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撒母耳记上  I Samuel 15:24~35
中文圣经版本:新标点和合本/English Bible Version:NIV (New International Version)

24扫罗对撒母耳说:「我有罪了,我因惧怕百姓,听从他们的话,就违背了耶和华的命令和你的言语。25现在求你赦免我的罪,同我回去,我好敬拜耶和华。」26撒母耳对扫罗说:「我不同你回去;因为你厌弃耶和华的命令,耶和华也厌弃你作以色列的王。」27撒母耳转身要走,扫罗就扯住他外袍的衣襟,衣襟就撕断了。28撒母耳对他说:「如今,今日耶和华使以色列国与你断绝,将这国赐与比你更好的人。29以色列的大能者必不致说谎,也不致后悔;因为祂迥非世人,决不后悔。」30扫罗说:「我有罪了,虽然如此,求你在我百姓的长老和以色列人面对抬举我,同我回去,我好敬拜耶和华﹣你的 神」。31于是撒母耳转身跟随扫罗回去,扫罗就敬拜耶和华。32撒母耳说:「要亚玛力王亚甲带到我这里来。」亚甲就欢欢喜喜地来到他面前,心里说:死亡的苦难必定过去了。33撒母耳说:「你既用刀使妇人丧子,这样,你母亲在妇人中也必丧子。」于是,撒母耳在吉甲耶和华面前将亚甲杀死。34撒母耳回到了拉玛。扫罗上他所住的基比亚,回自己的家去了。35撒母耳直到死的日子,再没有见扫罗;但撒母耳为扫罗悲伤,是因耶和华后悔立他为以色列的王。

24Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned.  I violated the LORD"s command and your instructions.  I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.  25Now I beg you, forgive my sin and come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD."  26But Samuel said to him, "I will not go back with you.  You have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king over Israel!"  27As Samuel turned to leave, Saul caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore.  28Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors -- to one better than you.  29He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie of change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind."  30Saul replied, "I have sinned.  But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel; come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God."  31So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.  32Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites."  Agag came to him in chains.  And he thought, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."  33But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women."  And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.  34Then Samuel left for Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.  35Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him.  And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

 

竹子﹠天父 谈心时刻

我们的认罪(或说认错),是真心诚意的知错而认,还是带著什么样的目的,或著,是为了「面子」问题,而做出「一时」的举动呢?

今天看到扫罗的认错,看起来是知错了,但却感觉好像多了一层的什么东西在上面。原来,他的认错,是想要换得撒母耳仍然能在众民面前高举这位「王」。但他却不知道,其实他王位的权柄,已经被 神收回去了, 神已经不要再让他继续做以色列的王了。原因,就是他已经被金钱和名誉这些物质界的需要捆挷,而分不清怎么做才是对的。如此的王,当然不可能合宜的对待他的百姓,更不用说能带给百姓多少的幸福和平安了。

这让我有了很深的自省,我每次的认罪,是真的知道自己错了,真心的来到 神的面前认错并且愿意悔改;还是我想和 神交换「利益」,好叫我可以不用失去如今我手中已经抓住的一切。扫罗的认罪,只有「承认」但却没有「放下」,他重视的,是他的王位和面子能不能保住。但真正的认罪,不单单是承认了自己的错,而是愿意接受改变而放弃一切原本仍然紧抓在手中,无法放下的「依靠」;这样,才能有改变的空间,才不会一直在这个罪中打转。

 神拿走扫罗的权柄,其实祂是很难过的,因为祂照著起初祂创造扫罗的目的兴起了他,却因为扫罗无法放下这些世界所重视的一切,而不得不拿走他的这个权柄。祂一定觉得很可惜,但祂却不得不这样做,免得扫罗落入到更不好的景况中。如果,扫罗他意识到了这个目的,他一定可以有重新再成为 神见证的机会。我相信, 神也都在成全我们的身份和角色,但最重要的,不是「成全了没」,而是「顺服了没」。

耶稣爱你~

  

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