时移势易,大卫由边缘人物转化为全国重心人物,居于权力的高峰(参撒下五章)。多年来都过着逃难的生活,如今大权在握,生命起了巨变,大卫会不会为所欲为,变成另一个扫罗王?可能开始时不会,以后就很难说了——我们一开始时总是循规蹈矩,有颗诚实的心,可是,久而久之就逐渐腐化、腐败了。当然叙事者并不期望读者以预先「料中」大卫未来的命运而沾沾自喜,把自己置身度外地淡化或模糊了看待自己生命状况的视线。
正当拥有最高权力时,大卫所作的跟其他君王没两样:建土封疆、平定天下、稳固自己的王位、设立京城。相当令人感到惊讶的是,大卫权力正稳固时,他并不追求更多的控制、玩弄权术,反而是慷慨地去爱一位残废的米非波设——约拿单的儿子。在权力与忠诚之间,根本没有人会强逼大卫去持守过去与约拿单所立下的陈旧誓约(参撒上 20:14-15 ;42);相反的,一位新上任的君王把前王朝中所有的成员剪除,以绝后患,并确保不会有威胁他政权的人存在,这才合乎常理。但,大卫为了坚守那一份坚定不移、真诚的盟约,在权力与忠诚之间,容许忠诚在他的生命中占一席位,而不是权势。如此坚定的爱,要行出来是极其困难的,但却是绝对必需的,因为人若缺少它,虽一息尚存,却已失去生命的光辉。
在一个强调自我和竞争的商业社会里,每个人都争出位地尽显自主的心态。此类人与人见面就开始衡量对方是否有利用价值,计算对方对他们会有什么好处;或者把对方分门别类,不把对方当人看待,对待他人就像处理事务一般地磨损人们所有的人性;人与人之间已没有相辅相承的关系,只有利益效用的考量。大卫对待米非波设的故事却颠覆了常规——在一场艰巨悲壮的挣扎中,选择较少人走的路;肯定的是,它对大卫的生命造成了所有的不同。
王牧师
13/10/2005
whether empty ourself is the way to get abundant life. why the world is in reverse order? what we need to get from god in order to live a victorious life? How to measure success?
ReplyDeleteMust believe in jesus christ in order to live eternal life, got other way? is it really matter when we died?
is it really matter who governed is good? or it is good if we have gain benefits or others have gain benefits(money) even if who governed is not just? what is good is really good if good things happened or it is good too if something bad happened? really matter who control? i think world is still same, up and down, down and up again, it is a cycle, like economy. war and peace , peace and war again, do u need to concern about it or change it? friend become enemy, enemy become friend again. how to fight evil, if we need to love our enemy?
ReplyDeletetoday money almost equal power, do we need to have secret power of holy spirit? if have the power of holy secret , do we need the real money and real power?
thank you for answering.