大使命31

祂的旨意

在聖經世界觀中，每一件事都由神開始與結束。這是祂的宇宙，祂的旨意將行在地上如在天上。因此，服事神之人的最高擺上應該是明白祂的旨意。

神的終極旨意是祂的所有創造將和祂合一與和諧；在神所有的創造中，地球是唯一悖逆神的地方。那些在屬靈領域沈淪者，就是撒旦與他的同夥都一起被丟到地上。因此，在萬物中的一切邪惡，包括自然界和屬靈界的萬物，現在都在地上。地上是善惡之戰的最前線，在愛神與服事神之人與悖逆抵擋神之人彼此間的戰役。

當古人在思索著是否有像地球一樣的星球存在，住著像人一樣有生命和智慧的生物，他們認為耶穌在好牧人的比喻中有提到此。他們推斷好牧人留下九十九隻羊去尋找一隻迷失的羊，代表主到地上來恢復此迷失的星球。這樣的論述無法被聖經證實，卻是個很有趣的看法。

宇宙的浩瀚遠超過我們頭腦所能瞭解，它大約有110億到140億光年，因為光速每秒達十八萬六千英里，所以宇宙大小超過110億光年，真的很大！即便如此，聖經告訴我們此自然界的宇宙不過是屬靈界的『影兒』。這意味著整個宇宙若與屬靈領域相比，就好像我們的影子與我們相比一樣。那真令人敬畏，但聖經告訴我們神鋪張穹蒼，如鋪幔子！我們的神何等大！ 

地球若和宇宙相比就像塵土一樣渺小，神卻愛這小小的塵土，甚至將祂的兒子送到地上，用祂自己的生命來救贖全地。天上所有的受造物都感到驚奇；此確立了一件事：大小與重要性並沒有關係。此外還確立了另一件事，就是神是好牧人，祂不願一人滅亡。 

這樣的愛深不可測，可能需要我們窮盡永恆來瞭解，它也啟示我們，神是如何看重卑微、不重要的，卻可以將無限的價值與重要給予那些最卑微的。我們身為門徒的目標就是擁有神的世界觀，因為我們擁有祂的本質。學習此意涵並應用它，有可能是我們在此地最重要的議題之一。要這麼做，我們無疑必須先想到卑微的。 

(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week31, 2014)

 
His Will - The Great Commission, Part 31
Week 31, 2014
Rick Joyner

In a biblical worldview, everything begins and ends with God. This is His universe, and His will is going to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Therefore, the supreme devotion of those who serve God should be to know His will.

God’s ultimate will is that His entire creation be in unity and harmony with Him. In the whole creation, the earth is the only place where there is rebellion against God. Those who fell in the spiritual realm, Satan and those who sided with him, have been cast down to the earth. Therefore, all evil in creation, both the physical and spiritual creation, is now found on the earth. Earth is the front line in the battle between good and evil, between those who love and serve God and those who rebel against Him.

When some of the ancients speculated about whether there were other planets such as earth with life and intelligent beings such as man, they considered that Jesus addressed this in the Parable of the Good Shepherd. They speculated that the Good Shepherd, who left the ninety-nine to go after the one that was lost, was the Lord coming to Earth to recover the one planet that was lost. This cannot be verified by Scripture, but it is an interesting point. 

The vast size of the universe is hard to get our minds around. It is approximately eleven to fourteen billion light years across. Since light travels at 186,000 miles per second, this is how far it would travel in more than eleven billion years. That is big! Even so, in Scripture we are told that this physical universe is but a “shadow” of the spiritual realm. That means the entire substance of the physical universe compares to the spiritual realm in the same way that our shadow does to us. That’s impressive, but we are also told that God stretched out the heavens like a tent curtain! God is big!

The earth is barely a speck of dust compared to the physical universe, yet God so loved this little speck of dust that He sent His Son to redeem the earth with His own life. All of the beings in heaven must have marveled at this. One thing it establishes is that size may have little to do with importance. It also establishes that God is the Good Shepherd who does not want even one to perish.

This is a love so deep and unfathomable that we will likely be spending eternity comprehending it. It is also a revelation of how God considers the lowly, the seemingly insignificant, and can give infinite importance and value to even the lowest. Our goal as disciples is to have His worldview because we have His nature. Learning what this means and how to apply it can be one of the most important issues we settle. To do this we obviously must consider the lowly.