甚么是「义人」？
诗篇十五篇
1（大卫的诗。）耶和华啊，谁能寄居你的帐幕？谁能住在你的圣山？
2就是行为正直、做事公义、心里说实话的人。
3他不以舌头谗谤人，不恶待朋友，也不随伙毁谤邻里。
4他眼中藐视匪类，却尊重那敬畏耶和华的人。他发了誓，虽然自己吃亏也不更改。
5他不放债取利，不受贿赂以害无辜。行这些事的人必永不动摇。
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然而，圣经还告诉我们，人的生活言行，会显出他已经与神和好。这正是大卫在这篇诗所描述的。
试想像大卫问了第一节的问题之后，便坐下来默然思索；终于到了脑海出现答案之后，他便默默地写下了往后的四节经文。他怎么说呢？他指出义人会有五方面的表现，同时又不会做五件事。你试着把它们找出来吧！
义人是一个生活坦荡荡和诚实无伪的人，绝不会口是心非。他小心择友，言而有信，即使履行承诺会使他吃亏，他也在所不惜。他为人慷慨，处事老实。
要做到这几点，实在并不容易。例如店员给我们找多了钱，我们会怎么办呢？最近我便有过类似经验，当我把找多了的五块钱交还给店员时，他显得非常惊讶，在连声致谢的同时，却又对我的行动感到费解。他可不知道，我若然希望自己与基督和好，就一定要这样做的啊！我们并非靠这些德行来赚取神的悦纳，反之，却是要以行动来表明我们已经蒙神的悦纳和已经属乎祂。
大卫在第5节指出，我们若学效这种做人方式，我们的心就必得安息。按照圣经的形容，未得救的人总是浮躁不安的；然而，圣经却提醒得救的人，他们可以得知自己在神里面已得着安稳，他们的心宁也可得着安息。
反思：
我若不表明自己的基督徒身分，我身边的人能发现我是基督徒吗？
What Do We Mean by 'A Righteous Man'?
Psalm 15
1 LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly,
And works righteousness,
And speaks the truth in his heart;
3 He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;
4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
But he honors those who fear the LORD;
He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5 He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be moved.
Message
But the Bible also teaches that a man will show he is right with God by his daily life. That is what David is saying in this Psalm.
Can you imagine David asking the question in the first verse, then sitting and quietly putting down four more verses just as they come to his mind? What does he say? Count them up for yourself. There are five things that a righteous man is or does and five things that he is not or does not do.
A righteous man is one whose life is open and honest. He does not say one thing when he means something else. He is very careful who his friends are. He keeps his promise, even if it means he loses by doing so. He is generous with his money and honest in all his dealings.
But those things are not always easy to do. What if someone gives us more change in a shop than they should? A man did that to me recently and when I handed him back the extra five dollars, he was absolutely surprised. While he thanked me, he wondered why I did it. I had to do it, if I wanted to be right with Christ myself. We don't do these things to be accepted by God. We do them to show that we have been accepted by him and belong to him.
David says in verse 5 that if we follow this pattern, our hearts will be at rest. The Bible pictures the unsaved as restless, but reminds the saved that they can know what it is to rest securely in God and be at peace in their own hearts.
A Question:
Can people around me see that I am a Christian without my telling them?