八福
我们「投射」了甚么？
经文
诗篇一三九1-24
1（大卫的诗，交与伶长。）耶和华啊，你已经鉴察我，认识我。
2我坐下，我起来，你都晓得；你从远处知道我的意念。
3我行路，我躺卧，你都细察；你也深知我一切所行的。
4耶和华啊，我舌头上的话，你没有一句不知道的。
5你在我前后环绕我，按手在我身上。
6这样的知识奇妙，是我不能测的，至高，是我不能及的。
7我往哪里去躲避你的灵？我往哪里逃、躲避你的面？
8我若升到天上，你在那里；我若在阴间下榻，你也在那里。
9我若展开清晨的翅膀，飞到海极居住，
10就是在那里，你的手必引导我；你的右手也必扶持我。
11我若说：黑暗必定遮蔽我，我周围的亮光必成为黑夜；
12黑暗也不能遮蔽我，使你不见，黑夜却如白昼发亮。黑暗和光明，在你看都是一样。
13我的肺腑是你所造的；我在母腹中，你已覆庇我。
14我要称谢你，因我受造，奇妙可畏；你的作为奇妙，这是我心深知道的。
15我在暗中受造，在地的深处被联络；那时，我的形体并不向你隐藏。
16我未成形的体质，你的眼早已看见了；你所定的日子，我尚未度一日（或译：我被造的肢体尚未有其一），你都写在你的册上了。
17神啊，你的意念向我何等宝贵！其数何等众多！
18我若数点，比海沙更多；我睡醒的时候，仍和你同在。
19神啊，你必要杀戮恶人；所以，你们好流人血的，离开我去吧！
20因为他们说恶言顶撞你；你的仇敌也妄称你的名。
21耶和华啊，恨恶你的，我岂不恨恶他们吗？攻击你的，我岂不憎嫌他们吗？
22我切切地恨恶他们，以他们为仇敌。
23神啊，求你鉴察我，知道我的心思，试炼我，知道我的意念，
24看在我里面有甚么恶行没有，引导我走永生的道路。
信息分享
昨天结束时我们说过，根据圣经的教导，人若自己没有经历过内心的平安，就没可能成为使人和睦的人。在我们研读八福的过程中，看到它们如何有效地帮助我们建立美好的灵性和心理健康，我们很高兴的发现「耶稣心理学」总是比研究人类行为的发现更为超前。心理学家和精神病专家认为，很多国际和平的对话和活动，实际上是使参与的人能卸除自己压力的心理投射。我虽然不完全认同这种解释，但确实有很多这一类的行动都可以用心理投射的机制来解释。
请看看林连（Louis Linn）和施瓦茨（Leo Schwartz）在他们的著作《精神病学、宗教和经验》（Psychiatry, Religion and Experience）中怎样说：「在年青人内心对和平的渴望背后，是他对理想社会的渴求。由于他将自己内心的无助和混乱投射到外面的世界去，因此他对和平的渴望是以祈求世界和平的形式出现。」很多致力推动世界和平的活跃份子，可能觉得这是难以接受的，但事实是如果没有世界危机让他们得以把自己的感受投射出去，他们可能便会制造其他状况。只要我们自己里面没有平安，我们便会创造状况以反映我们内心不安全的感觉。
「虽然我们做了对的事，但动机却可以是错的」
进深研究
哀五1-5；赛四十八22，五十七20；申二十八67
1.在这些经文中，有哪些可以用来描述这一代？
2.请你今天为这事情祷告。
祈祷
亲爱的父，求您帮助我明白心理投射这一种机制是怎样发生的。我知道虽然我们做了对的事，但动机却可以是错的。神啊，只有您才可以鉴察我的心。我今天要与诗人一起祈求：「神啊，求您鉴察我，知道我的心思。」阿们。
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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