禁食时的食粮
以色列民在旷野禁食四十年，只是吃吗哪和喝水，可是摩西仍然要教导他们明白那漫长的禁食的意义。在旷野流荡时，他们需要知道，生命的每一刻，都要依靠神和祂对他们所说的话。
离开埃及时，以色列民应该不愁吃的，因为他们带了他们的羊群牛群同行（出埃及记12:38）。然而，真正能维持他们生命的食粮，却是每天出自神口的吗哪；真正能为他们解渴的，乃是由神变甜的水，及神大能的话语使磐石裂开流出来的水（参看出埃及记15:22-17:7）。
那个时候，以色列民不再吃埃及的食物，只吃他们自已的牲口，但这不算是禁食。在旷野中，神的子民接受了一个新的菜单：“耶和华口里所出的一切话”。概括起来，就是：尽你所能去爱神，又爱人如已。
禁食让耶稣的门徒吃这新菜单上的食物，这食物就是神的话。真正的禁食就是效法基督，衪在旷野禁食四十天，并没有经不起试探去找东西吃，祂只是靠神口里所出的一切话，所以祂屡次说：“经上记着说”。
今天，你有没有效法耶稣基督的榜样呢？
主啊，我们为日用的饮食感谢祢。求祢帮助我们，靠神口里所出的一切话而活。阿们。
申命记 8:1-3; 马太福音 4:1-7
1“我今日所吩咐的一切诫命，你们要谨守遵行，好叫你们存活，人数增多，且进去得耶和华向你们列祖起誓应许的那地。
2 你也要记念耶和华你的神在旷野引导你这四十年，是要苦炼你、试验你，要知道你心内如何，肯守他的诫命不肯。
3 他苦炼你，任你饥饿，将你和你列祖所不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，使你知道人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。
1 当时，耶稣被圣灵引到旷野，受魔鬼的试探。
2 他禁食四十昼夜，后来就饿了。
3 那试探人的进前来，对他说：“你若是神的儿子，可以吩咐这些石头变成食物！”
4 耶稣却回答说：“经上记着说：‘人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠神口里所出的一切话。’”
5 魔鬼就带他进了圣城，叫他站在殿顶[a]上，
6 对他说：“你若是神的儿子，可以跳下去！因为经上记着说：‘主要为你吩咐他的使者用手托着你，免得你的脚碰在石头上。’”
7 耶稣对他说：“经上又记着说：‘不可试探主你的神。’”
The Food Of Fasting
Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. — Deuteronomy 8:3
Israel had spent forty years of fasting on manna and water in the desert, but Moses still had to teach them what that long fast was all about. In their wanderings they needed to know that every moment of their lives depended on God and his Word for them.
Israel had plenty to eat when they left Egypt, for they had taken their flocks and herds with them (Exodus 12:38). But the food that really kept them alive was the daily manna God spoke into existence, and the drink that really quenched their thirst was the water that God sweetened and the water that flowed from rocks split by his mighty Word (see Exodus 15:22-17:7).
When Israel left behind the food of Egypt and limited themselves to their own herds, that was not fasting. In the desert God’s people received a new menu: “every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” In a nutshell it comes down to this: Love God with everything you have, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Fasting enables Christ’s disciples to eat from the new menu, the Word of God. Real fasting imitates the example of Christ, who did not give in to temptations to make his own food during his forty-day fast, who lived only by every word that comes from the mouth of God, and who repeatedly said: “It is written.”
Are you following Christ’s example today?
We thank you, Lord, for our daily bread. Help us to live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Amen.
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