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《最穩固的站腳點》

你們休要依靠世人。他鼻孔裏不過有氣息;他在一切事上可算甚麼呢?(以賽亞書二22)
24 「所以,凡聽見我這話就去行的,好比一個聰明人,把房子蓋在磐石上; 25 雨淋,水沖,風吹,撞着那房子,房子總不倒塌,因為根基立在磐石上。 26 凡聽見我這話不去行的,好比一個無知的人,把房子蓋在沙土上; 27 雨淋,水沖,風吹,撞着那房子,房子就倒塌了,並且倒塌得很大。」 (馬太福音七24-27)
Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem? (Isaiah 2:22)
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27)
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27)
分享:請看看你現在所身處的地方,穩固嗎?曾否想過你正在站着的地面會突然消失?原來,從地質學的角度來看,地球表面並不像我們感覺的那麼穩固,是會不斷變動的,更有突然消失的可能。除了是地震、火山爆發、山崩或土石流等嚴重天災出現時會改變地面情況之外,地陷 (sinkhole) 這種突如其來的現象,也能讓原本看似穩固的地面瞬間崩塌。
2014 年美國肯塔基州國家克爾維特博物館 (National Corvette Museum in Kentucky) 發生的地陷事件 * ,當時一個巨大的地洞吞沒了八輛珍貴跑車。這次災害的成因來自於地下石灰岩的侵蝕;當表層土壤無法再支撐時,地面便瞬間崩塌。這說明了什麼?人眼所見的穩固,並不代表真正穩固。
這樣的地質現象讓我們反思:我們人生的根基是否真的穩固?我們是否也像那些建築在地陷區域的建築物一樣,看似安全,卻隱藏著崩塌的風險?聖經提醒我們:「你們休要依靠世人。他鼻孔裏不過有氣息;他在一切事上可算甚麼呢?」(以賽亞書二22) 世上的財富、名聲、地位,甚至我們所倚靠的關係,都可能像地陷一樣,在我們毫無預備的時候瞬間崩塌。
讓我們緊記,唯有神是我們真正的穩固磐石。主耶穌說:「所以,凡聽見我這話就去行的,好比一個聰明人,把房子蓋在磐石上。雨淋,水沖,風吹,撞著那房子,房子總不倒塌,因為根基立在磐石上。」(馬太福音七24-25) 大衛在詩篇裏多番強調,唯有神是我們的穩固保障 (參詩篇十八2、廿七5、六十二2、一四四1)。是的,當我們的根基建立在神的話語與真理之上,那怕世界如何動盪,我們的生命都能穩固不搖動,因為我們的神是永不改變,是昔在、今在、永在的主!
反思:什麼才是最穩固?怎樣才能得到最穩固?
禱告:親愛的天父,感謝祢作我們的穩固磐石!當我們看到大自然中的地陷,便深感人生的脆弱與不確定,提醒我們唯有祢是永不改變的主。幫助我們完全信靠祢,讓我們不依賴外在的事物,而是建立在祢的話語和祢的真理上。以上禱告,奉主耶穌得勝的名求,阿們。
* 美國肯塔基州國家克爾維特博物館發生地陷一刻 ,看似穩固的地面突然崩塌。
# 分享中部分內容參考自 How Great Is Our God: 100 Indescribable Devotions about God and Science by Louie Giglio。
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