MyFav*GoldVerse - 我的最愛*聖經金句

Sharing - Rachael

哥林多前書6章 “前後一致”



哥林多教會是一間很亂的教會，無論在道德上、在基督徒的生活上，和在做人的原則上都相當無知。這和我今天的社會和教會沒有甚麼多大的分別！

社會和教會生活是分不開的。基督徒在教會中生活，也在社會中生活，互相影響是肯定的，我在屬世的社會中生活依然要保持我們的屬靈原則，因為我只有一個身分和一個真正的我，我不能出賣我自己，在教會過得虔誠，卻同時在社會過著你欺我詐的生活；我也不能偽裝自己，在社會扮演一個好好公民，做事能幹，非常負責，但一來到教會，凡事無關緊要，沒有委身，沒有責任感，甚至來不來教會也沒甚麼多大的問題；工作生活頂呱呱、私人生活一塌糊塗、教會生活可有可無！ 我到底是誰？原來是一個前後不一致，沒有原則，無知的一個人？


保羅的提醒：

基督徒有尊貴的身分（1－6節），然而卻沒有好見證（7－8節），沒有適當的行為，結果和未信徒一樣：一樣不義（9－10）！！我們不能出賣自己的身分和自己：我們只有一個身分，就是因為我們相信了基督，成為了基督徒，能在祂裡面享受真正的自由，因此可以不再罪的控告下，開始一個“真正的我－基督徒”的生活。這個真正的我學習前後一致、學習做”以基督為中心“的正確的選擇，所以在做任何事情、說任何話，我們要想到我們是屬於主的，得罪人、得罪自己也等於得罪主（12－20節）。

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Sharing - Maggie
 
Psalm 139



1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, our right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.



I remember when I was a little girl I was very scared of the dark. I often cried and trembled in bed and my sister used to always try to comfort me. However, nothing seemed to ever take away the fear in my heart. Once she read to me the words of God in Psalms 139, and I remember immediately feeling a sense of warmth and comfort even though I couldn’t fully understand the meaning of each word at the time.


As I grew up, I was able to comprehend more and more what God is saying in this passage. How true is it that the Lord is our refuge. He is our creator, the one that knit us together in our mother’s womb. To Him, darkness is not dark and the night will shine like the day. Because of this, I feel so assured in Him that I have come to learn to place all things in Him.

God is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere present. God knows us, God is with us, and his greatest gift is to allow us to know him. No matter what we are facing we can be assured that God understands. Like David prayed, before a word is on my tongue, God knows it completely. As such, I no longer fear the dark, nor do I let worries get on top of me, because I know that there is someone there waiting for me with an open arm, and that is Him – our amazing and gracious God.