新视域的力量
接受并传讲
经文
约翰福音二十10-18
10于是两个门徒回自己的住处去了。
11马利亚却站在坟墓外面哭。哭的时候，低头往坟墓里看，
12就见两个天使，穿著白衣，在安放耶稣身体的地方坐着，一个在头，一个在脚。
13天使对他说：妇人，你为甚么哭？他说：因为有人把我主挪了去，我不知道放在那里。
14说了这话，就转过身来，看见耶稣站在那里，却不知道是耶稣。
15耶稣问他说：妇人，为甚么哭？你找谁呢？马利亚以为是看园的，就对他说：先生，若是你把他移了去，请告诉我，你把他放在那里，我便去取他。
16耶稣说：马利亚。马利亚就转过来，用希伯来话对他说：拉波尼！（拉波尼就是夫子的意思。）
17耶稣说：不要摸我，因我还没有升上去见我的父。你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说，我要升上去见我的父，也是你们的父，见我的神，也是你们的神。
18抹大拉的马利亚就去告诉门徒说：我已经看见了主。他又将主对他说的这话告诉他们。
信息分享
我们研读诗篇七十三篇已经来到最后的两天，现在要面对一个重要而实际的问题，那就是：我们当怎样保持亲近神？首先，我们可以借着祷告。保持亲近神的人总是常常与神交流。很多人已经提出了许多祷告的定义，我要再加上一个：祷告是与神合作。在祷告中，你将自己的渴望，自己的意志，自己的生命与神配合。神与你在生命的渴望、生命的目的、生命的计划上需要有一致的看法，然后一起实行出来。
第二，我们可以借着不住研读圣经来保持亲近神。神的圣言是有生命的，充满意义的，你阅读它的时候就会得到改变，因为「神的道是活泼的，是有功效的，比一切两刃的剑更快」（来四12）。当你期望圣经对你说话的时候它便会对你说话。信心是一种期望，如经文说「照着你们的信，给你们成全了吧！」（太九29）。同时，也要降服于启示出来的真理：「人若立志遵着他的旨意行，就必晓得……」（约七17）。在道德的宇宙中，知识的关键是道德的回应。我们若停止顺服，启示便停止出现。
第三，我们可以借着与别人分享来保持亲近神。要记得，如果我们不愿意分享，那些东西也不属于我们。当我们分享时，那些讯息便更进到我们内心深处。我们必须与别人分享神正在做的事情，包括与基督徒和非基督徒。诗人最后的话是：「好叫我述说你一切的作为。」我们要接受并且不断传讲神的信息，因为这是基督徒信仰的重要经验。
「要与神有一致的看法」
进深研究
耶二十1-9；诗六十六16；赛六十三7
1. 神的话在耶利米心里好像甚么？
2. 诗人说他会做甚么？
祈祷
慈爱的天父，我不想只是偶然亲近您，我想它成为一种持续的经历。求您帮助我付上代价，无论是多大的代价。奉耶稣的名祈求，阿们。
The Power of a New Perspective
Take and tell
Bible reading:
John 20:10-18
10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him."
14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, "Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."
16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means "Teacher").
17 Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.
Message
Today, on this penultimate day of our meditations on Psalm 73, we face the important practical question: How do we go about the task of keeping close to God? Firstly, we do so by prayer. The person who keeps close to God is the one who is always talking to God. Many definitions of prayer have been given; I add another prayer is co-operation with God. In prayer you align your desires, your will, your life to God. You and God become agreed on life desires, life purposes, life plans, and you work them out together.
Secondly, we do it by constant study of the Scriptures. God's Word is alive with meaning, and when you read it something will happen to you, for "the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword" (Heb. 4:12, NKJ). Expect it to speak to you - and it will. Faith is expectancy: "According to your faith will it be done to you" (Matt. 9:29). Remember also to surrender to the truth that is revealed: "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know..." (John 7:17, NKJ). In a moral universe the key to knowledge is moral response. The moment we cease to obey, that moment the revelation ceases to reveal
We do it, thirdly, by sharing with others. Remember, nothing is ours if we do not share it. When we share, the things go deeper inside us. We must share what God is doing, both with our fellow Christians and with non-Christians also. The psalmist's last words are these: "I will tell of all your deeds." We take and we tell - we take and we tell; these, we must never forget, are the two heartbeats of the Christian experience.
"Be agreed with God"
Prayer
Gracious Father, I don't want nearness to You to be an occasional experience - I want it to be a perpetual experience. Help me to pay the price, no matter what it costs. In Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen.
Further study
Jeremiah. 20:1-9
Psalm 66:16
Isaiah 63:7
1. What was God's Word like in Jeremiah's heart?
2. What did the psalmist say he would do?
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