亞洲路德宗神學院「每週靈糧」
诗篇一直是教会的宝贝。
一位古代的神学家曾这样描述：“在生命中的任何境况，我们每次都可以找到适合我们处境，并满足我们灵魂需要的神圣诗歌。”没有一种人类所经历的情况或情绪，不会出现在诗篇。
在这个灵修系列中，请尝试每天读一篇诗篇，在你看完灵修资料后，再重读一遍该诗篇，祈求上帝透过这些古老的讚美诗和祈祷向你说话。阅读时，专注于对你说话的字词，默想它们。当每次灵修结束，一些问题可以帮助你思考，而祷文可以帮助你祈祷。
我们希望这些灵修能帮助你进入诗篇，并以诗篇作为你自己的祷告。藉此助你更接近上帝
诗篇 1:3 他要像一棵树栽在溪水旁
如何才能获得真正的快乐？拥有更多的财富？一份好工作和美满的家庭？这些都是好的，但诗篇告诉我们，唯有这样的人能得到真正的福分 – 就是那昼夜思想耶和华律法的人。诗篇中所说的律法，是指圣经中的所有教导。
这些教导的核心则是福音。这里的有福或顺利并不是指当下的感受，而是一种根深蒂固的体会。第 3 节告诉我们，蒙福的人就像一棵树栽在溪水旁。树木受季节的影响，不总是生机勃勃、硕果累累，要经历夏天的酷热和冬天的严寒。这棵树的独特之处在于它栽在溪水旁，可以不断吸收生命之水。树的根茎生长在溪流中，水也在树中流通，因此，它一定会按时开花结果。
藉著我们对基督的信心，上帝已在我们心中种下新的生命（雅各书 1:21），如同被溪水养育的树木。不论在困难或平静的日子裡，因著坚信我们是上帝的儿女，没有风暴可以将我们连根拔起，我们心中会拥有真正的喜乐。当我们试图从溪水外寻找快乐，最终只会失望。如糠秕般 – 所有的快乐最终都会随风而去。
当阅读其他灵修时，请谨记要像一棵树栽在溪水旁。你是上帝的儿女，有永恆的新生命。当你阅读并以诗篇作祷文时，可从永生上帝河中得到滋养，就是万福的泉源（诗篇36：9）。
今天，你如何在上帝的话中扎根更深？
你可以用这篇诗的哪些部分作你的祷文？
祷告：主啊，求祢帮助我默想祢的话语。在我疲乏时，提醒我祢是我的力量；在我孤独时，提醒我祢称我作朋友（约翰福音 15:15）。帮助我因祢福音的缘故得喜乐；帮助我看见祢所有的赐福。阿门。
Planted by Streams of Water
ALS Weekly Devotions
The book of Psalms has always been a treasured book of the church. About it an ancient theologian once said, “Under all the circumstances of life, we shall find that these divine songs suit ourselves and meet our own souls’ needs at every turn.” There is no situation or emotion a human being can experience that is not reflected somewhere in the Psalms.
In this devotion series, we will look at some of the situations and emotions found there. Each devotion will pick out one aspect of each psalm and offer it to you as a meditation. Try reading one psalm a day. After you read the devotion, read the psalm again and pray that God would speak to you through these ancient hymns and prayers. When reading, try to look prayerfully for a word or phrase that stands out to you and meditate on it as the word of God. At the end of each devotion are some questions to help you think and a prayer to help you pray.
We hope that these devotions will help you enter into the book of Psalms and help you to pray the psalms as your own. And thus, help you draw closer to God.
Psalm 1:3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water
How does one become truly happy? By getting more money? By having a good job and a peaceful family? These things are good, but this psalm tells us who can have true, deep-rooted happiness: the one who contemplates the law of the LORD day and night. The law spoken of in this Psalm indicates all the teachings found throughout the Bible.
At the center of all these teachings is the Gospel. True blessing or happiness described here is not some ephemeral feeling; it is something firmly planted. Verse 3 tells us that the blessed man is like a tree that grows beside a stream of water. The tree is affected by the seasons; it does not always flourish and bear fruit. It can feel the heat of summer and the miserable cold of winter. But what makes this tree different is that it is planted next to a stream. Its roots can constantly drink up the lifegiving water. Its roots are in the stream, and the water is in it. Therefore, it is bound to bear fruit in season.
Through our faith in Christ, God has been planted in our hearts a new life (James 1:21); now we are like trees planted by steams of water. In times of trouble or peaceful days, when we draw our happiness from this fact—that we are Children of God and that no storm can uproot us—we will continue to have true happiness. Once we try to seek happiness from outside the stream we will be disappointed. We will become like chaff: in the end any joy we find will be blow away by the winds of change.
As you read through the rest of these devotions remember that you are a tree planted by streams of water. You are a child of God, filled with new life that will never fade. If you read and pray these psalms you can draw from the river of the living God, from him who is the fountain of all blessings (Psalm 36:9).
How can you make your roots grow deeper in God’s word today?
What part of this psalm can you turn into your own prayer?
Prayer: Lord, today help me to meditate on your word. When I am tired, remind me that you are my strength; when I’m lonely, remind me that you have called me your friend (John. 15:15). Help me to draw my happiness from your gospel, help me to see all the blessings you have given. Amen.