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許願必還願

詩篇 第116章

當人在急難之中，求神幫助的時候，往往會輕易向神許下很多承諾。他們通常會答應神，將來一定會痛改前非、重新做人，甚或承諾奉獻一生去事奉神。可是，當他們因著神的憐憫和幫助，困難終得解決，危難終於過去，他們卻把先前的承諾忘得一乾二淨。誠然，確實有一些人會信守自己的許願，並且為到過往的痛苦經歷使他能夠更緊地倚靠神而滿心感恩。

詩人顯然經過了類似的危難經歷。他在第3和4節告訴我們，他遭遇極大的患難；於是，他便求告神(4節)，並向神許願，承諾神只要拯救他，他便會向神還願。神最終真的拯救了他；因此，詩人不禁要問：「我拿甚麼報答神向我所賜的一切厚恩呢？」

結果，詩人立志要向眾民傳講神的作為，並且要向神還願。他可能曾經向神許願，他若然得蒙拯救，他便會獻上祭物。他知道，如今是時候要立即向神還願了。而且，他是懷著一顆快樂和感恩的心去向神還願；請看，他為全詩作結的一句話，就是：「哈利路阿！讚美神！」

你如果曾經向神許願的話，後來有沒有如實地還願呢？你有沒有作神的好管家，小心管理神賜給你一切東西呢？例如，你有沒有把所得的十分一，甘心樂意地奉獻給神？太多基督徒把當獻的金錢保留起來，以致教會出現財政不敷。要是神的百姓都把神當得的歸給神，我們的教會和宣教機構就不會財政緊張了。

神將百物厚賜給你，你當如何報答神呢？你向神所許的願，究竟有沒有如實地還願呢？

但願我們像詩人一樣，「我要在他眾民面前……向耶和華還我的願。」

牢記：

神並非看你向祂奉獻了多少，而是在奉獻後你留下了多少。


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BEING HONEST WITH GOD
BIBLE READING: Psalm 116

A great many people have made promises to God when they found themselves in trouble. They often promise God that they will live better lives or even give their lives in service for him. But when they are well again or the trouble has passed (even though God in mercy may have helped them), they often forget all that they promised him. Of course some do keep their promises and live to thank God for the experiences which brought them closer to him.

The Psalmist apparently must have been through a similar situation. In verse 3 and in verse 8 he tells us what deep suffering had come upon him. Then he cried unto God (v.4) and promised that he would do certain things if God delivered him. God did what he asked. Then the Psalmist’s question was: How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness?

He decided that he must publicly tell all the people what God had done and he must do what he had promised God when he was still in desperate trouble. It could be that he had said he would give God certain offerings or gifts and he knew that now was the time to fulfill his promise. He does it in a very happy grateful spirit. In fact he closes that Psalm with one great shout, ‘Hallelujah!’ – Praise the Lord.

Are you careful to give God what you have promised? Are you a good steward of what he has given you? God asks, for example, for the first one-tenth of all that he gives to us. Too many Christians are holding back on giving that tenth to God and our churches are suffering because of it. If God’s people gave to God all that is due to him, there would be no lack in the finances of our churches or our missionary societies.

What are you doing with all God has given you. Is there anything you have promised God which you are still holding on to?

What did the Psalmist say, ‘I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people’.

REMEMBER:

God looks not at what you give but at what you have left after you have given.

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