新视域的力量
选择性表达

经文
约翰福音二13-17
13 犹太人的逾越节近了,耶稣就上耶路撒冷去。
14 看见殿里有卖牛、羊、鸽子的,并有兑换银钱的人坐在那里,
15 耶稣就拿绳子做成鞭子,把牛羊都赶出殿去,倒出兑换银钱之人的银钱,推翻他们的桌子,
16 又对卖鸽子的说:「把这些东西拿去!不要将我父的殿当作买卖的地方。」
17 他的门徒就想起经上记着说:「我为你的殿心里焦急,如同火烧。」
信息分享
我们继续来思考诗人在言语上的节制、不把自己的疑惑告诉别人的行为。我认为我们有必要在这一点上作进一步的探讨。我们以前说过基督徒不应该伪装,无论是担忧、贪婪、怨恨、憎恨,我们在任何时候都要承认自己是谁。完全向自己以及向神承认我们的愤怒、担心或充满疑惑都并不是罪,但是我们若不断的专注它,容许它令我们去到绝望的境地,那就成了罪。
但这是否表示,为了要有情感上的健康我们必须把自己真实的感受告诉所有的人呢?答案显然是「不」,不过这个答案也必须有限制。例如:在向辅导员或牧者寻求帮助时,说出自己内心的真实感受是正确的。对于这方面,我认为我们应当采纳的原则是:只有当我们的情绪符合神的计划的时候,我们才可以表达内心的真感受。
这是很重要的一点,也是我们必须清楚明白的。对压抑的治疗不是「让一切都发泄出来」,而是要有正确的选择性,就是只表达那些会符合神的旨意的情绪。我们必须坦白的向自己和向神承认自己所遇到的境况,然后必须小心地考虑与别人说出内心的感受是否正确、是否配合神的目的。
「向神承认我们的感受不是罪」
进深研究
路二十四13-35;加六2-5
1. 耶稣与门徒一同行走的时候给了他们甚么鼓励?
2. 祂如何把未来的盼望给予他们?
祈祷
慈爱的天父,求您帮助我诚实的对待自己的感受,并懂得在表达感受的时间和方式上顺从您完美的旨意。奉耶稣的名祈求,阿们。
The Power of a New Perspective
"Selective expression"

Bible reading:
John 2:13-17
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!"
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."[a]
Message
We continue thinking about the psalmist's decision to take himself in hand and refrain from relaying his doubts to others. I feel it important at this point to say a further word about repression and expression. Christians, we said earlier, are never to pretend about anything. Whether we worry, covet, resent, hate, we are to acknowledge the reality of who we are at any given moment. Fully admitting to ourselves and to God that we are angry, worried or full of doubts, is not sin. It becomes sin when we constantly focus on it and allow it to drag us down into despair.
But does this mean that in order to experience emotional health we must let everything out and tell everybody exactly how we feel? The clear answer to that question is "No", but it is an answer that must be qualified. For example, when seeking help from a counsellor or minister, it would be right to share exactly how you feel. The principle I suggest we adopt in relation to this is as follows: we may express our acknowledged emotions only when such expression is consistent with God's purposes
This is a critical point and it must be understood. The cure for repression is not to "let it all hang out" but to be selective, expressing only those emotions that are in harmony with God's will. We must freely admit to ourselves and to God what is happening to us, but then we must carefully and selectively consider whether it is right and in line with God's purposes to share what we feel with others.
"Admitting our feelings to God is not sin"
Prayer
Gracious and loving Father, help me to be honest with my feelings, yet willing to subordinate the expression of them in both timing and manner to Your perfect will. In Jesus' Name I ask it Amen.
Further study
Luke 24:13-35
Galatians 6:2-5
1. What did Jesus encourage as He walked with the disciples?
2. How did He bring perspective to them?
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