Proverbs 1:20-33
20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; 21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: 22 “How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? 23 If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. 24 But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, 25 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, 26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. . . . 32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.”
20智慧在街市上呼喊、在寬闊處發聲．21在熱鬧街頭喊叫、在城門口、在城中發出言語．22說、你們愚昧人喜愛愚昧、褻慢人喜歡褻慢、愚頑人恨惡知識、要到幾時呢。23你們當因我的責備回轉．我要將我的靈澆灌你們、將我的話指示你們。24我呼喚、你們不肯聽從．我伸手、無人理會．25反輕棄我一切的勸戒、不肯受我的責備。26你們遭災難、我就發笑．驚恐臨到你們、我必嗤笑．27驚恐臨到你們、好像狂風、災難來到、如同暴風．急難痛苦臨到你們身上．...32愚昧人背道、必殺己身．愚頑人安逸、必害己命。33惟有聽從我的、必安然居住、得享安靜、不怕災禍。
- 很多時我不明白神的旨意，試圖用自己的能力去改變一切，或用自己的意思去做事，以致焦頭爛額。就算明知這是神不喜悅，仍照己意而行。但神說(v23)若我們對祂的責備(rebuke)有回應(response)，祂就會pour out His heart to me and made His thoughts known to me，祂會全心全意的讓我知道祂的心思意念。若神願意全心全意，難道我不是更要全心全意pour my heart to Him。願意這是我今天的禱告！
- 在v32的waywardness(背道)及complacency(安逸)都致令人走上滅亡之路。我由如何呢？Waywardness可作「任性」，我任性嗎？在事奉上我體貼自己的心意多於神的心意，一些事工的預備上我用自己的聰明智慧而不是跟從神的指示。我安逸嗎？當然！沒有逼迫，沒有衝擊，沒有難處，沒有經歷，信仰對我是否像白開水一樣淡然無味呢？神啊，求你挪走我的「任性」，拿取我的「安逸」，讓我不要與你的關係越來越遠！
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