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每日箴言(中英)|禁食时的食粮




每日箴言

禁食时的食粮 

“人活着,不是单靠食物,乃是靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。” - 申8:3

 灵修

以色列民在旷野禁食四十年,只吃吗哪以及喝水,可是摩西仍然要教导他们明白那漫长的禁食的意义。在旷野流荡的时候,他们需要知道,生命的每一刻,都要依靠神以及祂对他们所说的话。


离开埃及的时候,以色列民应该不愁吃的,因为他们带了他们的羊群牛群同行(出埃及记12:38)。然而,真正能维持他们生命的食粮,却是每一天出自神口的吗哪;真正能为他们解渴的,乃是由神变甜的水,以及神大能的话语使磐石裂开流出来的水(参看出埃及记15:22-17:7)。


那个时候,以色列民不再吃埃及的食物,只吃他们自已的牲口,但这不算是禁食。在旷野中,神的子民接受了一个新的菜单:“耶和华口里所出的一切话”。概括起来,就是:尽你所能去爱神,又爱人如已。


禁食让耶稣的门徒吃这新菜单上的食物,这食物就是神的话。真正的禁食就是效法基督,衪在旷野禁食四十天,并没有经不起试探去找东西吃,祂只是靠神口里所出的一切话,所以祂屡次说:“经上记着说”。


今天,你有没有效法耶稣基督的榜样呢?

 祷告

主啊,我们为日用的饮食感谢祢。求祢帮助我们,靠神口里所出的一切话而活。阿们。


普世佳音每日箴言

 The Food Of Fasting 

Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. — Deuteronomy 8:3


 Devotion

Israel had spent forty years of fasting on manna and water in the desert, but Moses still had to teach them what that long fast was all about. In their wanderings they needed to know that every moment of their lives depended on God and his Word for them.


Israel had plenty to eat when they left Egypt, for they had taken their flocks and herds with them (Exodus 12:38). But the food that really kept them alive was the daily manna God spoke into existence, and the drink that really quenched their thirst was the water that God sweetened and the water that flowed from rocks split by his mighty Word (see Exodus 15:22-17:7).


When Israel left behind the food of Egypt and limited themselves to their own herds, that was not fasting. In the desert God’s people received a new menu: “every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” In a nutshell it comes down to this: Love God with everything you have, and love your neighbor as yourself.


Fasting enables Christ’s disciples to eat from the new menu, the Word of God. Real fasting imitates the example of Christ, who did not give in to temptations to make his own food during his forty-day fast, who lived only by every word that comes from the mouth of God, and who repeatedly said: “It is written.”


Are you following Christ’s example today?


 Prayer

We thank you, Lord, for our daily bread. Help us to live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Amen.

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