254 中翻英 (五) How excellent is Your name。 祢的名何其美。 1/2/2023
親愛的主耶穌,愛我們的子上帝,祢的名何其美。世人正在藉演化論褻瀆祢的聖名,求祢賜孩子智慧,見證祢的實存 : 孩子深信祢是真上帝,由童貞女瑪利亞(Mary)所生,為贖孩子所犯的罪債,被釘在十字架上,三天後從死復活,升天,坐在父上帝的右邊,祢要再來世上建立祢的國度。奉主耶穌的聖名禱告。阿門。
昨日編輯者送上一席曠野的筵席給來訪的朋友。 今日是我將僅有微小的五餅二魚奉獻給主,求祂使用,供應世上屬靈饑餓的人。
一月二日
「耶和華我們的主阿,你的名在全地何其美!」(詩:1,9)
當世人正在褻瀆神的圣名的時候,那位詩篇的作者,卻看見了神的偉大而在惊奇中歡呼說:「耶和華我們的主阿,你的名在全地何其美!」他自己雖是一位詩人,卻無法找出适當的辭句,來表達父神那榮耀尊貴之名的真實价值,因此,他只好由衷而喊出「何其美!」并且這難以描述的「何其美,」是布滿了全地!在此,我們确實發現了創世記第一章里的回聲:神看著一切所造的都甚好!詩人既是以這樣的頌辭為開始,也以同樣的頌辭為這篇詩的結語,其中卻沒有題到人的墮落。如果是我們寫詩的話,我們必定將那一件不幸的事包括在里面。但是神是永不改變的。在做詩人的眼光中,雖有亞當的失敗,也決不能改變神「派人管理祂手所造的」那最終的計划和目的。因為就在這一點上,主耶穌被帶進來了!希伯來書二章五至八節,就是詩篇第八篇的注解。主耶穌就是神所設立的那一個「人」。祂已經對付了罪惡,并得胜了一切;神所有的愿望,在祂身上已完全實現了。然而祂卻是与我們互相關聯著(希伯來書 2:11)。父神在祂所命定的道路上,是一直往前的,它們絕不能被更改而稍有偏差。「主我們的上帝阿,祢的名在全地何其美!」
"O Lord
our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8:1,9)
In an hour when
men are blaspheming the Lord’s name, the psalmist can only exclaim in wonder at
its greatness. Though himself a poet, he is at loss for words to express its worth. All he can do is
cry “How excellent!” And this
unspeakable excellence is “in all the earth!" Here we do find an echo of Genesis
1, where all God beheld “was very good!”
But having begun thus, the write concludes his psalm with an identical tribute
to the excellent Name, and this without so much as mention of the Fall of man.
If we write poetry, we would have felt bound to bring that in. But God is unchanging,
and to the the psalmist even Adam’s sin could not reverse His intention that in
the end man should “have dominion”. For at this point the Lord Jesus steps in! It is Hebrews 2 that illumines Psalm 8. He is that
Man, and He has already dealt with sin. In Him all God’s desire is realized, and He is
related to us (Hebrews 2:11). There is no deviation in the ways of God the
Father : they go straight forward. "O Lord
our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!"
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