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2018/10/18
《Living the Dream如在快樂夢中生活的「喜樂」》
Joy in bible is not a matter of temperament (your natural predisposition), an experience that must be manufactured for yourself and other people (faking it), or something so deep that it is not really happy (where the smile goes down rather than up). Instead, this joy is a result of being “restored” by God (Psalms 126:1)—not happy because of your genetics but happy because of what God has done for you.
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Psalms 126:1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.
聖經的「喜樂」，和與生俱來的氣質無關；與經歷、讓外表裝出的經驗無關；也與去深掘發現無關。如詩篇126篇第一節所說，聖經所說的「喜樂」，是生命經歷神的更新，而不是從遺傳而來。
詩126:1當耶和華將那些被擄的帶回錫安的時候，我們好像做夢的人。
This joy is based upon an objective, real, God-given restoration. And those who have this joy are “like those who dream” (Psalms 126:1).
這種「喜樂」，如詩126篇1節，是基於客觀、真實、上帝賜予的拯救。那些擁有這種快樂的人「就像做夢的人」。
The ancient world, when it referred to dreams, did not, first of all, mean a daydream. They meant an actual dream, the sort of dream you have when you are asleep.
古人提到「夢」，不是談不真實的「白日夢」，而是如睡中真實的夢。
So when the psalmist says this was like dreaming, he is comparing joy to a very good actual dream. He is saying that this joy is like that. This joy is so good that when you experience it you think, “I am living the dream.” Such is the joy that this psalm is talking about.
詩人談及「喜樂」像在做夢一樣，是一個真實美妙的夢，是如在快樂夢中生活的「喜樂」。
So throw away all ideas that joy is found in things apart from God, or that God is the serious, gloomy, despondent, negative, critical sort of religious freak who will smack you over the wrists with a wooden ruler as soon as you step out of line.
丟棄「喜樂」與上帝無關的想法。丟棄上帝是嚴肅、憂鬱、沮喪、消極的，嚴格批判的怪念頭，覺得一犯錯，上帝就以處罰伺候。
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