什么是福?金钱、地位、权势?诗篇一开始就告诉我们真理:真正的有福,是心被神的话语占据的人。What is blessing? Money, status, power? Right from the opening of the Psalms, we are shown the truth: true blessing belongs to the person whose heart is filled with God’s word.
因神的话是我们脚前的灯,路上的光,指引我们前方的道路。神的话句句带着能力,耶稣用神的话击退撒但的谎言和试探。我们将神的话存记在心中,就比仇敌有智慧!God’s word is a lamp for our feet and a light for our path, showing us the way ahead. Every word of God carries power; Jesus used God’s word to defeat Satan’s lies and temptations. When we store God’s word in our hearts, we become wiser than the enemy. 能够昼夜思想神的话,不是重担,而是因着“喜爱”。能够“喜爱”,是因着相信,并经历了神的真实。神的话是灵魂的食物,品尝过才知其中的饱足和甘甜。Meditating on God’s word day and night is not a burden—it flows out of delight. And that delight comes from believing and experiencing that God is real. God’s word is food for the soul; only those who have tasted it know its richness and sweetness.
主啊,我每天在日夜思想什么?我反复咀嚼的,是神的话,还是别人的评价、对未来的担忧、心里的委屈与不平?Lord, what am I thinking about day and night? What do I keep chewing over—Your word, or other people’s opinions, worries about the future, inner hurts and unfairness? 多少时候,就像生病的孩子不想吃饭一样,我不想读经,不想祷告,不想聚会,以至偏行己路,掉在坑中…多少次在软弱中,当我转向你,是你的话给我力量,使我重新刚强!你的话语是如此有能力!So often I am like a sick child with no appetite: I don’t want to read the Bible, I don’t want to pray, I don’t want to gather with others, and I end up going my own way and falling into trouble. And yet, time and again in my weakness, when I turn back to You, it is Your word that gives me strength and restores me. Your word is truly powerful.
主啊,我承认我虽读经,却谈不上“喜爱”你的话,终日有很多胡思乱想,却没有把你和你的话放在我心中的首位,我也因此失去了许多的祝福…Lord, I confess that although I read the Bible, I cannot yet say that I truly delight in Your word. My mind is often full of scattered thoughts, and I have not placed You and Your word first in my heart—and because of that, I have missed many blessings.新的一年,我想成为有福的人!主,当我因懒惰忘记时,当我忙于做事,不依靠神时,当我遇到难处,心里着急时,当我的心被世界牵引诱惑时…求圣灵提醒我转向真理,In this new year, I want to be a blessed person. Lord, when I forget through laziness, when I get busy and stop relying on You, when I face difficulties and become anxious, when my heart is drawn away and tempted by the world—please let the Holy Spirit remind me to turn back to the truth. 使我殷勤操练读经、默想、宣告、并遵行你的话,成为真正有福的人,也成为祝福的管道,见证你话语的信实和大能!Help me to practise diligently reading, meditating on, declaring, and obeying Your word, so that I may truly live as a blessed person, and also become a channel of blessing, bearing witness to the faithfulness and power of Your word.
(付传道 Pastor Fu)