596 中翻英 (296) Do not steal the God's glory. 不要虧欠上帝的榮耀. 11/29/2023

596 中翻英 (296)             Do not steal the God's glory.            不要虧欠上帝的榮耀.        11/29/2023

十一月二十九日

「因為我見了你的面，如同見了神的面。」（創   33:10 新國際版）

雅各說這句令人惊奇的話是什么意思呢？他在毗努伊勒曾面對面的看見神，現在他形容他与以掃的會面，正如再次的看見了神的面！這也許是出于諂媚，顯明雅各仍然保留著一些他早年那詭詐多謀的性格，這也可能是一种自由，承認將家人和產業分隊行進的精心安排，都不過是浪費時間而已。當以掃在歡迎他的時候，他就認識拯救已經臨到了他，但不是借著他自己的聰明和謀略，乃是憑著神管治一切的權能。然而還有一個可能的意義，這意義是一個具有普遍性的屬靈事實，那就是說：我們所得罪的人，他們對于我們，必會常常在代表著神。當我們看見他們的時候，就好像是看見了神，并能叫我們有受審判和被定罪的感覺。感謝神，如果有這种情形出現，那就顯明我們的心在神面前是實實在在的謙卑下來了。這也可能導至蒙怜恤并彼此和好。經上說：「先去同弟兄和好，然后來獻禮物。」（太   5:24） 

November 29

"For to see your face is like seeing the face of God." (Genesis 33:10 NIV)

What does this astonishing statement mean?  Jacob, who had seen God face to face at Peniel, now  describes his meeting with Esau as if he were again seeing the face of God!  It may have been mere flattery, an evidence that Jacob still retained something of his earlier scheming nature.  It may also have been a kind of confession that all his elaborately planned arrangment of his family and possessions had been a waste of time.  In Esau's welcome he may have recognized that deliverance had come to him, not through his own clever artifice but through the overruling of  God.  But there is one more possible meaning, and this is a universal spiritual fact.  It is that those whom we have wronged will always represent God to us. When we see them, it is as though we were meeting God.  It can be in judgement. Thank God if, when this is so, our hearts are truly humbled before Him. It can also meam mercy and reconciliation. "First be econciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift." (Matthew 5:24)