Hungry for God 渴慕上帝
Dexu Xia
Hungry for God
When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight. Jeremiah 15:16
A new believer in Jesus was desperate to read the Bible. However, he’d lost his eyesight and both hands in an explosion. When he heard about a woman who read Braille with her lips, he tried to do the same—only to discover that the nerve endings of his lips had also been destroyed. Later, he was filled with joy when he discovered that he could feel the Braille characters with his tongue! He had found a way to read and enjoy the Scriptures.
Joy and delight were the emotions the prophet Jeremiah experienced when he received God’s words. “When your words came, I ate them,” he said, “they were my joy and my heart’s delight” (Jeremiah 15:16). Unlike the people of Judah who despised His words (8:9), Jeremiah had been obedient and rejoiced in them. His obedience, however, also led to the prophet being rejected by his own people and persecuted unfairly (15:17).
Some of us may have experienced something similar. We once read the Bible with joy, but obedience to God led to suffering and rejection from others. Like Jeremiah, we can bring our confusion to God. He answered Jeremiah by repeating the promise He gave him when He first called him to be a prophet (vv. 19-21; see 1:18–19). God reminded him that He never lets His people down. We can have this same confidence too. He’s faithful and will never abandon us.
渴慕上帝
我得着祢的言语，就当食物吃了，祢的言语是我心中的欢喜快乐。—耶利米书15章16节
有位初信者非常渴望能够阅读圣经。但他过去在一场爆炸事件中，失去了视力和双手，所以当他听闻有位女士以嘴唇来触读盲文点字时，他也试着这么做。可惜他马上就意识到，自己嘴唇的神经末梢也遭到了破坏。后来，当他发现自己还能用舌头感受、辨识盲文字母时，实在令他欣喜若狂！他终于找到了一种阅读与享受圣经的方法。
先知耶利米在领受上帝的话语时，也经历了无比的欢喜与快乐。他说：“我得着祢的言语，就当食物吃了，祢的言语是我心中的欢喜快乐”（耶利米书15章16节）。犹大的百姓弃绝上帝的话（8章9节），而耶利米顺服并且喜爱耶和华的话语。但耶利米的顺服却导致他被自己的同胞排斥，甚至让他遭受到不公平的迫害（15章17、21节）。
你我可能也经历过类似的情况。我们享受阅读圣经的喜乐，但顺服上帝却使我们受苦和受排挤。我们能学习耶利米那样，将困惑愁烦交给上帝。上帝在回答耶利米的时候，重申祂呼召耶利米时所赐的应许（19-21节，参阅1章18-19节），祂提醒耶利米，祂永远不会让自己的百姓失望。我们也能拥有同样的信心，因上帝是信实的，永远不会撇弃我们。
信实的上帝，感谢祢藉着圣经对我说话。
请帮助我，热切地寻求祢，忠心地顺服祢。
你何时经历了阅读圣经的喜乐？
什么能够帮助你再次渴慕更认识上帝？