新视域的力量
向内心察看

经文
哥林多前书十一27-34
27所以,无论何人,不按理吃主的饼,喝主的杯,就是干犯主的身、主的血了。
28人应当自己省察,然后吃这饼、喝这杯。
29因为人吃喝,若不分辨是主的身体,就是吃喝自己的罪了。
30因此,在你们中间有好些软弱的与患病的,死(原文是睡)的也不少。
31我们若是先分辨自己,就不至于受审。
32我们受审的时候,乃是被主惩治,免得我们和世人一同定罪。
33所以我弟兄们,你们聚会吃的时候,要彼此等待。
34若有人饥饿,可以在家里先吃,免得你们聚会,自己取罪。其余的事,我来的时候再安排。
信息分享
过去几天的研读让我们清楚地发现,诗人的观点已经去到一个获得改变的阶段。他看到神在掌管人类,所以不敬虔的人并不值得羡慕。现在我们看到,他不单纠正了他对不敬虔的人和对神的想法,他也纠正了对自己的想法:「 因而,我心里发酸,肺腑被刺。我这样愚昧无知,在你面前如畜类一般」(诗七十三21-22)。
他现在对自己的评价是多么不同,他本来明显为自己感到难过:「我实在徒然洁净了我的心,徒然洗手表明无辜」(13节)。在圣所外面,他充满自怜,然而在圣所里面,他对自己有了完全不同的看法。这一刻诗人诚实地面对自己,这是相当不容易的事。
我们大部份人都不介意处理自己的困难,但是每当情况稍微缓解的时候,我们便想停留在那里,不愿意继续去面对那些当初令我们做出错误结论的问题。这就是为甚么我们会一再重蹈覆辙,只因为我们没有清楚地察看我们的内心。有一位教师自称有二十五年的教学经验,但主任教师却形容她说:「她其实只有一年经验,不过是重复了二十五次而已。」她没错工作了很久,可是她所学到的却不多。
「由于神在掌权,不敬虔的人不值得我们羡慕」
进深研究
代上二十八1-10;耶十七10,二十三24;诗四十四20-21
1. 大卫向所罗门反映甚么?
2. 耶和华问了甚么问题?
祈祷
天父,我现在明白为甚么我会一再经历同样的难题,那是因为我没有找寻事情发生的原因。求您今天帮助我察看我那么受束缚的缘由。奉耶稣的名祈求,阿们。
The Power of a New Perspective
Take an inside look

Bible reading:
1 Corinthians 11:27-34
27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.
30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.
32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.
33 So then, my brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, you should all eat together.
34 Anyone who is hungry should eat something at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment. And when I come I will give further directions.
Message
From what we have seen over the past few days, it is clear that the psalmist has come to the place where his views have changed. He sees that God is ruling over human affairs and that the ungodly are not in such an enviable situation after all. We come now to see that he was not only put right in his thinking about the ungodly and about God, but he was also put right about himself: "When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant: I was a brute beast before you" (Psa. 73:21-22).
What a different view he has of himself now compared to previously, when he so evidently felt very sorry for himself: "Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure; in vain have I washed my hands in innocence" (v.13). Outside the sanctuary, he felt full of self-pity; inside the sanctuary, he had an entirely different view of himself. This is a moment when the psalmist honestly faces himself -something that is very difficult to do.
Most of us don't mind working our way through our problems, but the moment we get relief, we want to stop right there. We do not go on to face up to what caused us to come to the wrong conclusions in the first place. This is why we keep going through the same problems over and over again - we fail to take an inside look. A schoolteacher claimed to have twenty-five years of experience, but her head teacher said of her: "She has just one year of experience twenty-five times." She worked long but learned little.
"Because God rules the ungodly are in an unenviable position"
Prayer
Father, I see why it is that so often I go through the same problems over and over again I stop short of learning why they happened in the first place. Help me today to think through why it is that I get so tied up. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
Further study
1 Chronicles 28:1-10
Jeremiah 17:10; 23:24
Psalm 44:20-21
1. What did David reflect to Solomon?
2. What question did the Lord ask?
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