2016年1月4日
祂聽見了嗎？Is He Listening?
读经: 馬太福音26章39-42節；27章45-46節
Reading: Matthew 26:39-42; 27:45-46
我的上帝！我的上帝！為什麼離棄我？-馬太福音27章46節
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?- Matthew 27:46
全年读经: 創世記10-12章;馬太福音4章
Bible in a Year: Genesis 10–12; Matthew 5
有位姐妹的丈夫酗酒成性，她祈求主讓丈夫能戒酒，也希望自己能信心堅定，但她說：「有時，我覺得上帝並沒有聽見我的呼求。」她的話也恰恰是許多基督徒的心聲。多年來，她一直求上帝改變她的丈夫，但她的丈夫卻依然故我。
當我們再三地懇求上帝成就某件能榮耀祂的美事，但卻遲遲得不著回應，我們是否會懷疑：上帝到底有沒有聽見呢？
讓我們回顧救主耶穌的一生。特別是祂在客西馬尼園裡，痛苦地禱告了數小時之久，甚至俯伏在地懇求說：「求祢叫這杯離開我」 （馬太福音26章39節） 。但天父的回覆顯然是「不」，因為上帝差耶穌來，就是要祂在十字架上受死，完成救贖大功。雖然耶穌感到自己被天父離棄，祂還是極其迫切地禱告，因為祂相信上帝正在垂聽。
我們禱告的時候，或許看不到上帝正在動工，也不知道祂要如何成就一切的美事。因此，我們必須全心地信靠祂，把主權交在上帝手中，因祂所成就的事必定是最好的。
讓我們將一切未知的事交託給全知的上帝，祂正在垂聽，並要照祂的心意成就一切。
主啊，我們無須知道為何禱告未蒙應允。
求祢幫助我們，耐心等候祢預定的時刻，
因祢本為善，祢的時間和旨意最完美。
當我們屈膝禱告，上帝就側耳傾聽。
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"Sometimes it feels as if God isn't listening to me." Those words, from a woman who tried to stay strong in her walk with God while coping with an alcoholic husband, echo the heartcry of many believers. For many years, she asked God to change her husband. Yet it never happened.
What are we to think when we repeatedly ask God for something good—something that could easily glorify Him—but the answer doesn't come? Is He listening or not?
Let's look at the life of the Savior. In the garden of Gethsemane, He agonized for hours in prayer, pouring out His heart and pleading, "Let this cup pass from Me" (Matt. 26:39 nkjv). But the Father's answer was clearly "No." To provide salvation, God had to send Jesus to die on the cross. Even though Jesus felt as if His Father had forsaken Him, He prayed intensely and passionately because He trusted that God was listening.
When we pray, we may not see how God is working or understand how He will bring good through it all. So we have to trust Him. We relinquish our rights and let God do what is best.
We must leave the unknowable to the all-knowing One. He is listening and working things out His way.
Lord, we don't need to know the reason our prayers sometimes go unanswered. Help us just to wait for Your time, because You are good.
When we bend our knees to pray, God bends His ear to listen.