信靠顺服
你有没有听过“余音缭绕”这回事呢？它形容一首朗朗上口歌曲的歌词或调子怎样不断在你脑海中播放。多年前我听了“信靠顺服”这首歌，到现在它仍然深深印在我的脑海中，在诗篇119完结诗，这首歌又再一次在我脑子里响起了。
诗篇119的作者时常提到信靠；他说，神的话语是值得我们信赖的，所以他信靠神的律法、训词、命令、和律例，他又同时热切决心去遵行神的话语，他一次又一次明确地提到顺服。我们清楚看到，“信靠顺服”是这篇诗篇的中心思想。
此外，有另一个主题，也值得我们提出来。就是在困境中，诗人仍然决心去信靠顺服。当诗人呼求神拯救他时，不管怎样，他肯定他仍然渴望去信靠顺服。
诗人藉此帮助我们，从另一个角度来看诗篇119如何指向耶稣：在为我们的罪受死的前一个晚上，耶稣要面对圣经记载中最痛苦的时刻，这个充满挑战的经历，是我们永远不能体会得到的；然而，关于摆在衪面前的痛苦，耶稣却对衪的父说：“不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思”（马太福音 26:39）。
耶稣信靠和顺服神。我们知道“只要遵主旨意，主肯与我同行，信靠顺服，主必肯同行。”这是多么大的福气啊！
主啊，我们确信祢爱我们，又永远不会离开或丢弃我们，求祢帮助我们为祢而活。阿们。
马太福音 26:36-45
36耶稣同门徒来到一个地方，名叫客西马尼，就对他们说：“你们坐在这里，等我到那边去祷告。”
37于是带着彼得和西庇太的两个儿子同去，就忧愁起来，极其难过，
38便对他们说：“我心里甚是忧伤，几乎要死。你们在这里等候，和我一同警醒。”
39他就稍往前走，俯伏在地，祷告说：“我父啊！倘若可行，求你叫这杯离开我！然而，不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思。”
40来到门徒那里，见他们睡着了，就对彼得说：“怎么样，你们不能同我警醒片时吗？
41总要警醒祷告，免得入了迷惑。你们心灵固然愿意，肉体却软弱了。”
42第二次又去祷告说：“我父啊！这杯若不能离开我，必要我喝，就愿你的意旨成全！”
43又来，见他们睡着了，因为他们的眼睛困倦。
44耶稣又离开他们去了。第三次祷告，说的话还是与先前一样。
45于是来到门徒那里，对他们说：“现在你们仍然睡觉安歇吧！时候到了，人子被卖在罪人手里了。
Trust And Obey
"I will always obey your law, for ever and ever." - Psalm 119:44
Have you ever heard the term “earworm”? It describes how the words or the tune of a catchy song can keep running through our minds. One song that is still lodged in my head after all these years is “Trust and Obey.” At the end of this reflection on Psalm 119, this song is playing in my mind.
The writer of Psalm 119 often mentions trust. God’s Word is trustworthy, he says; so he trusts in God’s laws, precepts, commands, and decrees. Along with that, the psalmist eagerly commits to obeying God’s Word. He explicitly speaks of obedience again and again and again. Clearly, the call to “trust and obey” God’s Word is at the heart of this psalm.
There’s another theme worth mentioning as well. The psalmist is committed to trust and obey even in times of difficulty. When the psalmist cries for God’s rescue, he affirms his desire to trust and obey, no matter what.
This helps us see another way in which Psalm 119 points us to Jesus: on the night before he died for our sins, Jesus faced one of the worst moments of anguish recorded in the Bible, an experience more challenging than any we will ever know. And yet Jesus said to the Father about the suffering that was before him, “Not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39).
Jesus trusted and obeyed. What a blessing it is to know that “while we do his good will, he abides with us still, and with all who will trust and obey”!
Help us, Lord, to live for you, in the assurance that you love us and will never leave or forsake us. Amen.
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