2012 禁食日记 – 第27天： “小女子” 2012 Fasting Diary – Day 27: “Young girl”

 

第二十七天（02/09/12)

有时候我们会因为自卑感，或轻看自己，或自哀自怜，而不敢荣耀神，或做该做的事；事实上，上帝非常愿意使用我们任何一个人，无论我们背景地位如何。当面对比我们更强大有势力的人时，我们要思想我们的神比任何人都大；当我们担心所讲的真理没有人会相信时，我们要知道神喜悦我们分享就足够了。

今天的经文提到的小女子，只不过是一位被掳到外邦为奴的无名小女子，她却没有对上帝苦毒或忘记神的伟大，反而对上帝信心坚定，也有勇气把福音传给国王的元帅，而救了元帅一命！在一般情况，我们往往会认为一个大元帅根本对一个小奴隶的劝告毫无兴趣，所以若我们是那奴隶，大概会闭口不言。。。

“亚兰王的元帅乃缦在他主人面前为尊为大，因耶和华曾借他使亚兰人得胜。他又是大能的勇士，只是长了大麻风。 2 先前亚兰人成群地出去，从以色列国掳了一个小女子，这女子就服侍乃缦的妻。 3 她对主母说：“巴不得我主人去见撒马利亚的先知，必能治好他的大麻风。” ”
～ 王下 5:1-3 ～

 

Day 27 (02/09/12)

Sometimes due to our inferiority complex, or despising ourselves, or self-pity, we do not dare to glorify God or do what we ought to. In actual fact, God is very willing to use anyone regardless of your background and status. When facing people “greater” or more powerful than us, we must consider our God is bigger than anyone else; and when worrying about nobody listening to the Truth we are going to share, we must remember it is enough as long as God is pleased with what we are sharing.

The young girl the passage mentions today was no more than a nameless slave girl who was a captive in a foreign land. Despite that, she did not harbour bitterness toward God or forget God’s greatness, instead her faith was still firm and strong and she even had the boldness to share the good news with the king’s commander of the army and saved the commander’s life! In normal circumstances, we would tend to think a powerful commander would not be bothered with what a young slave girl had got to advise at all; so if were that slave girl, we would probably just keep our mouth shut…

“Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.2 Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.””
~ 2 Kings 5:1-3 ~