| 我还是非常苦闷 |
| 送交者: 网友讨论 2004年02月18日08:28:47 于 [彩虹之约] 发送悄悄话 |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 我想起我的一个长辈校友,对我的评价:你这人呢,并不是事业上性格上很强的女人,可是一直也没有人照顾你,关爱你;你渴望爱,可是表面上对异性又很冷漠;是严肃的基督徒,可是心里又充满主不喜悦的思想。所以你整个人就是这样矛盾。。。。他对我的建议,还是重点落在怎样改善经济状况上。他说其他的事情相对次要拉,先经济上稳定下来,其他事情可能都有突破了。。。我看他和其他很多人的生活,他们没有神,可是他们的生活有目标,一步一步走,逐渐都实现了自己的梦想,也有丰富的生活。可我有什么?我的一生好像都在错过,错过受宠爱的童年,错过热情浪漫的青少年,总是在强迫自己,读不喜欢读的书,作不喜欢作的事,直到现在。每天去上班,就渴望快点下班。神知道我是怎样一个充满奔放的激情,热烈浪漫的女子!可是我每天必须作什么呀!都是无聊的事情,唯一的用处是换来几个小钱,苟延残喘下去。这算什么呀! 我一直觉得我一切不快乐的根源,是没有找到在社会上的位置,没有一个自己喜欢的事情可做。也不知道人生的目标是什么,方向在哪里。而怎样去找到这个位置,发挥自己的才能,圣经里面好像并没有教导。很多不信神的人,也有清晰的人生目标,人家也很好。。道理我当然懂了,属世界的成功是不完全的,没有神的拯救我们还生活在罪里。可是的可是,天上的宝座也好,荣耀也罢,都是以后的事情,我现在还没死,我不想去想那些。未知生,焉知死?活都不知道怎么活得充实,死后的荣耀于我何干?神说我们要行公义,好怜悯。可是我看周围的人,也没有多少人比我还难的了。怜悯谁呀? 我现在心里烦乱得很。我在想,是否我在职业上要来一个剧烈的改变方向,让生活重新开始。我想我就是作一个狗仔队记者每天写八卦新闻我也会开心得多。。。我想向神求给我一个收入高一些的工作,也不知道是否是妄求。很多很多时候,我感觉我就是在主耶稣的家里,也就和在我自己家里一样,名义上我是这家的儿女,可是永远是被冷落的。如果向主要什么,他和我自己的父亲一样,虽然他什么都有,可是什么也不会给我。 说到婚姻大事,我对男人已经很难有相信。如果我今天有钱,我明天就可以出嫁。因为不是这样,才有许多麻烦。有一个老婆能挣钱,能办绿卡,帮着PAY MORGAGE,就是一般男人的向往呀。至於我的种种好处,我心思绵密,缠绵敏感,热烈奔放,这些有谁懂又有谁在乎?每每想到这些,我都痛苦得不行。喜乐,喜乐什么呀? 我多次问过弟兄姐妹,圣经和一般的属世智慧,关系是什么。富兰克林就很有属世智慧,而没有多少基督徒的气息。而这里有不少貌似属灵的基督徒,自己的生活一塌糊涂不说,闹出多少笑话羞辱主名!;理论上说,属世智慧是包括在圣经真理里面的。可是我怎么读经就找不到我问题的答案,怎么回事情? 而苦难的来源有下刊数种: 1. 不知来源,无以名之的苦。苦难是犯罪世间中人看不清的奥秘,一切想要解释苦难的努力,往往在世间种种的苦难前,束手无策哑口无言。先把此点列下,好象创造论中的时沟论(Gap Theory),把所有年代问题往沟中一丢了事。 2. 为罪受苦。彼得说:你们中间却不可有人因为杀人、偷窃、作恶、好管闲事而受苦。顺着肉体撒种,自然收败坏。问题是罪的苦果外包着罪中之乐的糖衣,使人留连忘返。至终遭受罪的咒诅,在死的毒钩上失去盼望。 3. 为己受苦。这是虽然已经信主,心存世界价值观的「半吊子基督徒」之苦。身在曹营心在汉,心中向往耶和华所命定之福,却还忘不了日光之下的短暂虚空之福乐。问题是人心不足蛇吞象,物质情欲的满足总是片刻之间。你我心中己的无底洞是物质世界、有限的人填不满的!请看看哪一个丈夫能让妻子满足的?撒玛利亚妇人五个丈夫就喜乐了吗? 4. 为义受苦。是耶稣说的为义受逼迫的人有福了!因为天国是他们的。也是彼得说的因行善而受苦。别人作弊你不作弊,别人贪污的脑满肠肥,你却两袖清风喝西北风。被恶人告状踩在脚底,你还傻乎乎地自得其乐。 5. 为主受苦。是耶稣说的:人若因我辱骂你们,逼迫你们,捏造各样坏话毁谤你们,你们就有福了!也是彼得说的:你们若是为基督的名受辱骂,便是有福的;因为神荣耀的灵常住在你们身上。为主受苦者才能靠主喜乐!(约翰福音 16:20-22我实实在在地告诉你们,你们将要痛哭、哀号,世人倒要喜乐;你们将要忧愁,然而你们的忧愁要变为喜乐。妇人生产的时候就忧愁,因为她的时候到了;既生了孩子,就不再记念那苦楚,因为欢喜世上生了一个人。你们现在也是忧愁,但我要再见你们,你们的心就喜乐了;这喜乐也没有人能夺去。) “读经,祷告,聚会,奉献,传福音,我都在做,可是我还是非常苦闷。” 你需要的是健康的思想!在没有健康的思想之前,你的生活即使改变了,仍然会有新的忧虑出来搅扰你,这样你将会永远活在忧虑中。不要生活在忧虑的漩涡中,对你的身心健康没有好处。上帝要给你好东西,只是你自己不走出自己的忧虑,这好东西你也拿不到,即使你拿到了,没过多久在你看来它也不是好的了!你有很多好东西,上帝已经给了你,你忘记了吗?回头好好数算数算。至于,男孩子会不会喜欢你,要看你有没有健康的心态,不是能不能赚钱。你应该改名,叫“喜乐”,使自己快乐起来!!! 女人是上帝用男人的肋骨做的,专门侍候男人的。可是,这肋骨不仅不侍候男人,反而教唆男人偷禁果。结果使男人被赶出伊甸园,必须每天辛苦才可得食。同时,为了惩罚女人的原罪,上帝命女人必须每月流血,生孩子必须承受痛苦。 今天,这个肋骨要和男人争平等。要爬到男人头上。上帝一定会对女人施加更多的惩罚,每日用利剑穿女人的心,让她们每日痛不欲生。这就是上帝的公义。 Maybe you should give praise to Lord. That he did not answer your pray and let you marry, since you are not ready yet.Why not enjoy it, a lot of people actually missed their single days. I remember in serman , a paster said before he got married, he could eat whatever he wanted freely, but now he had to ask his wife's opinion. he said it's ok to be single, but not good to be alone. single life should be enjoyed: you have more freedom and can join your friends whenever you want. 记得Joshua好象说过:与神和好,你可以找他那个贴出来看看。其实,就是对自己所有和所没有的宽容,接受,乃至满意,对别人所有和所缺的慢慢少些挑剔,多些怜悯,少些比较,多些同情------。把眼光盯在哪怕只有50%的丰富上(健康,有热水澡洗,有温暖的床睡,不用挤前心贴后背的某些国内交通,有干净可身的衣服就因该算〉53.6%了),享受! 那剩下的47%的冷落,求神要么给你智慧和力量对付,要么让你能做到忽视有等到的耐心,要么帮你解决,要么就容许你用自己的力量去破釜沉舟---- Joy is at the heart of God’s plan for human beings. Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. We will not understand God until we understand this about Him: God is the happiest being in the universe. God also knows sorrow. Jesus is remembered, among other things, as “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” But the sorrow of God, like the anger of God, is His temporary response to a fallen world. That sorrow will be banished forever from His heart on the day the world is set right. Joy is God’s basic character. Joy is His eternal destiny. God is the happiest universe in the universe. There is a being in this universe who wants you to live in sorrow, but it is not God. God’s intent was that His creation would mirror his joy. As products of God’s creation, creatures made in His image, we are to reflect God’s fierce joy in life. To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence. We are invited to rejoice in every moment of life because every moment of life is a gift. We don’t earn the life, cannot control it, and cannot take a moment of it for granted. Every tick of the clock is a gift from God. Joy is a command. Joylessness is a serious sin. It may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church. It is rarely the object of church discipline. “This day is a holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep… Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our LORD; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Joy is strength. Its absence will create weakness. Failure to attain a deeply satisfying life always has the effect of making sinful actions seem good. Normally, our success in overcoming temptation will be easier if we are basically happy in our lives. You can become a joyful person. With God’s help, it really is possible. But joyfulness is a learned skill. You must take responsibility for your joy. Not your friend, not your parent, not your spouse, not your kids, not your boss—your joy is your responsibility. The first step for pursuing joy is simply to begin now. The psalmist says, “This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” This is God’s day. It is the day God made, a day that Christ’s death has redeemed. If we are going to know joy, it must be in this day—today. We all live with the illusion that joy will come someday when conditions change. But this is not true. If we don’t rejoice today, we will not rejoice at all. If we wait until conditions are perfect, we will still be waiting when we die. If we are going to rejoice, it must be in this day. This is the day that the LORD has made. God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day. Just as love, joy is an essential part of the kingdom of God. Joy is the serious business of heaven. The joy that is in store for God’s people is so great that the only image that can do it justice is the joy between a lover and his beloved, the wedding. Then God will dance with His people. Then joy will reign undiminished and uninterrupted. Anything impossible begins with something possible. Let us rejoice now. 看完后再问我们自己一个问题:Am I a Kingdom seeker? Or am I very much a pagan in heart but under spiritual disguise?
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