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约伯记［第10章］
Book of Job 10

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约伯记［第10章］|Book of Job 10

【苦难中的自我检视 】

主讲: 陈炎明牧师

27/12/2023


引言：

闭嘴无言的痛苦很快就会让人暴毙！但是若能够说出来，情况就会大不相同！

一、要把忧伤说出来（V10:1）

约伯在苦难中，朋友的到访好像加重了他的伤痛。但是试想想如果没有这些朋友与他对话，结果又是如何呢？痛苦、挣扎、无言可说、无人可诉、心灵负担如何负荷呢？恐怕很快就爆炸了！虽然朋友所说的话“不好听”，但是这也引起约伯更大的思考、更大的反驳。不断把注意力放在这些交流上，而不是一味的感受痛苦。

二、痛定思痛的自省（V10:2-7）

对神的一连串询问：
1.神你为什么透过这些人与我争辩呢？
2.神你看你所造的人被欺压和藐视为美吗？
3.神你的眼睛看事情岂会像人看事情呢？
4.神你让我过痛苦的日子是因为追究我的罪吗？
5.神你真的鉴察到我有什么罪是我自己不知道的吗？
6.神你知道我没有罪也脱离不了你的苦待吗？

【痛苦】不是存在于一种停止的状态，而是更深推动人产生寻索神的动力！

三、神为何如此待我（V10:8-17）

是神极其美妙的创造了我，难道如今神要把我销毁了吗？正如陶匠用泥塑造了一个器皿，而且把器皿点缀到非常美好。但是后来却不想要了，预备要把它摧毁。但是器皿无权质疑匠人为什么要这样做？只能在顺服中承受一切。约伯的经历就像被造物面对造物主的事实！我还能说什么呢？

四、世上无我不倒好（V10:18-22）

对于绝望痛苦中的人，约伯觉得自己如果未曾出生在地上就最好。因为在痛苦中，一切都变成黑暗；就连死后的天地也看不到色彩，全然幽暗了。这是约伯的经历所带给他的心里状态，何等何等绝望不是吗？甚至觉得世上如果没有自己的存在不是更好吗？有这种思想的人，如果没有把话说出来，也许早就自寻短见了。但是，说出来之后，反而就舒缓了痛苦的极限。

总结：出路就在真理认知中

感恩我们如今有主的赦罪、有永生国度的应许。我们有永恒得胜的盼望，因此我们有出路，否则苦难就只是苦难、只有绝望啊！


Job Chapter 10: Self-examination in suffering
GK611 Morning Devotion
27/12/2023
The Morning Devotion Speaker: Rev David Tan

Introduction:

Shutting up about wordless suffering can quickly lead to a violent death! But if one is able to speak out, things will be very different!

1. To Speak Out Your Sorrows (Psalm 10:1)

Job was in the midst of his affliction, and the visit of his friends seemed to aggravate his hurt. But imagine what the outcome would have been without these friends to talk to him. How would the pain, the struggle, the lack of words, the lack of someone to talk to, the burden of the soul be loaded? I'm afraid it would soon explode! Although the words spoken by his friends were "not nice," they caused Job to think harder, to push back harder. Keep focusing on these interactions instead of just feeling the pain.

2. Painful Introspection (Psalm 10:2-7)

A series of inquiries to God:
1. God why do you argue with me through these people?
2. God do you see beauty in the oppression and contempt of your creation?
3. God, do you see things with your eyes as men see things?
4. God, do you make me suffer because you hold me accountable for my sins?
5. God, do you really recognise that I have sinned in ways that I don't know?
6. God, do you know that I can't be free from your suffering even if I don't have any sins?

Suffering does not exist in a state of cessation, but rather it is a deeper motivation to seek God!

3. Why Has God Treated Me This Way (Psalm 10:8-17)

It was God who created me exceedingly beautifully; is God now going to destroy me? Just as a potter molds a vessel out of clay and embellishes it until it is very beautiful. But then he doesn't want it anymore and is ready to destroy it. But the vessel has no right to question why the potter did what he did. It can only bear it all in obedience. Job's experience is like the fact that the creature confronts the Creator! What can I say?

4. The world is not better off without me (Psalm 10:18-22)

For those who are in despair and pain, Job felt that it would be best if he had never been born on earth. For in suffering, everything becomes darkness; even the heavens and the earth after death see no colour, but are all darkness. This is the state of Job's heart as a result of his experience. How desperate, isn't it? He even thought that it would be better if he did not exist in the world, wouldn't it? A person with this kind of thinking might have killed himself long ago if he had not spoken out. However, by saying it out loud, the limit of suffering is eased.

Conclusion: The way out is in the truth perception

Gratefully we now have the Lord's forgiveness of sins and the promise of the eternal kingdom. We have the hope of eternal victory, and therefore we have a way out, otherwise suffering would be nothing but suffering and hopelessness!