每日靈脩 – 2024 年 11 月 26 日
站着等待
戴維·威爾克森
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上帝通過他的靈的聲音對他的子民說話:「你或向左或向右,你必聽見後邊有聲音說:『這是正路,要行在其間。』」 (以賽亞書30:21,NKJV)
聖靈的聲音主要通過聖經向我們發出。祂可能會打開一段聖經章節,成爲我們得救的關鍵。然而,在我們聽到祂指引的聲音之前,上帝對我們有一些要求。我們要站着不動,等待祂採取行動。這句話不是建議,而是誡命。這是我們完全勝利和得救的秘訣。事實上,主曾多次命令祂的子民站着不動。
在約書亞記 3 章中,我們讀到以色列人必須再次渡過約旦河。上帝指示人民:「你們要吩咐抬約櫃的祭司說:『你們到了約旦河的水邊上,就要站在約旦河裏』」 (約書亞記 3:8)。然後主補充說:「等到抬全地之主耶和華約櫃的祭司,腳一停在約旦河的水裏,約旦河的水必斷絕……立起成壘」 (約書亞記 3:13)。
上帝說:「當你來到水邊時,把腳伸進水裏,站在那裏。保持安靜,休息。等我採取行動,我會爲你分開水!」
這段經文中表示「靜止」的希伯來語意思是「停止一切活動,停止一切奮鬥」。有多少以色列人來到約旦河時順從了呢?當他們雙腳站在水中時,許多人一定在想:「我們怎麼知道這樣做有用?」有些人可能想建造某種浮橋,試圖憑藉自己的聰明才智過河,但那將是徒勞的。
上帝確實在那個時候採取了行動。他分開了海水,因爲以色列人的順服伴隨着信仰。上帝回應了他們的信仰!親愛的,憑着信仰,如果我們聽從他的聲音並服從,他就會給我們答案。
DAILY DEVOTIONAL – November 26, 2024
Stand and Wait
By David Wilkerson
Listen Now
God speaks to his people by the voice of his Spirit: 「Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 『This is the way, walk in it,』 Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left」 (Isaiah 30:21, NKJV).
The voice of his Spirit comes to us primarily through the scriptures. He may open up a biblical passage that will be the key to our deliverance. However, before we can hear his voice of direction, God requires something of us. We are to stand still and wait for him to act. This word is not a suggestion but a commandment. It is the secret to our total victory and deliverance. Indeed, the Lord commanded his people to stand still on many occasions.
In Joshua 3, we read of another crossing Israel had to make at the Jordan River. God instructed the people: 「You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 『When you have come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan』」 (Joshua 3:8). Then the Lord added, 「As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off… and they shall stand as a heap」 (Joshua 3:13).
God said, 「When you get to the water, plant your feet in it and stand there. Be still, rest. Just wait for me to act, and I will part the waters for you!」
The Hebrew words for standing still in this passage means 「stop all activity, cease all striving.」 How many Israelites obeyed when they came to the Jordan? As they stood with their feet in the water, many must have thought, 「How do we know this is going to work?」 Some might have been tempted to build some sort of pontoon bridge to try to get across on their own ingenuity, but that would have been in vain.
God did act on that occasion. He parted the waters because Israel’s act of obedience was accompanied by faith. God answered their faith! Beloved, by faith, if we listen to his voice and obey, he provides an answer.