的一刻,神已經知道我們生命中會發生的大小事情,這包括一切好的壞的,我們根本不用擔心自己的不完美或失誤會影響神創造我們的心意。反而,我們要一起努力找回那個獨特的自己。
或許,我們有時候心裡會問︰「主,我有什麼要為你擺上呢?」,又會質疑自己的擺上是否正確的選擇。今天,讓我們先檢視自己的「生命質素」,以神的話去對照自己的生命,培育出承擔感,為踏上召命人生而努力,做回神要我們做的那個人──就是甘心順服,放下擁有的,將祂的位置放在一切之上。這就是活出召命的第一個重要態度。
反思:此時此刻,對我來說,主是否超越一切?
禱告:親愛的天父,要我們學習放下一切,確實有很多挑戰、不捨,這些都使我們的心軟弱。求祢藉著聖靈的加持,使我們學效亞伯拉罕,能以神的一切超越自己所擁有的一切為生活的指標。奉主名求,阿們。
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