来到我家附近的停车交通标志时，很少驾车人士会把汽车完全停下来的，他们大概认为，这个标志所说的仅是一个提议而已。
神的律法是否也仅是一个提议呢？诗人以极度严肃的态度来看神的律法，他宣告说：“我的心专向你的律例，永远遵行，一直到底。”
耶稣教导祂的听众，神的律法是非常重要的，祂解释说，祂来不是要废掉律法或神任何一道命令，乃是要成全它们，祂又说，就是律法中最小的字母（指yodh，希伯来字母中最小的）或一点一画，也不能废去。此外，耶稣更说，凡遵行神律法的将会得到奖赏，凡不遵行的则会受罚。
然而，问题是，我们没有一个人能完全遵行神的话语的，因为在我们心灵深处，我们都往往背叛神和祂的话语。我们该怎么办呢？
藉着祂的死和复活，唯有耶稣才能为我们提供我们需要的恩典。神一旦赦免和救赎我们，我们对衪的律法和话语便会有不同的看法的了；神的灵帮助我们，不再视它们为定罪的源头，它们乃是在呼召我们去爱神和爱我们的邻舍。靠着圣灵的能力，我们明白律法不仅仅是提议，我们乃是需要遵从它们，作为过感恩顺服生活的指南。
今天，我们有没有靠着圣灵的能力行在主的道路上呢？
主啊，求祢赐我们悟性，好叫我们能怀着感恩的心为祢而活。阿们。
马太福音 5:17-20
17“莫想我来要废掉律法和先知，我来不是要废掉，乃是要成全。
18我实在告诉你们：就是到天地都废去了，律法的一点一画也不能废去，都要成全。
19所以，无论何人废掉这诫命中最小的一条，又教训人这样做，他在天国要称为最小的；但无论何人遵行这诫命，又教训人遵行，他在天国要称为大的。
20我告诉你们：你们的义若不胜于文士和法利赛人的义，断不能进天国。
"My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end." - Psalm 119:112
Very few drivers come to a complete stop at the stop sign near our house. Maybe they think the sign is only a suggestion.
Are God’s laws merely suggestions? The psalmist treats God’s law with the utmost seriousness. He declares, “My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.”
Jesus taught his listeners how serious God’s law is. He explained that he did not come to abolish the law or any of God’s commands; he came to fulfill them. And he said that not even the smallest letter (a reference to yodh, the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet) or the least stroke of a pen would be eliminated from the law. Moreover, Jesus says there will be great rewards for keeping God’s laws and great penalties for not keeping them.
The problem, though, is that none of us can keep God’s law perfectly because—at heart—we are all in rebellion against God and his Word. What can we do?
We need the grace that only Jesus can provide through his death and resurrection. Once God has forgiven and redeemed us, we see his laws and words differently. The Spirit of God helps us to see them not as a source of condemnation but as a call to love both God and our neighbors. And by the Spirit’s power we understand they are not a mere suggestion, and we follow them as a guide for thankful, obedient living.
Are we following God’s way in the strength of the Spirit today?
Give us understanding, Lord, so that in gratitude we may live for you. Amen.
诵读: 骆云秀
片头: 张妙阳
