學習如何求告上帝

摘要

振作起來,你這個懶人。跪下來,抬起你的眼睛和手,伸向天堂!讀一篇詩篇,或主禱文,呼求上帝,含著眼淚地把你的困難放在上帝面前。



詩篇118:5 我在急難中求告耶和華,他就應允我,把我安置在寬闊之地。

經文說:「求告上帝」。你必須學習呼求上帝。
1. 不要坐著,或躺在沙發上,低頭或搖頭禱告。
2. 不要憂慮而摧毀自己。
3. 不要嘗試、掙扎著釋放自己。
4. 不要嘮叨著你的罪孽、苦難、和悲慘。
5. 對自己說:「振作起來,你這個懶人。6. 跪下來,抬起你的眼睛和手,伸向天堂!」
7. 讀一篇詩篇,或主禱文,呼求上帝,含著眼淚地把你的困難放在上帝面前。正如經文所說的那樣,哀聲禱告。詩篇142:1-2說:「我發聲哀告耶和華,發聲懇求耶和華。我在他面前吐露我的苦情,陳說我的患難。」詩篇141:2說:「願我的禱告如香陳列在你面前!願我舉手祈求,如獻晚祭!」在這裡,你學習到禱告,陳說你的患難,陳列在他的面前。
8. 上帝不願你們折磨自己,加重擔給自己,而加增苦楚。
9. 他願意你承認自己的軟弱,不堪重負。
10. 他要你們在他裏面成長得剛強。用他的能力,他藉著你得榮耀。
只有經歷這些,人才成為真正的基督徒。否則,人不過是在咿呀學語,空談信仰和靈魂,不過顯明自己在所談之事上無知而已。——馬丁路德(AE 14:60-61)


Learning to Call
Psalm 118:5. Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
We read: “I called upon the Lord.” You must learn to call. Do not sit by yourself or lie on a couch, hanging and shaking your head. Do not destroy yourself with your own thoughts by worrying. Do not strive and struggle to free yourself, and do not brood on your wretchedness, suffering, and misery. Say to yourself: “Come on, you lazy burn; down on your knees, and lift your eyes and hands toward heaven!” Read a psalm or the Our Father, call on God, and tearfully lay your troubles before Him. Mourn and pray, as this verse teaches, and also Ps. 142:2: “I pour out my complaint before Him, I tell my trouble before Him.” Likewise Ps. 141:2: “Let my prayer be counted as incense before Thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!” Here you learn that praying, reciting your troubles, and lifting up your hands are sacrifices most pleasing to God. It is His desire and will that you lay your troubles before Him. He does not want you to multiply your troubles by burdening and torturing yourself. He wants you to be too weak to bear and overcome such troubles; He wants you to grow strong in Him. By His strength He is glorified in you. Out of such experiences men become real Christians. Otherwise, men are mere babblers, who prate about faith and spirit but are ignorant of what it is all about or of what they themselves are saying. (AE 14:60–61)


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