Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Success to those who help you, for your God will help you

1 Chronicles 12:1-40
They were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or to sling stones right-handed or left-handed; they were relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were brave warriors, ready for battle and able to handle the shield and spear. Their faces were the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles in the mountains.
Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold. David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”
Then the Spirit came on Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said: We are yours, David! We are with you, son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and success to those who help you, for your God will help you.
The other 12 tribes came to join David at Hebron.
David's supporters at Ziklag, the city the Philistines allowed him as the base. This chapter is not paralleled elsewhere. The Chronicler is stressing the whole nation's support for David, so he tells how Saul's own kinsmen went over to him, and describes the warriors from Gad as so eager to join him that they crossed the River Jordan when it was in spate.
Why?
All the people from all tribes of Israel came to join David as he is the king of them. Even the warriors of  Saul came to him. Saul is Benjamites but his commander Amasai turned to David and said the for your God will help you.
All of them knew that the Lord is with David.
Success to those who help you, for your God will help you. When we are with the Lord, God's blesses is with us.
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看到很多人放下自己,成就神的旨意。幫助這個字出現12次。神差遣這些人來幫助大衛。
便雅憫人願意放下自己支派的心,為了要遵行神的旨意。放下自己的心意、習慣、熟悉方法等最不容易,不是我們喜歡的,結果卻是好的。
還有瑪拿西的人也來加入,大軍,如神的軍隊一樣。這裏首次出現神的軍隊。
神的工作、神會興起各樣恩賜的人,透過這些人使我們得著益處。出於神的事沒有難成的。雖然過程辛苦、困難。歷代誌中,作者沒有描述困難,似乎都很順利。出於神的話沒有不帶能力,出於神的心意沒有不成就的。
不是看問題有多難,看我們信靠神有多少?
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How?
Praise the Lord, only God is my help to success.



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