" Untying the Judging Knot " ~ ( Part IV )

Untying the Judging Knot 
解開評審結
Luke 6:36-38  
Copyright © 2004 Jeremy Myers

"Judge not lest you be judged不論斷人，免得你們被論斷。" ~ Part IV

      

           

           Do you see what mercy implies? God shows mercy upon us, and he wants us to show mercy on others. But mercy implies judgment. There can be no mercy if there are no judgments. Mercy can only be shown if a prior judgment has already been made. There is judgment without mercy, but there is no such thing as mercy without judgment. The showing of mercy implies that a previous judgment was made. And just as God shows mercy on those He judges, we are also to show mercy on those we judge. This is what verse 36 teaches. It is saying that when we judge, be merciful.
            你看到憐憫意味著什麼？神是憐憫我們，他希望我們展現對他人的憐憫。但是憐憫意味著判斷。不能寬容，如果沒有判斷。如果之前的判決已經作出，只能表現慈悲。有毫不手軟的判斷，但目前還沒有這樣的東西作為擺佈不加判斷。放映憐憫意味著先前作出判決。就像神是憐憫他的法官，我們也手下留情那些我們判斷。這是第36節教導。這是說，當我們判斷，是仁慈的。

            So how can we be merciful? The best way to be merciful toward others is to remember one simple phrase. When you are tempted to look down, or be critical of others, just remember that the only reason you are not in their same situation is because of the grace and mercy of God upon you. The phrase I like to repeat to myself is "There, but for the grace of God, go I." All of us are sinners. One sin, no matter how small, is infinitely offensive to a righteous and holy God. God has every right to squash us under his thumb, or incinerate us with fire from heaven any time He wants. Or, he could take away our jobs, our health, our family, our money, our possessions, our sanity, and stick us in prison or in a sub standard way of living. Even that would be merciful because of our sinfulness. 
               所以，我們怎麼能憐憫的呢？要慈悲對他人最好的方式是要記住一個簡單的短語。當你忍不住往下看，或批評別人，只記得你是不是在他們相同的情況下，唯一的原因是因為上帝對你的恩典和憐憫。我喜歡這句話，重複自己是“有，但神的恩典，去一”我們所有的人都是罪人。一罪，不管多麼小的一個公義聖潔的神，是無限攻擊性。神完全有權到壁球我們根據他的拇指，或焚燒火從天而降，他想要的任何時間。或者，他可以帶走我們的工作，我們的健康，我們的家庭，我們的錢，我們的財產，我們的理智，堅持我們在監獄中的一個子標準的方式生活。即使這將是仁慈的，因為我們的罪。

              But God, who is rich in mercy, lets us live where we do, and have the things we own, and keep the health we enjoy. When you see a young woman, addicted to drugs, living on the street, selling her body for the next hit, though you should judge her actions as wrong, be merciful and say, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Such an attitude will enable you to help her rather than condemn her.  

              When someone cheats on his wife or becomes addicted to pornography, though you should judge his actions as sinful, be merciful and say,  " There, but for the grace of God, go I. " 
           但是，上帝，誰是既有豐富的憐憫讓我們住的地方我們做的，並有我們自己的東西，並保持健康，我們享受。當你看到一名年輕女子，沉迷於毒品，流落街頭，賣下一個搜索，雖然她的身體，你應該判斷她的動作錯誤，是仁慈的，說：“有，但神的恩典，我去吧“。這種態度將使你能夠幫助她，而不是譴責她。

當有人欺騙他的妻子，或沉迷於色情，但你應該判斷自己的行為有罪，是仁慈的，說：“有，但神的恩典，去吧。”
              God has a way of humbling us. When we unjustly judge, condemn and criticize others for their weaknesses and their failures, we often find that we fall into those exact same sins ourselves. You criticize someone else for being bad parents, and then your own children go astray. You criticize someone else for their marriage problems, and then you and your spouse get into a huge fight. When we are unmerciful in our judgment of others, God often causes the same exact things to happen to us, just to show us that we are not better than them. When you see someone else in sin, be merciful. It is only because of the mercy and grace of God upon you that you are not in the same situation as they. 
         上帝震撼我們人心的一種方式。當我們作不公正的判斷，為自己的弱點而譴責和批評別人； 和他們的失敗中，我們經常發現，我們落入那些確切同樣的罪自己的。你批評別人是不好的父母，然後自己的孩子誤入歧途。你批評別人為他們的婚姻問題，那麼你和你的配偶進入巨大的思想鬥爭。當別人根據我們的判斷，我們是不憐憫人的神往往會導致完全相同的事情發生在我們身上，只是向我們展示了，我們是不是比他們更好。當你看到別人在罪中，是仁慈的。這不僅是因為上帝對你的憐憫和恩典，因為你是不是在他們同樣的情況。

This is what Jesus goes on to teach in verse 37. He teaches here that your judgments will come back to haunt you.

這是耶穌教37節。祂在這裡教你的判斷會回過頭來困擾你？



To be cont' d in Part V.
至續在第五部分。