【诗18:37】我要追赶我的仇敌，并要追上他们，不将他们灭绝，我总不归回。【Psa 18:37】I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were destroyed.

大卫在这首诗里，看见了神带领他成长的整个过程：神救他脱离本能的“逃跑”与“躲避”，训练他脱离惊慌恐惧与死亡的围困。In this psalm, David looks back and sees the whole journey of how God led him to grow. God rescued him from his natural instinct to “run away” and “hide,” and trained him to break free from panic, fear, and the threat of death closing in on him. 神教导他在危难中把神‘摆在’面前，‘投靠’藏身在神的话语里，以神作他的盾牌，躲过仇敌的火箭；以赞美让神的救恩临到；又教导他的手学习争战，使他的膀臂有力、内心不断强壮起来。God taught him, in times of danger, to deliberately set the Lord before him, to take refuge by hiding in God’s word, to use God as his shield and escape the enemy’s fiery arrows; to bring God’s saving power through praise; and to train his hands for battle, strengthening his arms and continually strengthening his inner life.

在这节经文中，一个全新的大卫跃然而出--他竟然开始转身“追赶”仇敌，且不达目的绝不罢休。In this verse, a completely new David steps forward—he actually turns around and begins to pursue his enemies, and will not stop until the task is finished. 这种翻转不是血气之勇，是经历了神“从高天伸手抓住他”（16节）、经历了“神的话语是炼净的”（30节）以及“神使他的地步宽阔”（36节）后的结果。This change is not driven by human impulse or bravado, but flows from his experience of God “reaching down from on high and taking hold of him” (v.16), his experience that “the word of God is refined” (v.30), and that “God made his path wide and secure” (v.36). 大卫的生命脱胎换骨，认识到神不仅是他的盾牌保护他；更要成为他的力量，使他能主动出击消灭仇敌，为神国奋勇争战，扩展神的国度和产业。David’s life is transformed from the inside out. He comes to understand that God is not only his shield who protects him, but also his strength, empowering him to take the initiative, defeat the enemy, fight courageously for God’s kingdom, and expand God’s kingdom and inheritance.

主啊，你也曾救我脱离罪和死亡，在慈爱温和里医治、释放我，使我慢慢成熟。Lord, You have also rescued me from sin and death, and in Your gentle and faithful love You have healed and set me free, allowing me to grow step by step. 但在我的生命里还有恐惧、骄傲、羞耻感、不顺服、冷漠、贪爱世界、自我保护机制，以及撒旦射过来的负面火箭，这些属灵“仇敌”常常向我反扑。Yet in my life there are still fear, pride, shame, disobedience, coldness, love for the world, self-protection habits, and the negative fiery arrows shot by Satan. These spiritual “enemies” often rise up and attack me again.

你透过大卫提醒我：在你的救恩里，你不仅救我作我的盾牌，训练我投靠你的话语躲避仇敌，更要医治我、兴起我，变被动为主动，让我反败为胜、夺地为业！Through David, You remind me that in Your salvation, You do not only save me and act as my shield, training me to take refuge in Your word to avoid the enemy, but You also heal me and raise me up—turning me from passive to active, from defeat to victory, so that I may take possession of the land You have given me.

主啊，感谢你为我在十字架上败坏撒旦的国度，胜过阴间的权势，掳掠仇敌，把你的国赐给我，使我在你国中有份，使我在地上活着有方向、有盼望。Lord, thank You for defeating Satan’s kingdom on the cross for me, overcoming the power of death and the grave, plundering the enemy, and giving me Your kingdom, allowing me to have a share in it, so that my life on earth has direction and hope. 为着你过往对我的搭救、存留我的生命；为着你的呼召和拣选，我要起来背起我的十字架--这已经胜过仇敌、大能的兵器，追赶我的‘仇敌’，并要追上它们，将它们从我里面赶尽灭绝！Because of Your past deliverance and preservation of my life, and because of Your calling and choosing of me, I now rise to take up my cross—this powerful weapon that has already overcome the enemy—and pursue my “enemies,” overtake them, and drive them out of my life completely.

赐我力量的主耶稣啊，我爱你！求你扶持我，使我因你十字架的得胜，走你十字架的道路，靠你十字架的大能，向罪死，战胜罪的权势，得以自由。Lord Jesus, who gives me strength, I love You. Please sustain me, so that because of the victory of Your cross, I may walk the way of the cross, rely on the power of the cross, die to sin, overcome the power of sin, and live in freedom.也能帮助跟我一样被罪、这“仇敌”辖制的人，与这仇敌争战。求你记念我们是称为你名下的人，使我们起来成为勇士，尽心竭力，为你的国度而战！ May I also help those who, like me, are controlled by sin—this “enemy”—to fight against it. Remember that we are called by Your name, and raise us up to become warriors, giving ourselves fully and fighting with all our strength for Your kingdom.

(贾弟兄 Brother Jia)