於2014-07-11發佈

大使命26

根基

聖經世界觀的根基就是聖經一開頭的幾個字:起初,神…』。這位神,創造了一切,就是我們根本的瞭解,所有其他真理將由此隨之湧現。

此首要的含意便是這世界是主的,我們是祂的。祂造我們有其目的,找到並實現那目的是真正成功人生的唯一路徑。正如耶穌在馬太福音22:37-40說:

耶穌對他說:你要盡心、盡性、盡意愛主─你的神。
這是誡命中的第一,且是最大的。
其次也相倣,就是要愛人如己。
這兩條誡命是律法和先知一切道理的總綱。  

因此,我們身為人類的主要工作描述,就是愛神超越一切,其次是彼此相愛。藉此我們可以衡量我們朝著完成目標的進程:我們在對神與對人的愛中成長多少?我們的主要目的比較不是我們做了什麼,而是我們成了什麼─成為神的愛人和人的愛人。

『首要的事是讓首要的事成為首要的事。』我們必須持續在愛中成長,主必須成為我們生活中主要的投入。唯有我們將此成為首要投入,我們才可能完成第二個誡命,就是愛人如己。唯有保有此兩大誡命,我們才能在受造目的上真正成功。當我們在生活中將其放在正確的焦點與順序中,我們便瞭解平安和喜樂是與主緊緊連結之人的正常狀態。

正如可能是所有聖經中最偉大的經文,約翰福音三章16節告訴我們:神愛世人(世界),甚至將祂的獨生子賜給他們,叫一切信祂的,不致滅亡,反得永生。』神不只愛人,祂愛世界 ,祂說我們比麻雀更貴重,但祂也愛麻雀。當我們按著我們所應當的來愛神與愛人,我們也當愛全世界,因為世界屬於主,而祂愛世界。

因為神太愛世界,所以祂將祂的獨生子賜給我們作為救贖與和好。倘若我們要用祂的眼睛來看世界,或擁有祂的世界觀,我們必須用愛來看世界。這即是何以保羅在腓立比書一章9節寫著:

我所禱告的,就是要你們的愛心在知識和各樣見識上多而又多。

唯有當我們充滿愛時,我們才能『在知識和各樣見識(分辨)上多而又多』。我們若不愛他們,我們將無法像神一樣來看任何事或任何人。這樣的愛是所有其他啟示、知識、智慧和瞭解所依據的真理,這是擁有聖經世界觀或神的世界觀的根基。 

(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week26, 2014)


The Foundation - The Great Commission, Part 26

Week 26, 2014
Rick Joyner

The foundation of a biblical worldview is the first four words in The Bible—“In the beginning God….” That God is, and made all that is, is our foundational understanding. From this, all other truth springs.

The first implication of this is that the world is the Lord’s, and we are His. He created us for a purpose, and to find and fulfill that purpose is the only path to a truly successful human life. As Jesus said in Matthew 22:37-40:   

“And He said to him, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’

“This is the great and foremost commandment.

“The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

Therefore, our main job description as human beings is to love God above all else, and then to love one another. By this we can measure our most basic progress toward accomplishing our goal: How much are we growing in our love for God and one another? Our main purpose is not so much what we do as what we become—lovers of God and lovers of others.

 “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” We must keep growing in love, for God must be our primary devotion in life. Only if we keep this as our primary devotion can we accomplish the second commandment, which is to love one another. Only by keeping these two can we truly succeed at the purpose for which we were created. It is when we keep these in proper focus and order in our lives that we realize the peace and joy that is the normal state of those who are abiding in the Lord.

As we are told in possibly the greatest of all Scripture verses John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” God loves the whole world, not just man. He said that we were worth more than many sparrows, but He loves the sparrows too. As we love God and one another as we should, we should also love the entire world because it belongs to the Lord, and He loves it.

Because God loves the world so much that He would give His own Son for our redemption and reconciliation, if we are going to see the world with His eyes, or have His worldview, we must see the world through love. This is why Paul wrote in Philippians 1:9:    

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.

“Real knowledge and all discernment” can only be had when our love is abounding. We will not see anything or anyone as God does if we do not love them. This love is the truth that all other revelation, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding is based upon. This is the foundation of having a biblical worldview, or God’s view of the world.