八福
我們「投射」了甚麼？
經文
詩篇一三九1-24
1（大衛的詩，交與伶長。）耶和華啊，你已經鑒察我，認識我。
2我坐下，我起來，你都曉得；你從遠處知道我的意念。
3我行路，我躺臥，你都細察；你也深知我一切所行的。
4耶和華啊，我舌頭上的話，你沒有一句不知道的。
5你在我前後環繞我，按手在我身上。
6這樣的知識奇妙，是我不能測的，至高，是我不能及的。
7我往哪裡去躲避你的靈？我往哪裡逃、躲避你的面？
8我若升到天上，你在那裡；我若在陰間下榻，你也在那裡。
9我若展開清晨的翅膀，飛到海極居住，
10就是在那裡，你的手必引導我；你的右手也必扶持我。
11我若說：黑暗必定遮蔽我，我周圍的亮光必成為黑夜；
12黑暗也不能遮蔽我，使你不見，黑夜卻如白晝發亮。黑暗和光明，在你看都是一樣。
13我的肺腑是你所造的；我在母腹中，你已覆庇我。
14我要稱謝你，因我受造，奇妙可畏；你的作為奇妙，這是我心深知道的。
15我在暗中受造，在地的深處被聯絡；那時，我的形體並不向你隱藏。
16我未成形的體質，你的眼早已看見了；你所定的日子，我尚未度一日（或譯：我被造的肢體尚未有其一），你都寫在你的冊上了。
17神啊，你的意念向我何等寶貴！其數何等眾多！
18我若數點，比海沙更多；我睡醒的時候，仍和你同在。
19神啊，你必要殺戮惡人；所以，你們好流人血的，離開我去吧！
20因為他們說惡言頂撞你；你的仇敵也妄稱你的名。
21耶和華啊，恨惡你的，我豈不恨惡他們嗎？攻擊你的，我豈不憎嫌他們嗎？
22我切切地恨惡他們，以他們為仇敵。
23神啊，求你鑒察我，知道我的心思，試煉我，知道我的意念，
24看在我裡面有甚麼惡行沒有，引導我走永生的道路。
信息分享
昨天結束時我們說過，根據聖經的教導，人若自己沒有經歷過內心的平安，就沒可能成為使人和睦的人。在我們研讀八福的過程中，看到它們如何有效地幫助我們建立美好的靈性和心理健康，我們很高興的發現「耶穌心理學」總是比研究人類行為的發現更為超前。心理學家和精神病專家認為，很多國際和平的對話和活動，實際上是使參與的人能卸除自己壓力的心理投射。我雖然不完全認同這種解釋，但確實有很多這一類的行動都可以用心理投射的機制來解釋。
請看看林連（Louis Linn）和施瓦茨（Leo Schwartz）在他們的著作《精神病學、宗教和經驗》（Psychiatry, Religion and Experience）中怎樣說：「在年青人內心對和平的渴望背後，是他對理想社會的渴求。由於他將自己內心的無助和混亂投射到外面的世界去，因此他對和平的渴望是以祈求世界和平的形式出現。」很多致力推動世界和平的活躍份子，可能覺得這是難以接受的，但事實是如果沒有世界危機讓他們得以把自己的感受投射出去，他們可能便會製造其他狀況。只要我們自己裡面沒有平安，我們便會創造狀況以反映我們內心不安全的感覺。
「雖然我們做了對的事，但動機卻可以是錯的」
進深研究
哀五1-5；賽四十八22，五十七20；申二十八67
1.在這些經文中，有哪些可以用來描述這一代？
2.請你今天為這事情禱告。
祈禱
親愛的父，求您幫助我明白心理投射這一種機制是怎樣發生的。我知道雖然我們做了對的事，但動機卻可以是錯的。神啊，隻有您才可以鑒察我的心。我今天要與詩人一起祈求：「神啊，求您鑒察我，知道我的心思。」阿們。
The Beatitudes
How much do we "project"?
Bible reading:
Psalm 139:1-24
1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Message
We ended yesterday by saying that no one can become a peacemaker in the biblical sense of the word - until they have found peace within their innermost self. As we are looking at from the point of view of how effective they are in producing good spiritual and mental health, it is interesting to see how the psychology of Jesus is always ahead of the findings of those who study human behaviour. The view of many psychologists and psychiatrists is that much of the talk and activity by the masses in relation to international peace is actually a projection whereby they take the pressure off themselves. I am not convinced that all the concern can be dismissed in this way, but a lot of it can be explained in terms of the mechanism known as psychological projection.
Listen to what Louis Linn and Leo Schwartz say in their book Psychiatry, Religion and Experience: "A psychological origin of an adolescent's social idealism lies in his yearning for peace within himself. He tends to project his feelings of helplessness and turmoil on to the outer world, so that his yearning for peace may take the form of a wish for world peace." Many of the activists who work for world peace may find this difficult to accept, but the truth is that if they did not have a world crisis on which to project their feelings, they would have to create some other condition. As long as we are not at peace within ourselves, we will create situations on which we project our insecure feelings.
"We can do the right things for the wrong reasons"
Prayer
Dear Father, help me to understand this strange mechanism of projection. For I see that I can do the right things for the wrong reasons. Only You can probe my heart. I pray today with the psalmist, "Search me, O God, and know my heart." Amen.
Further study
Lamentations 5:1-5
Isaiah 48:22; 57:20
Deuteronomy 28:67
1. Which of these statements could be written about this generation?
2. Make this a matter for prayer today.
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